May 15, 2006
The Virtual Residency
International call for a Virtual Mass Migration
Europe is expanding. Europe is becoming seclusive. Master-minded by the media artists Monika Bohr, Claudia Brieske, Leslie Huppert and Gertrud Riethmüller, the multimedia and exhibition project The Virtual Residency is inspired by the overwhelming transformation and migration processes that Europe has been experiencing for over fifteen years now. During a three-year period the project group will conduct an experiment involving an appeal calling on artists worldwide to embark upon a communal virtual migration. The resulting ideas, concepts and pictures will then be provided with a provisional abode.
The Virtual Residency: [...] the Internet is considered an amorphous crossroads for constant artistic migrational flux. The Virtual Residency Internet platform forms the heart of the project as a whole. Functioning like a transmitter it will use the World Wide Web as a medium to challenge all artists on earth to take part in a creative journey, a virtual mass migration. New data streams will emerge, take shape and be attracted. The Internet platform will offer this migration a virtual "refuge". The ideas of the individual migrants will occupy the Virtual Residency; their designs will become virtual residents. They are to reflect the desire for a place to stay and deal with themes such as homeland, foreign lands and the unknown, travel, roots, hope, departure, loss, emptiness, stimulus, etc. [...]
Posted by jo at May 15, 2006 04:26 PM
