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Banff New Media Institute: Scholarships, programs, and opportunities
Here are some of Banff New Media Institute’s latest scholarships, programs, and opportunities.
2009 Telefilm Canada/BNMI Interactive Project Lab
Program dates: December 10 - 13, 2009
Application deadline: November 3, 2009
Scholarships available
Peer Advisors: Dante Anderson, Marty Avery, Michael Ede, Evan Jones, and Ravi Shukla
Accelerate your future in new media with industry leaders and new media visionaries. This four-day program will help you refine new media content ideas, advance prototypes, strategize start-up company development, build partnerships, clarify your legal framework, identify target markets, and attract investment.
There are 15 scholarships available for Canadian independent new media producers and artists. Successful applicants will receive four days of intensive mentorship by staff and guest advisors as well as business plan advice and presentation skills training.
Co-production Residency: Almost Perfect
Program dates: June 3 – July 3, 2010
Application deadline: December 5, 2009
Peer advisors: Jeremy Hight , Fee Plumley , and Laura Silver
Almost Perfect aims to explore location-based artwork and the repercussions of producing work for place. This annual, concentrated, experimental lab focuses on the creation and context of location. We especially welcome project proposals that extend beyond the device out into the environment, be it landscape or datascape.
Self-directed Co-production Residencies
The BNMI invites artists, producers, content creators, and researchers working with form, content, and themes that connect with the field of new media to submit project proposals for Self-directed Co-production residencies. We provide the time and space for focused work in a retreat setting.
Design your own residency. Projects in all stages, from experimentation to production, are welcome.
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More R.I.P. - Recycling Pervasive Media, Intervening in Planned Obsolescence and Practicing Technological Sustainability
Program dates: July 26 – August 2, 2010
Workshop Fee: $300 institutional and $150 artist/student
Registrations ongoing
Are you worried about the mountains of garbage accumulating in our landfills? Do you wonder what happens to discarded, but still working, computers and televisions? During this week-long residency, participants will explore new ways of working with municipal waste management facilities to reclaim “good” garbage. Come and learn about the possibilities for social transformation and creative expression as presented by the world’s leading technology and recycling artists. This program is co-produced by Jonah Brucker-Cohen and Katherine Moriwaki.
Work Study positions
Come live and learn in the inspiring Rocky Mountains, while exploring the diverse world of new media. The BNMI provides a multidisciplinary learning environment and participants gain an outstanding learning experience.
BNMI Advanced Research Technology (ART) Mobile Lab: Line Producer Work Study
Program dates: As soon as possible - March 31, 2010
TV and New Media Line Producer Work Study
Program dates: November 30, 2009 - February 12, 2010
Application deadline: October 16, 2009 deadline has been extended.
Liminal Screen Co-production Residency: Technical Line Producer Work Study
Program dates: February 17 - March 31, 2010
Application deadline: December 04, 2009
For more information on all these events check the website: www.banffcentre.ca/bnmi/
or call: (1-403-762-6100) or email: arts_info@banffcentre.ca