Banff New Media Institute - Co-production Residency for Developing Researchers

Reference Check: A Co-production Residency for Developing Researchers
Residency dates: June 24 to July 21, 2007
Application deadline: April 9, 2007

The Banff New Media Institute (BNMI) invites researchers working with new media at the masters, doctorate or post-doctorate level to spend four weeks at The Banff Centre this summer.

Join BNMI for its first independent research-based Co-production Residency program, bringing together a select group of researchers.

Individuals and small networks who are working with art and new media as a research strategy are invited to explore the broader social contexts of technology and digital culture.

Participants will be supported to pursue their self-directed research. They will also be given the opportunity to reflect on the field of new media and contemporary issues such as creative pluralism and multiple modes of knowledge production.

Participants will have the opportunity to develop their research with a peer group of ten participants and the support and mentorship of BNMI alumni and Reference Check peer advisors. These advisors will work with participants individually and as a group to help focus their ideas, and suggest methodologies, collaborative and multidisciplinary forms, and ways of enhancing their work and impact in the world.

Peer Advisors:

Andreas Broeckmann (DE)

Andreas has recently finished his seven-year tenure as director of transmediale, the Berlin-based festival for art and digital culture. He brings extensive curatorial experience in the field of art and media with regard to the development, realization, and documentation of new research projects, and their presentation in exhibitions, workshops, and other event formats.

Anne Galloway (CA)

Anne brings a strong background in critical social and cultural studies of new technologies. Her research in sociology and anthropology concentrates on people's local and global mobility experiences and how they relate to a variety of technologies including cell phones, RFID, and biometrics.

Sarat Maharaj (UK)

Sarat Maharaj is a research professor at Goldsmith's College London and professor of visual art and knowledge systems in Lund, Sweden. His research covers cultural translation and differences, textiles, sonics, and visual art as knowledge production.

The total cost for this intensive, four-week residency program will be $1,369.80, (CND) plus applicable taxes. Nearly $7500 of additional in-kind support for each project will be provided by BNMI staff and the dedicated studio and production facilities at The Banff Centre's Creative Electronic Environment.

BNMI is engaged in leading and supporting research related to the field of new media including art, science, technology, education, studio, and future network practice. We attract world-class research partners, institutions, and artists who develop and share knowledge throughoutnBNMI.

Banff New Media Institute

The Banff Centre
Box 1020, Station 40
Banff, Alberta T1L 1H5
Canada
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