call: One second artist residency
Deadline: 24 December 2016
Call for entries
One second artist residency
We’d like to invite you to this virtual flash residency program taking
place at the Leap Second Festival. The program is an art project in itself
and obviously doesn’t require much resources from neither residencies
nor artists (no money or physical space is necessarily involved), only
an interest in exploring the concept of ‘residency’ in an art and
technology setting in creative ways. For instance, using networking
tools an artist can communicate in real time with a residency during
the leap second residency period, for instance, checking how the
residency web server implements the leap second! Which amounts to the
same as an artist asking “Does this residency I have really exist?”.
For this reason we might then even go as far as consider the inclusion
of non-collaborative (or non-existing) residencies (and the artist as a
one second squatter/hacker). If this sounds interesting to you either as
artist or artist residency, we’d be glad to include you in the program!
How does this artist-residency dating service work?
An artist applies for a residency and is automatically matched to an
available one (if possible). Or an art residency registers and is
automatically matched to an available artist (if possible).
What can be done during a one second virtual flash residency?
Even though the time is short, a computer handles billions of operations
during one second. Real communication is possible using for instance
networking tools. This project also poses a question what a ‘residency’
or a ‘date’ means in terms of the virtual networks we live and work in.
One second artist residency
Register at http://leapsecond.date
Or contact leapsec@noemata.net
Deadline: 24.12.2016
Read the call at http://noemata.net/leapsec/2016/onesecres.call.html
More info about the festival: http://noemata.net/leapsec/2016/
About the leap second festival
– it’s questioning its own existence
– it’s scalable from extremely big to extremely small, somehow mirroring the extension of technology
– it’s also a metaphor for the precarity caused by technology.
– i’ts a distributed, decentralized festival – the more the better.
– to ensure the above: emphasize a collaborative, experimental, project-based approach more, so that the works in various ways embed the leap second idea and function as leap second events in themselves. in this way we’ll have a truer ‘distributed, decentralized’ festival.
– with its awkward, impossible format, the focus of the festival could very well be exactly that: a questioning of art and its appearance, materiality, objecthood, to tie onto traditions of conceptual and postconceptual art, net art, ao. and lead to an exploration of media in search of itself (as an ‘appearing’ form, or questioning its form). a festival or non-event like this could bring these questions to the front as its main character or theme.
– for previous editions see: 2012: http://noemata.net/leapsec/ , 2015: http://www.noemata.net/leapsec26/.
