Requests for Expressions of Interest. City of Vancouver, BC, Canada
As Host City for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, Vancouver has initiated an Olympic and Paralympic Public Art Program to commission public artworks that reveal, surprise, challenge and celebrate Vancouver and the 2010 Winter Games. The following three calls are part of this program:
1. Projections, New Media and Light-based Artworks
2. Intersections 2010
3. Mapping and Marking Vancouver 2010
1. Projections, New Media and Light-based Artwork
2010 celebrations offer several opportunities for artist projections, light-based artworks and large-scale new media works. Opportunities include lighting projects under the Cambie Bridge beside the new Canada Line Olympic Station (Cambie and 2nd Avenue), and a special 2010 Legacy Street Lighting Project connecting Live City Vancouver sites and Olympic and Paralympic venues. Projection and new media opportunities will be identified at a variety of venues, including Vancouver City Hall.
The City of Vancouver seeks expressions of interest from artists interested in proposing projections, new media installations, and light-based artworks that reflect the spirit of Vancouver and its communities during Vancouver's 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (February 12 to March 21, 2010) and beyond.
Eligibility: This call is open to professional artists working in new media, projections, light? based or related art practices.
Budgets: $25,000 to $150,000
Call for Expressions of Interest:
http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/oca/publicart/pdf/projections2010.pdf
Submission Deadline: 4:00 PM, Thursday, September 19, 2008
2. Intersections 2010
The Intersection 2010 project seeks a curator to commission light and media artworks in the Downtown Eastside during the 2010 Winter Games and 2010 Cultural Olympiad. The project will build on the 2007 Intersection event, in which four arts organizations resident at Carrall and Hastings streets collaborated on workshops, exhibitions, residencies and an evening of large scale projections on windows and building exteriors.
For 2010, the Intersection curator will work with artists, partners and with arts organizations in the area to light up the Downtown Eastside and contribute to the cultural vitality of the area.
Selection Process: This project is open to independent curators and non-profit visual art societies with a curatorial approach and an interest in public art.
Budget: $300,000
Call for Expressions of Interest:
http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/oca/publicart/pdf/intersection2010.pdf
Submission Deadline: 4:00 PM, Wednesday, October 8, 2008
3. Mapping and Marking Vancouver 2010
This year, the City of Vancouver adopted a new vision for art and culture that will guide how the City supports and invests in the creative sector over the next ten years. Within this new Culture Plan, Council adopted major revisions to reinvigorate Vancouver's Public Art Program. One of the most innovative recommendations was to develop an Artist Initiatives Program that invites artists to propose artworks based on their own ideas and practices, at sites of their choosing.
The imminent arrival of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games provides an ideal occasion to launch this new program. Artists with a strong connection to Vancouver are invited to submit their own ideas for public art within the city that will celebrate, map and mark Vancouver during the 2010 Winter Games.
The concepts of "mapping and marking," broadly considered, are posited to stimulate ideas of exploration and involvement with Vancouver, its inhabitants and its ecological, economic and social processes at a given moment in time.
Eligibility: This call is open to established and emerging artists, with priority given to artists having a strong connection to Vancouver and the Lower Mainland. Partnerships between local and non-local artists are eligible. Independent curators or non?profit art organizations may also apply to work with one or more artists.
Budgets: $5,000 to $150,000
Call for Expressions of Interest:
http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/oca/publicart/pdf/artistinitiated2010.pdf
Submission Deadline: 4:00 PM, Thursday, October 16, 2008
Information sessions on Mapping and Marking Vancouver 2010 will be held at Sunset Community Centre, 6810 Main Street, on September 3, 2008 at 3:00 pm and September 4, 2008, at 6:30 pm.
Questions must be submitted in writing as follows:
For Projections, New Media and Light-based Artworks: vanpublicart2010@gmail.com
For Intersections 2010: intersection2010@gmail.com
For Mapping and Marking Vancouver 2010: artistinitiated2010@gmail.com
Or by mail to:
Alix Sales
Public Art Program
City of Vancouver
453 West 12th Avenue
Vancouver, BC V5Y 1V4
Please identify the call you are enquiring about on the envelope and at the top of the letter.
1. Projections, New Media and Light-based Artworks
2. Intersections 2010
3. Mapping and Marking Vancouver 2010
1. Projections, New Media and Light-based Artwork
2010 celebrations offer several opportunities for artist projections, light-based artworks and large-scale new media works. Opportunities include lighting projects under the Cambie Bridge beside the new Canada Line Olympic Station (Cambie and 2nd Avenue), and a special 2010 Legacy Street Lighting Project connecting Live City Vancouver sites and Olympic and Paralympic venues. Projection and new media opportunities will be identified at a variety of venues, including Vancouver City Hall.
The City of Vancouver seeks expressions of interest from artists interested in proposing projections, new media installations, and light-based artworks that reflect the spirit of Vancouver and its communities during Vancouver's 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (February 12 to March 21, 2010) and beyond.
Eligibility: This call is open to professional artists working in new media, projections, light? based or related art practices.
Budgets: $25,000 to $150,000
Call for Expressions of Interest:
http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/oca/publicart/pdf/projections2010.pdf
Submission Deadline: 4:00 PM, Thursday, September 19, 2008
2. Intersections 2010
The Intersection 2010 project seeks a curator to commission light and media artworks in the Downtown Eastside during the 2010 Winter Games and 2010 Cultural Olympiad. The project will build on the 2007 Intersection event, in which four arts organizations resident at Carrall and Hastings streets collaborated on workshops, exhibitions, residencies and an evening of large scale projections on windows and building exteriors.
For 2010, the Intersection curator will work with artists, partners and with arts organizations in the area to light up the Downtown Eastside and contribute to the cultural vitality of the area.
Selection Process: This project is open to independent curators and non-profit visual art societies with a curatorial approach and an interest in public art.
Budget: $300,000
Call for Expressions of Interest:
http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/oca/publicart/pdf/intersection2010.pdf
Submission Deadline: 4:00 PM, Wednesday, October 8, 2008
3. Mapping and Marking Vancouver 2010
This year, the City of Vancouver adopted a new vision for art and culture that will guide how the City supports and invests in the creative sector over the next ten years. Within this new Culture Plan, Council adopted major revisions to reinvigorate Vancouver's Public Art Program. One of the most innovative recommendations was to develop an Artist Initiatives Program that invites artists to propose artworks based on their own ideas and practices, at sites of their choosing.
The imminent arrival of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games provides an ideal occasion to launch this new program. Artists with a strong connection to Vancouver are invited to submit their own ideas for public art within the city that will celebrate, map and mark Vancouver during the 2010 Winter Games.
The concepts of "mapping and marking," broadly considered, are posited to stimulate ideas of exploration and involvement with Vancouver, its inhabitants and its ecological, economic and social processes at a given moment in time.
Eligibility: This call is open to established and emerging artists, with priority given to artists having a strong connection to Vancouver and the Lower Mainland. Partnerships between local and non-local artists are eligible. Independent curators or non?profit art organizations may also apply to work with one or more artists.
Budgets: $5,000 to $150,000
Call for Expressions of Interest:
http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/oca/publicart/pdf/artistinitiated2010.pdf
Submission Deadline: 4:00 PM, Thursday, October 16, 2008
Information sessions on Mapping and Marking Vancouver 2010 will be held at Sunset Community Centre, 6810 Main Street, on September 3, 2008 at 3:00 pm and September 4, 2008, at 6:30 pm.
Questions must be submitted in writing as follows:
For Projections, New Media and Light-based Artworks: vanpublicart2010@gmail.com
For Intersections 2010: intersection2010@gmail.com
For Mapping and Marking Vancouver 2010: artistinitiated2010@gmail.com
Or by mail to:
Alix Sales
Public Art Program
City of Vancouver
453 West 12th Avenue
Vancouver, BC V5Y 1V4
Please identify the call you are enquiring about on the envelope and at the top of the letter.