[spectre] Call for Applications: BNMI Banff Residency, Almost Perfect

[Andreas Broeckmann]

From: "Banff New Media Institute" <arts_info at banffcentre.ca>
Subject: Call for Applications: BNMI Almost Perfect
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:30:47 -0600


Call for Applications

Almost Perfect: 'Call and Response'


Program dates: October 30, 2008 - November 30, 2008
Early application deadline: Friday August 22, 2008
Application deadline: Friday September 19, 2008

Applications received by August 22 will receive notification of their 
acceptance by September 3 and applications received by September 19 
will receive notification of their acceptance by September 26.

<http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=713&p=faculty>Peer 
advisors: Antoni Abad, Daniel Belasco Rogers, Angus Leech, and Kate 
Hartman with studio visits/presentations from: Kay Burns and Sophia 
New

The Almost Perfect 'Call and Response' residency at the Banff New 
Media Institute is an annual, concentrated four-week experimental 
prototyping lab that explores the creation and context of location. 
Practitioners from all walks of locative and mobile media practice 
are encouraged to apply to the program. We are particularly 
interested in practice that extends beyond the device out into the 
environment, be it landscape or datascape.

The massive scale of Banff National Park's Rocky Mountains and the 
expanse of the Great Plains to the east provide a unique opportunity 
to untie yourself from the usual coordinates of place. Geographies of 
time, scale, and great disruption lay exposed, lending themselves to 
the call and response of technology and nature. This residency allows 
time and space to consider how modern technologies let us disconnect 
from our desktop cells and interact with the world in a whole new way.


For more information on how to apply:

The Banff Centre
107 Tunnel Mountain Drive
Box 1020, Banff, Alberta
T1L 1H5, CANADA
1-800-565-9989 or 1-403-762-6180

Email: <mailto:arts_info at banffcentre.ca;>arts_info at banffcentre.ca
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