Open Call: Media Art Residency in Košice (Creative City)

Košice – the Creative City of Media Arts offers media artists a two-month stay in Košice in autumn 2019. The residency is organized by the NGO Creative Industry Košice – a focal point of UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts, and K.A.I.R. Košice Artist in Residence.

About CIKE & K.A.I.R.

The NGO Creative Industry Košice (CIKE) is a focal point of UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts, which aims to inspire new generations through the interdisciplinary and innovative language of media arts. The organization started as a daring project Interface – European Capital of Culture 2013 and brought a major transformation of the city. One of its key projects was K.A.I.R. Košice Artist in Residence, which started in 2011 and got a stable ground to develop the international activities and network of partners. In 2016 K.A.I.R. became an independent association.

K.A.I.R. is international Artist-in-Residence programme for the artists from all over the world and out of all artistic disciplines and expressions. It is strongly focused on international cooperations between the Slovak and foreign artists and art organizations. Artists have the possibility to work in the inspiring environment of Košice‘s singular cultural surrounding to realize art projects, collaborate with the agile local art scene and present themselves to the local and European public.

Media Arts Residency 2019

This specific residency seeks to create space for a media artist from one of the UNESCO Creative Cities to develop his/her own artistic project. The residency is an opportunity to create a new project or to continue work on something in development by shifting its perspective.

The Open call is limited to the artists who are either born, live or work in any of UNESCO Creative City.

By the end of the residency program, the artist will provide a public exhibition and a final presentation of the work created over the 60-day residency period. The exhibition and presentation will be a part of the international festival of media arts, technology, and digital culture Art & Tech Days.

Topic: Language in the context of arts and technology

The new digital era is changing the use of language and communication. Technologies brought new ways in which humans interact, whether it is through e-mail, social media or instant messaging and these are based on machine languages.

Technology has also influenced art, and programming languages have made an impact on the creation of contemporary art. Many artists incorporated code into their practice. A code is a medium or the „canvas and paint“ of digital artists.

During the residency, the artist should explore the language in the context of art and technology.

An artist can search for answers to questions:

– How computer language establishes the connection between code and art?

– How it enables artists and coders to communicate?

– Aesthetic/artistic language and code are two kinds of language. How they can interact in the media arts?

The deadline to apply for the residency is 22 April 2019.

More information and details on how to apply here.