Here’s a name for functions for The Caribbean Digital Digital Artist’s Residency 2023 supplied by Alice Yard in partnership with The Caribbean Digital on a digital residency program for artists of the Caribbean and its diasporas who work in digital media. The deadline for functions is April 15, 2023.
The Caribbean Digital Digital Artist’s Residency program helps Caribbean artists working in digital media. The residency is obtainable at the side of the annual Caribbean Digital (TCD) convention, a world occasion hosted yearly at areas in the US and the Caribbean since 2014, in partnership with Alice Yard, a up to date artwork collective primarily based at Granderson Lab in Belmont, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. This program is sponsored by the Mellon Basis.
Starting in 2022 and for a interval of 4 years, TCD and Alice Yard are partnering to create an annual digital residency program for artists of the Caribbean and its diasporas who work in digital media. The residency goals to facilitate the event of latest artworks in digital media that examine concepts and practices in Caribbean Digital Humanities and interact with students within the TCD community and neighborhood.
The residency consists of the next:
- a money stipend of US$5,000 to assist six months of part-time analysis and artistic work, to start in June 2023;
- curatorial mentorship by artist and Alice Yard co-director Christopher Cozier;
- two digital studio visits by skilled curators or critics;
- the commissioning and on-line publication of a essential textual content by an expert artwork author to doc the artist’s work and course of;
- organized journey and lodging to current the ensuing work at TCD’s annual convention in December 2023.
Throughout the digital residency, the artist will stay primarily based at their normal location, interacting with the directors, mentor, and TCD neighborhood members through conventional on-line media and instruments, with the understanding that the artist will preserve common contact by way of scheduled conferences and check-ins.
This residency seeks to assist the event of “born-digital” artistic work based totally on digital media and instruments fairly than analog work that’s digitized merely for presentation or storage. Artists may match in media, together with and never restricted to pictures, sound, and textual content. Additionally integral to the residency is the artist’s engagement with Caribbean Digital Humanities, a multidisciplinary subject of examine that brings digital applied sciences into the analysis, evaluation, visualization, and utility of the standard humanities. Throughout the residency, the artist is predicted to interact in dialogue with Caribbean Digital Humanities students to complement their artistic and analysis practices.
Eligibility and utility pointers
The Caribbean Digital Digital Artist’s Residency is open to artists from the Caribbean and its diasporas, with a choice for candidates residing and dealing within the Caribbean area. Candidates should be over the age of 18 on April 15, 2023.
To use, full the net type and add an utility package deal (PDF) containing the next:
- an outline of the work the artist proposes to develop throughout the residency. This can be a brand new undertaking or an extension of current work in progress (max. 400 phrases);
- a brief assertion explaining how the artist’s proposed work would profit from dialogue and engagement with TCD’s Digital Humanities community (max. 200 phrases);
- a brief description of the digital instruments — whether or not software program or {hardware} — and strategies the artist expects to make use of within the growth of their work (max. 200 phrases);
- a CV, together with a brief biographical assertion; a listing of exhibitions, publications, or different types of presentation of latest work; and the artist’s web site and related public social media accounts, if relevant (max. two pages);
- a portfolio presenting a pattern of the artist’s latest work: pictures or textual content, or hyperlinks to equal samples of the artist’s work on-line (together with as much as 10 nonetheless pictures with descriptive captions or as much as 5 brief movies or sound work).
[. . .] NB: the artist’s utility package deal should be saved as a PDF, and the 5 parts listed above should be contained in a single file. Please don’t connect a number of recordsdata or use different file codecs. The appliance deadline is April 15, 2023 at 11:59 pm (EST). Late functions won’t be thought of.
Candidates ought to meet the eligibility necessities to use for a Nonimmigrant B-1 visa. If wanted, the chosen artist ought to apply for a B-1 visa by following the steps listed on journey.state.gov.) by June 1, 2023 and can obtain as much as $250 as reimbursement in direction of their B-1 visa utility together with an invite letter in assist of their visa utility.[. . .]
The recipient will current the work achieved throughout the residency at TCD’s annual convention in December 2023. The artist will retain the possession and copyright of their work, however they have to grant TCD non-exclusive rights to current and archive the work on their web site and in different media.
For any queries about eligibility necessities or the appliance course of, please contact the residency directors at thecaribbeandigital@gmail.com.
For full info, together with eligibility and utility pointers, Software Kind, and descriptions in French and Spanish, see The Caribbean Digital web site at https://caribbeandigitalnyc.web/residency/
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