[spectre] Eyebeam Residency Summer/Fall 2007 Call for Applicants

[amanda mcdonald crowley]

Eyebeam Residency Summer/Fall 2007
Call for Applicants

Eyebeam
540 West 21st Street, NY, USA
http://www.eyebeam.org

Eyebeam is currently calling for applications for six-month Residency  
opportunities. The application deadline is February 23 at 12pm EST.

Artists, hackers, designers, engineers and creative technologists are  
invited to apply to be Residents at Eyebeam, to work for six months  
on projects or research of artistic endeavor or creative expression.   
The ideal Resident has experience working with and generating  
innovative technological art and/or creative technology projects and  
has a passion for interdisciplinary exchange.

Residents will be selected from an open call, based on the work being  
proposed, the availability of the necessary tools and skills to  
support them, and in consideration of the overarching research themes  
and activities of the organization. International applicants are  
welcome to apply, although we do not have the resources to cover  
travel or accommodation.  We are happy to work with selected  
applicants, if required, to help them secure funds to cover these  
expenses.
Residents receive 24/7 access to Eyebeam’s Chelsea facility in New  
York City, including equipment and technical expertise from Eyebeam  
staff and Fellows, a $5000 honorarium, the potential for  
collaborative exchange with other Residents as well as support from  
interns. The program term is approximately from September to February  
and March to August with the potential for extension and/or re- 
application.

Group discussions and interdisciplinary projects, within and between  
the lab environments and organizational programs foster connections  
with other artists and staff. Residents also benefit from critiques,  
lectures and workshops by external practitioners chosen for their  
relationship to subjects and projects being worked on in the Labs.

All Residents are encouraged to share their skills and knowledge with  
the larger Eyebeam community by conducting formal and/or informal  
workshops with others in the Labs as well as possible workshops open  
to the public.

There are also opportunities to develop work for performance, events,  
seminars, exhibition or other public programming in the Eyebeam  
galleries and beyond during the Residency term. Fostering  
relationships between artists, hackers, coders, engineers and other  
creative technologists is central to Eyebeam’s mission. The intention  
is to facilitate relationships whereby technologists and artists can  
come together to germinate and hothouse their ideas, develop new  
processes and create new works through a period of immersion in a  
social context which is rich in technology, expertise and ideas.

Looking forward, we are also establishing research groups to bring  
together creative practitioners working at Eyebeam with expert  
external participants to develop new research leading to possible  
public outcomes including seminars, public discussion and exhibition.

Research themes for 2006-07 include (though will not be limited to):

  - Energy, Technology and Sustainability;

  - Urban research, urban interventions and media in public space.

  Artists and creative technologists interested in these research  
areas are particularly encouraged to apply for Residencies.

For more information on the current 2006-07 Fellows working in visit  
http://www.eyebeam.org/production/production.php?page=artists.  All  
Residents and Fellows have access to shared resources across the lab  
environments.  Creating programs and collaborations across the Labs  
is encouraged.

TO APPLY

To apply for a Summer/Fall 2007 Residency please visit http:// 
eyebeam.org/production/onlineapp/


Founded in 1997, Eyebeam is an art and technology center that  
provides a fertile context and state-of-the-art tools for digital  
experimentation. It is a lively incubator of creativity and thought,
where artists and technologists actively engage with the larger  
culture, addressing the issues and concerns of our time. Eyebeam  
challenges convention, celebrates the hack, educates the next  
generation, encourages collaboration, freely offers its output to the  
community, and invites the public to share in a spirit of openness:   
open source, open content and open distribution.

Eyebeam's current programs are made possible through the generous  
support of the Atlantic Foundation, Time Warner Youth Media and Arts  
Fund, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Jerome  
Foundation, the Greenwall Foundation, the Experimental Television  
Center, the New  York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, the  
New York City  Department of Cultural Affairs and many generous  
individuals. For a list of past supporters, please visit  
www.eyebeam.org.

Location: 540 W. 21st Street between 10th & 11th Avenues
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 12:00 - 6:00pm
Bookstore: Tuesday - Saturday, 12:00 - 6:00pm

Perry Lowe
Director of Communications
EYEBEAM Art & Technology Center
[T] 212.937.6580 x222
[F] 212.937.6582
[E] perry at eyebeam.org