[Adminsysters] possible application

Wed May 15 11:26:44 CEST 2024

Got this via via - who is into applying ?
contact us - we are up for it .
the call came from my futurefarmers mate
xm

Open call: Big Tech and Counter-Technologies

INCA

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*Submission deadline:*June 23, 2024, 5pm

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Big Tech and Counter-Technologies//is an artistic-research structure and 
grant commencing in June 2024. The initiative will support projects that 
engage the impact of technology on shaping material, political and 
affective cultures. “The tech giants,” companies such as Google, Amazon, 
Meta, Apple, and Microsoft, are primary players in shaping the spatial, 
philosophical and cultural infrastructures of our time. Big Tech is 
increasingly orienting consumer habits and libidinal desire, sorting 
commodity flows, and forming spaces for capitalist production and 
re-production. From microchips to AI-generate images to pixelated 
environments, Big Tech is not only affecting mainstream forms of 
production and consumption, but the the emotions, aesthetics and 
architectures driving such habits. How can we develop practices, 
vocabularies, and imaginaries for articulating cyber subjectivities 
formed in and through the asymmetrical extraction of lands, bodies and 
information? At the core of tech’s integration comes the possibility of 
re-formations, of hackability, of glitch and counter-practices. This 
project seeks to generate and form research on such counter-practices 
toward expanded, fundamentally egalitarian tech protocols.

We are pleased to announce an open call for projects exploring themes of 
Big Tech and Counter-Technologies. Selected projects will be provided 
with financial support, as well as multiple contexts to exhibit their 
research and findings. This open call is extended within the context of 
the EU Horizon projectINCA 
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The exhibition(s) will be co-curated byInto the Black Box 
<https://email.e-flux-systems.com/campaigns/rn161ssbbdcb4/track-url/bg997x1wsf657/f95817e0ad634ecb9e913fd8c233c964ddae6509>andCarmen 
Lael Hines 
<https://email.e-flux-systems.com/campaigns/rn161ssbbdcb4/track-url/bg997x1wsf657/30fc766fd1b42d246dce026adfdb49f63c207ce5>, 
who will work in close intellectual collaboration with selected projects 
that seek to explore the impact of Big Tech on the production of 
culture, space, and methodologies for alternative political imaginings. 
The selected projects will be curated into at least two exhibitions as 
well as a publication by the curators, who will also work in close 
collaboration with selected artists in developing their projects.

We invite submissions from both independent practitioners and 
collectives, stemming from the fields of art, design, architecture, 
research, and critical theory. We encourage applications that take on 
innovative interpretations of what cultural, political, and spatial 
production entail with a nuanced understanding of data, technology, and 
their infrastructural implications. We also encourage practices that 
take on a multi-dimensional understanding of Big Tech, with its 
affective, material, and structural effects. We also strongly encourage 
projects that take on class, decolonial, and gender-sensitive 
perspectives to show the inequalities of Big Tech and its impacts on 
societies.

The curatorial team suggests proposals which take on experimental 
methodologies, with particular attention to collaborative, participatory 
methods. The works will need to be research-based and adaptable to at 
least two exhibition formats and exist in a medium that is easily 
transportable from one location to another. Candidates should be 
interested in engaging in discursive exchange with other practitioners 
on the research questions motivating their work and potentially working 
collectively to co-develop their ideas.

*Details of the call*
We are searching for project ideas and proposals rather than already 
finished works. At a starting stage, proposers are requested to submit 
concepts, alongside a plan for the potential implementation of said 
projects. The projects should shed innovative insights on the subject of 
Big Tech and Counter-Technologies. Ideally, alongside addressing 
critical issues, proposals should engage speculative potentialities and 
alternatives.

Chosen proposals will be invited to participate in a one-week residency 
in October 2024 in Bologna, Italy. During this residency, accommodation, 
working space, and meals will be fully covered. The purpose of the 
residency will be to support discursive exchange amongst participants in 
close collaboration with the Department of Arts of the University of 
Bologna. It will also serve as a team for the participants to develop 
their ideas in dialogue with the curators, to elaborate the production 
of the project.

Projects will be exhibited at least in two curated exhibitions in 
separate locations, the first of which will take place in Bologna in 
September 2025–October 2025. The second iteration will take place in 
February 2026 in Madrid, Spain.

Selected practitioners will be offered an artist fee of 1,200 euros, as 
well as a production budget between 1,000–3,000 euros to realize their 
project. Full travel costs and accommodation for the exhibitions, as 
well as one-week residency, will also be covered.

*Application*
Submission deadline: June 23, 2024, 5pm CET. The following documents 
must be sent as PDF documents with a maximum size of 15 MB 
toincaexhibition at intotheblackbox.com 
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–written proposal (max. one A4 page) in English based on a theoretical 
perspective or conceptual inputs.
–photos/sketches of potential implementations of the ideas
–budget estimate including foreseen production costs, requirements and 
needed media equipment (1,000–3,000 euros)
–CV (max. one A4 page).
–Portfolio/CV of previous work

The curators of the show will evaluate the submitted concepts and make a 
pre-selection. Pre-selected project ideas will be invited to an online 
interview in early July 2024. Final acceptances will be communicated by 
the middle of July 2024.

For further information, please 
contact:incaexhibition at intotheblackbox.com 
<https://email.e-flux-systems.com/campaigns/rn161ssbbdcb4/track-url/bg997x1wsf657/5da055bbeb0e26e376af0194e58bdd51e8a80965>. 
The funding for this project is provided by INCA. © Images and visual 
identity:Soju Studio 
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*Amy Franceschini, Futurefarmers*
Futurefarmers <http://www.futurefarmers.com/>
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Seed Journey
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