LINZ- The Belgian artist Koen Vanmechelen (47) receives a 'Golden Nica' award, aka the Oscars of Media Art, for his Cosmopolitan Chicken Project.

Hilde Van Mieghem’s new feature Madly in Love has been selected for this year’s Cuenca Women in Direction International Film Festival in Spain (22-27 November) where it will be presented in official competition.

Double Take a production by Johan Grimonprez, won the Grand Prize at the New Media Film Festival in Los Angeles. The prize is good for a studio package in Los Angeles, worth $10.000.

This year’s 45th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (2-10 July) is to present an eight-title strong Belgian Focus. Consisting of four Flemish and four French-speaking Belgian films ...

During Ars Electronica 2010, the installation 'rheo: 5 horizons' (Cimatics productone) by Ryoichi Kurokawa is rewarded with a Golden Nica Award for digital music & sound art. Frederik De Wilde receives [the next idea] voestalpine Art and Technology Grant for his work 'Hostage' and a honorary mention for interactive art is going to 'Framework f5x5x5' by LAb[au].

13/07/2009 - Out of the 13 projects, a jury has selected and awarded the Belgian director Sofie Benoot's film BLUE MERIDIAN (production of August Orts).

30/06/2009 - At the occasion of the Update III exhibition that is organised as a Biennial event at the Zebrastraat Gent, the Liedts-Meesen Foundation will award for the second time, an artwork of design of work by a living artist distinguishing himself or herself in the field of digital art...

24/06/2009 - In June 2009 the non-profit association Jeune Peinture Belge, in collaboration with the Palais des Beaux-Arts, presented a new edition of the Young Belgian Painter Award. This prestigious prize has become one of the major references for contemporary art in Belgium....

18/06/2009 - ISEA2010 RUHR is the 16th International Symposium on Electronic Art, a major biennial conference and exhibition event for art, media and technology, scheduled for August 2010 in the German Ruhr region (Dortmund, Essen, Duisburg, a. o.).

15/06/2009 - For the 11th time, the Baloise Group has the pleasure of awarding the Baloise Art Prize at Art 40 Basel. The two prizes of CHF 30,000, has been awarded to Geert Goiris from Belgium and Nina Canell from Sweden...