CALL FOR PROPOSALS 2011:
M.A.R.I.N. Nordic – Baltic Sea Residencies for Art and Science
June & August 2011
SHORT CALL EXTENSION MARCH 24th-31st 2011
HOW TO SUBMIT?
Fill in the form here:
form.
Send any additional material to:
marin.association@gmail.com
Download the CFP as a M.A.R.I.N._CFP_2011.
Two one month long residencies
Media Art Research Interdisciplinary Network – M.A.R.I.N. – will organize two one month long residencies during June and August 2011 around the Baltic Sea. We invite proposals by artists, scientists or collaborative initiatives to attend either for June or August 2011.
Artists and researchers will be selected based on the proposals. While we are open to many ideas, we hope to get research-oriented proposals that relate with the marine environment. Also projects that look at alternative energy in a nomadic camp, environmental sensors, low power computing are on our wish-list. (In other words, no poetic videos contemplating the sea!)
The June residency themed Sensing the Baltic Sea (June 1st-30th) will be situated on three Baltic Sea islands in Finland and end in Tallinn, Estonia. On each island there are basic facilities, and we will set up our own camp using wind and solar power. The August residency, themed Cartography and Everyday at Sea (August 1st-31st) will start in Stavanger in Norway, shift to an island in Sweden and finish on a beautiful peninsula in Lithuania.
We provide accommodation in the venues and basic meals for all the participants – usually preparing the meals ourselves. On each site we establish camp using cabins, boats and various types of accommodation according to availability, so when you apply be aware that you will not receive hotel-level accommodation, except during a few brief periods. Within the residency period, we cover the travel from one venue to the next for the residents. We also support travel costs of up to 200 euros for Nordic and Baltic residents from your home country to the residency countries, and are happy to provide letters of support for others to raise travel funds from their home countries.
The residencies will include some day trips at sea and in the archipelago and coastal regions to monitor water and air quality, take samples, record audio and video material above and below water, and above all, encourage dialogue between participants and local people and organizations. How and what will depend on the accepted proposals. We also expect that the people who become residents are keen to collaborate between other residents.
Residents will contribute regularly in the project ”logbook” and produce audiovisual documentation of their projects. However, we do not expect a finished exhibition piece or a research outcome at the end of your stay. We trust that the results will be presented at various festivals and publications and our project gets mentioned. The events are organized by the Marin Association based in Helsinki in collaboration with partner organizations as co-hosts (please see end of document detailing each period and partner). Finnish media artists Tapio Mäkelä and Tuomo Tammenpää moderate the residencies and workshops with local co-hosts.
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