The art collective Organism is looking for artists, designers and makers to take part in an interdisciplinary digital collaboration exploring symbiosis.
Organisms thrive on connection. They are all collectively tied to their environment. Some species develop particularly close biological relationships, leading their interactions to become essential to their mutual survival. This porous coexistence, rooted in collaboration, is called symbiosis.
Organism aims to establish a model for interdisciplinary collaboration that encourages creative cohesion through upskilling opportunities, peer learning, and cooperative play. They are looking for five transdisciplinary artists to join them in developing an investigative digital project exploring the biological phenomenon of symbiosis.
Five artists will be selected to join the Organism Collective. They will collaborate remotely and liaise with Organism’s core team to develop an immersive digital installation involving visual, sonic, and interactive elements. The resulting piece will be experienced through a browser. The hope is that this will be the first of many projects developed by the collective.
Organism welcome proposals from transdisciplinary artists, designers and makers worldwide. They would like to hear from practitioners working in a wide range of areas including but not limited to: sound art, digital art, sculpture, video art, dance, graphic design, costume design, animation, architecture, performance, poetry, and creative coding.
Participants will not need technical skills or previous experience working digitally. Organism’s core team will help artists access technical support where needed.
This project will be delivered remotely, which allows it to welcome artists living anywhere in the world. The project will involve occasional online meetings beyond which its schedule will be flexible. This allows it to adapt to different people’s professional circumstances – whether they have caring needs/responsibilities, full-time work, shift work or all the time in the world. Note that our core team will be working on British time.
Support:
- Each artist will be paid a fee of £2000. Organism expect this to allow artists to spend roughly 100 hours on the project.
- Each artist will have access to a budget to spend on materials, to a maximum of £200.
- Each artist will also be given a budget with which to outsource parts of their work, amounting to £600.
- Organism have funding reserved for access costs such as hiring access workers (e.g. BSL interpreters), as well as sourcing accessible equipment and contributions towards childcare costs.
