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<font color="#000000" face="DINWebRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Deadline for submissions: 4 April 2014, 5pm </span></font></div><div style="text-align:justify">
<font color="#000000" face="DINWebRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Production residency: 5 May – 15 June 2014</span></font></div><div style="text-align:justify">
<font color="#000000" face="DINWebRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Public presentation: 19 – 22 June 2014</span></font></div><div style="text-align:justify">
<font color="#000000" face="DINWebRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font color="#000000" face="DINWebRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">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 – encouraged to work side by side, supporting one another conceptually as well as technically. </span></font></div>
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<font color="#000000" face="DINWebRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">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></font></div>
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<font color="#000000" face="DINWebRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">For the upcoming Spring residency, artists (or artist collectives) are asked to submit a project in one or more of the following disciplines: Net art, interactive installation/performance, bio art, audio/video installation, audio/video performance, sound performance, public intervention. </span></font></div>
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<font color="#000000" face="DINWebRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">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></font></div>
<div style="text-align:justify"><font color="#000000" face="DINWebRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Puts forward a process of exploration/risk-taking/experimentation within a public context</span></font></div>
<div style="text-align:justify"><font color="#000000" face="DINWebRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Presents critically engaged content</span></font></div>
<div style="text-align:justify"><font color="#000000" face="DINWebRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Exploits the material framework and conceptual parameters of the mediums and technologies used</span></font></div>
<div style="text-align:justify"><font color="#000000" face="DINWebRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Use of multiple platforms/systems/networks and/or use of open source technologies</span></font></div>
<div style="text-align:justify"><font color="#000000" face="DINWebRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Explores current trends in digital culture</span></font></div>
<div style="text-align:justify"><font color="#000000" face="DINWebRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Investigates the digital language and its norms and structures</span></font></div>
<div style="text-align:justify"><font color="#000000" face="DINWebRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Looks to build upon or challenge the normative structures of New Media art production and exhibition</span></font></div>
<div style="text-align:justify"><font color="#000000" face="DINWebRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The selected artist or artist collective will benefit from a 6 week production residency in the Eastern Bloc lab (5 May – 15 June 2014), followed by 4 days to present the completed work or work-in-progress in one of the centre’s gallery spaces (19 - 22 June 2014). The artist or collective will benefit from the following services:</span></font></div>
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<div style="text-align:justify"><font color="#000000" face="DINWebRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Guided technical assistance during the 6 week production period (provided by the Lab Coordinator and/or a lab volunteer)</span></font></div>
<div style="text-align:justify"><font color="#000000" face="DINWebRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Access to the lab’s equipment and tools (click here for detailed list of lab equipment and tools)</span></font></div>
<div style="text-align:justify"><font color="#000000" face="DINWebRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Access to small storage space for materials and personal equipment</span></font></div>
<div style="text-align:justify"><font color="#000000" face="DINWebRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">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></font></div>
<div style="text-align:justify"><font color="#000000" face="DINWebRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Photo and video documentation of the residency process (including production, exhibition, workshop and artist talk)</span></font></div>
<div style="text-align:justify"><font color="#000000" face="DINWebRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">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></font></div>
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<font color="#000000" face="DINWebRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Artists must submit the following:</span></font></div><div style="text-align:justify">
<font color="#000000" face="DINWebRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Artistic statement (max 250 words)</span></font></div><div style="text-align:justify">
<font color="#000000" face="DINWebRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Detailed description of the project including technical requirements (max 500 words)</span></font></div>
<div style="text-align:justify"><font color="#000000" face="DINWebRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Bio and up-to-date CV of all collaborators</span></font></div>
<div style="text-align:justify"><font color="#000000" face="DINWebRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Support material of current or past works (max. 10 images and/or 3 audio/video excerpts)</span></font></div>
<div style="text-align:justify"><font color="#000000" face="DINWebRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">All completed submissions must be sent by email to <a href="mailto:art@easternbloc.ca">art@easternbloc.ca</a> no later than 5pm on April 4th, 2014.</span></font></div>
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