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Archiving Care

Call for Participants! Training School: Archiving Care.

Call for Participants Roundtable: CLEANING WORK REIMAGINED: STRUGGLES, MAINTENANCE, AND THE POSSIBILITY OF CARE JUSTICE

This interdisciplinary roundtable aims to explore the diverse narratives and experiences of those engaged in various forms of cleaning labour, in formal and informal conditions and settings, including data cleaning and artistic practice.

Open Call - Improvising Care.pdf

A training school pivoting on affairs of Care and Improvisation. Recent history, from COVID through climate change, massive displacements of people, a worrying increase in various forms of totalitarianism, unjust wars the rapid rise of neo-liberalism (one can easily multiply this list) has both placed a greater focus on, and need for, care, and at the same time radically reduced the structures from which care often operates. As traditional institutions of care are denuded of resources, and governments implement policies that make care simultaneously more difficult to enact, yet that much more needed, it is fair to say we are facing a crisis of care. How can art and artists implement care in their practices? How should society care for artists, and artists for each other, and how can art itself be a tool for care and how should artists interact with communities in caring ways? Given improvisation’s ability to creatively and imaginatively find ways to modify existing structures, subvert norms and implement new forms of sociality, do we perhaps now more than ever need to improvise new models of care?

Open Call: Artist residencies (Short-Term Scientific Missions - STSM)

9th – 29th September 2024

This Toolkit of Care STSM residency invites artist-researchers to develop their work within APO33’s community, contributing to ongoing dialogues around technology, art, society and ecology.

We are interested in artists-reserchers exploring sustainable, open and sharing art practices, data as material, virtual naturalism, microbial art, generative art, DIY electronics, instrument invention, radio art, field recording, frameworks for interaction, ecologies of care, etc.

Open Call: STSM at DA Lab Foundation, Bulgaria

DA LAB invites artists and creative practitioners to apply for an experimental art-research residency during 4 weeks in September-October, with public presentation and an online publication.

We are particularly interested in artists working with art, science and technology in relation to the environment, care theories, and themes relevant to Toolkit of Care (www.toolkitof.care)

We would like to encourage digital and media artists with research-based practice, as well as early career and mid-career researchers (PhD and postdoctoral) to apply.

Open Call: Short-Term Scientific Mission at APO33

Discrete support systems refer to the underlying structures that facilitate the operation and interaction of components within both digital and natural ecosystems. Digital data is inherently discrete, composed of bits that represent either a 0 or a 1. This binary structure underpins all digital processes, from the simplest computations to the complex operations within artificial intelligence, whereas biological organisms are made up of cells, which function through the orchestration of countless discrete biochemical processes. In the context of electronic arts, these can be interpreted as the frameworks, both technical and conceptual, that support creative expression and ecological care and interconnectedness. We are interested in artists-researchers exploring sustainable art practices, data as material, virtual naturalism, microbial art, generative art, frameworks for interaction, ecologies of care, etc. The residency will result in an Exhibition at La Plateforme Intermedia in Nantes.

Call for local participants: The AI colonialism board game

Join us on Saturday, 13th April, to play a board game that examines the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on Cypriot society. The AI Colonialism Board Game is a collaborative artist game (a board game with an artistic intent) that aims to raise awareness of AI’s societal impact on a local, Cypriot level. It encourages critical examination of the global AI ecosystem, but also within Cypriot society itself — not everyone will be impacted by AI the same way. No previous knowledge about AI is required. You must be aged 18 or over, and be a resident of Cyprus.

Call for Submissions: AI and Art – Navigating New Creative Landscapes

MADLAB is excited to announce an upcoming workshop dedicated to the exploration and
interrogation of the intersections between Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Art. This event aims to
bring together a diverse group of artists and academics to engage in a rich dialogue about the
evolving role of AI in the art world. The workshop will comprise two main components: an
exhibition of works and a panel discussion, providing a platform for both theoretical exploration
and practical demonstration of AI’s capabilities and implications in artistic practices.
We invite artists and academics to submit their work for consideration

Call for Participants: EthicAI=BLACKBOX

Training school in the frame of Toolkit of Care (TOC) is aimed at exploring AI bias & diversity with focus on Art & Science, Feminist, and Bottom-up approach. The workshop leaders are from the BlackBoxAI team of the EthicAI=LABS – a regional project by six Goethe-instituts in SouthEast Europe (2021-22). The BlackBoxAI team is composed of five female professionals working in different technology related fields, who researched the topic of gender bias and how it leads to women (self-)exclusion from technology.

OPEN CALL: "The Invented Institution” at Drugo More, Rijeka

We are inviting participants to join us in a workshop taking place at the cultural centre Drugo More in Rijeka, Croatia, from 8th to 10th April 2024. Inspired by Franco Rotelli’s concept of the Invented Institution, this event aims to explore the intersections of art, culture, and social care, focusing on the practices of institutional change today.

This workshop is part of the activities under Working Group 3 “‘Analysis, Theory and Politics of Care’ of the COST Action “Toolkit of Care” (https://toolkitof.care/).

Koumaria 2024 Open Call

Sound—Image—Movement: Creating Networks of Care Via In-Situ New Media Art:
(Re)Imagining Sellasia
Application Deadline: March 20
This dissemination workshop will focus on the creation of site-specific new media art incorporating a variety of media, and involving artists working across the arts. How can collaborative cross-art practices contribute to an ethics of care in the arts?
This residency will be practice-based—we will create art with this theme in mind.

Radio Care Training School

Workshop Title: Radio Care Training School
Dates: 10:00 – 17:00, 21 – 22 February / 13:00 – 17:00, 24 February 2024
Location: Apo33, impasse de la Psalette, 44000 Nantes, France

Workshop where we explore the dynamic interplay of Low-Tech Art, Networked Art practices, and the captivating realm of radio care. Engage in the intersection of art, technology, and ecological care, and discover the secrets of radio waves as we collectively immerse ourselves in the creation of resonant speculative futures.

Enabling creative technology to form a “critical network of care”

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