[artinfo] Three Artist Residencies in Cardiff, Wales/UK

[Andreas Broeckmann]

THREE ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCY OPPORTUNITIES IN WALES, UK OPEN TO ALL ARTISTS 
WORLDWIDE

MAY YOU LIVE IN INTERESTING TIMES
Cardiff festival of creative technology
28th to 30th October 2005
MAY YOU LIVE IN INTERESTING TIMES is Cardiff's inaugural festival of 
creative technology - a three-day programme of events being held across the 
capital. The festival is being developed between bloc and Chapter. The 
residency programme for the festival is supported and managed by Cywaith 
Cymru/Artworks Wales), the national organisation for public art in Wales. 
The festival residencies are supported through the National Lottery 
celebration of Cardiff 2005.

Festival Theme:
Artists are increasingly engaged with or inspired by digital technology - 
exploring consumer and communication technologies such as the worldwide 
web, mobile networks, file sharing, and computer gaming. Because digital 
technology is a participatory medium with global reach, artists tend to 
explore digital technology in the context of public and shared spheres. 
Often digital art is situated somewhere between public art - albeit in a 
dematerialised form - and street culture where the technology itself is 
used as a 'site' for the production and presentation of art works. Although 
digital technology is often claimed to go beyond physical limitations, 
engagement with technology is always embedded in, or grounded in, real 
spaces and places whether this is explored from a user or network perspective.

MAY YOU LIVE IN INTERESTING TIMES is looking for three artist/s-in-residence:
LIVE ARCHIVE RESIDENCY, Cardiff, UK
CONVERGENCE RESIDENCY, Cardigan, West Wales, UK
MAY YOU PARTICIPATE IN A DIGITAL WORLD RESIDENCY, mobile studio, North 
Wales, UK

Deadlines: Posted applications for all residencies should be received by 
FRIDAY 29th APRIL 2005.

Further information on the residencies is available on Bloc's website - 
http://www.bloc.org.uk/2-3.html

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the bloc network.

www.bloc.org.uk

Dr Emma Posey
Director
Bloc
The Cross
Gladestry
Powys
WALES
HR5 3NX

Tel: 01544 370603
Fax: 01544 370603
Email: emma at bloc.org.uk
www.bloc.org.uk