Arts Mentorship - Experimenta, Melbourne

Arts Mentorship

Applications Close: Tuesday 24 July, 2007
Website: www.experimenta.org
Location: Melbourne - VIC
Salary: $7,200 excl GST

EXPERIMENTA is offering the opportunity for young and emerging media art practitioners developing site-related and/or public works to undertake a three-month mentorship with an established practitioner of their choice.
The mentorship enables an emerging artist to explore new creative directions, to expand technical skills and increase knowledge of networks, debates and business practice. Applicants are invited to select a mentor and develop a program of activity spanning a three-month period. The mentor may be accessed locally, nationally or internationally. If required Experimenta can provide the contact details of several suitable artist/mentors who are willing to participate in the program.
Applicants must be Australian media art practitioners who are 30 years or under. The mentorship will provide a fee for the mentee ($7,200 excl GST) and a fee for the mentor ($1,800 excl GST). The mentorship program should be completed by early December 2007

Managed by Experimenta, this mentorship is a part of the Australian Government’s Young & Emerging Artists Initiative through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. Other Australian Media Arts organsiations ANAT, d.lux and MAAP are also offering mentorships:

+ ANAT will encompass distributed, portable, online, wearable, gaming,
mobile and emerging platforms, contact Gavin Artz manager@anat.org.au
+ d.lux will hold their mentorship inside Second Life or a similar online
virtual community, contact malcolm@dlux.org.au for more information
+ MAAP will focus on projects that intersect or consider connections with
the Asia Pacific regions. Contact info@maap.org.au

EXPERIMENTA APPLICATIONS CLOSE Friday 3 AUGUST 2007
For further information, guidelines and an application form please contact:

Kentia Boyle, Experimenta Administration, kentia@experimenta.org

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This project has been assisted by the Australian Government’s Young and Emerging Artists Initiative through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
EXPERIMENTA gratefully acknowledges the assistance of CraftSouth to the EXPERIMENTA Media Art Mentorship Program.