body>data>space newsletter

Hello to all with this update – based on our key work with interactivity, international mobility and tele-presence.

This last 6 months we have prepared, with our partners, two Calls For Proposals / Projects - one European, a special co-production package for a performance / installation within the EU collaboration
MADE - Mobility for Digital Arts in Europe
(deadline 24th Jan)
- the other international, for the
DRHA 2011 conference,
an important presentation place for all those working within concepts of "Connected Communities" (deadline 31st Jan).

Both have short first stage applications, not too much work to get your ideas in!!

Both will open up new networks and extend potentials for international employment and mobility of creative digital works.

Do please pass this information on to others you know might be interested.

We wish you all a happy festive season and a very good 2011.

body>data>space

PROJECTS

MADE
(Mobility for Digital Arts in Europe)

MADE (Mobility for Digital Arts in Europe) launched in London on November 24th 2010. body>data>space hosted the first workshop at the French Institute and NESTA with participation from a range of UK experts in Telepresence/Virtual Worlds and Media Facades.

MADE will practically examine and explore forms and models of European digital co-production, using topical case studies, in particular, through the commissioning and production of a live/contemporary digital work (performance and/or installation).

This is a co-operation between lead organiser centre des arts d’Enghien-les-Bains (Paris, France) and partners body>data>space (London, UK), Transcultures (Mons, Belgium) and BoDig (Istanbul, Turkey), in the framework of the EU’s Culture programme (2007-2013).

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MADE
Call for Proposals

MADE is making an open Call for Proposals, offering an exciting co-production package and inviting professional artists from all EU member (or candidate) countries to submit project ideas which explore mobility in the context of new digital performance/installation based work.

This supportive package includes four 2 week residencies, one in each country, and a premiere as part of Bains Numeriques Festival at centre des arts Enghein-less-Bains in June 2012.

The deadline for submissions is Monday 24th January 2011.

For all details and application form click here.

DRHA 2011 Conference
(Digital Resources for the Humanities and Arts)
Call for Papers and Performances

Connected Communities:
global or local2local:
Sunday 4th September - Wednesday 7th September 2011, University of Nottingham Ningbo, China

Co-chaired by Ghislaine Boddington, (body>data>space/Middlesex University) and Judith Still (Nottingham University)

The DRHA 2011 conference will explore the new connectivities in societies and cultures which are enabled by the blending of virtual and physical space, the traversing of time and space through the virtual, and the evolution of innovative methodologies.

The deadline for submissions is Monday 31st January 2011.
Abstracts should be approx 600 words.

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Robots and Avatars
"Our colleagues and playmates of the future"

An innovative project, in partnership with NESTA, designed to help extend the understanding of young people’s needs for the future world of work.

It envisions the skill-sets, aptitudes, resources and methodologies that will be required by today’s young people at work in 2020 onwards, given that many of the jobs they will do have not yet been invented.

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About body>data>space

body>data>space is a collective based in East London. We are engaged in creating fascinating connections between performance, architecture, new media and virtual worlds. Using our own collaboration methodologies and networked creation processes, the group visions the future of the human body and its real-time relationship to evolving global, social and technological shifts.

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