electronic-text+textiles Residency (e-t+t) in Riga welcomes applications for the period from December 2009 to December 2010.

e-t+t is an interdisciplinary platform facilitating artistic investigation and production in the fields of literature, language, textiles, and material culture, promoting expression at the intersections of print, cloth, and electronic technologies.

Please see information below and at our website: www.e-text-textiles.lv

Detailed information on how to apply you will find under the RESIDENCY section.

The Residency offers a great opportunity not only to develop one’s creative ideas and research interests in a very spacious, modern studio/apartment in one of the most beautiful parts of Riga but also to enjoy the emerging Baltic arts and literary scene, the Baltic Sea and healthy local food. The Residency can accommodate up to two related persons at one time. Joint applications are also welcomed.

With the June 2010 meeting of the European Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts in Riga, we expect this to be a banner year for the Residency at e-t+t. For more information on conference please visit: www.e-text-textiles.lv/SLSAeu2010/home.htm.

RESIDENCY IN RIGA, LATVIA : electronic-text+textiles PROJECT

The electronic-text+textiles Project (e-t+t Project) invites applications for its Residency in Riga , Latvia , for the year 2010. The Residency welcomes artists, designers, writers, and theoreticians working within or across of the fields of literature and the arts, in particular textiles related. The e-t+t Project encourages projects that through a mix of conceptual investigations and material productions in art and literature give direction and cultural context to technological change and the electronic disturbance.

TERM

Artists, designers, writers, and theoreticians who submit a short project proposal and are subsequently selected, become Residents at the e-t+t Project. The term of a Residency can be as short as a week or as long as several months. During the period of one's stay, a Resident artist, designer or writer will have exclusive use of a live/work apartment in Riga , access to artists, writers, and culture administrators working in the Baltics, and continuing access to an extensive network of writers, artists, critics, and scholars working in electronic environments worldwide.

Residents will be free to pursue their own or collaborative projects, although we expect that the Resident's work should appear in some form in ebr (www.electronicbookreview.com) or at the Alt-X site (www.altx.com). Residents will be expected, also, to meet with members of the local arts and literary communities, either informally or by giving a lecture or seminar at the Residence workplace.

The studio is appropriate for 'tidy' practices such as writing, collation of information, digital work, visual research, drawing, and small-scale experimentation and production. Larger productions such as weaving, printing, and so forth shall be executed in collaboration with other venues, which will be negotiated on an individual basis.

RECENT RESIDENTS

Niamh McDonnell, philosopher/artist. Project: “Digital Archiving and Virtual Museology”;

Vera Buhlmann, media philosopher, Swiss Federal institute for Technology (ETH, Zurich). Project: “The Differential as a Figure of Thought - Some Narratives Inbetween”;

Maria Damon, poet, English literature professor at the Minnesota University. Essay “Text, Textile, Exile: Meditation on Poetics, Metaphor and Net-Work” is available at www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/electropoetics/lettrist.

DEADLINE

Ongoing until the 30th of November 2009.

Please forward this information to anyone who might be interested. Thank you!

Anda Klavina, e-t+t Project Manager

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+371 26880458

23.10.2009.