On the Move

Viborg UNESCO Creative City Artist Residency Programme (Denmark)

On the Move — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 17:06:43 +0000

The city of Viborg, a member of UNESCO’s Creative Cities Network for Media Arts, is promoting an Artist Residency Programme for artists in the field of digital art.

Organised by PLASTIC Collective and The Animation Workshop - VIA University College (TAW), the new Artist Residency Programme of Viborg, Denmark, aims to welcome artists from all over the world to create digital art prototypes accessible to the public, spreading them throughout the most diverse locations in the city.

Starting 1 March 2024 and running over three to four months, the programme will see artists invited to join a network of international creative cities, where they will be able to explore the various fields of digital art, including animation, video mapping, apps, games and XR fields. This network will give the artists-in-residence the opportunity to work with a range of local people, and consultants and professionals from the digital arts sphere.

The artists selected to join the residency programme will be offered accommodation, financial support of 25,000 Danish kroner (around 3350€), travel support, consultancy, and a workspace within PLASTIC Collective.

Deadline: 5 January 2024

More info and apply: https://unesco.viborg.dk/media/mduhlsuz/viborgunesco_artres_opencall_20231212.pdf

Original post on the website of On the Move: https://on-the-move.org/news/viborg-unesco-creative-city-artist-residency-programme-denmark

BJCEM: ‘Beyond Boundaries’ Residency (Italy)

On the Move — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 05:00:00 +0000

Beyond Boundaries is a 21-day intensive residency programme, running 10-31 January 2024, and supported by Municipality of Milan – Fabbrica del Vapore, Ministry of Culture of Montenegro, Clube Portugues de Artes e Ideias, Fluks – Centre for Young Art, UKNA – UK New Artists, Department of Modern and Contemporary Culture of the Deputy Ministry of Culture of Cyprus and developed in collaboration with BJCEM – Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean.

Fabbrica del Vapore is an important Milanese hub of creativity and innovation. The residency will be organised in this direction, giving the venue a strong connotation of a welcome place, an incubator of new ideas where an exchange among the artists of the residency, the curator and the place will make it possible to carry on research, new artistic practices, and peer to peer learning.

Taking the cue from the research of A Natural Oasis? – the BJCEM two-year nomadic free school dedicated to the development of new curatorial research paths in the field of contemporary, visual, and performing arts – Beyond Boundaries aims to foster the artistic practices of those territories, which are commonly considered remote, marginal, small, insular or liminal.

The call is open to artists who work in visual arts, applied arts, new media, photography, and performance. To be eligible, candidates must be under 35 (born after 1987) and come from or be based in the following territories: Portugal, Norway, UK, Montenegro, Municipality of Milan, Cyprus.

Each selected artist will receive a participation fee of 300 Euro; a production fee of 350 Euro; and a total per diem of 300 Euro. The non-resident selected artists will be provided a round ticket from and to the city indicated in the application form, covered by the partner of reference, and the Municipality of Milan will guarantee them accommodation in the facilities of Fabbrica Del Vapore.

Deadline: 12 December 2023

More info and apply: https://www.bjcem.org/2023/11/22/open-call-beyond-boundaries/

Original post on the website of On the Move: https://on-the-move.org/news/bjcem-beyond-boundaries-residency-italy

Realities in Transition: Call for XR Artistic Projects (Belgium)

On the Move — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 12:10:16 +0000

The iMAL space in Brussels is launching a second call for XR artistic projects in the context of the Realities in Transition project. The selected artist(s) will be offered a residency at iMAL in March/April 2024, under the mentorship of the immersive performance pioneers of CREW Brussels.

How we experience digital content is changing rapidly with the emergence of extended reality, or XR. XR brings together virtual, augmented and mixed reality to create a blended reality in which data seamlessly mingles with the physical environment.

The impact of this new integrated world is becoming evident across society in domains such as education, healthcare, industry and culture. Inevitably, the opportunities XR presents also introduce critical issues relating to sustainability, ethics, data privacy, and unequal access to technology, to name a few examples.

XR tools offer creatives and artists compelling possibilities for building upon and challenging existing modes of content creation and storytelling while helping to develop original methodologies for producing new artistic media.

During the residency at iMAL, Brussels, from 4 March - 28 April 2024, the selected applicant(s) will receive access to its XR LAB, which contains state-of-the-art equipment for creating and producing XR projects, as well as curatorial and production support. The selected resident(s) will also be provided with guidance and special mentorship by CREW and have the opportunity to work with different motion capture systems, a variety of VR HMDs (stand-alone and PC-based), trackers, video projectors, 3D scanners, as well as full pipelines of audio and video equipment, adapted to the needs of XR. The entire process will be supported by an array of high end gaming computers and network equipment.

Towards the end of the residency, a public event will be held at which the resident(s) will present the resulting work.

A budget of €9350 will be provided to cover fee (€2000); development and production (€3000); accommodation and subsistence (€3750); and travel (€600).

The call is open to all emerging creatives who are European residents.

Deadline: 3 December 2023

More info and apply: https://www.imal.org/en/news/rit-call-2023

Original post on the website of On the Move: https://on-the-move.org/news/realities-transition-call-xr-artistic-projects-belgium

SFER IK Museion: Open Call for AI Artworks (Mexico)

On the Move — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 07:42:40 +0000

SFER IK Museion in Tulum, Mexico, invites artists from diverse disciplines to participate in an open call competition for the creation of groundbreaking art works using artificial intelligence to be placed at the enchanting natural environment of the Tulum Jungle.

This unique opportunity allows artists to conceive installations, sculptures, interventions and land art works that transcend conventional boundaries and explore the intersection between art, technology and nature.

The winning team or artist will receive:

A grant of 100,000 USD. A portion of the award will go towards creation.
Exclusive access to the state-of-the-art FabLab and workshops at SFER IK Museion to produce the project.
2 month art residency programme at AZULIK City of Arts, where the selected artist or team could co-create with access to Labs.
5 days stay at AZULIK hotel in Tulum, all expenses included.

Deadline: 17 November 2023

More info and apply: https://www.sferik.art/award

Original post on the website of On the Move: https://on-the-move.org/news/sfer-ik-museion-open-call-ai-artworks-mexico

ART4SEA: Call for Artists in Residence (Italy / Greece / Malta)

On the Move — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 14:16:30 +0000

In 2024, three small islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Ustica in Italy, Alonissos in Greece and Gozo in Malta, will host a 7-day residency programme where artists will be inspired by the beautiful natural environments, the ancient maritime traditions, and the direct relationships with local communities to create their born-digital and physical artworks. Artists will be encouraged to design artworks to be integrated into the marine, natural and architectural landscapes of the islands, thus creating an open-air and underwater museum making the three Islands a guiding light for Ocean Conservation.

The residency programme will foster a cooperation process between artists and communities to raise ocean literacy and inspire a more environmentally friendly behaviour, with co-creation and cross fertilisation activities on-site and online. Artworks (both digital and physical ones) will become the tangible results of the two-year residency programme that includes for each island:

4 Digital artists.
3 Street/Urban/Guerrilla/Ecological/Graffiti/Land artists.
1 Artist producing underwater artworks/sculptures.

Overall, the programme will involve 8 Artists for each island and 24 artists in total willing to:

Be engaged in co-creating projects to spread people’s awareness of marine preservation.
Improve their skills using digital technologies and digital media in the creative process.
Be trained on innovative and sustainable methods applied to creative processes.

The project covers round trips from European cities, boards and lodging costs for the in-person activities. It also provides some support for production costs, and stipends varying from 2000 – 3500 EUR.

Applicants must be based in a European country.

Deadline: 10 November 2023

More info and apply: https://art4sea.eu/call-for-artists/

Original post on the website of On the Move: https://on-the-move.org/news/art4sea-call-artists-residence-italy-greece-malta

BEK - Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts: Replicator Workshop (Norway)

On the Move — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 15:51:38 +0000

BEK - Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts has one spot left for an artist, researcher or maker to participate in the ‘Replicator Workshop: A practical speculation on generative AI for physical production’. The workshop is led by visual artist Magnhild Øen Nordahl and researcher Gabriele de Seta, combining their interests in abstraction and machine learning. It will run for three days (6-8 November 2023) in Bergen and result in a presentation during the symposium The Only Lasting Truth is Change on 18 November 2023.

The term ‘generative artificial intelligence’ describes a subset of machine learning systems used to synthesise various kinds of content including text, images, videos, sounds, and 3D models. In contrast to discriminative models which classify existing data, generative machine learning models are capable of synthesising new instances of data according to what they learned from training datasets.

Generative AI has a growing range of applications, which run the gamut from scientific discovery and VFX work to industrial manufacturing and graphic design. Its use across domains results in the development of new creative practices and literacies like prompt engineering and model fine-tuning. The more consumer-oriented side of generative AI is often marketed through appeals to unlimited creativity and the almost magical capability to transform text into images or images into videos.

But what are the limits of generative AI? How does the seemingly endless variation in digital outputs interface with physical production processes? How close is generative AI to the science fictional fabrication afforded by the Star Trek replicator, and what can we speculate about the near future of generative AI for physical production through currently available tools?

In the workshop we will explore available models and tools, such as text and image to 3D-model converters, and develop an experimental pipeline from generative AI to physical production. Through the task of creating one physical object together the workshop participants will use this practical work as a way to discuss the above mentioned questions and to ask new ones.

The workshop participants will be present in person for the three full days of the workshop in Bergen. No previous skills are required, but an interest in working hands on with the above mentioned tools and topics is a must.

BEK will cover travel up to NOK 2500 (~215 EUR), accommodation and a fee of NOK 5000 for participation.

Deadline: 20 October 2023

More info and apply: https://bek.no/en/replicator-workshop-2/

Original post on the website of On the Move: https://on-the-move.org/news/bek-bergen-centre-electronic-arts-replicator-workshop-norway

G.MAP / Seoul Metropolitan Government: Call for Façade Video, ‘Nam June Paik: Post-Fluxus Sense’ (South Korea)

On the Move — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 15:00:00 +0000

The Gwangju Media Art Platform (G.MAP) and Seoul Metropolitan Government are collaboratively organising an international open call for media facade artworks to be simultaneously exhibited in two cities – Gwangju and Seoul. This initiative seeks to foster creative exchange within UNESCO Creative Cities and to discover and support interdisciplinary media art creators.

This open call is centred around a specific theme: ‘Nam June Paik: Post-Fluxus Sense’, with the objective of upholding the essence of the arts of Nam June Paik and Fluxus. Entrants are prompted to envision prospective portrayals of Nam June Paik’s artistic prowess in conjunction with his contemporaneous artistic contributions or to perpetuate the enduring spirit of Fluxus across epochs.

Four projects will be selected through the open call for exhibition from 24 November 2023 – 31 March 2024. Each individual (or team) will receive 20 million KRW (~14,000 EUR) including tax and transportation expenses for the production of their artwork and for travel costs related to supplementary events hosted by Seoul Special City and G.MAP related to the contest and exhibition.

Deadline: 16 October 2023

More info and apply: http://gmap.gwangju.go.kr/bbs/board.php?bo_table=notice&wr_id=25

Original post on the website of On the Move: https://on-the-move.org/news/gmap-seoul-metropolitan-government-call-facade-video-nam-june-paik-post-fluxus-sense-south

SHARESPACE: Call for Media Artists to Make a Work for the Deep Space 8K (Austria)

On the Move — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 04:01:00 +0000

In the near future, more and more communication will occur in digital spaces. This leads to a further blurring of the border between humans and technology, and an increase of their close intertwining in everyday life. Therefore, steering this hybrid future towards the creation of new opportunities for human-centric, safe, rewarding, and inclusive social interaction is vital.

SHARESPACE is a Horizon Europe research and innovation project that aims to create future Social Hybrid Spaces (SHS). In these SHS, humans and avatars engage in embodied collaborative tasks. Social sensorimotor primitives, which refers to how people interact and communicate with each other through their senses and movements, are transparently captured through mobile connected innovative sensors, and then reconstructed using novel extended reality (XR) and artificial intelligence (AI) technology, ultimately improving embodied collaboration in digital spaces. SHARESPACE involves a wide range of European universities, companies and institutions from various fields.

SHARESPACE is now looking for a media artist (group) to collaborate with. The goal of the collaboration is for the artist to realise their own art work for the Deep Space 8K, located at the Ars Electronica Center, utilising SHARESPACE technology. This space enables immersive XR environments through 3D stereoscopic floor and wall projections (16m x 9m). Artists are invited to create a multi-user, hybrid, interactive art performance that leverages embodied interaction between people and different types of Virtual Humans. The developed artwork will be shown in Deep Space 8K at the Ars Electronica Festival 2024.

Following a kick-off meeting in Linz in February 2024, technical production will take place from April – September 2024.

For the development of the artwork, the artist will receive 15,000 EUR. This budget should cover all costs including travel to Linz, material costs, working hours, and potential subcontracts.

Deadline: 19 November 2023

More info and apply: https://sharespace.eu/open-call-for-artists/

Original post on the website of On the Move: https://on-the-move.org/news/sharespace-call-media-artists-make-work-deep-space-8k-austria

FREEYOU Next: Fellowship for Digital Artists (Spain, Belgium, Italy / Online)

On the Move — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 07:00:25 +0000

FREEYOU Next, builds on FREEYOU – a project funded by the Media Literacy for Al Programme, and its main product: a blended multilingual educational format (and resources) for media and data literacy, targeted to teachers, educators, and facilitators that work with youngsters. FREEYOU Next is a European flagship initiative created by five European institutions: MEET Digital Center, GLUON, INOVA+, Dataninja, and FZC-Etopia.

The main goal of FREEYOU Next is to make young people active thinkers and creative agents instead of passive users of social media. To do so, we FREEYOU Next aims to bring digital artists into the media and data literacy speculation to work on inspiring tools to change behaviours, boost co-creation processes between them and young people, and to promote cross-pollination dynamics between artists/activists/journalists/teachers to improve a collective awareness by influencing each other.

To this end, FREEYOU Next is launching this international call for participants to select 3 digital creatives, to join a 6-month fellowship programme (between November 2023 and May 2024) consisting of a blended approach with online meetings, mentorship, and a physical residency of at least two weeks.

Digital media and social media are reshaping how new generations interact with each other and the world. Very quickly they are also conditioning their self-esteem, creating unreachable expectations of how they look or how many material goods they need. All this is modifying their relationship with the environment, the economy, or politics. They get information and validate opinions on the realm of the algorithm; while doing so, they provide and consume data. The selected projects will address this relationship of usage and misuse to offer a new approach to media literacy by including work with teenagers in their creative process.

During the 6-month program, selected fellows work on their proposed projects, and present them to the public at the end of the trajectory in a transnational exhibition (Spain, Belgium, and Italy) and a final one in Meet, Milan (Nov/Dec 2024). The fellowship programme focuses on the creative usages of data but does not exclude other forms of digital art. The selected fellows will receive a grant of €20,000. The residencies will take place in Zaragoza Spain at FZC_ETOPIA, Meet, and Gluon.

Applicants should be artists or digital creators who work with data, or who have the ambition to do so, and must be established in one of the 27 EU Member States.

Deadline: 13 September 2023

More info and apply: https://next.freeyouproject.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/FREEYOU_NEXT-CALL-FOR-DIGITAL-ARTISTS-1.pdf

Original post on the website of On the Move: https://on-the-move.org/news/freeyou-next-fellowship-digital-artists-spain-belgium-italy-online

Phoenix: Open Call for Artists and Code-based Practitioners, ‘The Wall: Digital Revelations’ (Online / Remote)

On the Move — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 04:01:00 +0000

Phoenix cinema and art centre in Leicester, UK is pleased to announce ‘The Wall: Digital Revelations’, a new media wall open call opportunity for artists and code-based practitioners.

Commissioned artworks will accompany Phoenix’s upcoming exhibitions, Virtual Textual and Digital Femininity, expanding upon their themes and offering audiences an interactive opportunity. There will be one media wall commission per exhibition. Proposed artworks need to use one of two code templates, Java Script Web App or Unity Body Tracking, that are available to download from GitHub. The Virtual Textual commission will be installed on 13 October 2023, and the Digital Femininity commission on 19 January 2024.

Selected artists will be paid a fee of £1000 and will receive conceptual and technical support. Additional costs associated with the production will be considered.

Selected artists will also be supported with a programme of online mentorship in the month preceding the launch of their commission. The mentorship programme will be aligned to the development of the commissioned work, featuring a mixture of conceptual and technical discussions and support. Phoenix advise that the development of the commission should be concentrated within this month.

Deadline: 11 September 2023

More info and apply: https://www.phoenix.org.uk/events/open-call-the-wall-digital-revelations/

Original post on the website of On the Move: https://on-the-move.org/news/phoenix-open-call-artists-and-code-based-practitioners-wall-digital-revelations-online-remote

Nieuwe Instituut: Call for Fellows 2023, ‘Tool Sheds’ (Netherlands)

On the Move — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 14:25:57 +0000

Using Tool Sheds as a point of departure, this year Nieuwe Instituut’s Call for Fellows invites applicants to conceptualise, design and test applied research tools, instruments, methods, formats and processes for generative world-building using material, theoretical, political, time-based or place-based sets of practices. 

By calling for different forms of research, they invite applicants to embrace embodied forms of knowing, learning and investigating, and to think more deeply about the relationship between theory and practice. Nieuwe Instituut and its Research collective are currently engaged in imagining how museums and cultural institutions could function as ‘testing grounds’: equitable sites for action-based forms of research with the aim of enacting a society that supports all life, while at the same time investigating how to approach and situate ‘research as testing’ within the role of a cultural institution.  

The Tool Shed is one of the Research team’s concepts for public interfacing, through which research can engage and interact with various publics. Nieuwe Instituut offer their own tools, while also leaving the metaphorical doors of the Tool Shed open for others to contribute and share their own. 

Applicants are encouraged to submit a proposal that addresses their current investigations, explorations, or unfinished thoughts through the lens of architecture, design and digital culture. Proposals should clearly state their focus and aims, and also the socio-economic, nature-cultural and political context in which they are based. They may incorporate a larger system of reference, schools of critical thought and transdisciplinary practices, and non-academic references, as well as different forms of engagement and co-creation.  

Nieuwe Instituut offers two Research Fellowship positions for six months (from January 2024 to June 2024). Each of these positions includes a maximum budget of 20,000 euros. Stipends may be subject to a withholding tax. 

There is no age limit for applicants. Individuals and collectives from all places of residence are invited to apply.

Deadline: 10 September 2023

More info and apply: https://nieuweinstituut.nl/en/articles/call-for-fellows-tool-sheds

Original post on the website of On the Move: https://on-the-move.org/news/nieuwe-instituut-call-fellows-2023-tool-sheds-netherlands

CYENS: Open Call for Artist Residency, ‘The Boundary Crosser’ (Cyprus)

On the Move — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 11:35:40 +0000

Recent practices at the intersection of arts and technology have started to explore the boundaries and the intersections between the two, and to find new ways to speak about the artistic work produced.

In this spirit, the aim of the ‘Boundary-Crosser’ residency project is to provide an opportunity for artists to explore creative intersections and processes with technologists. In practice what this means is that artists will be hosted by one of the 8 participating CYENS Centre of Excellence Labs and will generate artistic work, during and after their time of residency.

At the heart of Nicosia’s historic centre, the CYENS Centre of Excellence is a new and vibrant entity, connecting academic research with cutting-edge tech developments. The insertion of artists, through processes of Creative Placemaking, into the work of CYENS’ research groups aims to open new possibilities for creativity, engagement and dialogue.

Residencies run 2-4 months. Applications are open to Cyprus-based or international fine and digital artists, designers, performers (actors, dancers, performance artists), and musicians.

Residents are granted a stipend of 1250 EUR per month.

Deadline: 30 July 2023

More info and apply: https://museumlab.cyens.org.cy/project/the-cyens-centre-of-excellence-residency-a-creative-placemaking-project/

Original post on the website of On the Move: https://on-the-move.org/news/cyens-open-call-artist-residency-boundary-crosser-cyprus

ShUM: Artist in Residence (Germany)

On the Move — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 15:17:16 +0000

In the Middle Ages, the Jewish communities in Speyer, Worms and Mainz formed a centre of Jewish life (collectively covered here by the acronym ShUM formed from the first letters of the cities’ Hebrew names) and was unique for the whole of Ashkenaz – as Middle and Western Europe was known in Rabbinic literature. These towns formed a unique association that deeply inﬂuenced the architecture, culture, religion and jurisdiction of the central and east European Jewish diaspora, an impact still evident today. Monuments, synagogues, women’s shuln, teaching houses, ritual baths and the old Jewish cemeteries in Worms and Mainz together with the religious tradition bear testimony to the immense importance and innovative power of the ShUM communities.

In July 2021, the ShUM cities were recognised as UNESCO World Heritage Sites, the first Jewish World Heritage recognition in Germany. They are now offering up to three project fellowships for the realisation of an artistic project that addresses the history of the ShUM communities and their religious, cultural, and architectural legacy.

Proposals should take an artistic approach to the ShUM legacy, taking into consideration Judaism’s ideas, history and current position. During their stay, the artistic ShUM fellows will also be expected to allow interested visitors an insight into their work and concepts in a suitable form, e.g., in workshop discussions. Young people and schools will also be invited, and an exchange of ideas with local artists and cultural institutions is desirable.

The call is open to artists from around the world working in visual and media art, architecture and design, music, or literature.

Residency conditions

The residency will last for 4 to 6 weeks and is scheduled between mid-August and the end of September 2024. Fellows will work and live in one of the three ShUM cities (Worms, Speyer or Mainz).
Fellows are offered a rent-free, furnished apartment, a studio/work room, travel expenses up to €1000, an allowance of €250 per residency week, and a contribution to other expenses (materials or services) of up to €1000.
In addition, the curator and artistic director as well as the respective cultural departments of the three towns will offer help and advice in realising the project/s by arranging contact to local artists and cultural institutions as well as with government offices, companies and organisations.

Deadline: 30 September 2023

More info and apply: https://www.speyer.de/en/culture/shum-a-unesco-world-heritage-site/shum-artist-in-residence/

Original post on the website of On the Move: https://on-the-move.org/news/shum-artist-residence-germany-0

European Media Art Platform Residency Programme

On the Move — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 15:03:10 +0000

With the support of the European Union’s Creative Europe programme, for the next two years the European Media Art Platform expands its residency programme to residencies in 16 countries. They offer residencies for artists, artist duos, collectives or other artistic collaborations working in the fields of digital art, media art, and bio-art. As a new feature to the EMAP residency programme they have introduced the ‘collaboration’ component. Applicants are expected to include a proposal for a collaboration in their application.

European artists, or collectives can apply with a project proposal for a residency of two months in 2024. The artists will be collaborating with a person of their choice or a person local to the host institution:

Antre Peaux, Bourges, France
Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
CIKE, Košice, Slovakia
gnration, Braga, Portugal
iMAL Brussels, Belgium
IMPAKT [Centre for Media Culture], Utrecht, the Netherlands
Kersnikova Institute (Kapelica Gallery), Ljubljana, Slovenia
KONTEJNER | bureau of contemporary art praxis, Zagreb, Croatia
LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón, Spain
m-cult, Helsinki, Finland
NeMe, Limassol, Cyprus
Onassis Stegi, Athens, Greece
RIXC Centre for New Media Culture, Riga, Latvia
Werkleitz-Centre for Media Art, Halle (Saale), Germany in collaboration with transmediale (Berlin)
WRO Art Center, Wroclaw, Poland
Special Host Organisation: ISSS - Indonesia Space Science Society / HONF Foundation, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

The residency includes an invitation to the kick-off conference in Limassol, Cyrpus in March 2024, a grant of €4000 for the applying artist(s) including subsistence costs, a grant of €2000 for collaborating artist(s), a project budget of €4000, free accommodation, travel expenses up to €1000, and free access to technical facilities and/or media labs of the host institution. It also includes a professional presentation and the option to participate in exhibition tours at members’ festivals/exhibitions in 2024, plus the option to get exhibited by EMAP partner institutions.

Applicants must be EU residents or taxpayers in an EU member country or a Creative Europe participating country. Undergraduate and Master students are not eligible (PhD candidates are accepted), but emerging artists, regardless of age and academic degree, are encouraged to apply.

Deadline: 12 September 2023

More info and apply: https://call.emare.eu

Original post on the website of On the Move: https://on-the-move.org/news/european-media-art-platform-residency-programme-1

CYENS: WIP Arts and Technology Festival (Cyprus)

On the Move — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 10:12:53 +0000

The WIP Arts and Technology Festival invites artists from all over the world to showcase their work in WIP23 which will take place in the CYENS Centre of Excellence and various venues in the old town of Nicosia, Cyprus between 20 October – 3 November 2023.

The organisers seek unique and innovative pieces, performances, talks and workshops that showcase the intersection of art and technology. The exhibition plans to feature a variety of mediums, including media artworks, interactive games, installations, live performances, talks, and workshops.

Support provided will be agreed and covered upon discussion with the artist to cover the following (max 1-day prior to event and 1-day after the event):

Transportation expenses.
Accommodation.
Subsistence.
Suggested services: Talks, Workshops, Exhibition, Performance.
Equipment / Shipping / Artwork Insurance.

The maximum amount that can be covered in the allowance will be agreed upon with the artist and is subject to a predetermined limit.

Deadline: 19 June 2023

More info and apply: https://2023wip.cyens.org.cy/wip-festival-2023/open-call/

Original post on the website of On the Move: https://on-the-move.org/news/cyens-wip-arts-and-technology-festival-cyprus

Blooming Festival: Call for New Media Art Projects (Italy)

On the Move — Wed, 31 May 2023 13:01:13 +0000

Blooming Festival in Pergola, Italy welcomes an external new media art project for one of its locations through the open call #bloomingyou. The selected project should match the concept of ‘blooming’, meant as evolution or change.

The festival is looking for projects/works/processes at the intersection of nature and technology, which are inspired by, reproduce or rework suggestions, phenomena or natural elements of all kinds through technologies.

Preference will be given to proposals that involve reflection on environmental and social sustainability, inclusion and accessibility issues, and/or that are realised with sustainable/inclusive techniques and technologies.

Projects can include installations, A/V performances, soundscapes, video, mapping, etc… either conceived for real life or for the Metaverse, virtual environments, URLs. The festival itself will take place on 9-10 September 2023.

Support:

Refund of travel expenses.
Accommodation (room and board).
Technical support.
Publication of the selected project on main channels of communication.

Deadline: 25 July 2023

More info and apply: http://bloomingfestival.it/bloomingyou2023

Original post on the website of On the Move: https://on-the-move.org/news/blooming-festival-call-new-media-art-projects-italy

Augmented Europe: AUGE NEXT Fellowship Programme (Online / Italy, Latvia, Germany, Greece)

On the Move — Wed, 24 May 2023 10:57:04 +0000

With the support of the European Union’s Creative Europe programme, the AUGE NEXT cooperation project launches four Fellowship Programmes for Digital Artists-in-Residency organised by the project partners in four European countries: Italy, Latvia, Germany, and Greece.

Each of the four AUGE NEXT Fellowship Programmes consists of a 6-month Prototyping & Production period (1 September 2023 – 28 February 2024) including an Onsite Residency (up to 2 weeks long) taking place in one of the hosting countries.

AUGE NEXT Fellowship Programmes are designed to support young European artists working in various fields of digital media art: immersive art (XR/AR/VR), data visualisation and sonification, AI/ML, and others.

Each of the four granted fellowships will result in new digital artworks that will be exhibited locally at the respective host institutions, as well as in an international group exhibition at the MEET Digital Culture Center in Milan as part of the closing event of AUGE NEXT.

When applying, the artist must choose a challenge they want to address and the appropriate host institution:

Challenge 1: Digital Utopia between human intelligence, AI and Nature: is a symbiosis possible? Hosted by MEET (Milan, Italy).
Challenge 2: Climate, Immersive Art and Energy. Hosted by RIXC (Riga, Latvia).
Challenge 3: Nature | Data | Narratives for climate engagement. Hosted by Public Art Lab (Berlin, Germany).
Challenge 4: Expanded Metaverse: Meta-realities and future scenarios. Hosted by ADAF (Athens, Greece).

Each of the four Fellowship Programmes will provide the selected artists with a fee of €4000 (gross amount, i.e. including taxes if applicable, for creating new digital artwork over the 6-month period). In addition to the fee, the artist will be provided with a production budget (up to a max of €4000, covering the production costs of the digital artwork and showcasing of the artwork in the venue of the hosting institution) and travel and accommodation budget of up to a max of €2000 for up to 2-week onsite residency in hosting country and up to 3 days stay in Milan during the final event.

Only young artists from European Union countries are eligible to apply, i.e. applicants must be EU residents or taxpayers in an EU member country.

Deadline: 15 June 2023

More info and apply: https://augenext.eu/open-call/

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Tabačka Kulturfabrik: TBCK Forward Residency Programme for Women Artists and Cultural Professionals from Central and Eastern Europe (Slovakia)

On the Move — Mon, 22 May 2023 09:40:41 +0000

The TBCK Forward residency programme focuses on women artists and cultural professionals from Central and Eastern Europe (Czech Republic, Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Armenia, Georgia, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Kosovo, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and North Macedonia).

This call is for residencies in two programmes:

TBCK Forward, open to women artists and professionals working in the fields of film, sound art, media art, artistic research, and dramaturgy. The residency is for one month between July-September 2023. Provides a stipend of 500 EUR, travel expenses for the return trip to Košice, and accommodation at Tabačka Kulturfabrik.
TBCK Forward Perform, open to individuals or collectives in the fields of performing arts, physical theatre, contemporary dance, and new circus, where proposals by women artists who aspire to reflect and empower women worldwide will be given special attention. The residency is for two weeks between July-September 2023. Provides a stipend of 1000 EUR, travel expenses for the return trip to Košice, and accommodation (max. 4 people).

Deadline: 31 May 2023

More info and apply: https://tabacka.sk/tbck-forward-2023/

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Trieste Contemporanea: SQUEEZE IT Competition (Italy)

On the Move — Mon, 08 May 2023 11:02:09 +0000

Trieste Contemporanea is pleased to announce the fourth edition of the SQUEEZE IT competition.

The contest invites artists and young professionals under the age of 30, born in the EU countries and in the CEI member states, to squeeze their talent and work at the crossroads of three creative languages: Visual Arts, Digital Technology, and Theatre.

The contestants must conceive an original and unpublished, low budget and small format theatrical performance, that encompasses the languages and themes of contemporary visual arts. The performance must be: based on the stage environment, performing and dramaturgic talent and give specific attention to the artistic potential of digital technology. The theatrical performance must be executable in a 4m x 4m x 4m space and should last no longer than 16 minutes.

Applicants apply with a clip of their performance, with finalists invited to a three-day workshop in September 2023 in Trieste, Italy for which the organisers cover travel and accommodation expenses.

Deadline: 23 July 2023

More info and apply: https://www.triestecontemporanea.it/en/bando/squeeze-it-4th-edition_eng/

Original post on the website of On the Move: https://on-the-move.org/news/trieste-contemporanea-squeeze-it-competition-italy

MODINA: Open Call for Europe-based Dance Artist and Creative Technologist Duos (Romania, Slovenia, Estonia, Germany, Hungary)

On the Move — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 10:35:17 +0000

The project MODINA (Movement, Digital Intelligence and Interactive Audience) aims to expand the creative possibilities for contemporary dance performances, and augment the experience for the audience, using digital technology – with an emphasis on exploring artificial intelligence (AI) and audience interaction, on-site and online. MODINA is a 3-year Creative Europe cooperation project, co-financed by the European Union.

Within the intersection between contemporary dance and technology, increasing attention is being given to AI (computers as creative partners) and to audience interaction (a shift from passive spectators to active participants). This creates interesting challenges for dance artists and creative technologists: how to integrate computational systems and audience members in a performance as co-creators, in a way that enhances the artistic work?

In the scope of MODINA, the partners are opening a call for artist residencies for multidisciplinary duos, encompassing competences in dance and in technology (particularly related to computational creativity and audience interaction), for example: a dancer/choreographer and a creative technologist. In the first stage of MODINA, 5 residencies of 8 weeks will be organised across 5 performance centres: CNDB (Romania), Kino Siska (Slovenia), STL (Estonia), tanzhaus nrw (Germany), and Trafo (Hungary). These residencies will receive mentorship from academic partners, from 3 universities: Hochschule Düsseldorf, Tallinn University and University of Lisbon.

The five 8-week residencies will take place between November 2023 and April 2024.

The programme offers:

Travel/Accommodation.
A budget composed of (gross amounts):
- Artist fee of €5000 for the 8 weeks per each of the 2 artists.
- Production budget of up to €3000, which can also be used for hire(s), e.g. an additional dancer or an additional programmer, musician, video artist etc, for example during the 4 weeks in the studio.
- Additional production needs might also be covered, in agreement with the host institution.
Access to equipment of the host institution.
Assistance of (at least) one stage technician, available throughout the full 4 weeks of studio time.
Mentoring from a MODINA academic partner throughout the residency (including a 3-day co-located workshop).
Promotion.
Documentation (photos, videos, etc).
Invitation to pre/post events:
- Invitation to kick-off event in Tallinn, 20-21 September 2023, with all 10 selected artists for the 5 residencies and representatives of all MODINA partner institutions (travel, accommodation, and daily fee paid).
- Invitation to final event for MODINA in Düsseldorf, in early 2026 (travel, accommodation, and daily fee paid).
- Showcasing the outcome of the residency in approximately 3 more countries within the MODINA network, in the second half of 2024. This is as a follow-up, outside of the scope of the residency; an additional budget will be proposed for it.

Deadline: 24 May 2023

More info and apply: https://modina.eu/calls/residencies23-24/

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