Open Call: "Data Ethics & Creative Practice"
Open Sound Performance Workshop @ Festival BLAUES RAUSCHEN
05.06.2025 – 07.06.2025 in Essen
Submission deadline: 11.04.2025
Announcement of participants: 25.04.2025
Workshop days: 05. - 07.06.2025
Final performance: 07.06.2025
Location: RWE Pavillon, Huyssenallee 53, 45128 Essen
Day 1: Get together / gear check / thematic introduction
Day 2: Composition and collaboration
Day 3: Run-through and public live performance
This year's Blaues Rauschen workshop offers artists, authors, designers, poets and musicians the opportunity to explore the possibilities of data ethics and creative practice. The focus is on the potential of digital data and the possibilities of the artistic scope and strategies. Under the direction of Portrait XO, a 20-minute performance will be developed over the course of three days.
The workshop will therefore focus on the following questions:
- How can we democratize digital data and make it usable for everyone?
- What responsibility do artists bear when using and processing data in their works?
- What new forms of artistic expression arise from the critical examination of data?
- How can data be used creatively without unconsciously reproducing power structures and discrimination?
This workshop offers space for open exchange, creative experimentation and new forms of collaboration - for a future in which data is more than a commodity: a means for collective expression and participation.
By the end of the workshop, participants will have in-depth knowledge of the ethical use of data in creative contexts and new strategies in performance art. Furthermore, they will be able to develop tools for a critical reflection and combine theory and artistic practice for a collaborative performance.
Date: 05.-07.06.2025
Location: Rehearsal stage/room in the RWE Pavillon, Huyssenallee 53, D - 45128 Essen
Participants can bring own equipment if required.
Who can apply:
- musicians/composers/sound artists
- artists/designers
- authors/poets
- performance artists
- video artists
- machine learning/artificial intelligence researchers
8 Participants will be chosen from all applications. From 05.-07.06 we can supply rooms in a nice hostel nearby.
A daily expense rate of € 50,- will also be provided.
And of course you will get gree admission to all festival events.
We are really looking forward to exciting applications and some great experience together at BLAUES RAUSCHEN.
About the artist:
Portrait XO (she/her) is a multimodal artist and independent researcher. Her audiovisual AI art developed through various projects such as the residencies at NEW NOW FESTIVAL. Portrait XO also contributes as the founder of SOUND OBSESSED to foster the community of hybrid artists to exploration of computational creativity and human-machine collaboration and explores new formats and applications for thinking art and sound.
As an artist at the festival BLAUES RAUSCHEN, Portrait XO also presents her project The Cost of Connection - an audiovisual performance with sonified data from the 17 sustainable development goals of the UN.
