Katharina Galla
transmediale 2012 – Open Calls for Art Works
transmediale 2012 – Open Calls:
Thematic Call for Works 2012
Vilém Flusser Residency Programme 2012S
Thematic Call for Works 2012
Deadline: August 31, 2011
Notification: October 2011
The selected works will form part of our extensive exhibition,
screening, performance and conference programme. Projects may also be
entered for the Vilém Flusser Residency Programme (formerly Award),
taking the form of a 2 month artistic research residency jointly run by
tm and Universität der Künste in Berlin (UdK).
With the conceptual framework of in/compatible we are looking for
artistic works in any genre and format that either explicitly or in more
subtle ways engage the incompatible nature of contemporary technological cultures.
We imagine that these works rather than anticipating resolution, address, accentuate
and invest in the unresolved tensions across translocal media practices and systems.
In particular we are calling for works take us by surprise by not quite "fitting in".
Works taken into consideration for the program can be related to the
following keywords and areas:
Dissensual aesthetics, hacktivism, operating systems, speculative
realisms, queer technologies, strange ontologies, displacements,
ecologies, psychedelia(s), glitches, spam, media-archaeologies,
technological obsolescence, haunted media, reverse remediations, the
untimely, erotics, ambivalences, tools, law, anxieties, confusions,
violence, obscurities, junk, addictions, restlessness,
user-unfriendliness, destructions, attractions, surveillance, accidents,
dysfunctionality, isolation, punk, feedback as distortion, surrealisms,
aggressiveness, the uncommon, frustrations, spiritualities, risks,
dubious calculations, psychosis, uneven structures, crimes.
Read about the full conceptual framework, the application procedure and
the Conditions of Entry:
http://www.transmediale.de/festival/call-for-works
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Vilém Flusser Residency Programme 2012
Deadline: August 31, 2011
Notification: October 2011
For Vilém Flusser theory and praxis are intrinsically tied to each
other. His nomadic thinking was shaped by a philosophy of positions, the
experimental testing of different ways of thinking and the linking of
different disciplines and methodologies played a significant role for
him.
The newly organised Vilém Flusser Residency Programme supports projects
and activities which are simultaneously conceptual and practice-based.
The programme is geared towards the initiation of new research or to the further
development of existing projects.
This is not a production grant and while a public presentation/event will be expected,
there is no pressure to present finished works. Where applicable, the support of
publications, exhibitions, interventions and other results of the
residency may be negotiated on a project to project basis. Special
priority will be given to young and/or emerging artist-researchers.
We are calling upon artistic research to actively explore the
capabilities and limitations of transdisciplinary and transmedial
situations in contemporary culture and thus to understand artistic
research as exploring the links between aesthetics, materiality and
politics.
RESIDENCY
The program starts from April 2012 on as a 2 month work-and research-residency in Berlin.
The applicant selected by the jury will have the opportunity to further develop the submitted
project during the time of the residency. The program includes:
• travel costs to Berlin
• accommodation costs in Berlin
• stipend of 1000 EUR per month
• studio / workspace in the Flusser Archive at the University of Arts (UDK) in Berlin.
Further details of the project presentation at the transmediale festival and
Flusser Archive will be negotiated directly with the applicant.
Read the full conceptual framework, about the application procedure and
the Conditions of Entry:
http://www.transmediale.de/award/vilem-flusser-award
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