AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

from e-flux

Application deadline: October 21, 2024, 11:59pm

https://dreamingbeyond.ai

Dreaming Beyond AI invites you to apply to its 2025 artist-activist residency that aims to explore Coalition Building in Times of AI: Intersecting Struggles.

We are looking for four artist-activists in residence who will work individually and together to interrogate this topic in a creative way from April to June 2025.

We embrace new and continued projects around the following topics:
–Supporting the production of tools for organizing against AI violence and surveillance
–Nurturing coalitions of resistance impacted by technological harm
–Archiving digital knowledge and protocols on action for solidarity

We would like to invite applicants to artistically engage with the above topics and submit a short project idea that can be worked on within three months and will result in a creative output.

The residency will be compensated with a honorarium of 4000 EUR (excl. VAT) and will take place online and offline: in person at Konvent residency space, close to Barcelona, Spain, and in the digital.

Apply until October 21, 2024, 23:59 CEST.

Dreaming Beyond AI (DBAI) is a collective and platform around technologies and their impacts that has been shaped by various artists, researchers, writers, activists, designers, scientists, community organizers, dreamers, and thinkers.

Marginalisation, individualism and binary thinking are products of colonial legacy, capitalism, hetero-patriarchy and white supremacy that unfortunately thrive in the technological world and that we strongly want to challenge and go against. In our current reality, many mechanisms of oppression are supported by algorithmic technologies.

Where there are struggles, there is also resistance, and many formal and informal groups are fighting against dystopian tech futures. We are inspired by multicity flash strikes and demonstrations, by gig workers secretly tweaking the system, food delivery drivers creating informal unions, whistle blowing content moderators, and crowdworkers creating browser extensions to gather information about clients.

Hence, coalition-building, community and embracing nuances are fundamental principles and practices of our approach. We believe that art itself is uniquely suited to building bridges between different worlds: between academia and practice, between different topics, between complexity and low-threshold. Art, like activism, can see and draw connections where there were none before, or where they were not visible. Our aim is to catalyse the creation of connections and synergies by initiating a call for applications aimed at developing tools that will support and strategise around a multitude of struggles.

By forming coalitions, activists, researchers, and practitioners can unite their efforts to effectively organise against the injustices produced through technological systems, share and develop critical tools of resistance online and offline, as well as building solid frameworks of community solidarity. Therefore, we are developing a residency for artists and activists to advance their work and actions in a fruitful fellowship together.

The vision is that our invitation to Dream Beyond supports the creation of life-bettering knowledge-sharing, alternative realities building and a love-led revolution towards liberated softer futures.

Within their residency, participants will receive creative sparring with the artists and activists Allapopp, Anasuya Sengupta, Seyi Akiwowo and Xin Xin.

Find more on the theme & the application and residency modalities on the website.

For this residency program, Dreaming Beyond AI is cooperating with ifa—Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, as well as Konvent.

ifa—Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen supports artistic and cultural exchange in exhibition, dialogue and conference programmes, and it acts as a centre of excellence for international cultural relations. ifa is supported by the Federal Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany, the state of Baden-Württemberg and its capital Stuttgart.

Konvent is a creative space that breathes life into disused industrial heritage. It’s a former nun’s convent and textile colony that has been converted into an experimental laboratory both on a personal and artistic level where a diversity of projects converge, especially those which have no place in the frame of institutional culture.