[NetBehaviour] CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Culture Lab & ISIS Arts Residency Programme

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Culture Lab & ISIS Arts Residency Programme

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 17/02/2012
http://www.isisarts.org.uk/opportunities

Culture Lab and ISIS Arts are excited to be launching their second 
joint, open call for a Resident in 2012. Proposals are invited from 
practitioners and researchers from across the spectrum of creative art, 
design and technology to undertake research in Culture Lab for a minimum 
of 3 weeks between 1 April – 14 December 2012.

An interest in one of the following topics is desirable but applications 
are also invited from candidates with other interests:
- Data Visualisation / Interactive Visualisation
- New Ways of Interaction and Communication
- Audiovisual and Sound Interfaces/ Biofeedback Applications
- Digital Fabrication
- Social, Cultural and Ethical Practice of Emerging Technologies

You would have use of Culture Lab's research facilities and equipment, a 
fee of £2500 (to include travel, accommodation and materials). Based at 
Newcastle University, Culture Lab, is:
- A centre for creative inquiry in the broadest sense of the term
- A world class research facility for experimentation in interactive media
- A university resource to incubate and facilitate interdisciplinary 
activity
- A leader in the region's cultural ecology, providing knowledge for a 
digital society.


What we require from you:
- To engage with research staff and students from a variety of disciplines.
- To deliver an introductory lecture on working practice and work to be 
undertaken at Culture Lab.
- To maintain a project blog on Culture Lab's web presence.
- To contribute to the Experimental Media Research Group activities.
- To deliver one Lunch Bites session to the Culture Lab community on a 
specific topic related to the research/practice.
- To deliver one lecture on a specific topic related to the 
research/practice to a broader arts-community audience, at ISIS Arts.
- Deliver a public exhibition/performance at Culture Lab, at the end of 
your residency.
- The emphasis for this residency is on research not on finished art work.

What we will provide:
- Access to Culture Lab's highly sought after research facilities which 
range from an 8-camera motion capture system to a professional standard 
recording studio and Digital Fabrication Lab.
- Access to ISIS Arts studio spaces for visiting artists.
- Integration into Culture Lab's community of research staff and 
students, and ISIS Art's regional community of artists and practitioners.
- A budget of up to £2500 to offset costs of production, living 
expenses, travel and accommodation.

Selection criteria:
- The ability to research, interpret and present ideas.
- Experience of using digital media in the creation of art works.
- Experience of working on fixed term residencies with deadlines.
- A professional practice, students not eligible.


How To Apply
Please submit, via email, to Sarah Greenhalgh 
(Sarah.Greenhalgh at newcastle.ac.uk) the following:
- A project proposal (up to 2-sides of A4), detailing residency 
activities and proposed work plan for minimum 3-week period (which can 
be consecutive or non-consecutive weeks). Include in this document how 
the residency will further the artistic/research direction you have 
proposed, as well as a description of a proposed format for public 
presentation at the end of the residency.
- A budget detailing your proposed use of up to £2500 residency grant.
- Work sample, submitted via a link to a website (Please do not submit 
attachments via email).
- The dates you would prefer to undertake the residency.
- A curriculum vitae, outlining recent work, exhibition, performance and 
research activities.

If you have any questions about this opportunity or the application 
process please contact either: Charlie Gregory, ISIS Arts Project 
Coordinator via charlotte at isisarts.org.uk or +44 (0)191 261 4407 or 
Sarah Greenhalgh, Culture Lab Administrator via 
sarah.greenhalgh at newcastle.ac.uk

Selection will take place by the End of February 2012, all applicants 
will be notified of the decision in March 2012.

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