garry@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Garry Beirne) (03/10/89)
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The following is an important announcement directed at all
artists and artist/technologists. Feel free to pass it
around. Summer applications are due NOW, so please let me know
ASAP if your interest is for this summer.
Thanks, Garry Beirne
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COMPUTER MEDIA RESIDENCY / INTERNSHIP AT
THE BANFF CENTRE SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS
ANNOUNCEMENT - March 1, 1989
INTRODUCTION
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The Banff Centre is a professional arts centre with active
programming in the visual, performance, electronic and
literary arts. The new Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Building
is a unique facility designed to provide an advanced
training, development and production environment for artists
working in a wide range of media arts and technology.
MEDIA ARTS
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The Media Arts Program is housed in the newly complete
Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Building. The program is loosely
divided into three areas: Audio, Video, and Computer Media.
The Artist-Technology Interface
Through these programs Media Arts strives to to provide an
environment in which the artistic, social and cultural
significance of media technologies can be explored by
artists working in all disciplines. This involves fostering
an awareness of the media as carriers of artistic
communication; of the creative potential of the computer as
an aid or adjunct to the creative process; and of the
potentiality of new output, or forms of artistic expression
inherent in the current and foreseeable developments of
media arts and technology.
Creative Residencies and Internships
Media Arts provides a unique opportunity for advanced
artists and artist-technologists already specializing in
media arts and technology to carry out personal artistic
production, research, and collaborative work. Residencies
are defined strictly in terms of artistic development;
Internships involve a work-study program, in which the
participant is assigned duties and projects under
professional supervision.
Development and Research
The Banff Centre is establishing the Media Complex as a
national and international centre for innovation in media
arts and technology, through:
1. collaboration with existing research institutes in the
transfer of new technologies into the arts and culture
sector; and
2. developing new tools or applications for artistic, and
more generally, creative uses of media technology.
Computer Media
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The Computer Media Program, within Media Arts, provides
artists with three levels of interaction with the new
technologies. First, Computer Media provides opportunities
for participants from all disciplines to explore, create and
collaborate in a unique technological environment. Second,
Computer Media supports advanced creative projects by
professional artists, selected on the basis of detailed
proposals which involve original investigations of issues in
the media arts.
Internships
Computer Professionals with strong computer and artistic
backgrounds will be given a unique kind of "work-study"
opportunity experience through the Media Arts Internship
program. The goal of the internship program is to encourage
the development of truly versatile artist-technologists with
the skills to make a significant research or production
contribution to the field. Interns will be accepted on the
basis of both their capacity to assist in the development
and support of the other artist's work and the overall
program goals, and on the originality and promise of their
own research or creative interests.
It is expected that this program provides a significant
alternative to the standard career development options of
computer and media professionals. For those with the pre-
requisite, outstanding qualifications, a Banff internship
will be a unique chance to do serious development of
applications, tools, systems and concepts in direct
collaboration with high-level artistic resources.
Internships will normally be 6 months in length, and
renewable. In this milieu, it is not just the presence of
artists, but the openness to interaction and collaboration
over substantial time-frames that will distinguish the
opportunity and attract highly gifted researchers.
Among the deliverable results expected from intern-artist
collaborations will be new software tools, developed in
response to specific artistic needs or interactive patterns;
new hardware interfaces or devices, providing greater or
more flexible control between black-box or closed
components; improvements or modifications to existing
software tools.
Unlike most high-technology centres which can provide ample
technical and scientific challenges, but have a very serious
difficulty accommodating artistic collaboration in its
milieu, the Media Arts internships will be selected quite
specifically and precisely on the basis of artistic
criteria.
Interns receive an award to cover the full cost of fee,
room, and board. Interns will also receive a stipend of
more than $200 per week.
June 5 - August 11, 1989 and/or
September 11 - December 15, 1989 and/or
January 1 - March 20, 1990
For further information on Media Arts programs, contact:
The Registrar
The Banff Centre School of Fine Arts
P.O. Box 1020
Banff, Alberta, Canada T0L 0C0
Phone: (403) 762-6180
Fax: (403) 762-6444
Direct Dept line: (403) 762-6651
Usenet: garry@cpsc.UCalgary.CA
Bitnet: Beirne@uncamult
PAN: BANFF
Garry Beirne Phone: (403) 762-6641
Head, Computer Media FAX: (403) 762-6444
Media Arts Usenet: garry@cpsc.UCalgary.CA
The Banff Centre PAN: BANFF