Call for Proposals : Artist in Residence Program at Studio XX
Studio XX is currently accepting submissions for its Artist in Residence Program.
Deadline for 2010-2011 : *** February 15, 2010 ***.
Selected
projects are announced in April of each year.
Studio XX's Residency Program was created in
keeping with the diversity of approaches that have been brought about
by new and multiple methodologies and processes being practiced by
artists working with new media and the Web as creative platforms.
Residencies are offered each year through three major axes identified
below. This offers a supportive context within which Québécois and
Canadian women artists may conceptualize and create, and which can
adequately accommodate the evolving realities of contemporary networked
practices.
Residency Program
Three eight (8) week residencies are offered per year.
In 2009-2010, the Studio's annual theme is resistance. However, all
themes are eligible for consideration. We favour projects taking into
account the Studio's orientation and commitment to open source software.
Artists may orient their submissions towards one of the following axes:
The Matricules Project Residency
This residency is centered around the use Studio XX's archives
as source material for an artwork. Matricules, one of the world's
largest archives of women's digital artworks, allows the Studio to post
all of its archival material to date online. It is at once an image
bank and a repository of all of the Studio's writings and documentary
footage. All of the original source material is also available at the
Studio.
The Matricules Project comprises more than 3400 images files, sounds,
videos, written critical texts and press releases documenting all our
artistic streams: The Wired Women Salons, The Artist
Residencies, Co-productions and Collaborations, Projects and Special
Events, training workshops, the HTMlles Festival, XX Files Radio
interviews and .dpi articles. The Matricules Project database allows
the user to cross-reference individual artists, events and documents,
switching from one event to another. Matricules' main interface offers
an image table of contents by event type and by month, providing an
historical trajectory of the Studio's activities.
This innovative prototype was developed with Drupal Content Management
System (CMS): an open source tool for Web site creation.
[http://studioxx.org/en/matricules]
Virtual
Residency
In response to a growing demand by women artists working
outside of the
Montreal region wishing to explore the different possibilities of
on-line and/or networked collaborations, Studio XX is in the process of
elaborating the mechanics of Virtual Residencies in order to facilitate
the creation of
works via other networks.
Open Residency
Open and self-directed, these residencies offer access to women artists wishing to deepen the experimentation phase of projects they are currently developing.
Image : Magali Babion, Onion Router Performance, Wired Women Salon
67.
Photo: Stéphanie Lagueux, 2008.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Studio XX favours interdisciplinary approaches and welcomes
projects
created or directed by women artists or collectives working in
collaboration with other professionals. This axis responds to the
growing number of
trans-disciplinary projects and their inherent technological challenges
and complexities. Selected projects must be undertaken using the
Studio's
available resources (equipment, technical knowledge, financial
resources).
All submissions are reviewed by a Selection Committee. Selection of applicants is also based on at least two out of the three following criteria:
- Offering significant support and at an important point of the artist's development
- Resonant with Studio XX's priorities in terms of technical experimentation
- Relevant, captivating expression of theoretical, political and/or social engagement
Residencies are eight weeks in length. For accepted proposals, Studio XX offers:
- $2000 to be divided as an Artist Fee and/or towards up to 45 hours of instruction/technical support.
- Access to the Studio's equipment and Lab ($3335 rental value)
- Possibility of taking any of the Studio's workshops ($200-300 value)
- Distinct working space for the artist and her instructor
Studio XX will disseminate the artist's project on its Web site, with
an artist's presentation to be given within its Femmes br@nchées Salon
Series in the year following completion of the project. For
participants working from afar, the presentation will take place
on-line via streaming or chat. Residencies do not include travel costs,
accommodation and per diem, and the artist is responsible for her
living arrangements while in Montreal.
To submit a residency proposal - Online registration :
http://www.studioxx.org/node/add/residence-form
Co-Production Program
Throughout
the year, Studio XX accepts co-production proposals from artists as
well as from collectives and artist-organizations. Emerging and
experienced artists working with new technologies and curators are
invited to submit project ideas including technical specifications.
The
Studio provides a Linux Lab and iMacs, video an digital audio
resources. Projects are selected based on quality, the availability of
the lab and technical requirements. Co-productions carried out at
Studio XX demand full autonomy from the artists on both a conceptual
and technical level. These residencies require autonomy on the
conceptual and technical level but if necessary, the Studio can provide
personalized technical support at the hourly rate of $25. The projects
can stretch over a three-month period.
During the residency,
artists can have access to Studio XX's computer, video and digital
audio equipment. They will also have access to available space on one
of the large bandwidth servers - ideal for network experiments and
Webcasting - and to a dispatcher for wireless Internet connections. It
will be necessary to provide a fixed schedule and to book time in the
lab.
It is possible for the Studio to cover certain expenses
for co-productions, such as training fees. The productions and
co-productions are not housed on our web site but we do direct the
artists towards servers that can accommodate their work. Studio XX
actively seeks to program artworks produced within the co-productions
at events as the Femmes br@nchées Salon series.
To submit a co-production proposal - Online registration :
http://www.studioxx.org/node/add/residence-form
audrey samson: Artist in Residence at Studio XX
Studio
XX is pleased to welcome multimedia artist audrey samson as its
third
resident in its 2009-2010 Residency Program. audrey’s artistic practice
focuses on promoting the exchange of technical skills between women and
exploring the dramaturgical possibilities of remote realtime
storytelling, concepts central to Studio XX’s core. Through her
reactive installations which incorporate audio and various material
devices, audrey interfaces community storytelling, creating new lines
of communication.
As an installation/tool/instrument which houses a growing archive of
women’s stories, discussing their feelings toward and the ways in which
they use computers, threads/
is audrey’s current artistic creation. The installation combines an
antiquated sewing machine table and its original pedal with a computer
keyboard that is positioned in place of the sewing machine. The sewing
machine pedal acts as a crossfader between two layers of sound: weaving
and sewing machines as well as voices of women. These audio samples are
interwoven and mapped to the letters of the keyboard.
During her residency at Studio XX, audrey will redesign threads/’
programming using FLOSS and enhance its functionality in order to
incorporate a recording station. threads/
participants will then be able to listen to the voices of women and add
their own. The installation will therefore record women in each
location that it is displayed, collecting and telling stories via the
interface. A web interface will also be developed in order for the
stories to be listened to online.
threads/
probes the question of a community’s outlook on gender roles in
relation to technology. Participants contribute to a growing collection
of travelling stories, building a relationship with the local community
in which the artwork finds itself.
audrey samson
With a M.A. in Media Design from the Piet Zwart Institute in
Rotterdam (2007), audrey samson is a media designer and artist working
and living between Montreal and Rotterdam. As a member of the genderchangers
collective since 2006, she led FLOSS and electronic workshops,
co-organized the annual /etc
festival (2008) and participated in winter camp,
organized by the Institute of Network Cultures (2009).
With interests in education and research, she was a Media Design minor
teacher at the Willem de Kooning Academie in Rotterdam (2007-09) and a
Media Theory and Communications teacher at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie
in Amsterdam (2008-09). Audrey also conducted numerous workshops at
institutions such as Mediamatic in Amsterdam (2007), miss despoinas
hacklab in Hobart, Australia (2009), OKNO in Brussels (2009),
the SKVR (Stichting Kunstzinnige Vorming Rotterdam) in Rotterdam
(2009), and the Netherlands Media Art Institute in Amsterdam (2009).
audrey completed artist residencies at _____ - micro research in Berlin
(2009) and perte de signal’s rustines | lab in Montreal (2008). She
exhibited her installation spectres?
as part of Soundscape #1
with Peter Venus and Reni Hofmüller at ESC im labor during Galerientage in
Graz (2008).
audrey presented Haunted
Profiles; Social Networking Sites and the Crisis of Death
at the Re :
live Media Art Histories conference in Melbourne (2009),
which was subsequently published in the conference proceedings (ed.
Sean Cubitt and Paul Thomas). She also presented Praise the Media! Mediated
Mourning Rituals and the Acceptance of Death at the
Specters, Hauntings and
Archives conference organised by ASCA
(Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis) (2009).
