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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:4pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Call for Applications – Residencies for European media artists in 2020 and 2021</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:4pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:calibri;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The European Media Art Platform will offer EMARE (European Media Artist in Residence Exchange) residencies for artists working in the fields of digital media – in internet and computer-based arts, in sound or video art, in media-based performance, as well as in robotics or bio-art. The upcoming call covers residency stays in 2020 and in 2021 at eleven renowned European media art organisations. </span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:4pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:calibri;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">European artists can apply with a project proposal for a residency at one of the following institutions:</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:calibri;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">• </span><a
href="https://ars.electronica.art"
style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(51,102,255);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Ars Electronica</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, Linz, Austria</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:calibri;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p>
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href="https://www.onassis.org/"
style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(51,102,255);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Onassis Stegi</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:calibri;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, Athens, Greece </span></p>
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href="http://www.bandits-mages.com/"
style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(51,102,255);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Bandits Mages</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:calibri;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, Bourges, France </span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:calibri;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">• </span><a
href="https://www.fact.co.uk/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(51,102,255);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">FACT</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:calibri;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, Liverpool, United Kingdom </span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:calibri;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">• </span><a
href="http://www.impakt.nl" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(51,102,255);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">IMPAKT Centre for Media Culture</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:calibri;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, Utrecht, the Netherlands </span></p>
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href="http://www.kontejner.org/"
style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(51,102,255);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Kontejner</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:calibri;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, Zagreb, Croatia </span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:calibri;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">• </span><a
href="http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org/"
style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(51,102,255);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:calibri;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, Gijón, Spain </span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:calibri;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">• </span><a
href="http://www.m-cult.org/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(51,102,255);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">M-Cult</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:calibri;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, Helsinki, Finland </span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:calibri;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">• </span><a
href="http://www.rixc.org/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(51,102,255);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">RIXC</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:calibri;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, Riga, Latvia </span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:calibri;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">• </span><a
href="https://wrocenter.pl/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(51,102,255);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">WRO Art Center</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:calibri;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, Wroclaw, Poland</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:calibri;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">• </span><a
href="http://werkleitz.de" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(51,102,255);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Werkleitz Centre for Media Art</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:calibri;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, Halle (Saale), Germany </span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:4pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:calibri;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The residencies are for two months in one of two time frames, either from March to August 2020 or from January to May 2021. Applicants can choose one of the two options or indicate that they are available for both. </span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:4pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:calibri;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">EMARE includes a grant of 3.000 €, a project budget of 4.000 €, free accommodation, travel expenses up to 500 €, free access to technical facilities and media labs of the host institution, consultation by production and market experts and a professional presentation as well as the option to participate in exhibition tours at our members festivals in 2020-2021. </span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:4pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:calibri;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Applications should be submitted online and must include a CV, (audio)-visual documentation of previous work and a preliminary plan or sketch of the proposed project to be developed within the EMARE programme.</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:4pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:calibri;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Applicants must be EU residents and taxpayers in an EU member country. </span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:4pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:calibri;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Undergraduate and Master’s students are not eligible (PhDs are accepted), but emerging artists, regardless of age, are encouraged to apply. </span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:4pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:calibri;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">More information and application at: </span><a
href="http://www.emare.eu" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">www.emare.eu</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:calibri;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> / <a href="http://call.emare.eu">call.emare.eu</a></span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:4pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:calibri;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Deadline for Applications: December 2nd 2019, 12:00 CET </span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:4pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:calibri;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Contact for any further questions:</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:calibri;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">
</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:calibri;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Werkleitz Gesellschaft e.V. / EMARE / Schleifweg 6 / D-06114 Halle (Saale)</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:calibri;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">
</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:calibri;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">phone: 49 68246-0 / fax: -29 / <a href="mailto:emare@werkleitz.de">emare@werkleitz.de</a> / </span><a
href="http://www.emare.eu" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:calibri;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">www.emare.eu</span></a></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:4pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:calibri;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The EMARE residencies of the European Media Art Platform Creative Europe are generously funded by EU’s Creative Europe programme.</span></p>
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