[CREATE] Fwd: [LGRU] CALL: Piksels & Lines Orchestra Residency (PLO)

[Femke Snelting]

Some of you might be interested in applying for this?
Deadline: Wednesday 26 September 2012.

Femke

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OPEN CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Piksels & Lines Orchestra Residency (PLO)

The Libre Graphics Research Unit is a traveling lab where ideas for creative
tools are developed.
Its diverse activities range from the practical to the theoretical via
writing, research meetings, experimental prototyping, conferences and
workshops. The Research Unit is an initiative of four European media-labs
actively engaged in Free/Libre and Open Source Software and Free Culture. At
the core of the LGRU project is a series of research commissions that allow
artists and software developers to work together at the same level, imagining
and building future graphic and performative tools.

In this context, Piksel is offering a collaborative research residency for one
artist and one developer, to jointly explore the interoperability and
expansion of functionality in self-produced and/or existing libre graphic
tools, placed in a performative setting. The free/libre graphics tools can
include, but are not limited to the following technologies: GIMP, Scribus,
Inkscape, MyPaint, FontForge, Pure Data, Open Frameworks, Py-Cessing,
Processing, The Underweb, Blender etc.

Artists and developers may submit proposals individually that suggest what
compentences and perspectives they look for a residency partnership, or an
artist/developer duo may jointly apply for the residency.

The collaboration should result in an artwork that extends existing Libre
graphics software, following the guidelines of the Piksels & Lines Orchestra,
a prototype developed during the third LGRU research seminar hosted by Piksel
in Bergen June 6-9, 2012.

The guidelines are:

- Turn tools into instruments
- Explore the performative potential of Libre Graphics tools
- Use API interoperability between software for unexpected connections
- Experiment with format interoperability between software

Presentation and video of the Piksels & Lines Orchestra prototype:

http://blogs.lgru.net/ft/theme/piksels-and-lines/turning-tools-into-
instruments

https://vimeo.com/44751183

The residency shall result in an artwork that will be shown at the Piksel
festival November 22-25, 2012.

We offer:

- a residency period of up to 3 weeks at Piksel in Bergen, Norway during the
months of October and November 2012. Specific dates to be determined in
collaboration with the selected artists.
- an artist fee of up to 4000 EUR per person
- a production budget to be discussed
- support from the Piksel community and LGRU community, in the further
technical development of the selected project throughout the residency period
- presentation of the commission and the resulting artwork at the Piksel
festival in Bergen, Norway from November 22-25, 2012
- presentation of the commission at the LGRU Conference in Porto, Portugal in
June 2013
- Support for the documentation of the research and final work, and
dissemination of this documentation (i.e. code repository, web publication
resources)

Requirements:

- the artist/developer must be willing and able to travel to Bergen for a
residency period of up to 3 weeks, and to the Piksel festival in Bergen from
November 22-25.
- the artist/developer must have advanced technical knowledge allowing him or
her to experiment with the above-mentioned technologies
- the artist/developer must be willing to work in a close collaborative
setting with a second person
- the artist must be willing to openly and thoroughly document the artistic
process

Proposal:
- an outline of the concept underlying the work that you wish to develop (200
words max)
- a general outline of the scope of the final work (200 words max - can include
visual sketches)
- a motivation for why you would like to work in the context of this
particular residency as well as an overview of your interest in the
technologies mentioned above (250 words max)
- an outline of the research and development plan for the work (250 words max)
- an up-to-date CV including links to previous work

Please send your commission proposal to info [at] piksel.no

Deadline for submission is Wednesday 26. September 2012.

The candidate is chosen by representatives from Piksel and the LGRU team.
Applicants will be informed by 10. October 2012.

About Piksel and LGRU:

Piksel (Bergen, Norway)
http://www.piksel.no

Piksel is an annual event for artists and developers working with free and
open source software, hardware and art. Part workshop, part festival, it is
organised in Bergen, Norway, and involves participants from more than a dozen
countries exchanging ideas, coding, presenting art and software projects,
doing workshops, performances and discussions on the aesthetics and politics
of free and open source software.
The development, and therefore use, of digital technology today is mainly
controlled by multinational corporations. Despite the prospects of technology
expanding the means of artistic expression, the commercial demands of the
software industries severely limit them instead. Piksel is focusing on the
open source movement as a strategy for regaining artistic control of the
technology, but also a means to bring attention to the close connections
between art, politics, technology and economy.

Libre Graphics Research Unit (LGRU)
http://lgru.net/

The Libre Graphics Research Unit is a traveling lab where ideas for creative
tools are developed.
Its diverse activities range from the practical to the theoretical via
writing, research meetings, experimental prototyping, conferences and
workshops. The Research Unit is an initiative of four European media-labs
actively engaged in Free/Libre and Open Source Software and Free Culture. This
cross-disciplinary project involves artists, designers and programmers and is
developed in dialogue with the Libre Graphics Community. The unit is co-
organized by Constant (Brussels, BE), Medialab Prado (Madrid, (ES), WORM
(Rotterdam, NL) and Piksel (Bergen, NO).