Concept NULL Newsletter #34
👋 Welcome
Ayoooooo! Hey everyone, thank you so much for coming in here to check out all the great opportunities we've found for you.
We are doing another meetup for the digital art community in Galway this Friday the 6th of September! If anyone is interested in presenting their work or ideas, please do so, we encourage all skill levels and art/tech disciplines to come and present. You can do this in-person or virtually! If you're interested, please fill out this form ↗
As always, the event is free and open to the general public but you need to get a ticket at our eventbrite which you can find here ↗ . This meetup has been made possible by Centre for Creative Technology ↗ who are kind enough to give us their great new space and Galway Culture Company ↗ along with Cybernate ↗ for sponsoring us, thank you for allowing us to keep these free!
As always, feel free to reach out to us with any feedback or suggestions via email to conceptnullofficial@gmail.com
Let's go!
🔦 Spotlight
Cybernate x Concept NULL: Meetup_05
Organiser/s: Concept Null
Location: Centre for Creative Technologies
Date: 06-09-2024 → 06-09-2024
Calling all Galway digital artists for our fifth art and tech meetup at the Centre for Creative Technology! For this one we want to uncover some of the works that are being made by digital / new-media artists in and around Galway, so we are looking for artists that would like to share their work with others in their community. If you want to present work, either physically or virtually through the Digital Artist Ireland Discord, find the Google Form on the Eventbrite page.
BASE DUBLIN
Organiser/s: Aisling Phelan & Viva Dean
Location: Dublin
Date: 14-10-2024 → 21-12-2024
Base is a 10 week art space in Dublin City Centre produced by Aisling Phelan and Viva Dean. They are currently seeking funding to make the most of their time there like a good sound system, lights and some furniture. They have a dream to turn the studio into a public facing art space with a feminist ethos where they can platform workshops, exhibitions, talks, performances that centre creative use of technology and creative tech education.
🎪 Events
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024
Organiser/s: Dublin Fringe Festival
Location: Dublin
Date: 07-09-2024 → 22-09-2024
Dublin Fringe Festival is a multidisciplinary festival spanning works from form-busting theatre productions, electric dance performance, immersive installations to epic party nights out, with pieces such as Pagan, Earth SONNET, ACCESSOR being great examples of the multidisciplinary arts happening at this years fringe fest.
Hardware - Presented by Belltable
Organiser/s: Chaz Moloney
Location: Belltable
Date: 07-09-2024 → 07-09-2024
Hardware returns to Belltable on 7th September. The club night’s focus is on the tools we use to create electronic music. For this edition, Hardware founding members Chaz Moloney & Brawni have invited local electronic musicians R.Kitt & Tadhg K to join them for the next 4 hour live improvisation at Belltable. Visual Artists; Alt for Jesus, Nancy El Azzi, Ohhi Ohno, Róisín Berg & RAM will be exhibiting work made to the theme “Machina” in the Ambient Lounge. The Lounge’s soundscape is being curated by local artist Jack Brolly.
The Bigger Picture - Workshop
Organiser/s: ADAPT
Location: Dublin and Cork
Date: 14-09-2024 → 21-09-2024
This is a unique opportunity to contribute to a project that seeks to reshape how AI is perceived and understood through thoughtful, innovative visual storytelling. During the one-day workshop, participants will be challenged to consider questions like: Do current images of AI portray specific aspects of the technology? Do they enhance public understanding, and are they true to the realities of AI? How would we like AI to be portrayed in images? There are 2 workshops: 14th September in Dublin and Cork
📖 Articles
A Meditation of Power on All Levels
Artists and Hackers
A podcast in conversation with new-media artist Shawné Michaelain Holloway. Known for her noisy experimental electronics and performance practice, Holloway shapes the rhetorics of computer programming and sadomasochism into tools for exposing structures of power. Her fascinating backstory and process are explored in this podcast. There are many interesting talking points in this episode such as the impact of our understanding of the tools and software to artists and what they mean particularly with their place and shape in culture.
Rhizome’s Preservation Services
Rhizome
Rhizome have recently launched their preservation services for archiving software and digital works. It's a fee based service. offering support to artists, organisations, and creative agencies for archiving and restoring software- or network-dependent art and outdated web projects. The program also offers discounts and funding opportunities to keep preservation affordable, and provides the Conifer web archiving platform for creating interactive copies of websites. Is this the answer to digital art archiving? We're not so sure but interesting to see how a strategy like this might play out.
📯 Open Calls
DEMO Cities 2025: Open Call
Deadline: 09-09-2024
Online
A 24hour takeover of public screens across multiple cities showcasing various motion design projects.
🏠 Residencies
The Air We Share
Deadline: 30-09-2024
Ireland
Running from October 2024 to July 2025, these residencies invite artists of all disciplines to engage with the critical issue of air pollution through creative practice, community involvement, and collaboration with climate scientists. Whether working in visual arts, immersive tech, or socially engaged practices, selected artists will develop ambitious projects that connect the local community in Westside with innovative research on air quality and climate.
💰 Funding
Animation Innovation and Immersive Development Fund
Deadline: 27-09-2024
Ireland
Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland and Animation Ireland are delighted to announce, with the support of Cultural & Creative Industries Skillnet & Eirmersive, that applications are now open for the 2024 Animation Innovation and Immersive Development Fund. Since the fund was initially launched in 2021, Screen Ireland has supported the development of 30 innovative, high-concept projects across areas such as immersive storytelling, VR, augmented reality and app development. Producers and industry creatives can apply for a project investment of up to a maximum of €75,000 in total. Each proposal will be assessed on criteria measuring the quality and level of innovation involved in the project, and its appeal to the market.
🛠️ Workshops
Prototyping Lab 2024
Deadline: 06-10-2024
Munich
Exchange ideas, collaborate with other participants from a global community, share knowledge, and learn from the leading storytellers, creative technologists, XR makers and producers how they create their magic. The PROTOTYPING LAB is the last of three activities of the EUCL 2024 and starts with 3 (live) online master classes (end of October) and will take part 5 days on-site in Munich (Germany) from November 4th to 8th, 2024. Your travel days are November 3rd - 9th, 2024. Please note there is a participation fee of €500 - €650.
That’s it for now! The newsletter gets sent out 1st and 15th of every month and we post open calls and events as they come in on our Instagram so be sure to follow us there.
Again, thank you for all of your support as we continue to grow our project with the help of a great community and, as we always say, we would love to hear your thoughts, projects, events or other open opportunities so drop us an email.
Chat soon, Concept NULL
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