Intelligent Museum Residency | Open call

The ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe and the Deutsches Museum invite international artists to submit innovative project proposals at the intersection of art and artificial intelligence (AI) and apply for a two-part artist residency at both institutions as part of the project »The Intelligent Museum«. The open call addresses artists who, regardless of disciplines and genres, apply machine learning, especially Deep Learning, in an innovative way in their artistic practice. Special consideration will be given to submissions that experimentally test new possibilities of interaction between artwork and recipients through the use of Deep Learning. Artists who do not consider themselves to be proven experts in the field of AI are also explicitly invited to submit project proposals. As a result of the residency, an AI-supported artwork is to be created and produced during the residency.

As part of the collaborative residency, residencies are planned at both institutions – the Deutsches Museum in Munich and Nuremberg, respectively, and ZKM | Karlsruhe. The residency will take place over a period from June to October 2021 and will be scheduled in dialogue between the artists and the partner institutions. Each location will offer the fellows access to site-specific resources and opportunities.

Scholarship recipients will receive a stipend. The stipend is 1,500€ per month and is limited to a maximum of 3 months. The duration of the residency will be agreed upon between the partner institutions and the fellows prior to the start of the residency. For the realization of the artistic project, a maximum of 2,000€ can be spent on necessary material costs after consultation. As a rule, the items purchased in this way remain the property of the fellowship provider.

For travel to the residencies, the scholarship holders can be reimbursed for their travel expenses up to a maximum of 1,000€.

The following is required for submission:

• Short summary of the project idea (max. 1000 characters incl. spaces).
• Project description including the corresponding submission cluster as well as the required technical infrastructure and possible dwell times (max. 5000 characters incl. spaces)
• Short biography (max. 1000 characters incl. spaces) as well as contact details

Application deadline: Feb. 28, 2021.

Further info: ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe

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23/02/2021