Listening hard to murmurs along the media grapevine, Fire on the Lifeboat highlights some calls for media submissions from the visual art/film world.

Young artists in remote areas of the UK often find it hard to receive funding or capture an audience for their work, due to their lack of proximity to a large media-infused city. However, there are often more calls for artistic submissions than you might realise in any given area and often geography isn't a factor in selection. If your work is relevant, properly presented and good, it stands as good a chance as any. Why not take a look at the following calls from the Northern region of the UK?

Isis Arts have put out a call for artist film and video on the theme of 'Every man's home is his castle'. The theme lends itself to a broad interpretation from the exploration of different national boundaries to individual's private personal space, from isolation to Big Brother, from a refuge to a 'show house'. ISIS support artist residencies and projects across northern England.

Northern Lights Film Festival showcases work in all genres and visual forms, including narrative, documentary, experimental and design-oriented work. They have a call for the North Star Short Film Award, a short film prize totalling £40,000!. Entries can be live action or animated, or hybrid and may be shot or created in any format: film, analog/digital video or entirely on a computer.

Aberdeen's SoundAsArt conference welcomes papers on the topic of sound art that address questions of origin, exploration of boundaries between related practices, investigations of current practices, and speculation on the future development of sound art for the more academically minded of you out there.

And finally, if you really want to look further afield, Bangkok-based DIME 2006 International Conference on Digital Interactive Media and Arts are looking for interactive installations, interactive cinema, and any other emergent art form that focus on the use of innovative technologies. They are also looking for papers on a whole host of headings including "Entertainment Art and Technology", "New Media Emerging Technologies", "Code Art" & "Interactive Stories". What better way to get a sun-tan?

And don't forget, submit your blogs/showcase sites/myspaces to noisefestival@hotmail.com and get some well-deserved exposure with compliments from NOISE!

Contributed by Fire on the Lifeboat