[ELECTRON] Fwd: Call For Entries: The Metamatic Research Initiative

[Simon Yuill]

Call For Entries
The Métamatic Research Initiative is launching a call for entries to
commission six individual art works in line with its mission. The
initiative welcomes proposals from visual artists working in all
disciplines.

The Métamatic Research Initiative's mission is to stimulate research
into ideas stemming from the work and philosophy of the French-Swiss
artist Jean Tinguely (1925-1991). Specifically, the research initiative
focuses on Tinguely's exploration of the relationship between the
artist, the art work and the viewer as expressed in his Métamatic
sculptures. The call for entries is part of a broader effort of the
initiative, in which funding will be given to both academic and artistic
research activities, ranging from educational projects for young people
to the commissioning of individual art works.

The Métamatic Research Initiative
The Swiss born artist Jean Tinguely lived most of his artistic life in
Paris, where he was one of the initiators of the Nouveau Réalisme
movement in 1960. Tinguely was amongst the leading artists incorporating
movement and other time-based elements in his work. By the late 1950s
Tinguely embarked on a series of generative apparatus he called
Métamatics, based on the idea of machines producing art works. With this
series of works Tinguely not only problematised the introduction of the
robotic machine as interface in our society, but moreover investigated
the role of the artist, as well as that of the art work and the viewer.
Out of a fascination with this specific topic within Tinguely's work the
initiative wishes to stimulate research into the ways in which
contemporary artists deal with the relation between artist, viewer and
art work. This project kicked off on 25-27 October, when the Initiative
hosted an expert meeting in Amsterdam where 9 renowned scholars and
artists gathered to discuss the topic, and to set parameters for further
artistic and academic research.

The aim of this research is two-fold:
• to generate a high-profile collection of 'art producing objects',
• to support and stimulate awareness and knowledge on the subject through:
scientific research, exhibitions, and educational programmes on
different levels.

Who are we?
The Métamatic Research Initiative is an initiative of the All Art
Initiatives Foundation, based in Amsterdam. The foundation is a
privately funded non-profit foundation set up to stimulate visual art
through the funding of:
• artistic and academic research,
• monographs on artists and other publications,
• projects that will increase exposure and make the media available to a
wider audience,
• stimulate the incorporation of relevant works in public collections,
both in the Netherlands and abroad.

The deadline for entries is 1 september 2010. For further information
visit our website www.metamaticresearch.info. Press kits will be
available upon request at info at metamaticresearch.info or call Ewoud Aaij.

Ewoud Aaij
All Art Initiatives Foundation, Amsterdam
mailto:ewoud at allartinitiatives.org
+31 20 520 6016