Srishti

The Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore announces a Call for Entries for an Artist-in-Residence project in collaboration with Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology. The project calls for artists and artist-researchers who are working with emerging art practices which includes experimental, hybrid, tangible media, computational arts, digital, socially engaged practices, performance as well as expanded & experimental cinema.

The Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology is an innovative, explorative and curatorial institute of media, arts and applied sciences. Srishti offers art and design education at the undergraduate and post-graduate levels. Its objective is to gather the latest art, craft, design ideas and practices from around the world to contextualise them within the emerging Indian environment. It aims to understand, communicate and address issues and concerns facing society and culture from a sustainable perspective. Srishti nurtures enquiry and creative action to capture the complex, dynamic richness of everyday reality.

Srishti’s Artist-in-Residence and Research Associate Programmes have attracted both local and global artists, teachers, practitioners, scholars and researchers to interact and share knowledge in all emerging cross-disciplinary areas such as art-science, business-design and technology-research. Over the years through its Center for Experimental Media Arts (CEMA), Srishti has been supporting and collaborating with artists and artist researchers who aim to explore new artistic practices through engagement in Srishti and Bangalore City.

Srishti was set up in 1996 by Ujwal Trust (a not-for-profit educational trust). Education remains its core activity, even as its organic growth has led it into diverse areas of research, curation and practice. Over the years, Srishti has forged collaborations with a wide range of local and international institutions through faculty and student exchange, artist residencies, interventions, studio/lab, joint research and courses, symposia and workshops. These ensure a constant stream of creative practitioners working in new and emerging artistic practices, new medium, research areas and products. This is being done with the intention to constantly keep innovating and changing while responding to the current needs and opportunities as they emerge around us.

Current programmes include Independent Media, Experimental Media Arts, Design in Education, 3-D Design, Visual Communication, Textiles and Surfaces Design, Animation and Visual Effects, Toy Design and Interactivity - all built on a critical Liberal Arts and Humanities base. The interest in new media, experimental and hybrid media led to the setting up of the Center for Experimental Media Arts (CEMA) in 2007. Other centres set up around specific research interests are - Center for Education, Research, Training and Development (CERTAD), Center for Public History (CPH) and Srishti Innovation Labs (SLabs).

Duration of Residency: 6 to 12 weeks.