Uroboros Fellowship – Open Call

Uroboros is a multispecies collective and annual festival for artistic & design research experiments with diverse means of living with and caring for more-than-human ecologies.  Attending to ‘more-than-human’ as inclusive of both multispecies nature and algorithmic agencies, Uroboros provides a co-creative space for critical, practice-based inquiries into contemporary social, technological, and environmental conditions.

As part of the Uroboros 2024 program, we are opening a two-month (November – December) online fellowship oriented at art and design researchers working with more-than-human ecologies.

The fellowship involves contributing to the Uroboros 2024 hybrid festival program (Prague and online) with a co-creative encounter showing the in-progress fellowship work. This activity should inform the fellowship’s final outcome, a digital object that will be accessible online (see details below). The object will be published on the Uroboros festival website and presented as part of the year-long Uroboros program.

The Uroboros collective will introduce the fellow to the online audiovisual archive of past Uroboros programs (https://collective.uroboros.design/resources/) to support the development of the final fellowship outcome.

Fellowship program summary:

• Duration: 2 months – November and December 2024.
• Type: Self-directed online fellowship with regular online meetings with Uroboros collective
• Number of selected fellows: 1 (human) individual or a (more-than-human) collective
• Fellow’s country of residence: worldwide
• Language: English
• Outcomes:
  • A digital object – e.g., an online environment, an interactive website, a game, a co-created archive, a common.garden space, and other experimental formats. Some experience in working with digital tools and contexts is recommended. 
  • An online or in-person presentation of the fellowship in-progress or other co-creative engagement at Uroboros 2024 festival in Prague (CZ)
• Support: A fee of 1500 EUR: 1000 EUR for the creative work in November and December and 500 EUR for producing the final outcome.

Application requirements:

• Project proposal (max. 1 page / around 1800 characters) including:
  • A description of the more-than-human phenomenon being examined, including a brief outline of relevant research in the given area.
  • A specification of the intended procedures, approaches, or strategies for the proposed creative research work.
  • A specification of the expected outcome of the fellowship.
• Portfolio including examples of relevant work, links, and a short bio.

Application deadline:

Sunday, October 20th, 2024 at 11:59pm CEST

PDF version of this open call:

Contact:

If you have any questions about the fellowship or the application process, please contact us at: festival@uroboros.design. 

We are looking forward to your proposals!

Uroboros collective & festival