We are coming to the end of the project now but are looking for a designer who work to visually draw together a body of short essays produced by each of the partners to reflect on the Understanding Territoriality themes and the learning of the project. Details of the commission can be found here:
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On an annual basis Skopje unites the world’s most remarkable designers and innovators in one place and gives them a chance to communicate with a broad audience, the regional commercial sector and local educational institutions. SDW is run by Otvorena Soba/Public Room and features the outcomes of the Understanding Territoriality residencies that were hosted at public room earlier this year.
The first stage of the residencies of three emerging designers has taken place at Public Room, Skopje. More details of the project can be found on the Public Room website: www.publicroom.org/projects/TIPP-SkopjeResidences.html
Images of the residencies courtesy of Public Room
As part of the Remote Intimacy residency at Fabrica, Magda Tyzlik-Carver will be hosting a workshop on data sensing at Sussex University on 21 July. All are welcome to participate. Please see the Ecologies of Intimacy website for more information:
https://ecologiesofintimacy.wordpress.com/2016/07/10/sensing-data-workshop-21-july/
‘Crudely speaking, data sensing is about sensor based relationships with the world. Sensors measure and register air pollution, humidity, water temperature, sound, light, movement and other phenomena occurring in the environment. They allow us the kind of connection with the world which when translated into data informs our understanding of environments we live in or remote places which we want to explore and exploit. The Internet of Things, Smart Cities are some of the examples of such sensor based systems. They provide us with information about the environmental conditions in which we live, but they also construct new relations and worlds which we then move to inhabit.
Yet, as we increasingly monitor our bodies, homes, neighbourhoods, and the whole planet and beyond, how does this sensor and data based world become familiar? How do we make meaning out of our daily activities that are registered through Facebook likes, tweets sent and photos taken and uploaded to our social media accounts? How do we keep hold of our affective traces so they are not just displaced and consumed by the ever growing desire to count all as data? Finally, how to sustain intimacy as a way to know the world and experience our connection with it?
This second event in the series Ecologies of Intimacy will interrogate the ways in which data sensing is experienced. We will consider who, what and how is involved in sensing data and for what ends?’
There are only a few days left to apply to the second residency at Cittadellarte that falls within the Understanding Territorialities project framework.
Deadline 29 April 2016.
More information can be found here:
http://www.cittadellarte.it/unidee/activity.html?id=79
Fabrica will commission one artist (or a pre-existing artist group), with a strong track record, to create a new work, that explores the possibility for (or actuality of) sustaining close personal relationships across geographical distance.
Located primarily online and through telecommunication, broadcast and/or social and networked media, this commission will investigate human to human contact, and intimacy, as increasingly mediated and entangled with nonhuman others.
The work and its process of production will be shared online, and presented by the artist as an event or ‘work-in-progress’ exhibition, at Fabrica during Brighton Digital Festival 2016.
Fabrica is inviting artists to apply whose practice incorporates digital and networked technologies, and who are living and working in the EU and/or Iceland, Norway, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, FYR Macedonia, Montenegro, Republic of Serbia, Turkey, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine.
Deadline: 12 noon (UK time) Tuesday 10 May 2016
More information about the opportunity and how to apply can be found here:
On Thursday 21 April, Netwerk is organising a one-day event that introduces the public to four activities developed in the configuration of the project: the solo exhibition Philip Metten, the residency course and the solo exhibition of Christian Nyampeta, the public relations program in collaboration with Babbelonië Aalst & Vormingplus, and the online broadcast discussion platform UTalk with Wouter Davidts, Beatrijs Eemans, Giorgio de Finis, Philip Metten and Christian Nyampeta.
| 10:00 | visit solo exhibition Philip Metten |
| open class Philip Metten with students Contemporary Sculpture from KASK Gent |
| 13:00 | audience development project presentation + open session Babbelonië conversation group |
| 15:30 | UTalk / a debate with Philip Metten, Christian Nyampeta, Wouter Davidts, Giorgio de Finis |
| 17:00 | opening solo exhibition Christian Nyampeta |
Philip Metten’s exhibition at Netwerk opened successfully last week. Here you can see the process of installing the work in the gallery. For more information about the exhibition, check out the exhibition page.
An opportunity for 10 artists and professionals from different fields to participate in The Shifting Place. This will be the second week-long residency organised by UNIDEE – University of Ideas – and taking place at Cittadellarte, Fondazione Pistoletto in Biella, Italy, as part of the Understanding Territoriality project.
The residency aims to investigate the aesthetic, spatial and temporal fractures of transition territorial processes, both in local and transnational, private and common, material and immaterial dimensions.
The residency is divided into three parts: three days spent around the Biellese mountains hosted by the “agents of change” – members of the Biellese in transition network; the individual and collective work at Cittadellarte; and a public presentation of the residency outcomes. This second week residency module will also establish interactions with locals through exploring their ways of telling stories about “their” own territory, considering people as fundamental tools for revealing some of the evident and hidden, dominant or specific forms and processes of the Biellese territorialities.
Deadline for applications: 29 April 2016
The full call and information on how to apply can be found here.
