Support for emerging practices

Deadline : Competition ended on February 15, 2012. The next deadline is not yet scheduled.

Innovators wanted! Do you have a bold and visionary project in mind? TheSEP program supports new artistic practices—technologically advanced, surprising, hybrid or unheard-of—in all disciplines, with a grant up to $15,000.

These point-to-point projects (one-off and non-recurrent) must be submitted by organizations and meet the following criteria:

• must use and experiment primarily withnew technologies (multimedia, web art, sound art, immersive installations, virtual environments, interactive art, robotics, cybernetics, etc.);

• must extend or cross disciplinary boundarieswith an unusual or non-typical  creative process;

• must incorporate, within a little-known discipline, new models of creation/production/distribution in questioning and decompartmentalizing the arts, based on processes of crossbreeding, hybridization and experimentation.

This triennial program has an annual budget of $100,000. It is intended for professional organizations already funded by theConseil des arts de Montréal, as well as those applying for the first time, in accordance with the general objectives and eligibility requirements of the Conseil.

Eligibility

The program is for professional non-profit organizations based on the Island of Montreal, incorporated for at least one year.

Ineligible

The following are ineligible: individual artists, artist collectives, organizations working in variety shows and song, activities previously or currently being produced,projects involving sound recording or website creation.

Documents and forms

All interested organizations are asked to read the Criteria and Guidelines for this program and to download the Application Form:

Information:

Marie-Michèle Cron
Cultural Advisor, Media Arts, Visual Arts & New Artistic Practices
1210 Sherbrooke St. E.
Montreal (Quebec)  H2L 1L9
514 280-4125
mcron.p@ville.montreal.qc.ca

Partners 

The Conférence régionale des élus de Montréal and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec under the 2010-2013 Partnership Agreement in Support of Creation, Innovation and Diversity of Professional Artistic Practices in Greater Montreal.