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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial">Deadline for
submissions: 13 December 2013, 5pm </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial">Production residency:
20 January – 2 March 2014</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial">Public presentation:
6 – 9 March 2014</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial">Eastern Bloc’ media lab is a space for
experimenting, learning, theorizing and creating – a place to further develop
systems-based, networked, generative and hybrid practices through an artist-led
discourse. The lab is a site of convergence for artists (both emerging and
established), professionals, students, technicians, theorists and curators – </span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial">encouraged to work side by side, supporting one
another conceptually as well as technically.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial">Eastern Bloc’s residency program, with its three
residencies per year (Fall, Winter, Spring), is a chance for artists and
audiences to critically engage in the artistic process, with a focus on DIY and
open source culture as well as and the political discourse surrounding contemporary
digital culture, and a special consideration for pedagogy and technological
democratization.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial"> <span lang="EN-CA"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial">For the upcoming Winter 2014 residency, artists (or
artist collectives) are asked to submit a project in one or more of the
following disciplines: interactive installation/performance, Net art, bio art, audio/video
installation, A/V performance, sound performance, public intervention.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial">Please include in the project description how the
proposed project responds to the following criteria (the artistic merit of your
application will be judged based on these criteria):</span></p>
<p class="" style><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria">-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Puts forward a process of exploration/risk-taking/experimentation
within a public context</span></p>
<p class="" style><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria">-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Presents
critically engaged content</span></p>
<p class="" style><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria">-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Exploits
the </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">material
framework and conceptual parameters of the mediums and technologies used</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>
<p class="" style><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria">-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Use of
multiple platforms/systems/networks and/or use of open source technologies </span></p>
<p class="" style><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria">-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Explores
current trends in digital culture</span></p>
<p class="" style><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria">-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Investigates
the digital language and its norms and structures</span></p>
<p class="" style><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria">-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Looks to
build upon or challenge the normative structures of New Media art production
and exhibition</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial">The selected artist or artist collective will
benefit from a 6 week production residency in the Eastern Bloc lab (20 January
– 2 March 2014), followed by 4 days to present the completed work or
work-in-progress in one of the centre’s gallery spaces (6 – 9 March 2014). The
artist or collective will benefit from the following services:</span></p>
<p class="" style><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Open
access to the research & production lab</span></p>
<p class="" style><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Guided
technical assistance during the 6 week production period (provided by the Lab
Coordinator and/or a lab volunteer)</span></p>
<p class="" style><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Access to
the lab’s equipment and tools (click here for detailed list of lab equipment
and tools)</span></p>
<p class="" style><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Access to
small storage space for materials and personal equipment</span></p>
<p class="" style><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">A maximum
of 10 hours of in-gallery technical assistance for the installation and
dismantle of the project before and after the presentation period</span></p>
<p class="" style><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Photo and
video documentation of the residency process </span></p>
<p class="" style><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial">The selected artist or collective is required to
give at least one workshop, on a related subject, in the lab (open to Eastern
Bloc’s members and the general community, maximum of 15 participants); as well
as give an artist talk (open to the general public) about the project created
while in residency at Eastern Bloc. The selected artist or collective will
receive a total fee of $1150 for the residency (including production,
presentation and workshop). </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial">Artists must submit the following as attachments
to an email: </span></p>
<p class="" style><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria">-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Artistic
statement (max 250 words)</span></p>
<p class="" style><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria">-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Detailed
description of the project including technical requirements (max 500 words)</span></p>
<p class="" style><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria">-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Bio and up-to-date
CV of all collaborators</span></p>
<p class="" style><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria">-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Support
material of current or past works (max. 10 images and/or 2 audio/video excerpts,
no more than 20 MB)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial">Please do
not send any information in the body of the email or via web links. Your
submission will not be considered if submission guidelines are not respected.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial">All completed submissions must be sent by email
to <a href="mailto:art@easternbloc.ca">art@easternbloc.ca</a> no later than 5pm on Friday, December 13<sup>th</sup>,
2013. </span></p>
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<div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Céline Escouteloup, Communication<br>Eastern Bloc<div><br></div><div><img src="http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd301/easternblocmtl/logoEB.jpg" width="96" height="88"><br></div><div>
<br><div>7240 rue Clark </div><div>H2R 2Y3, Montréal, QC<br>tél. : 514-284-2106</div></div><div><font size="1" color="#666666"><br>Eastern Bloc remercie ses membres, bénévoles et donateurs, ainsi que le Conseil des arts du Canada, le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, le Conseil des arts de Montréal, la CDEC-Centre Nord, la Ville de Montreal, la CRÉ de Montréal et le Forum jeunesse de l'Île de Montréal. Eastern Bloc est membre du Regroupement des centres d'artistes autogérés du Québec (RCAAQ), du Conseil québécois des arts médiatiques (CQAM) et de l'Alliance des arts médiatiques indépendants.</font></div>
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