BODIES-MACHINES-PUBLICS Residency at Immersive Arts Space
Are you an artist and /or researcher working on the relationship between sensing technologies, XR, the body and space? Proposals for installations, and/or performative interventions, that successfully blur the lines between the physical and digital – the body and the physical environment – are particularly welcome!
The Immersive Arts Space, in collaboration with other institutions and departments of the ZHdK, offers residency opportunities to artists and researchers.
BODIES-MACHINES-PUBLICS brings together a “glocal” (global and local) network of cultural and research partners in Switzerland, India and Chile that seek to provide time and space for artists to develop prototypes and works exploring the sensitive body and technical mediation in relation to public space. The project is a two-year collaborative initiative between NAVE (Chile), KHOJ Studios (India), Immersive Arts Space/ZHdK (Zurich, Switzerland) and Kornhausforum (Bern, Switzerland) and is supported by the Pro Helvetia Synergies Program.
People increasingly interact with technologies such as wearable sensors, VR/AR headsets or other data gathering systems on an intimate, bodily level which successfully blurs the lines between the physical and the digital; the body and its interaction with its environment. At the same time, the involuntary data collection and machine-led decisions that arise from these sensing technologies exacerbates historical inequalities, particularly affecting marginalized groups. Addressing the capture of human motion, thoughts and experience through new technologies is therefore an ongoing challenge that requires new kinds of creative and imaginative practices.
Residency 2025
Open Call for Residency at Immersive Arts Space and Kornhausforum
BODIES-MACHINES-PUBLICS invites Indian and Swiss visual, performing and media artists, designers, architects or researchers working between art, technology and science to apply for a shared residency at the Immersive Arts Space and Kornhausforum Bern in Switzerland. Artists can apply through an open call until 13th April 2025. The residency will last four weeks, two weeks in each institution (Immersive Arts Space and Kornhausforum) between 8th September to 5th October 2025. The aim of the residency is to develop prototypes and works that can be publicly exhibited.
Are you an artist and /or researcher working on the relationship between sensing technologies, XR, the body and space? Proposals for installations, and/or performative interventions, that successfully blur the lines between the physical and digital – the body and the physical environment – are particularly welcome!
Are you interested? Hand in your application [here]