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EMAP

The European Media Art Platform (EMAP) is a network of leading European media art organisations co-funded by the Creative Europe program since 2018. It is the largest international platform for residencies of emerging media artists and supports new creation by artists through two-month residencies, production grants. It evolved from the European Media Artist in Residence Exchange program initiated in 1995 by Werkleitz Centre for Media Art in Germany. EMAP advances collaboration, research, and presentation of media art across Europe and beyond, with a growing network of more than 100 partners in 40 countries. The platform facilitates international exhibitions, network meetings, and workshops and, by doing so, enables artists to present their work at prestigious institutions. The initiative supports projects in the field of digital art, media art, bio-art, robotics, and artificial intelligence.

Since 2018, EMAP has commissioned dozens of projects; many were presented at top venues such as Centre Pompidou, Tate Modern, and the Venice Biennale, and many have won international awards.

Residency Program

Artists or collectives are offered a two-month-long, fully covered residency at one of the partner institutions spread across Europe.

Outcomes of residencies have been exhibited in group and touring exhibitions. Past works have also won more than 30 international awards. EMAP fosters a network of more than 100 partners in 40 countries with the aim of enabling knowledge exchange, joint funding applications, and international visibility for media art.

The network now connects 15 cultural institutions and organisations in EU and beyond. These partners give production grants annually to some of the best emerging European media artists, investing at the same time in research, capacity development, and presentation and distribution of media art in Europe and beyond. The main goal of the project is to foster high quality production of artworks by European artists, facilitate project collaborations and develop partnerships between European organisations working with media art.

The basic purpose of the programme is to enable European artists to collaborate on diverse projects, and consequently to create closer bonds between European new media art organisations.

EMAP expanded offers opportunities to artists specialising in Digital and Media Art, Bio Art, and Robotic Art, to develop their own projects within a new context and thereby give something back to their host organisation. This process of encouraging artists’ projects and building stronger links between media organisations is enhanced by the rapid development of network technologies and also reflects the moves towards integration taking place throughout Europe.

The various new technologies now coming to the fore require a relatively high degree of knowledge and, although each individual organisation has its own unique facilities and staff, opportunities for the exchange of information and skills give a further boost to the programme. Sharing insights, facilities and knowledge also foster greater efficiency when dealing with the international media market (issues such as TV broadcasting, co-productions, co-funding, etc.) and the art world (festivals, exhibitions, screenings, etc.).

EMAP is always on the lookout for new partners, so European media centres with an interest in joining the network please feel free to contact us.

Aims

  • To collaboratively create a European network of Media Labs;
  • To host Media Artists from all parts of Europe and facilitate the exchange;
  • To benefit from diverse cultural backgrounds;
  • To benefit from different kinds of competence and knowledge;
  • To benefit from different infrastructures;
  • To benefit from different cultural platforms and markets;
  • To launch collaborative projects or co-productions between different countries;
  • To exchange also cultural programs and staff;
  • To do joint applications, i.e. for European Union funding;
  • To create a joint jury that evaluates all applications;
  • To ultimately respect each individual’s own decision regarding selection of artists.

Members

Antre Peaux, Bourges, France (2022-25); Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Austria; Chroniques, Marseille, France (2026-); Creative Industry Košice, Košice, Slovakia; gnration, Braga, Portugal; iMAL, Brussels, Belgium; IMPAKT, Utrecht, Netherland; Kontejner, Zagreb, Croatia; LaBoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Guijón, Spain; M-Cult, Helsinki, Finland (2022-25); MEET, Milan, Italy (2026-); Onassis Stegi, Athens, Greece; NeMe, Limassol, Cyprus; RIXC, Riga, Latvia; WRO Center for Media Art Foundation, Wroclaw, Poland; Zavod Kersnikova (Kapelica Gallery), Ljubljana, Slovenia; and leading member, Werkleitz Centre for Media Art, Halle (Saale), Germany.

With FACT, Liverpool, UK, collaborating in 2022; Hexagram, Montréal, Canada, collaborating in 2023; and HONF, House of Natural Fibres, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, collaborating in 2024.

Videos produced by NeMe under the EMAP project.

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Rosemary Lee

A Structural Plan for Imitation: Engines of Differentiation is a video installation that looks at discrepancies between the promises made about AI and the realities of how it materially acts on the world. With the current emphasis on methodologies that, critically or uncritically, rely heavily on the implementation of models, it’s crucial to consider what assumptions, power dynamics, and ideologies are embedded in these practices. The project explores this idea through models’ structuring of relationships between visual perception, real-world phenomena, and the traditional systems of value that have culminated in the present pervasiveness of artificial intelligence.

 

EMAP network meeting

On the 20th and 21st of March 2024 NeMe hosted the EMAP network meeting which hosted presentations from the 2024 selected artists. On 22nd March, in order to develop more opportunities for the artists, we organised a networking event for the artists, the EMAP members, and representatives from all the fine arts NGOs in Cyprus. The event, titled The other planet was curated by Davorka Begović from Kontejner and included the premiere of a video produced by NeMe for the Living with others Creative Europe funded project, and two performances by Marinos Koutsomichalis and Eric Raynaud. The program was followed by catering for all the guests who were encouraged to create connections.

 

Media (Art) and Politics

On Wednesday, 21 February 2023, at 4pm-6:30pm CET, NeMe is happy to invite you to an open webinar on media (arts), and politics. The webinar will consist of talks by Gregory Sholette, Rachel O’Dwyer, and !Mediengruppe Bitnik, and will span subjects that will discuss the relation of art and whistleblowing, the social obligation of the artists now, the blockchain based so called opportunities for artists, and how artistic practice can expand from the digital into the physical space.

 

Paul O' Neill

Establishing a series of similarities between Ireland and Cyprus as a starting point: location at the periphery of Europe; colonial legacy; partitioned state; proximity to larger geopolitical actors; and low corporate tax rate, this residency was used to research the corporate, physical and social infrastructure of the internet of Cyprus. Developed from this research, we are all going to make it is an experimental video piece engaging with networked surveillance, digital sovereignty, data colonialism and other related themes. In doing so, the work serves as a critique of techno-delusional narratives and ideologies while celebrating community, transparency and resilience.

 

Interfacing life

As our interdependent ecologic, economic, and societal systems appear to be collapsing many of our hopes turn to technology. The old conundrum of whether art imitates life or life imitates art has gradually been replaced with the relationship between technology and life.

 

Rosa Menkman

Since the summer of 2022, Menkman has been travelling the Mediterranean to learn about three Cyclopes lineages. Cyclopes are famous mythical creatures, known for their gargantuan physique and single round eye. However, beyond their most famous features, and maybe a name born by a single Cyclops, little about them is known. In fact, Cyclopes seem shrouded in mystery, sparking general questions such as: Where do contemporary Cyclopes live, and how do Cyclopes perceive the world?

 
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emap, creative europe, Cyprus Deputy Ministry of Culture

This project has been funded with the support from the European Commission. This communication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

 
 
 
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