fw: exStream Residency Program: call for projects

[claudia westermann]

http://lab.v2.nl/air_program/exstream.html

exStream Residency Program: call for projects

V2_Lab is currently seeking for European artists and 
software          developers interested in participating in a 
residency program in the context          of the exStream 
project          starting in the beginning of 2004.
exStream is an interactive multimedia artistic exchange, the          
project aims to foster collaboration among European and Canadian 
artists          from different audiovisual and new media disciplines.

The artists will be selected by V2_ according a call for proposals 
and          an introduction workshop, which will be organized by V2_ 
in collaboration          with exStream in Rotterdam the 27th and 
28th of November 2003.

The European partner organizations act as agents from the exStream 
network to scout young talented artists in various regions of 
Europe.          They will investigate their networks and help the 
artists to write their          proposal and provide artists 
facilities throughout the year when their          project has been 
selected.

Selection process

Ten artists will be selected to participate in the workshop, on the 
27th          and 28th November 2003, organized by V2_Organisation in 
Rotterdam. For          this workshop travel and lodging will be 
covered.
After the workshop five of these artists will be selected for a 1 
month          residency with one of the four partner organizations 
of exStream , starting between January and June 2004. The 
selected          artists will receive a fee of 2000,- Euro each for 
lodging and travel          costs.

Details

All interested artists / software developers please submit the 
following          information in the proposal          form (PDF) :
Description of project to be developed during residency
Short biography
Preferred date of residency
Name of preferred organization for the residence (see below)
Outline of technical needs (in terms of technical assistance, 
equipment,            etc.)

Deadline for your proposal is 1st November 2003. Please send the 
completed PDF          proposal form to lobke at v2.nl .

Download          the proposal form

The exStream residency program takes place at four organizations:
Playlist European Residencies (P.E.R.) at V2_Lab            
(Rotterdam, the Netherlands)
P.E.R. focuses on the co-creation of interactive 
audiovisual            content and the development of tools for 
future projects. P.E.R. uses the high speed network as an environment 
for the production and            public display of a collaborative 
video work created by ten high-profile            Canadian and 
European media artists. P.E.R. also includes the            
development of a new digital software toolset that will support 
the            work's creation and display. We plan to work with a 
series of online            events as well as physical meetings and 
residencies on both continents.            Media artists from Canada 
and Europe will co-develop the content 'conversationally'.            
Each artist begins by creating short video and audio 'assets' 
which            they post to a shared online database. A web 
interface allows them to            segue their own and other 
artist's media files seamlessly, in any order.            Artists 
play with the content and order, or initiate new 
tangential            or nested segments stemming from the original 
linear path in response            to the works created by other 
artists. All can continuously add, subtract            and re-edit 
their material to articulate new directions or continue            
existing ones. Through the residency program, P.E.R. would            
like to enable groups of artists and software developers to work 
together            to develop concrete art projects for streaming 
media or open source            streaming tools. These residencies 
will also enable the collaborators            to test, research and 
resolve creative issues relating to the use of            these 
applications and then to apply this knowledge to develop 
their            full artistic work for presentation.
http://lab.v2.nl

exStream residencies at Bootlab (Berlin, Germany)
Bootlab offers a committed crew of highly skilled media 
practitioners            with a range of interests from copyright, 
design, open source, and streaming.            Residents enjoy the 
full benefits of members which means access to people,            
workshops, screenings, and a great entrypoint to Berlin's cultural 
life.
reboot.fm, an open source fm radio broadcast offers access to 
large            audience and the chance to participate in a larger 
network of audio            producers. Technical infrastructure is 
limited, so an ad hoc attitude            is a plus.
http://www.bootlab.org
http://reboot.fm

exStream residencies at InterSpace (Sofia, Bulgaria)
InterSpace will support artists in residency in production of art 
installations,            streamings and performances, which 
demonstrate their artistic usage.            InterSpace is also 
interested in inviting technicians who have developed            
solutions that they can present to Bulgarian artists and work 
collaboratively.
These projects should serve as a core for attracting artists and 
accumulating            a few quality projects, which will be 
presented later in an exhibition.
InterSpace will offer to exStream residents a working 
space,            technical equipment and assistance from a team of 
programmers and system            administrators working mostly with 
open source and Linux.
InterSpace offers the following facilities: video editing 
workstations,            wireless connections,
workstations with Linux /ISLD - InterSpace Linux 
distribution,            Mandrake, Suse, workstation with Windows XP, 
web server and router with            FreeBSD
http://www.i-space.org

exStream residencies at Hull Time Based Arts (Hull,            United Kingdom)
Hull Time Based Arts will host residencies for video and streaming production.
Hull Time Based Arts offers the following facilities: video 
editing            and post-production facilities (AVID9000, Final 
Cut Pro etc.), audio            editing and post-production 
(ProTools), interactive television (DSL,            Settopbox, SMIL)
http://www.timebase.org