Together with Ars Electronica the Art Collection Deutsche Telekom enables artistic research through science collaboration within the framework of the ArtScience residency. The goal is to exhibit an artwork dedicated to the challenging questions around digitalisation and AI at the Ars Electronica Festival in September 2022.
The Art Collection Deutsche Telekom aims to address the social and political changes after the fall of the Iron Curtain and to promote a broader understanding of Europe’s cultural diversity through the visual arts. The focus is concentrated on contemporary art from Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. In line with this mission the ArtScience residency is dedicated to artists from this region or who stand in close relation with it, who work at the intersection of art, technology and science, and who are particularly interested in researching the social impact of technological developments.
The organisers are calling for artistic proposals for objects, installations, artefacts, performances, screenings, or interventions from the area of Interactive Art, BioArt, Hybrid Art, AI & Life Sciences, Sound Art, Net Art, Digital Communities and Art Activism. The aim of the artwork must be to critically question technological developments and tools around the following keywords: Digitalisation and AI, digital humanism, sustainability, climate justice, digital democracy, transformation of society, transparency, democracy, fairness, ethics, global equity, and inclusion.
Structure
- Part One: a period of 4-8 weeks in first half of 2022 as scientific mentoring process including a public event in Bonn or Berlin at the venues of the Deutsche Telekom (approx. 1 week at science organisation; further exchange remotely; details TBA).
- Part Two: a production residency for a period of about one month at the Ars Electronica Linz until latest end of August 2022.
- Part Three: public presentation at the end of the residency at Ars Electronica Festival 2022 including potential participation in events.
Benefits
One artistic project will be supported with this next iteration. The artist wins a residency consisting of €15,500 artist fee and production cost.
The fee structure is:
- €3000 artist fee
- €10,000 production costs for which a proposal is required.
- Up to €2500 travel, accommodation and subsistence, including: 1 trip to scientific partner and 1 trip Ars Electronica.
If the winning party is an artist duo or artist group the artist fee, production costs as well as travel and accommodation costs need to be split between the members.
