Grants to New Media and Audio Artists
Grants to New Media and Audio Artists : Research and Production Grants
http://www.canadacouncil.ca/grants/mediaarts/pm127222998460468750.htm
Deadlines
1 March 2006, 1 October 2006
These grants assist Canadian artists working with new media or audio technologies as means of artistic expression. Grants cover artist’s subsistence costs as well as the direct costs of research, creative development and production of artworks created with new media or audio technologies.
To ensure the vitality and continued excellence of new media and audio art, Canada Council for the Arts grants help support individual artists committed to the creation of independent artist-controlled artworks.
Independent means that the artist initiates and is the driving force behind the proposed project and maintains complete creative and editorial control over the work. Contracts with other funders must not require the artist to give up such control.
These grants are not intended to support work created for the cultural industries of commercial new media, radio or television broadcasting.
All Canada Council programs are accessible to Aboriginal artists and artists from diverse cultural and regional communities of Canada.
Type of Work Supported
These grants support artists making a creative use of interactive information and communications technologies and/or audio production technologies. Priority is given to projects that involve innovation and artistic expression.
Innovation may be found in the content dealt with in the proposal, the applicant’s point of view, or in experimentation with form, technology or style. It can mean a contribution based on the uniqueness of the subject or community represented. It can also mean a contribution to the form of the medium, based on innovations in style, technique or process. Only the most innovative proposals are supported.
Priority is given to proposals from artists whose work demonstrates the development of an individual style or expressive approach, as well as a commitment to questioning and expanding the art form.
Recent Examples: New Media
Recent examples of artists’ work in new media include, but are not limited to, the following:
artworks created with information and communications technologies;
installations and performances integrating information and communications technologies;
immersive environments;
artworks created through a creative application of communications networks;
Web art;
artists’ applications of robotics;
software design leading to the production of an original artwork;
creation of a prototype for use in/as an original artwork;
artworks created using artificial intelligence or artificial life software;
Recent Examples: Audio
Recent examples of artists’ work in audio include, but are not limited to, the following:
sound sculptures;
sound installations and performances;
soundscapes;
radiophonic art;
electronica (or other experiments in technologically driven sound art).
Media artists using communications or information technologies to produce video or film installations, or a DVD-video, may be eligible for support under the Grants to Film and Video Artists program and should contact a Media Arts Section Officer to discuss their project before applying.
