Petra Cortright is a master at manipulating digital files and incorporating stock digital effects. She seamlessly moves back and forth between creating animated and printed images, using Photoshop and compositing video footage. In her current exhibition "Predator Swamping", she presents digital paintings based on appropriated photographs of the landscape, many of which are incorporated into wall-sized tableaux. Read Jody Zellen’s review on What’s on LA.

Browse through our freshly updated list of artist opportunities, this week featuring:

→ The Salzburger Kunstverein announces the inaugural call for the 2021 Sunset Kino Award for excellence in contemporary film and video, for professional artists 35 years and younger.

→ Apply to the Platform Art Projects / Print Editions Gallery Open Call 2021 to create new experimental digital media projects to be exhibited online, with a £300 commission fee.

→ The Vilcek Foundation will award three Creative Promise Prizes of $50,000 each to young, immigrant artistic directors, choreographers, and performers in the USA who demonstrate outstanding early achievement in dance.

→Apply to take part in the 2021 TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, curated by Eoin Dara; there’s nothing here but flesh and bone, there’s nothing more. Successful applicants will receive an artist fee and support.

See the full list of Artist Opportunities on ArtRabbit here. Want to list your open call with us? Submit it here.

Image: Sunset Kino 2020, photo: Michael Groessinger, © Salzburger Kunstverein. Deadline 16 May 2021.

The weather’s getting better, and hope is on the horizon as dates are cautiously announced for gallery and museum reopening. Prime yourself for the year’s first art outing with some online arts and culture events from around the world:

Watch the screening of Vaconsoft Gallery's current show, Europarc - A/M180, documents Marc Renshaw’s ‘surreal, hallucinogenic Ballardian nomadic travails’ along a mundane roadscape.

To mark the end of her exhibition with MIMA, an in-depth discussion with artist Otobong Nkanga will be hosted tonight.

Watch Experimental Arizona, a film exploring the state’s current experimental art scene, with contributions from over 20 unique artists, featuring sound art, video art and interdisciplinary installations.

A Beauty Class: Society, Politics and Transcendence is an event with author and social critic Minna Salami on how beauty could shape the sociopolitical, cultural and economic relationships that we have with each other and with the nonhuman natural world.

Have your own online event that you want the world to know about? Add your event here.

Image: Drifting along the A/M180 at Vaconsoft Gallery. On until 30 June 2021.