Call for Proposals: Digital Productions 2011

International Fri 07-01-2011

Call for Proposals: Digital Productions 2011
By a Correspondent

The RAN (Digital Arts Network) first call for proposals is aimed at artists, scientists, technicians, businesses, scenographers, computer graphists, visual artists, musicians and multimedia creators.

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Introduction: philosophy of the Call for Proposals for digital productions of the RAN. The initiative of the artistic creation must come from artists themselves and not directly from cultural, industrial or scientific organisations. That is why, the RAN organisations have launched this call for proposals to develop the best conditions to detect artistic projects and to allow them to be created. The aim is to develop through this experience a common methodology of coproduction. Based on this premise, the members of the RAN give to this pilot Call for Projects the following objectives:

1. Allow innovative artistic projects to be created and distributed ;

2. Bring to the forefront problems so theoretical as technical and\or economic of the creation, the production and the distribution of technological and artistic works and bring them pragmatic solutions;

3. Increase the sharing of knowledges, skills and tools, by working on exemplary cases and from concrete projects;

4. Stimulate the mobility of the professionals between places and organisations which often suffer from having big specialisation and depart mentalised within the organisation;

5. Develop the cross-disciplinary cooperations: scientific, technical and artistic.

The organisation emphasizes the necessity for the applicants to work via objective agreements between researchers and artists within identified platforms. It seems the best base to create the conditions of a creative meeting and a work synergy between the cultural, training and scientific (or industrial) organisations of the network and the artists, scientists, researchers applicants.

The developement of the/these pilot project(s), selected by a jury, will include a research and creation pathway, specific for each project, in the various organisations of the network which will have undertaken to co-produce them/it. It will include also the sharing of resources, skills, equipment, financing and distribution.

In this context, this call for proposals is based on following criteria :

1. Precise identification of the technical and artistic working tools/methods so that the project can be created in a limited time ;

2. Originality of the artistic and scientific value of the project and the way it articulates with the reality of the artistic production and distribution;

3. Necessity to be at the intersection between scientific and/or technical research and artistic experimentation.

The working stages proposed to the artists will be the following ones:

1. Reflection and research;

2. Possible Training;

3. Experimentation in the structures ad hoc;

4. Creation and production;

5. Distribution.

However, the RAN don’t want to fix a stiff chronology in the artistic approach or a predefined hierarchy in research, creation and production stages. The selected projects will keep their own logic of systems. This precaution aims to certify to the artists and to the researchers to follow-up their work from the beginning to the end ; while at present, in the practice, time of the experiment don’t differ to time of production.

Download call for proposal http://www.ran-dan.net/images/call_for%20proposals_RAN_fr+uk.pdf

Download application form http://www.ran-dan.net/images/FORM_CFP_RAN.pdf

Posted By: Diana Achieng

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