Open Call.

Artist-Community Synergies

For Artists

For the Artist-Community Synergies, artists and communities will have the opportunity to cooperate together online, in order to co-document community cultural knowledge through contemporary art practices.

Up to five (5) communities and an equal number of artists will be selected, forming artist-community synergies. Pairs will be able to meet online, set their course of action and work together throughout January and February for 4 weeks. Artists are free to suggest any combinations of art forms, media and creative processes (e.g. sketches, sound, GIFs, photographs) for the research-based artistic documentation of the community. The synergies will be featured on BoWB’s website in order for the audience to follow along.

The outcome of the synergies will be the documentation of the community’s traditional knowledge, experience, history and/or practices with artistic media, encouraging a research-based creative process of several art notes and records rather than the production of a single artwork.

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Selection Committee (alphabetical order):

Steve Bisson, Faculty member at Paris College of Art, Art Director of Lab27 and Co-director of the Move Cine Arte Film Festival | Cultural landscapes, planetary urbanization, community empowerment, bottom up and social arts, ecology and politics

Ksenija Orelj, Curator of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka | interdisciplinary curation on labour, hyperproduction, and the lack of free time

Dr Bill Psarras, Assistant Professor at the Department of Performing and Digital Arts, University of the Peloponnese and Artistic director of Primarolia organisation | urban-cultural studies, performance art, technology and geohumanities

FAIR & CARE Community Archives course

For Researchers

Within the FAIR & CARE Community Archives course, researchers will be able to practise cultural data mindfulness and enhance their knowledge in digital cultural heritage, learning to create community archives based on the FAIR and CARE principles.

Up to five (5) selected researchers will be able to attend the distance learning course held by representative tutors in their fields and work together with communities in pairs by co-documenting their traditional knowledge. The course sessions will run throughout January and February for 4 weeks (approx. 4-5 sessions, 1-2 hours each) and will include workshops and talks on the topics of digital cultural heritage, cultural commons, community/participatory art and intangible/natural heritage.

The outcome of the course is the creation of open-access community archives for the participating communities respecting their rights for data self-governance, connecting their work to Wikimedia/Wikidata and digital cultural infrastructures as the Greek National Documentation Centre and Europeana.

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Selection Committee (alphabetical order):

Dr Milena Dobreva, Associate Professor, Library and information studies, UCL Qatar, Lead of the DISTILL project | Digital transformation, user experiences and innovation in big digital cultural collections

Pavlos Georgiadis, Adjunct Lecturer at the American University of Armenia and Research Associate at the Department for Societal Transition & Agriculture at the University of Hohenheim | Biodiversity, ecosystem restoration and sustainable food systems specialist

Dr Manvi Seth, Dean, NMI and Professor & Head in the Department of Museology, National Museum Institute, India and Chair in Intangible Cultural Heritage Working Group, ICOM CIDOC | Museum Education, visitor studies, documentation of intangible cultural heritage