<div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">anda klavina</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aklavina@yahoo.co.uk">aklavina@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span><br>Date: Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 5:03 PM<br>
Subject: Open Call for 2010: e-text+textiles Residency in Riga, Latvia<br>To: <a href="mailto:designini@gmail.com">designini@gmail.com</a>, <a href="mailto:zeynep.oz@gmail.com">zeynep.oz@gmail.com</a>, <a href="mailto:jonas.ekeberg@preusmuseum.no">jonas.ekeberg@preusmuseum.no</a>, <a href="mailto:mail@katjaaglert.com">mail@katjaaglert.com</a>, <a href="mailto:briankuanwood@gmail.com">briankuanwood@gmail.com</a><br>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dear
Friends and Colleagues,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">electronic-text+textiles
Residency (e-t+t) in Riga
welcomes applications for the period from January 2010 to December 2010. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Times; font-weight: normal;" lang="EN-GB">e-t+t</span></b><span><b><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></b></span><span><span lang="EN-GB">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.</span></span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Please see
information below and at our website: </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.e-text-textiles.lv" target="_blank">www.e-text-textiles.lv</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Detailed
information on how to apply you will find under the RESIDENCY section. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">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.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">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: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.e-text-textiles.lv/SLSAeu2010/home.htm" target="_blank">www.e-text-textiles.lv/SLSAeu2010/home.htm</a>.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Please
forward this information to anyone who might be interested. Thank you!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Best regards,<span> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Anda
Klavina</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">e-t+t
Project Manager</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="mailto:aklavina@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">aklavina@yahoo.co.uk</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.e-text+textiles.lv/" target="_blank">www..e-text+textiles.lv</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-weight: bold;">RESIDENCY
IN </span> RIGA , LATVIA<span style="font-weight: bold;">: electronic-text+textiles
PROJECT</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">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. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">TERM</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">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. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">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
(<a href="http://www.electronicbookreview.com" target="_blank">www.electronicbookreview.com</a>) or at the Alt-X site (<a href="http://www.altx.com" target="_blank">www.altx.com</a>). 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. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">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. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">RECENT
RESIDENTS</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Niamh
McDonnell, philosopher/artist. Project: “Digital Archiving and Virtual
Museology”;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Vera
Buhlmann, media philosopher, Swiss Federal institute for Technology (ETH, Zurich ). Project: “The
Differential as a Figure of Thought - Some Narratives Inbetween”;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Maria
Damon, poet, English literature professor at the Minnesota University .
Essay “Text, Textile, Exile: Meditation on Poetics, Metaphor and Net-Work” is
available at <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/electropoetics/lettrist" target="_blank">http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/electropoetics/lettrist</a>;
</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">DEADLINE</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Ongoing
until the 15th of December 2009.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">CONTACT</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">For more
information about the Residency and how to apply please visit <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.e-text-textiles.lv/" target="_blank">www.e-text-textiles.lv</a> (RESIDENCY
section)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Any further
enquires regarding this call please send to:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Anda
Klavina at: <a href="mailto:aklavina@yahoo.com" target="_blank">aklavina@yahoo.com</a></span></p>
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