VCCA-Fellowships for Social & Media Artists

Deadline: June 15, 2012
Open to: artists, using the social media platform into their work, who have not previously been in residence at VCCA.
Scholarship: VCCA is offering two fully funded, six-week fellowships. The fellowships are accompanied by a $2,000 stipend.

Description

VCCA is breaking ground with a new fellowship specifically for the emerging genre of social media artists. The fellowships are for artists who are exploring ways to seamlessly integrate the social media platform into the work itself, thus finding new and compelling ways to use social media as a tool of self-expression.
Craig Pleasants, VCCA Program Director says, “We are not defining social media artwork for this fellowship, leaving that to the artists who are pioneering this field, but the finished work must be presented on the web and be fully accessible to the netverse. We expect that the successful work will be tied to the logic of social media as well as being conceptually rich.”

Fellowship

VCCA is offering two fully funded, six-week fellowships for artists who are using social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube. They are accompanied by a $2,000 stipend.

Eligibility

The fellowships are for artists who are exploring ways to seamlessly integrate the social media platform (Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube) into the work itself, thus finding new and compelling ways to use social media as a tool of self-expression. According to Craig Pleasants, VCCA Program Director, it is expected that “the artists selected for these fellowships will be working in ways that move art from the gallery or museum to the web, seeking ways to free art from geographical and temporal constraints.”

This opportunity is for artists who have not previously been in residence at VCCA.