Call for applications: Beta x transmediale Residency – deadline 20/08/23

Beta festival has been funded by The Arts Council to facilitate a two-month residency exchange with transmediale in Berlin for four artists. Applications are now open and artists working with digital technology from/based in Ireland and from/based in Germany are invited to apply.

The two-month hybrid residency is open to four artists and will take place in Dublin, Berlin and online between October and November 2023.

Each resident will be provided with a fee of €4,000, a production budget of €1,500, and travel and accommodation to Berlin and Dublin. Selected residents will present their project during Beta festival in Dublin (November) and transmediale festival in Berlin (February).

In Dublin, residents will have access to a shared working space at The Digital Hub/Beta Festival in Dublin. In Berlin, the residency takes place at transmediale studio, a shared working space with the capacity to produce small scale works, presentations, and events. Residents will have access to spaces for fabrication and production where necessary. During the residency, residents will engage with both the festival’s artistic directors and curatorial teams.

Theme

From anxieties about AI development to the rapid changes in atmospheric conditions, news and media deliver a foreboding interpretation of the world/future. Despite potential solutions for a less dystopian tomorrow, profit-seeking algorithmic systems exploit political drama instead of encouraging meaningful action, contributing to distraction rather than engagement. Daily hype about generative text and image tools quickly becomes the latest sales pitch, while stock prices surge, and networks and platforms perpetuate never ending conspiracies and dread. Despite this, dependencies and attachments to these networks and platforms and their foreboding narratives persist. Recognising that the never-ending doom renders us passive spectators, transmediale x Beta residency welcomes new or ongoing projects that question what kind of politics and effects emerge from this dependency. Do illogical, irrational, or unusable politics emerge? How can we detach from the narratives of crises and the worlds they build?

For further information please see https://betafestival.ie/Opportunities