„Pixels, Bytes & Film“ - Artist in Residence

ORF III Kultur und Information and the Film Arts Devision of the Austrian Federal Chancellery (BKA) invite contemporary artists to apply for a new funding program for Film- and TV-Art. The program will be supported by a pool of experts, set up in cooperation with the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the Centre for Knowledgetransfer (WTZ Ost).

BKA's funding program "Neue Filmformate" and the TV-Series "Artist in Residence" on special interest channel ORFIII Kultur und Information - which is offering contemporary artists creative access to air-time since 2013 - merge to form a new funding program for experimental approaches within the realm of multimedia-art. The program focuses on the creative potential of new formats in film and television, beyond known forms of cinema, exhibition and conventional television.

Pixels, Bytes and Film funds audiovisual artwork within the following areas: Serial narration of fictional material; serial and nonserial documentary formats; crowdsourcing projects & user-generated movies; cross- and trans-media artwork; webisodes and new TV-formats. Primarily the program focuses on an experimental cinematic examination of new media. Social media and discussion forums or distribution platforms cannot be considered.

The open call is being published nationally as well as internationally. It aims to reach both established and young artists. Announcement of the twelve selected projects is expected at the end of July 2015.

Find more information here: http://tv.ORF.at/orf3/artist-in-residence & http://www.kunstkultur.bka.gv.at