Call for proposals: Residency projects 2024-2025

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CALL FOR LOCAL RESIDENCY PROJECTS
PROGRAMMING 2024-2025
Deadline: Thursday, May 16th, 23h59 (Montreal, ET) 2024

Do you require resources to develop a media arts project? Submit a project proposal for Ada X’s residency program! You could be selected to participate in a 8 week production residency at Ada X between September 2024 and June 2025. This call is only open to artists who live in the Tiohtià:ke/ Montreal area.

Ada X is a bilingual feminist-artist-run centre for media arts and digital culture. The centre supports independent women, trans, non-binary, and queer artists in the production and dissemination of their work. Since 1996, Ada X has been a place of reference for engaged and critical media arts practices.

We are looking for proposals that encourage reflections on the interdependence between digital arts, equity, and community dynamics to highlight interventions that contribute to a more empathetic, inclusive, and resilient society. Through this approach, Ada X supports projects that value the role(s) of technology in strengthening collaboration, mutual recognition. Priority is given to proposals inspired by (cyber)feminism, queer studies, Afrofuturism, and anti-oppressive practices.

Four artists’ proposals will be selected. The Ada X team will meet each artist whose project is selected to determine the timeline for completion and production.

ELIGIBILITY

  • Be a woman, queer, trans, or non-binary artist living in the Tiohtià:ke/ Montreal area.
  • Have a practice in media arts. Media art refers to artistic practices that use technology to function. This includes video art, kinetic art, computer art, digital art, electronic art, interactive art, installation art, multimedia art, cyber art, network art, biotechnological art, robotic art, and sound art.
    (Traditional linear cinema is not accepted)
  • Be autonomous in the use of the equipment and technologies necessary for the project.
  • Propose a project that is feasible with the material resources made available by Ada X (work plan, budget  [including confirmed funding sources, if applicable], resources provided by the artist, and equipment required).
  • Applicants must be the sole creators of any material submitted and own the rights.

Please note: The space is NOT suitable for sound and/or multidisciplinary projects that would require a quiet environment.

SELECTION CRITERIA

  • Consistency with Ada X’s mandate
  • Quality of the artistic approach
  • Relevance of the project in the context of media art
  • Importance of the residency in the development of the artist’s practice

A residency at Ada X includes,

  • A residency fee of $2710
  • A workspace for a period of 8 weeks
  • Support from the Ada X team (including feedback, mentorship, and consultation on grant applications and project-related matters)
  • Access to Ada X equipment
  • A production budget of $600 to cover professional fees for technical assistance and/or materials directly relate to the residency project
  • A public presentation of the residency project (with additional honorarium)
  • A text and video on the artist’s approach and the work produced during the residency
  • Opportunity to attend free professional workshops
  • Opportunity to design and present a mediation workshop (with additional honorarium)
  • One-year membership offered after the residency for ongoing engagement in the Ada X community

Upon selection, the artist commits to, 

  • have an active presence in Ada X’s workspace for the duration of their residency,
  • attend bi-weekly meetings with the Ada X team,
  • participate in a video interview produced by Ada X during their residency to present their practice and work in progress,

To get a better idea of the type of projects Ada X supports, take a look at past residencies here.
Follow this link to see the gallery floor plan.

RESIDENCY PROJECT SUBMISSION 

Applications may be submitted in French or English.
Applications can be individual or collective, but please consider that the fee is allocated per project.
Do you express yourself better orally than in writing? We give you the option of answering several sections in the form of a short video.

In ONE PDF FILE (5MB), provide the following information:

  • Project Title
  • Type of media
  • Stage of the project at the time of submitting this proposal (Research Phase, Design, Production Phase, Post Production Phase, Development of an existing Project)
  • Text of your artistic approach. 300 words max.
  • Present your residency project. 500 words max.
  • How does your proposal relate to Ada X’s feminist mandate?  200 words max.
  • What are your technical requirements for the residency? This includes the equipment needed to produce the work and support required (e.g. support from a technician or programmer).
  • Work plan according to the duration of the proposed residency
  • Curriculum vitae (max. 3 pages)

Visual/audio documentation :

  • 10 images – JPG format – Identified as follows: 01_lastname_firstname; and/or audio and/ or video files: up to 5 excerpts of a maximum duration of 3 minutes. Please provide passwords if applicable.
  • Descriptive list of visual/audio documentation: name, title, media, context of distribution, year.

***PLEASE FILL THIS FORM REGARDING YOUR PERSONAL DETAILS AND QUESTIONS REGARDING THE RESIDENCY***

NON-CONFORMING FILES WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.

Send us your application in ONE PDF file (5 Mb maximum) to appel@ada-x.org
Email subject: Application for local residency 2023-2024
Deadline: Thursday, May 16th, 23h59 (Montreal, ET) 2024