Year: Tuesday June 30th, 2015

2015 Research and Creation Fellowship – Chronus Art Center
Request Proposals 

APPLICATION DEADLINE
All applications must be received electronically by 23:59 (Beijing Time), Wednesday, July 1, 2015 via fellowship@chronusartcenter.org.

Applicants will be informed of their application status by July 15th, 2015.

FELLOWSHIP BEGINS
September 2015 (start date negotiable within reason)

OVERVIEW
This 12-month fellowship program is designed to host international artists and researchers of extraordinary talents in the area of media art to conduct research and creation at Chronus Art Center (CAC) in Shanghai with an aim to foster global exchange in advancing the discourse and practice of media art, to contribute to CAC's research and educational mission, and for the institution's future collection.

This Fellowship is a chance for international artists/researchers to engage and learn from the art, technological and entrepreneurial community of Shanghai in a direct way. Applicants can apply as individual or as a team. During this one-year program, the selected researcher/artist is expected to realize his/her research proposal, to work in CAC lab with CAC research/creation team on related activities, to actively contribute to the larger CAC community as collaborative partners to other residents and as principal leads in research initiatives, programs, and public engagement as well as leaders in development of current focus areas of the organization.

FELLOWSHIP FOCUS
In the inaugural year of the Research and Creation Fellowship program, we are seeking project proposals that explore CAC’s four focus areas of research and creation:
a) Emotive Networks and Haptic Gaming
b) Networked Generative Art
c) Future Cinema and Television
d) Intelligent Music and Audiovisual Systems

CAC’s research and creation values research (including culture and technology) as the essential and initial step that leads to art creation, and through encouraging cross-disciplinary collaborations and collective thinking as the mode of production it brings the methodology of scientific inquiry into the thinking and practice of art. By accentuating the dynamic synergy of art and science as a response to the challenges and opportunities that contemporary media society has given rise to, CAC brings to the public awareness of the impending post-human reality and the resulting social and political implications.

FELLOWSHIP SUPPORT
One selected Fellow (either as an individual or as a team) will be offered a total amount of $30,000 grant with a projected one year deep-immersion period to cover artist fees and direct costs, including materials during his/her residency in Shanghai.

CAC is happy to provide necessary paperwork and advice to help international Fellow expedite the process of securing his/her visa, travel and accommodation in Shanghai whereas all the expenses will be covered within the amount of the fellowship.

CAC will work closely with the selected Fellow to see his/her project realized and offer program support in developing work for performance, events, seminars, exhibitions, or other public and educational programming during the term of the Fellowship. CAC will also partner with appropriate local, neighborhood organizations, facilitate joint presentations alongside community partners of works-in-progress, host conversations with the artists and display works in progress, revealing the creative process as it happens.

ELIGIBILITY
-This fellowship is open to international artists and researchers.
-Applicants are expected to show demonstrable success in previous development of related projects at this scale.
- Individuals and collaborative teams are invited to apply. In either case, please detail in your application how technical and creative responsibilities will be met.

APPLICATION GUIDELINE
Please fill out the application form and send it together with other supporting materials as email attachments in PDF format to: fellowship@chronusartcenter.org

Complete applications must include the following materials:
- Application Form. Please indicate in the application form the focus area of your proposed project by choosing from CAC’s four areas of concentration;
- Resume or CV in PDF format. If applying as a collaborative team, please include information about team members' relevant prior experience and combine CVs into a single document.
- One PDF document with visuals that further outline the proposal（less than 30M）. For visual materials (images, schematics, renderings, etc.) that exceed 30M, please provide URLs. Video files (.mov, mp4) of less than 5 minutes in length will also be accepted in URLs. Please indicate URL passwords if any.

- Portfolio or Work samples. Include project descriptions with your portfolio or work samples that explains how it relates to your proposed project(s)/research. Combine all descriptions with URLs and passwords into one PDF document. You may use a free hosting service such as Flickr (flickr.com) for images, SoundCloud (soundcloud.com) for audio, or Vimeo (vimeo.com) for video.

NOTE: Allow permission to download a high quality version of file if using one of these 3rd party services. Alternatively, you may provide a link to your own page with high quality versions of your work samples available for review and download.

EVALUATION CRITERIA
Applications will be reviewed by CAC International Advisory Board comprised of leading scholars, artists and museum professionals. Acceptance is based on quality and visionary potential. Applicants are also expected to show demonstrable success in previous development of related work at this scale. Successful applicant will outline clear goals, milestones and timelines.

Please send further inquires to: fellowship@chronusartcenter.org

Summer Sessions Call for Proposal 2015
Deadline: May 25th, 2015

The Summer Sessions Talent Development Network are short-term residencies for young artists initiated by V2_(Institute for the Unstable Media) and organized by a network of cultural organizations all over the world.

The Summer Sessions offer a highly productive atmosphere with production support and expert feedback to jumpstart your professional art practice. The result is a pressure cooker in which you develop a project, from concept to presentable work, ready to show. From May 2009 on, more than 30 world-wide artists have participated in the Summer Sessions, and the partners are from all over the world including China, Spain, Canada, Norway, among others.

Joining Summer Sessions Talent Development Network in 2013, CAC has sponsored one Chinese artist (Hu Weiyi) and one Chinese artist group (Zhou Jiangshan and Long Xinru) to conduct their residency at V2_ and hosted two international artists (Johannes Langkamp, Máté Pacsika) who developed their work in shanghai for two months.

This year’s program is now calling for application. The application requirements and other details are as follows:

Eligibilities
-Early Career artists under 35 years old and/or graduated no more than 5 years before the time of applying.
-Artists can only apply if one of the partners in the talent development network is based in their country of residence. For Chinese artists, please choose CAC as your sponsor institute.

Duration
Roughly 8 weeks in the period between June 15th and September 30th 2015.

Application Procedure
1. Create a 2-minute video explaining your project, the support you need and why you should be a part of the Summer Sessions. Please note that all the partners in the network review the submitted video's, so English is preferred (don't worry you won't be judged on grammar or pronunciation).
2. Upload your video to a service like Youtube or Vimeo. Note that on Youtube you can make the video 'unlisted' so it can not be found without knowing the URL. On Vimeo you can set a password.
3. Go to http://www.summersessions.net/ and select your country of residence.
4. Fill out the online application form to provide your personal details and the link to the online video proposal.

Important Date
1. May 25th 2015: application deadline
2. Early June 2015: notification of acceptance.

For application and more information, please go to http://www.summersessions.net/

2014 Summer Session Review: Máté Pacsika and the Vertigo System 

About the Artist 

Máté Pacsika was born in Budapest and obtained his MA in Media Design from Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest. In 2012 his graduation project Floatomat and its underlying theoretical research investigated the various layers of the relationship between attraction and narrative in media art. After graduation he moved to Rotterdam to work for V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media and went on with his next research about experience based art education.
http://kupiczacola.com

About the Vertigo System by Máté Pacsika

Vertigo System is the work created by Máté Pacsika during his 2014 summer  residency at Chronus Art Center.It is based on the automatization of a cinematographic technique called Dolly Zoom, also known as Vertigo Effect named after Hitchcocks movie from 1958. Vertigo effect is an in-camera effect based on a really simple optical game. It’s a highly unsettling effect with strong emotional impact, often used to emphasize dramatic events in the storyline. The goal of the Vertigo System is to build a fantastic video archive of tons of frightened faces.

In the show, audiences are trying the Vertigo System and experiencing the Vertigo Effect in an automatic real time process where one suddenly finds oneself in a frightfully different reality -- the background becomes a variable surroundings, an all-relative universe where one can experience an elementary feeling of subconscious distress. “I am interested in how and why situations like this would effect human perception in such a powerful way,” says the artist.

About Fellowship:
This Fellowship has been created by the School of Art, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design (BIAD), Birmingham City University in conjunction with the Chronus Art Center (CAC) in Shanghai. The Fellowship offers an exciting opportunity for an artist at the commencement of or at a critical point in their professional career, to further develop his or her practice particularly in relation to Chinese art and culture. The Fellowship will be based in the School of Art. The successful applicant will be expected to become a full and active member of the Centre for Chinese Visual Arts (CCVA) and research community within the School.

This Fellowship is designed particularly for Chinese national students and graduates based either in China or in the UK. The successful applicant is to hold a postgraduate degree in Fine Art or a related subject and able to communicate in fluent English orally as well as in writing. The duration is normally, for 6 calendar months commencing in April 2015 .The Fellowship will normally conclude with an exhibition of work produced during the Fellowship as a CAC Fellowship section within the BIAD MA Fine Art show.

Value:
A total award of ￡10,000 will be offered to cover:

• A monthly basis for 6 months at a rate of ￡1,000 per month.
• One international return flight between China and the UK.
• The rest ￡3,000 could cover both local transportation in UK and materials for production.

Studio Space & Access to the facility in BIAD ：

The Fellow will be allocated a studio within the Margaret Street building. Additional space will         be available during July and August. Access to the general teaching and learning resources in Margaret Street will be available, including use of the library and use of the extensive workshops.

Fellows will:

• Be required to commit the majority of their time to the Fellowship and to work in and from the studios of the School of Art in Margaret Street, Birmingham;
• Engage with the development of the CCVA;
• Contribute at least two seminars within the School;

Method of Application & Selection :
The application form(http://www.chronusartcenter.org/CAC.docx) should be accompanied by visual evidence (as PowerPoint/Keynote/PDF, or as video, soundtrack) with accompanying information such as scale, materials, duration etc., and a written statement of not more than 1,000 words in English. Please email your application form to  fellowship@chronusartcenter.org 
Short-listed candidates will be required to make a 15-minute presentation in front of the panel on their work, reasons for application, and development of work on the Fellowship.

Both parties agree to develop this annual fellowship for at least three years as a long-term collaboration.

The Closing Date for Application:

• 0:00 am Sunday 21st December 2014
• Interviews will take place by late January 2015 in Shanghai, China

More info ： 

Sasa Qin （ sasa.qin@chronusartcenter.org )

About Birmingham Institute of Art and Design (BIAD):
BIAD, a Faculty of Birmingham City University, is one of the largest Institutions of its kind in the country.  It provides art and design courses at pre-degree, degree, postgraduate and research levels for over 3,500 full and part time students. The Schools of Fashion, Textiles and Three Dimensional Design, Visual Communication, School of Jewellery and School of Art are located across four sites at the exciting new faculty building at Parkside, Bournville, Vittoria Street and Margaret Street.

Langkamp is a new media artist based in Rotterdam, Netherland. He received his bachelor of Fine Arts at the ArtEZ, AKI Academy of Visual Arts in 2011.

In his work he emphasizes an art practice through Video and Installations.

Often fascinated by the element of movement, he turned his current research to the illusional movement of the sun and our relationship to this visual environment (nature/ daily visual attendent/ environment).

In "Analog Sun Tracking", he wants to follow this optical movement through a 24 hours time-lapse video. A camera driven by a mechanical tracking device is recording the path of the sun.

"From the point of our view，the star at the center of our solar system shifts every minute and we call it "rising" and "setting" even though we understand its nature. It strikes me to play with this daily illusion and to do research about our relationship with this visual nature.

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