Kia ora Whanau
This is a call for expressions of interest
Space, Network, Memory: Media Art and the Transitional City
Produced by The ADA Network
Expressions of interest are now open for writers to participate in Space,
Network, Memory: Media Art and the Transitional City, an immersive, innovative,
collaborative writing event focused on the spatial limitations and
possibilities of media art, artists’ engagement with networks of all kinds, and
the radical layers of memory-making that characterise lived environments.
Space, Network, Memory will produce a publication that critically addresses a
significant body of creative work, interwoven with broader contexts and
histories. This will include documentation and discussion of media art
practices from around Aotearoa that engage with the interconnected themes of
space, network, and memory.
The book will be written by an invited group of people as a 5 day ‘book
sprint’. The book sprint is a publication methodology developed by New
Zealander Adam Hyde that brings a small group of participants together to
collaboratively conceptualise and write a book in an intensive and creative
period of work.
While the project is grounded in the specificity of post-quake Christchurch,
the book will explore the role of media art in addressing issues and
possibilities of Space, Network, and Memory in New Zealand and global
transitional urban environments.
Key information:
• Book Sprint dates: 23 to 28 November 2015
• Location: the workspace at XCHC, Exchange Christchurch, and other
spaces around Christchurch city.
• Expressions of Interest close at midnight, Monday 8 June
Process:
• A book sprint is a collaborative process that develops entirely
within the timescale of the event. It involves collaboratively planning,
designing and writing a book over 5 days.
• Participants will be involved in testing and exploring new writing
practices in a supportive, analytical and critical context.
• The Space, Network, Memory sprint will be facilitated by Adam Hyde,
the founder of the book sprint methodology, whose role will be to guide the
participants through the whole process.
• It will be a fully immersive experience with authors living and
working together for the duration of the sprint. The aim is for the authors to
be immersed in the city of Christchurch five years after the defining events of
2010.
What ADA will provide:
• Contribution to airfares or local travel costs.
• Shared accommodation.
• Shared meals throughout the book sprint program.
• Technical staff and a limited technical kit.
• Facilitators and production team.
• Network resources.
Writers need to bring/provide:
• Commitment and enthusiasm
• Willingness to participate in the collaborative process
• Ideas
• A willingness to be filmed and photographed as part of the
documentation process
Selection Criteria:
• Demonstrated ability and interest in working collaboratively with
artists and writers from diverse backgrounds and practices.
• Demonstrated understanding of contemporary media art practices in
urban contexts.
• Demonstrated writing practice that has a focus on the active
generation of texts and ideas.
Desirable:
• Applications are encouraged from artists and writers whose work
explores any of the following areas:
• Media technologies in transitional environments
• Disaster, catastrophe and resilience
• Field work including walking, orienteering and working
site-specifically in urban environments
• Environmental practice
• Memory, archive formation, and history
• media arts practice in Aotearoa
• urban space, infrastructure and issues
• networks of all kinds, from interpersonal to infrastructural
• memory and media
Outcomes:
• Space, Network, Memory: Media Art and the Transitional City will be a
publication that is published via online PDF, print on demand and e-book
services at the end of the sprint.
• The book sprint will be followed by a launch event on the Saturday
following the sprint. A public roundtable discussion will reflect on the
content of the book, and the sprint process.
Application process:
• Applications must be in the form of a 250 word statement of interest
that addresses the selection criteria, accompanied by a 200 word bio, and a 1
page writing excerpt, and received by email to booksprint at ada[dot]net[dot]nz
by midnight, Tuesday 9 June.
• Applicants will be notified of an outcome by email, in the week of 22
June 2015.
Space, Network and Memory is an initiative of the ADA Network. This project is
supported by Creative New Zealand.
More information can be found here
http://www.ada.net.nz/projects/booksprint-space-network-memory/
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