New Media Residency List
A list of international artist residency programs with a special emphasis on new media art.
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- Aesthetics Technology Lab at Ohio University
- Alfred University
- Ars Virtua Gallery and New Media Center
- Berwick Research Institute
- City Without Walls and Newark School of the Arts
- Do While Studio
- Experimental Television Center
- Eyebeam
- Habitat New Media Lab
- Harvestworks
- I-Park
- Montalvo Arts Center
- Net Behaviour
- Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten
- Squeaky Wheel
- ANAT
- The Ars Electronica Futurelab
- ArtLab (Canon)
- Art Science Research Lab
- The Arts Catalyst
- Banff Center for the Arts
- The Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS)
- The Creativity & Cognition Research Studios
- foAM
- Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences - IAMAS International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences - IAMAS
- Residencia Corazón/ The Heart Residency
- Art and Cultural Studies Laboratory (ACSL)
- Arts Tasmania - Cultural Exchange Program
- Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen
- KulturKontakt Austria
- Frans Masereel Centre
- Toronto School of Art
- beiLAB / Theatre in Motion
- Kyoto Art Center
- Queen Street Digital Arts Studios
- PAF
- Velvet Factory
- Kala Art Institute
- Norden/ Nordic Culture Point
- Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten
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Aesthetics Technology Lab at Ohio University
Athens, OH http://www.ohiou.edu/atlab Duration: 10 WeekWe are seeking an experienced and motivated new media artist with a significant portfolio and a growing publication and/or exhibition record for digital / mediated work. You will have a national or international reputation and possess excellent skills with digital tools and/or web design as well as the ability to teach online and in person. You will be familiar with new media forms and the digital arts community and have proven ability to work independently and with a team.
You will spend 60% of your time developing a substantial new media piece of your own for an exhibition launch towards the conclusion of your residency period and 40% of your time contributing to the intellectual and collaborative life of the @Lab by hosting courses, workshops, lectures, and outreach events.
You will be required to reflect upon your practice via an ongoing public online journal as part of your development time. There will be many opportunities to benefit from the support, advice and resources of the College of Fine Art community, and the @Lab staff.
This residency includes a competitive compensation, housing, some meals, travel arrangements to Athens, OH, a materials budget, some marketing, advertising and event support, and onsite resources for project development.
To Apply:
Please submit your CV, a sample of your works and publication list, as well as a course outline and letter of interest to:Dr. Katherine Milton
The Aesthetic Technologies Lab
235 Putnam Hall - Ohio University
Athens, OH 45701
(740) 591-4579
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The Institute for Electronic Arts is accepting applications for weeklong residencies. Artists should apply who are interested in making experimental work utilizing our cross-disciplinary electronic studio facilities in video, sonics, large format digital print, and interactive systems. Artists will receive support in the form of studio equipment access, technical support, travel, and housing.
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Ars Virtua Artist-in-Residence
Call for Proposals
World of Warcraft Residence
Deadline: January 15
Ars Virtua Gallery and New Media Center in Second Life is soliciting proposals for its artist-in-residence program. Established and emerging artists will work within the massively multiplayer online environment of World of Warcraft. The residency will culminate in an exhibition of documentation in Second Life and/or on the web. Residents will also receive a $400 stipend, training and mentorship as necessary.
Ars Virtua Artist-in-Residence (AVAIR) is an extended performance that examines what it means to reside in a place that has no physical location. The purpose of the residency is to reflect on the nature of the game environment and terrestrial world in the context of contemporary art.
Ars Virtua is keenly aware of the growing power of synthetic worlds in terrestrial existence. The arts have already begun to infiltrate and influence the environment, development and understanding of these "places." It is the purpose of this residency to give direct attention to the interrogation of the space, place, and metaphor.
Residents will be encouraged to explore, experiment with and challenge traditional conventions of art making and distribution, value and the art market, artist and audience, space and place.
Application Process
Artists are encouraged to log in to World of Warcraft BEFORE applying. Be aware that Blizzard offers a 10 day Free trial, and that finalists will be contacted for an in world interview. Applications will be judged based on ideas presented and work previously executed. We are looking for an artist who is willing to work within what may be a new environment for them and be prepared to evolve in response to the synthetic world and Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game that is WoW.
To apply send the following information to avair-at-arsvirtua.com:
1) Name, address, phone number, email, Warcraft Character/Realm/Faction.
2) Link to an online portfolio (expect a 5 minute visit) and one page proposal. If you do not have an online portfolio please briefly discuss your work.
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Project Concept
The members of the Berwick Research Institute believe that art should be valued by its ability to positively impact individuals' perceptions of themselves, their neighbors, and their surroundings within their emotional, political, social, and physical landscape. We aspire to create a forum for the constructive exchange of ideas between creative individuals. This exchange constitutes both our process and our product.
Designed with the needs of emerging artists and genres in mind, the Artist in Research (AIR) residency program aspires to provide individuals and collaborative groups with essential time, space, and financial support. An annual publication, designed by the Designer in Research, documents these projects in a distinctive format, itself constituting a work of art to be enjoyed by future audiences. By actively promoting residents' projects to the press, exposing them to a panel of curators, and by providing them with career advising, the Berwick helps emerging artists navigate the obstacles that face them in the early stages of their careers. The cornerstone of the program, however, is the supportive critical feedback that the Berwick community offers the Artists in Research.
Contents, Structure, Timeline
The Berwick is interested in supporting concept-driven work that eludes conventional modes of market distribution. We support a wide range of media. Past projects have taken shape as interactive sonic sculpture, site-specific installation, contemporary orchestral composition, architectural design, pirate radio, and body-dependent sculpture for use in performative perceptual experiments.
Given the conceptual nature of the projects that we support, we feel it is important to keep the period between proposal and project implementation as short as possible, so as to keep ideas fresh. The selection of artists is determined by a two-tier jury panel process. A Curatorial Panel comprised of 8 to 10 emerging and established artists and curators from the Boston area will select finalists who they feel merit support and whose work fits with the Berwick mission. Members of the Berwick community compose a second panel that awards the residencies. This system ensures high quality projects selected by respected members of the arts community as well as essential input from Berwick members, who work intimately with Berwick members for a two-month period.
Once they start their residency term, Artists in Research will be given 24-hour access to a space in a communal studio located at the Berwick Research Institute in Dudley Square. As well as studio space and creative feedback, artists are given access to the Berwick's woodshop and computer. The Berwick offers a stipend in hopes of easing the financial burdens of artists whose work does not easily fit the commercial gallery system because of the nature of their work. In collaboration with Artist's Resource Center at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, the Berwick offers career advising.
Ongoing critiques with the Berwick Director, other artists sharing the studio, and members of the Berwick community provide artists with a structured opportunity for critical input from an engaged audience of peers. Each artist is encouraged to host an open studio, lecture, or other public event that offers the public a glimpse of the progress of their research and an opportunity to give creative feedback. The Berwick also marks the end of each residency term with a public presentation and celebration.
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City Without Walls (cWOW) in collaboration with Newark School of the Arts (NSA) seeks an artist in residence for NEWARK NEW MEDIA a pilot arts education and residency program at the intersection of new technologies and contemporary art.
The new media artist in residence will have use of a private studio in Newark overlooking Lincoln Park for 17 weeks from February to June, 2009. The artist will also receive a $1,200 stipend and an equipment/materials budget. In addition, five high-school students will apprentice under the artist's supervision in weekly one-hour training sessions to help realize a major work of new media art. The final artwork will be presented in a high-profile exhibition either at cWOW or another prestigious venue.
To be considered for this opportunity, you must join cWOW by October 27, 2008 as an artist member with a minimum annual donation of $35 for individual members or $25 for students and seniors. As an artist member, your work will be part of our registry, and will be reviewed by every curator for every show that you select within one year of joining. Your chances of being selected for a show are better than 50% (though never guaranteed, because of our independent curatorial process). This process ensures high quality, independent selection, while also building our membership base, providing crucial support for programming such as this. Your donations are tax-deductible to the full extent of the law. Artist registry materials, including images, videos, and more, can now be uploaded to our website after joining, and will soon be available for public viewing. See other member benefits and join online at www.cwow.org.
All innovative interpretations of new media art will be considered, requiring some critical use of digital technology in the art-making process and product.
Artists can upload their entries at www.cWOW.org after joining cWOW. You can submit up to twenty (20) images and five (5) videos, as well as a proposal, statement, resume, and additional registry materials.
Exhibition and reception dates to be determined. cWOW is New Jersey's oldest alternative art space, now located in a 2,000-square-foot state-of-the-art facility in downtown Newark, with a main gallery, project room, 9-foot screen, several flat-screen TVs, and other equipment. cWOW is a not-for-profit urban gallery for emerging art that advances the careers of artists while building the audience for contemporary art. cWOW is a three-time recipient of the prestigious NJ State Council on the Arts ""Citation of Excellence."" Newark School of the Arts provides training in music, dance, drama and visual arts on an afternoon, evening and Saturday basis. It is unique in the Newark area in offering ongoing sequential arts training for students of all ages and abilities, regardless of economic circumstances over an extended period of time, often encompassing several years. It provides this training for up 800 students each week.
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What
A six-week process-oriented artist's residency for the development of a new media project. The residency provides living, working and exhibition space in the heart of downtown Boston, as well as "think tank" support from professionals in the field. Projects should be experimental, research-oriented, community-based, and in need of further development.
Why
We provide real space for real ideas. New media and technology may well offer innovative ways of expressing artistic concepts, but real, physical space is still the best venue for sharing work with the community.
How
You propose a new media project that meets the residency criteria. We select one resident per year. If we select your project, we provide the necessary support and resources to help you develop it.
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The Center has provided residencies to over 1400 artists from throughout the United States and internationally. In a self-directed work environment with personalized instruction and free access to facilities, artists have the time and space for aesthetic exploration in the creation of new work. The image processing system is a hybrid tool set which facilitates interactive relationships between older historically important analog instruments such as colorizers and keyers, and new digital technologies using G4s and G5s incorporating sonic and control modules by Doepfer, software including Max/MSP and Jitter, as well as DVD authoring and editing software. This rich electronic environment encourages artists to explore boundaries and intersections within narrative, documentary and experimental forms. About 45 artists participate annually. The postmark deadlines for applications to the Program are July 15th and December 15th each year.
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Eyebeam Residents
About the Residency
Eyebeam residencies support the creative research, production and presentation of initiatives querying art, technology and culture. The residency is a period of concentration and immersion in artistic investigation, daring research or production of visionary, experimental applications and projects. Past initiatives have ranged from moving image, sound and physical computing works to technical prototypes, installations and public interventions.
The ideal resident will both contribute to and benefit from the collective environment at Eyebeam, and will embrace the spirit of openness shared across the organization: open source, open content and open distribution.
To promote collaboration and the sharing of diverse skill sets, Eyebeam encourages the formation of research groups that bring together creative practitioners working at Eyebeam as well as expert external participants. New research leads to possible public outcomes including seminars, public discussion and exhibition. Research themes for 2008 include (though will not be limited to):
- Energy, Technology and Sustainability
- Urban research, urban interventions and media in public space
Artists and creative technologists interested in these research areas are particularly encouraged to apply for Summer 2008 residencies.
Residents are encouraged to participate in public events including workshops, demonstrations of research in progress, panel discussions, and online releases, in addition to regularly scheduled open studio events.
The program term is from July to November with the potential for extension and/or re-application. Residents will be selected from an open call, based on the quality of the work or research being proposed, the availability of the necessary tools and skills to support the work, and in consideration of the overarching research themes and activities of the organization.
To Apply
Applications are accepted via our online application system. Apply now.
Many of the most frequently asked questions are answered online. Be sure to visit our FAQ for applicants before you apply. If you have any questions, contact residencyinfo AT eyebeam DOT org.
Commission for Resident Artists
Eyebeam’s programs for artists and technologists support the creative research, production and presentation of initiatives that query art, technology and culture. The Commission is a period of concentration and immersion in artistic investigation, daring research or experimental production of visionary expression, applications and projects. The Commission was awarded to one American and one international artist; the award includes a $10,000 stipend as well as additional support for travel and accommodation. Recipients of the Commission will display their projects at Eyebeam at the end of the residency season, in July 2008.
The 2008 Commission for Resident Artists is underwritten by Dewar's.
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The TELUS Interactive Arts & Entertainment Programme (IAEP) is Canada's first post-graduate programme for new media training and production, based on a philosophy that compelling new media content is created through a collaborative process harnessing a wide range of creative skills, knowledge and talent. An internationally acclaimed facility, the Habitat New Media lab has produced award-winning new media prototypes ranging from simulation-based interactive documentaries, to wireless storytelling networks, to interactive short films and narrative-driven media installations.
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The Harvestworks Artist In Residence Program offers commissions of up to $4000 to make a new work in our state of the art digital media facility. Each artist receives a $700 fee with the balance of the award posted in a' "facilities account" which is used to manage and produce the work. The artist works with a team comprised of a project manager, engineer and programmer (if required). Work produced in the program is premiered in the Harvestworks' 5.1 Presentation Lab. Residents are also included in Creative Contact, an Internet compilation of digital art work on the Harvestworks website.
New works may include the creation of a new video work with a surround sound audio mix, audio recording and mastering of a surround sound piece, the creation of a new web art work and the development of a live interactive music/video/installation system using Max/MSP/Jitter.
Up to 12 residencies will be selected (depending on project size and funding) along with two alternates in the event any resident artist cannot participate. Priority will be given to the creative use of the Harvestworks' production facility and the innovative use of sound and/or picture. Emerging artists and artists of color are encouraged to apply.
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For information regarding the 2009 Residency Season at the Artists' Enclave at I-Park, please visit us again during the late Summer/early Fall months of 2008. _
I-Park announces its seventh season hosting The Artists' Enclave. Artists' residencies, self-directed/project oriented, will be offered from May through October 2007. Most sessions are four weeks in duration, with a six-week session planned for October-November. Residencies will be offered to visual (including digital) artists, music composers, environmental artists, landscape and garden designers and architects. Work samples will be evaluated through a competitive, juried process.
There is a $20 application processing fee required and artists are responsible for their own transportation to the area. They also provide for their own food and work materials. The facility is otherwise offered at no cost to accepted artists.
I-Park is a 450-acre natural woodland retreat in rural East Haddam, Connecticut. Accommodations include comfortable private living quarters in an 1850's farmhouse, shared bathroom facilities and a private studio on the grounds. An electric kiln, music equipment and library facilities are provided.
International applicants welcome.
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In October 2004, Montalvo opened the Sally and Don Lucas Artists Programs, replacing the original artists residency program which was created in 1939 and was one of the first in the United States. The new $10.5 million facilities, designed by six teams of artists and architects, is comprised of ten discipline-specific live/work studios and one commons building. The Lucas Artists Programs offer facilities and staff supportive of the creative process, state-of-the-art technology and an environment conducive to both individual practice and the energetic exchange of ideas among international and culturally diverse fellows.
Collaboration is a key emphasis of the Programs, whether between fellows or with other arts programs at Montalvo, Silicon Valley businesses, or Bay Area, national and international institutions. Performance venues and gallery space at Montalvo and in the larger Bay Area provides the opportunity for fellows to present finished works or works in progress to local audiences. In addition, the Lucas Artists Programs work closely with the education department in facilitating master class opportunities with local schools, hosting the summer camp Young Artists in Residence: Fine Arts Day Camp in its live/work studios, and a fellowship program for teaching artists.
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This is an in-house, networked artist/curator/writer residency built by users of the NetBehaviour list lasting for 2 weeks where a practicioner's work is seen, as part of the list experience, adding different kind of authentic stuff to the list - exploring more than debate alone, through behaviour.
Brief info about Residencies:
- Residencies last for 2 weeks
- Maximum size of image per post- 35k
- Maximum number of posts - every six hours
- Minimum number of posts - one a day
What type of work?
Anything proposed by net artists, new media academics, soft groups, net writers, code geeks, new media producers, net/new media curators, net/new media activists, networkers, new media performers, net sufi's, psychogeographical explorers, net artist blogs, net communities etc...
How Resident Artists are selected
Any member on the list can suggest a potential resident artist. The list members vote for a resident - it takes 7 yes votes... but if there are 8 votes against, the residency does not happen for that individual/group. Rules change and adapt according to suggestions by active list members.
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The Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam is a working and meeting place for young professional artists from all over the world. Fifty studios are available for resident artists who work for one or two years on research, projects and production. A work period at the Rijksakademie is most valuable with three to five years of professional experience, following an art study programme. Focus on the work, reflection and discussion are central to the residency. In addition to advice from internationally-practicing artists, curators and other art professionals, facilities include extensive technical workshops, a library, artist’s documentation and art collections. Resident artists pursue all major contemporary visual art disciplines: painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, sculpture, video, film, sound and new media, and links with other disciplines such as architecture, design, theatre, music, dance, literature and film are possible.
Applying
Each year approximately twenty-five artists are invited for a residency. Artists can apply for the residency from January to December 2008 through the online application form. -
Squeaky Wheel / Buffalo Media Resources is a grassroots, artist-run, non-profit media arts center founded in 1985 to promote and support film, video, computer, digital, and audio art by media artists and community members.
Local Artist Access Residency
Squeaky Wheel offers equipment access residencies to local artists. The residency includes forty hours free access to the digital lab, 6-plate film editing suite, digital video editing systems as well as two days free rental of a production kit; 1 camera, light kit, tripod and microphone. All Access Residents will participate in a public screening and reception for the work completed during the residency.
NEA International Digital Film-maker Residency
This four week National Endowment for the Arts funded residency offers one month unlimited access to 16mm production and post-production systems, the G5 Final Cut Pro digital editing system and digital video cameras. The month-long residency includes lodging in a funky, nearby hotel, travel, and a $1000 artist's stipend paid in two installments. This Artist's Residency is directed toward experimental filmmakers who are interested in using new technologies but lack the resources for access and training. In addition to the artist completing and exhibiting at least one new work, the terms of the residency include teaching one local workshop (4 - 8 hours) on any topic related to media art and curating one evening screening of films / videos which relate to the resident's own creative investigations.
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Australia's peak network and advocacy body for artists working with technology. The role of ANAT is to advocate, support and promote the arts and artists in the interaction between art, technology and science, nationally and internationally. Since its inception in 1985 ANAT has been at the forefront of the movement to position artists as active participants in the 'information age'.
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The Research and Development department of the Ars Electronica Center. At the Ars Electronica Futurelab national and international experts on art, science and technology are working on projects for the Museum Of the Future and on projects for partners in the private or the public sector. It is a special feature that all projects are done by interdisciplinary workgroups consisting of artists, technicians and scientists. There are a large variety of projects which includes concept creation as well as complex research- and development projects.
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ARTLAB functions as a laboratory that aims to pioneer new artistic realms through the integration of science and art by applying digital technologies, developed by Canon Inc., to artistic pursuits. It offers a new form of cultural support. Its main goal is to create works of art through collaborations between artists and engineers. The result is shown to the public in forms such as exhibitions.
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The Art Science Research Laboratory (ASRL), a New York based not-for-profit organization, promotes cross-disciplinary research in the arts and sciences. In this unique lab, art historians, scientists, mathematicians, artists, animators, graphic designers, interactive CD-ROM programmers and web site programmers work side by side on a daily basis. Web sites, CD-ROMs, print publications, television series, symposiums and classes are being created for the public, at no cost to the public, for artscience education. ASRL's goal is to open minds about the relationship between art and science and to generate a network of people sharing knowledge and research.
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The Arts Catalyst argues for and sets up genuine collaborations between artists and scientists. There still seems to be an invisible wall between what scientists actually do and the public's perception and understanding of science. Since its formation in 1993, The Arts Catalyst has been working to break down some of those walls, commissioning new art projects emerging from dialogues between artists and scientists.
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Banff Center for the Arts
Banff, AB, CA http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=35 Duration: 3 - 12 weeksFounded in 1933 by the University of Alberta, Department of Extension, with a grant from the U.S. based Carnegie Foundation The Banff Centre began with a single course in drama. Its success generated additional arts programs and the Centre became known as the Banff School of Fine Arts in 1935. While arts programming continued to grow and flourish, conferences were introduced in 1953 and management programs in 1954.
The Banff Centre is Canada's only multidisciplinary arts environment devoted to professional career development and lifelong learning in the arts. For 75 years The Banff Centre has provided professional career development and lifelong learning for artists and cultural leaders in performing, literary, media, and visual arts. Work is showcased throughout the year in public concerts, exhibitions, and events, culminating in the Banff Summer Arts Festival.
The Banff Centre attracts thousands of artists each year from around Canada, the US and over 40 other countries. Nestled in the Rocky Mountains of Western Canada we offer programs and self-directed residency opportunities in: Aboriginal Arts; Visual Arts; New Media; Music & Sound; Theatre Arts; Literary Arts -
The Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) offers an art-based platform for collaborations between artists, scientists, and technologists. These are typically built around projects undertaken by resident Fellows, who also conduct seminars and supervise undergraduate participation. An emerging mission of the CAVS is the exploration of the digital arts as a common ground for collaborative projects. Our goal is the creation of important art that could not or would not be possible except at MIT.
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The Creativity & Cognition Research Studios
Sydney, Australia http://www.creativityandcognition.com/ Duration:The Creativity & Cognition Research Studios is committed to providing an Internationally recognized multi-disciplinary environment for the advancement of understanding and practice in digital media and the arts. It will provide Nationally and Internationally recognized artists and technologists with a space in which to collaborate, experiment and create, as equal partners, in practice-based research. The Research Studios are committed to disseminating its results Internationally through research publications, exhibitions, the co-ordination of an International conference series and through the provision of high quality postgraduate education.
The research is based upon a belief in the importance of working partnerships and collaborative effort. Collaboration takes place within the University, Nationally and Internationally. Current external collaborators include, for example, the ATR Media Integration & Communications Research Laboratories, Kyoto, the Association for Computing Machinery and Silicon Graphics Ltd. -
FoAM is a workspace for a multitude of professions interested in interdisciplinary cultural, aesthetic and political experiments. The projects do not necessarily have to be initiated from within the arts community but do have to question the boundaries between cultural forms, and in a broader perspective the boundaries between culture, science and technology. We are not interested in becoming a production house for separate artistic disciplines, or a facility for artists who need technicians for realisation of their predefined concepts. Instead, FOAM can be seen as an attractor or a match-maker, that abets the integration of disciplines in all stages of the projects. inquire for residency information.
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Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences - IAMAS International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences - IAMAS
Ogaki, Japan http://www.iamas.ac.jp/E/AIR/about.html Duration: 6 monthsSince IAMAS' establishment artists have been selected by open application. Individuals chosen are those who actively produce experimental works that are nonconformist to genre frameworks and existing art. The artist's creative activities are supported for a six-month period at IAMAS. Students observe creations onsite, and through contact with talented artists they are able to learn about the practice of production.
By connecting with the culture and school environment of IAMAS the artist also gains a great stimulation and combines this with his/her research and production. Many works created during artists' stays at IAMAS have also received international prizes. Thus far IAMAS has invited a total of twenty artists. -
Residencia Corazón/ The Heart Residency
La Plata-Buenos Aires, Argentina http://www.residenciacorazon.com.ar/residencie.htm Duration:The Residencia Corazón objective is to generate and make possible a personalized, and independent artistic exchange. It offers a complete management service and accommodation to artists from other countries who would like to come to La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.The trip would allow mutual enrichment, a professional and emotive approach towards new experiences and aesthetic realities.
Residencia Corazón also offers all that would be necessary to circulate each artist's work and to put on exhibitions in the incredible city of La Plata, at only 40 minutes out of Buenos Aires. The visiting artists will enjoy a dynamic and vibrant period of work where they have at their disposal a studio to complete their project whilst being introduced to new contacts with and within the local artistic community, institutions, cultural and general public. -
Art and Cultural Studies Laboratory (ACSL)
Yerevan, Armenia http://www.acsl.org.am Duration: up to 1 yearArt and Cultural Studies Laboratory (ACSL) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization which was established in Yerevan, Armenia, 2007. ACSL is a dream of three persons, a dream to found a new kind of an art home where one can be possible to research cultural, social, political and historical syndromes and establish a big international friendship through the Artist-in-Residency and Cultural Exchange programs. The aim of the organization is to support the development of contemporary creativity and carry out projects by International and local artists to foster discussion and research into themes which are of vital importance for society and culture.
The Artist Residency ACSL supports international art activities bringing multicultural dimension to the region. The guest artists are provided time and space to live and work in peace separated from the everyday haste. ACSL also provides support for artists, curators and art organizations who offer specific projects to work with local and regional groups or organizations.
Arts Factory has painting studios, sculpture studios, music studio, dance studio, writers' studio and digital, computer lab. During the residency, artists participate in informal sessions with their group, collaborate on projects, and work independently on their own projects.
The program consists of a residency up to one year and includes private and general studios, housing, and three meals per day by agreement. Private studios are available to artists 24 hours a day. After dinner, presentations are a traditional. Readings, slide shows, open studios and informal performances allow artists' to become acquainted with and inspired by one another's work.
The primary aim will be for the artists to work on an agreed project in Yerevan, Armenia (North district “Djrvej”). However, transporting the artists to the country, to a different environment is available. -
Arts Tasmania - Cultural Exchange Program
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia http://www.arts.tas.gov.au Duration: 6 weeksArts Tasmania, a division of the Department of Environment, Parks, Heritage and the Arts, implements Government arts policies and programs, administers funding programs for the arts and museums sector, operates the Art for Public Buildings Scheme, provides the Secretariat to the Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board and liaises with Commonwealth and State agencies on arts matters.
The Cultural Exchange residency program provides opportunities for artists to explore Tasmania's remote and unique natural environment. The international residency program commenced in 2006 however residencies have been available for Tasmanian artists since 1997.
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Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen is an international centre for production, research and discussion in the fields of visual and media arts. The Künstlerhaus provides a plattform that facilitates the development and production of artistic and theoretical projects in a critical environment. It builds also a forum for direct exchange between artists, theorists, art critics and curators from the region and abroad. Künstlerhaus üchsenhausen is affiliated with the "Tyrolean Artists' Association".
With its International Fellowship Programme For Visual And Media Arts "büchsenhausen.air", Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen actively promotes an internationally pertinent art production, research and discussion in the region of Tyrol. In the framework of the programme, every year 4 visual / media artists and 2 theorists / art critics receive a fellowship and reside in Innsbruck for a period of 5 months. The fellows selected by expert jurors find excellent working conditions in Büchsenhausen, while the City of Innsbruck and its surrounding area offer an interesting setting in terms of art, culture and landscape. The grant and the residency allow fellows to work on the proposed project but also give them the chance to experiment and to reconsider their current practice. Furthermore, they have the opportunity to directly familiarise themselves with the work of other fellows and professionals from the region and abroad, to exchange plans and ideas and to also carry out joint projects. Usually there are 3 fellows (2 artists and 1 theorist/art crtitic) and 6 Tyrol-based artists working in Buchsenhausen at the same time.
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KulturKontakt Austria (KKA) is one of the largest Austrian centres of competence for cultural education, arts & cultural education, cultural dialogue and educational cooperation with Eastern and South East Europe. It is a non-profit making organisation and has three programme departments: arts & cultural education, educational cooperation and cultural promotion & sponsoring.
In the area of cultural promotion & sponsoring, KKA supports cultural dialogue projects in all categories of the arts in Eastern Europe and Austria. Activities range from individual grants and start-up grants for innovate initiatives via cooperation with event organisers to the participation in infrastructure programmes. Since 1990, KKA has helped to realise more than 4.000 projects and has carried out numerous projects itself. In the meantime, KKA can point to a variety of contacts in 22 countries in Central, Eastern and South East Europe.
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The Centre's mission is to provide a work community for graphic artists, to assist them with technical problems, to organize advanced courses under established artists, and to hold exhibitions with a view to contributing to the wilder dissemination and fuller appreciation of graphic arts. It aims at creating a focal meeting-point for the general public, artists and their work.
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Toronto School of Art
Toronto, Canada http://www.tsa-art.ca Duration: 10 week Independent Summer Residency (ISR) May 12- July 19, 2008 8 month Indenpendent Studio Program (ISP) September 2008 - April 2009Toronto School of Art (TSA) is one of Canada's oldest alternative fine art school. Founded in 1969, TSA is committed to providing a positive environment for aspiring artists to acquire a visual arts education. Its faculty and programs reflect a balance between traditional skills and their relation to contemporary issues, ideas and practices.
The (ISP) Independent Studio Program consists of bi-weekly studio visits with a key advisor selected by the students from TSA's faculty of professional artists, and group meetings with other ISP participants and an ISP coordinator. Key advisors provide critical feedback, technical support and act as liaisons with the Toronto art community.The (ISR) Independent Summer Residency includes individual critiques from three TSA faculty artists, an exhibition opportunity in the TSA gallery, an opportunity to work uninterrupted in a downtown studio and access to one course.
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Theatre in Motion (TIM) is a non profit organization building context for the contemporary performing arts in China. TIM runs an international residency program, sets up workshops, undertakes research and organizes small scale curatorial projects in close collaboration with festivals, theatres and academies in Beijing. TIM is based in the beiLAB, a multidisciplinary work space and research platform set up in collaboration with crossboundaries architects, covering an office space, an artist studio and a project space for lectures and workshops. BeiLAB is conceived as a meeting place for artistic, architectural, scientific and corporate communities researching China’s artistic, social and urban dynamics in all its greyscales.
BeiLAB opens its doors to interesting research projects scanning China from an innovative angle. We provide a base camp for the international creative community developing an interface to understand China's visible and invisible realities, while offering a platform for formal and informal encounter with Chinese artists, architects and scientists.As Tzvetan Todorov* argues so convincingly, it is through a confrontation with the other that we identify the self. We propose intercultural matchmaking as a vehicle for artistic experimentation, as a blueprint for multidisciplinary dialogue, and finally, as a process and discourse oriented alternative to neocolonialist tendencies and/or blind fascination of the international community when facing the Chinese case.
BeiLAB runs 2 residence programs: the OPEN LAB residence program for visual artists, architects and scientists; and the THEATRE in motion residence program for performing artists
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Kyoto Art Center
Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan http://www.kac.or.jp Duration: Maximum of three months: From April 1, 2009 ~ March 31, 2010.Kyoto Art Center was conceived and established as a place for encountering various genres of art, as well as for the creation of the new culture through the revitalization of tradition developed in the city over its long history. This encounter will also connect to technology and industry, and furthermore to the everyday life of citizens, to bring a real fertility to the city.
The activities of the Center will be divided into these three categories: (1) aid and support for young artists in whatever genre; (2) collecting and dispatching of information concerning art and culture by means of various kinds of media; (3) affording the chance for communication among the artists or between artists and citizens, especially by welcoming artists coming from in and out of the country as artists-in-residence.
By fulfilling these activities, the Center is aiming to be the laboratory of creation for urban culture in the new century.
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Queen Street Digital Arts Studios
Belfast, United Kingdom http://www.queenstreetstudios.net Duration: There will be four residencies a year, each lasting approximately 8 weeks.Digital Art Sudios (DAS) initiated in 2003 are part of larger artist run studio complex Queen Street Studios (QSS), located in Belfast's City center since 1984. DAS provides a professional standard of facilities for artists working in new media.
The International Digital Residency will provide an ongoing-targeted scheme that will enable artists to come to Northern Ireland to develop their artistic process with an emphasis on new media. QSS will provide visiting artists with a productive and dynamic environment to produce work. QSS will also endeavour to provide the visiting artists with an opportunity to present their work. The residency will provide participants with 24 hours studios access to a personal G5 Macintosh computer, with broadband Internet, access to wide range of equipment (Digital Still, Video & sound recording), software, technical support, specialised training, information and opportunities. -
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PAF (=PerformingArtsForum) is a place for the professional and not-yet professional practitioners and activists in the field of performing arts, visual art, new media and internet, theory and cultural production, who seek to research and determine their own conditions of work. PAF is for people who can motorize their own artistic production and knowledge production not only responding to the opportunities given by the institutional market.
Initiated and run by artists, theoreticians and practitioners themselves, PAF is a user-created, user-innovative informal institution. Neither a production-house and venue, nor a research-center, it is a platform for everyone who wants to expand possibilities and interests in his/her own working practice.
PAF is
- a forum for producing knowledge in critical exchange and ongoing discursive practice
- a place for temporary autonomy and full concentration on work
- a tool-machine where one can work on developing methods, tools and procedures, not necessarily driven toward a product
- a place for experimenting with other than known modes of production and organization of work, e.g. open source production
PAF is located in the village St.Erme approximately 35km west of the city of Reims (Champagne) in France and approximately 20km south-east of the city of Laon (Aisne), 130km northeast of Paris, 240km south of Brussels
Short description of programme
Most importantly, PAF offers all these possibilities without imposing them. In other words, PAF depends on how you affect and are affected by taking an active part in shaping your own activity in your workplace.
- Anybody can use the house for artistic processes on the condition of paying a participation to the costs (rental costs)
- Everyone is responsible for their own activities
- Everyone makes things possible for others
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Starting from music and sound, Velvet Factory works in particular on those forms of art which have in time their main medium of research and creation. The laboratorium happens in both physical space and electronic space, and through electronics and digital techology innovative works will be created, also in the web. A transreceiving station which produces radio, streaming and colaborative project which mixes different media and places in the world. Velvet Factory is a place for artists who create works of dance, music and theatre. Living in residences, the hosted artists are able to use the Factory’s technologies to work on their projects, interweaving the spectacle and its multimedia expantions. A meeting between contemporary arts and pop cultures where the works created will eventually find a presentation to the Velvet’s vaste public (on average 15,000 people per month and about 180,000 yearly).
Discipline(s) and media
- Visual arts
- Performing arts
- Architecture
- Music
- Literature
- Educational programmes
- New Media
- Curators
- Critics
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The Kala Art Institute was founded in 1974 by Archana Horsting and Yuzo Nakano, who met while studying printmaking at S.W. Hayter's Atelier 17 in Paris. The two young artists decided to establish an urban, multicultural printmaking workshop in the San Francisco Bay Area for local and international artists, especially those from Pacific Rim countries. From one etching press in a San Francisco garage, Kala has since grown into its current 8,500 square foot facility in West Berkeley, a shared workspace housing extensive professional equipment for printmaking and digital media (including video and sound), an art library, an exhibition gallery, a print archive, administrative offices and a consignment sales department.
Through all the years of growth, Kala continues to fulfill its primary mission of providing artists with the professional facilities, tools and equipment needed to create quality works of art. Artists-in-Residence who share the working facilities naturally exchange artistic ideas, ideas which are transformed into finished works of art that can be viewed several times a year at the Kala Gallery. In addition to this cross-cultural dialogue on contemporary printmaking, Kala offers the general public approximately 100 classes and workshops every year. These classes are taught by recognized artists who specialize in a printmaking, photographic, or digital process, or in combined technologies.
Another crucial component of Kala's mission is to provide quality visual arts enrichment programs for public school children in the East Bay. Kala Artist-in-the-Schools programs are currently in place in schools and summer programs in Emeryville, Berkeley and Oakland.
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Norden/ Nordic Culture Point
International http://www.kulturkontaktnord.org/?pageID=17 Duration: Varies (1-6 months)The mobility and residency programme is a cross-sectoral framework programme which provides funding for individual mobility, network building for artists and professionals within the field of culture, residencies and productivity driven artistic residencies' activities. The programme is open for professional artists, practitioners, teachers, producers and professionals within the field of art and culture including cultural heritage.
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The Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam is a working and meeting place for young professional artists from all over the world. Fifty studios are available for resident artists who work for one or two years on research, projects and production. A work period at the Rijksakademie is most valuable with three to five years of professional experience, following an art study programme. Focus on the work, reflection and discussion are central to the residency. In addition to advice from internationally-practicing artists, curators and other art professionals, facilities include extensive technical workshops, a library, artist’s documentation and art collections. Resident artists pursue all major contemporary visual art disciplines: painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, sculpture, video, film, sound and new media, and links with other disciplines such as architecture, design, theatre, music, dance, literature and film are possible.
Applying
Each year approximately twenty-five artists are invited for a residency. Artists can apply for the residency from January to December 2008 through the online application form.