Emerging Artist in Residence (EAiR)
Open Call
Digital Artist Residency (DAR) is an online platform which provides a space for artists to develop ideas and display new artwork. The initiative aims to provide support for artwork created using digital processes, exploring the boundaries of art and technology.
The EAiR will take place online between May - June 2017, with each selected artist having TWO MONTHS to complete a proposed project. The project will culminate in a group exhibition at OVADA in Oxford in July 2017, with specialist curatorial guidance and technical support from DAR and OVADA.
DAR has teamed up with OVADA to showcase the UK’s best new emerging artistic talent. We are looking for proposals for projects and works which respond to the interaction and the understanding of various digital themes. We are interested in projects that deal with research interactions between digital, online spaces and/or their physical materiality. Artists would need to communicate clearly how these works would be appropriate for DAR’s online context. DAR is accepting proposals from practitioners who work with site specific practices which may include performance, sculpture, film, video, New media, video, Sonic art, live works and cross-disciplinary practices. We are also interested in artists working with exclusively online practices too. Groups may apply as well as individuals.
The residencies are open to emerging artists and recent graduates working in any discipline and/or medium responding to digital themes, and from anywhere in the UK. DAR and OVADA are particularly interested in proposals from artists working with digital practices that can be developed and realised in a physical exhibition at OVADA. We are interested in artists who can make use of DAR’s 24/7 access online and multimedia facilities such as live streaming.
Chosen artists must submit at least one post onto DAR’s website per week over 8 weeks in May – June 2017.
DAR provides:
• An artist’s fee
• Budget for materials
• Promotion and mentoring
• A page on DAR’s website which on average attracts 5000 viewers each month. This page normally takes the style of a blog, but artists are encouraged to be ambitious with any specific ideas about how they want their work presented. Write these ideas on your project proposal and we can discuss how they can be realised.
• Technical support in achieving the aims of the online residency.
• Support and promotion for the artist and their work through its network.
• A permanent web archive of work produced during the residency and photographic documentation of the exhibition at OVADA.
As part of the criteria for participation, each artist will be expected to give one edition of an artwork or print to DAR.
Entry criteria.
Please send one pdf containing:
• A short Artist Statement (100 words max)
• Project Proposal (max 500 words) including a timescale explaining what outcomes you aim to achieve during the residency
• CV including contact details
• Up to 5 images max and/or 2 video links demonstrating recent relevant work
Please name the pdf FirstName Lastname DAR.pdf and email to info@digitalartistresidency.org
with ‘DAR EAiR’ in the subject line.
*** Deadline for applications is Sunday 16th April 2017
This project is supported by Oxford City Council and the Museum of Oxford.