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> Dear Friends and Colleagues, > electronic-text+textiles Residency (e-t+t) in Riga welcomes applications for the period from December 2009 to December 2010. > e-t+t is an interdisciplinary platform facilitating artistic investigation and production in the fields of literature, language, textiles, and material > culture, promoting expression at the intersections of print, cloth, and electronic technologies. Please see information below and at our website: www.e-text-textiles.lv Detailed information on how to apply you will find under the RESIDENCY section. The Residency offers a great opportunity not only to develop one's creative ideas and research interests in a very spacious, modern studio/apartment in one of the most beautiful parts of Riga but also to enjoy the emerging Baltic arts and literary scene, the Baltic Sea and healthy local food. The Residency can accommodate up to two related persons at one time. Joint applications are also welcomed. > With the June 2010 meeting of the European Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts in Riga, we expect this to be a banner year for the Residency at e-t+t. For more information on conference please visit: www.e-text-textiles.lv/SLSAeu2010/home.htm. > > Please forward this information to anyone who might be interested. Thank you! > > Best regards, > > > Anda Klavina > > e-t+t Project Manager > > [email protected] > > www.e-text+textiles.lv <http://www.e-text+textiles.lv/> > > 371 26880458 > > RESIDENCY IN RIGA, LATVIA: electronic-text+textiles PROJECT > > The electronic-text+textiles Project (e-t+t Project) invites applications > for its Residency in Riga, Latvia, for the year 2010. The Residency welcomes > artists, designers, writers, and theoreticians working within or across of > the fields of literature and the arts, in particular textiles related. The > e-t+t Project encourages projects that through a mix of conceptual > investigations and material productions in art and literature give > direction and cultural context to technological change and the electronic > disturbance. > > TERM > > Artists, designers, writers, and theoreticians who submit a short project > proposal and are subsequently selected, become Residents at the e-t+t > Project. The term of a Residency can be as short as a week or as long as > several months. During the period of one's stay, a Resident artist, designer > or writer will have exclusive use of a live/work apartment in Riga, access > to artists, writers, and culture administrators working in the Baltics, and > continuing access to an extensive network of writers, artists, critics, and > scholars working in electronic environments worldwide. > > Residents will be free to pursue their own or collaborative projects, > although we expect that the Resident's work should appear in some form in > ebr (www.electronicbookreview.com) or at the Alt-X site (www.altx.com). > Residents > will be expected, also, to meet with members of the local arts and literary > communities, either informally or by giving a lecture or seminar at the > Residence workplace. > > The studio is appropriate for 'tidy' practices such as writing, collation > of information, digital work, visual research, drawing, and small-scale > experimentation and production. Larger productions such as weaving, > printing, and so forth shall be executed in collaboration with other venues, > which > will be negotiated on an individual basis. > > RECENT RESIDENTS > > Niamh McDonnell, philosopher/artist. Project: "Digital Archiving and > Virtual > Museology"; > > Vera Buhlmann, media philosopher, Swiss Federal institute for Technology > (ETH, Zurich). Project: "The Differential as a Figure of Thought - Some > Narratives Inbetween"; > > Maria Damon, poet, English literature professor at the Minnesota > University. > Essay "Text, Textile, Exile: Meditation on Poetics, Metaphor and Net-Work" > is > available at > http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/electropoetics/lettrist; > > DEADLINE > > Ongoing until the 30th of November 2009. > > CONTACT > > For more information about the Residency and how to apply please visit > www.e-text-textiles.lv <http://www.e-text-textiles.lv/> (RESIDENCY > section) > > Any further enquires regarding this call please send to: > > Anda Klavina at: [email protected] > > > > > -- Dr Ele Carpenter Curator HUMlab Research Fellow at BildMuseet Lecturer, MFA in Curating, Goldsmiths, University of London. m: +44 (0)7989 502 191 (UK) m: +46 (0)70 212 9942 (only works when I'm in Sweden) www.elecarpenter.org.uk www.eleweekend.blogspot.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Open Source Embroidery" group. 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