Improvised collective site specific new-media Art
2-day workshop (Jan. 14-15, 2023) in Athens, Greece hosted by Medea Electronique (medeaelectronique.com)
How to produce collective improvised site-specific creative new media art that is sensitive to the needs of both the participating artists and the sites/communities that the work takes place in and with?
Medea Electronique will be leading an intensive two-day workshop on the creation of site-specific new media art (with a highly improvisational flavor) focusing on identifying, acting upon, and negotiating the sometimes conflicting, yet equally valid, needs of all parties involved in the creation of such art. How can site-specific art serve as a means of caring for both the artists and communities involved? What practices can best facilitate such care, and what practices should be avoided? How can artistic agency be distributed amongst a group of artists and a wider community? How can new media art itself serve as a site for care, respectful both to its participants and its environment? Based on its decades-long experience in the creation of collective site-specific art, members of Medea Electronique will discuss the history of its own collaborations and the development of its ethics of care in new media art. We will also engage the participants in an analysis of their own work in this area (both actual and proposed), and sketch what such a project might look like which embodies the principles of care and speaks to the collective artistic interests of the participants. Participants will come away with a richer understanding of the potentials inherent in collective site-specific new media art for enacting care, a template for actualizing such projects, and a new set of potential collaborators.
This workshop is part of the COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology)-funded project: TOOLKIT OF CARE (TOC), CA21102 (https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA21102/#tabs+Name:Description)
Who can apply?
Practitioners/researchers of any nationality or place of residency affiliated with an academic or other legal entity in one of these countries: Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, the Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Kosovo, Latvia, Lebanon, Libya, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Republic of Moldova, Montenegro, Morocco, Republic of North Macedonia, Netherlands, Norway, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, as well as in one of the EU Member States Outermost Regions (French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte, Reunion Island and Saint-Martin, Azores and Madeira, and the Canary Islands)*
Examples of such an affiliation (non-exhaustive list): work contract, enrolment in a PhD or Post-Doctoral programme, voluntary service in a NGO, emeritus professorshipInternational participants shall have their travel expenses reimbursed (up to 500E for long-distance travel — unless otherwise arranged with the organizers — and up to 450E to cover accommodation and subsistence) according to COST travel reimbursement rules https://www.cost.eu/…/Travel-Reimbursement-Rules_March…
In order to Apply: Send your CV at manolismanousakis@me.com.
The subject of your email should be: Submission – YOURNAME – Improvised collective Athens Jan 23*
TOC is an international project led by an interdisciplinary group of creative practitioners, academics, researchers and arts organizations that specialize in creative technologies and that have considerable experience in the production and dissemination of this kind of knowledge across Europe and internationally, who have come together to form a “critical network of care”. The network will collaborate to share their collective expertise and technical knowledge employed in creative ways to develop knowledge and methodologies of care. The main aim is to produce a well formulated and integrated TOOLKIT OF CARE comprising articles, prototypes, audiovisual documentation, technical manuals, theoretical analysis, prototypes, and data. It will act as a model of how to successfully share knowledge and expertise across different geographical regions and social groups.
**COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) is a funding agency for research and innovation networks. Our Actions help connect research initiatives across Europe and enable scientists to grow their ideas by sharing them with their peers. This boosts their research, career and innovation.
