NKA Foundation – International media arts collaboratory – Call for applications

International Media Arts Collaboratory is a two-week group residency. Nka Foundation views the collaboratory as a relational platform in which media arts specialists from around the world come together to collaborate among themselves and/or with the local community in the creation and appreciation of media arts for knowledge sharing and cross-fertilization of skills.

Nka Foundation defines the media arts broadly to include the diversity of recording and presentation modes (such as photography, film/video arts, and the territory of digital arts created for gallery exhibition, television, newspaper, billboard, radio, Internet even architectural structures) that integrate digital technologies with traditional use of images and text to convey symbolism, codes and context contained and projected through audio-visual instruments. Themes of computer as a cyberspace, issues of collaboration, identity, appropriation, open source, telepresence, surveillance, corporate parody, as well as intervention and hacktivism are commonplace in media arts.

Participants will live and work together in a arts village or homestay in a rural township. Project welcomes individual or team proposals involving artistic production, or theoretical presentations on how media arts contribute to the global marketplace of ideas. The theme is open.

When & Where
May 17-31, 2012
Abetenim Arts Village
near Kumasi in the
Ashanti Region of Ghana

OR
November 2-16, 2012
Sang Arts Village, Sang
near Tamale in Northern
Region of Ghana

Application
To apply, e-mail CV/resume and a motivational letter on your proposed work with subject “Media Arts Collaboratory” to info@nkafoundation.org /nkaprojects@gmx.com
Applications will be reviewed until space is filled.

Cost
Organizers will provide accommodation and food; an accepted applicant will contribute participation fee of €200 toward food. International participant is responsible for costs of own airfare and proposed project. Nka Foundation suggests that participants apply for travel grants through their national art councils or other sources.

Nka Foundation
Box Up 1115, Kwame Nkrumah University of
Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi (Ghana)
Nka Foundation, 04 BP 399, Ouagadougou 04 (Burkina Faso)

www.nkafoundation.org