Sensorium: Centre for Digital Art and Technology, in partnership with Connected Minds: Neural and Machine Systems for a Healthy, Just Society, seeks applications for the inaugural Connected Minds Artist-in-Residence.
Situated in the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design (AMPD) at York University Canada, Sensorium is an interdisciplinary research centre for creative inquiry and experimentation at the intersection of the media arts, performance, and digital culture. Connected Minds explores how new technologies are revolutionising society, creating a ‘techno-social collective’ where humans and intelligent machines are deeply interconnected.
Through their period of residency with Sensorium and Connected Minds, the selected artist will be invited to develop a set of research-creation experiments that critically engage with ethical issues embedded in disruptive, emergent, and/or intelligent technologies (artificial intelligence, robotics, virtual and augmented reality, etc.).
The selected artist will hold a combination of talks, workshops, and studio/lab visits for members of the Connected Minds community to share skills and knowledge emerging from their practice and critical inquiry. At the culmination of their residency the artist will produce a body of work to be exhibited publicly in a creative format suitable to the nature of the research (e.g., performance, screening, installation).
The programme is open to artists working in any medium from any nationality. The successful applicant will have a demonstrable track record in research-based creative practice and at least two years of experience training or mentoring emerging artists. Both individual artists and collectives may apply.
The residency can be six months or one year in duration, ideally taking place between 1 September 2024 and 30 August 2025.
The Artist-in-Residence will receive:
- Stipend (60,000 CAD + benefits for 1 year residency, or 30,000 CAD + benefits for 6-month residency
- Research, materials, community engagement budget – 8,500 CAD for 1 year residency, or 4,250 CAD for 6-month residency
- Shared research space and assistance
- Access to York University Libraries
- Curatorial support for exhibition
- Photo and video documentation of their exhibition
