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Cost of Innovation Residency - Applications now open.

This residency is designed as an opportunity for artistic development, providing space, facilities, support and mentorship as part of our programme The Cost of Innovation.

Our first investment is an incredible LiDAR scanner. This residency is specifically designed for artists wanting to explore the use of the LiDAR as a medium.

It is a month long residency to take place in August this summer for one artist based in the UK and one based in Finland. We will be hosting open workshops for you to meet us, the LiDAR and see the space. Keep an eye on our socials and sign up to our newsletter for these to be announced.

To find out more see below

Associate Artist Residency - The Cost of Innovation 2020
This opportunity is open to an artist based in the UK.

Duration:-
4 weeks
The residency will take place during August 2020

Location:-
Invisible Flock Studios, Longside, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK

Bursary:-
Fixed Bursary of: £3,000 (4 week full time residency) or equivalent based on bespoke needs of applicant
Return travel to the studio and accommodation for the duration of the residency if required
Plus a £500 materials budget

Timescale:-
Investigating creative technology workshops: March 31st at The Civic - Barnsley. Times TBC. Additional
session elsewhere in April TBA.
Deadline: 13 April 2020 at 12 noon
Interview via skype or in person: 20 April 2020

Start Date: August 2020

Invisible Flock Cost of Innovation Residency - UK

Purpose of the Residency:-
Many thanks for your interest in a residency with us.
The residency is designed as an opportunity for artistic development, providing space, facilities, support
and mentorship as part of our programme, The Cost of Innovation. The residency is an opportunity for an
artist currently based in the uk to work in the Invisible Flock studio based in the Yorkshire Sculpture Park for
a 4 week period.

This residency is specifically designed for artists wanting to explore the use of LiDAR as a medium as part of
our Cost of Innovation project. As such we invite you to bring ideas at an early stage of development that
involves a new or innovative use of this technology, more on LiDAR and the resources available below.
This residency will run in parallel with that of a Finnish artist who will be working in the studio over the
same period.

This document aims to outline information on Invisible Flock and the opportunity but if you have any
questions do get in touch with Amy Balderston, General Manager; [email protected] before the
deadline on 13 April 2020.
Invisible Flock is deeply committed to supporting artists and practitioners at all stages of their careers and
in increasing the diversity of our sector. We strongly encourage applications from those with less visibility in
the art/tech sector where they currently remain a minority. We actively welcome individuals who may not
have had access to the facilities we offer through education or previous opportunities.
We are particularly interested in hearing from artists from the North of England in a celebration of our new
location at YSP.
Our studio is fully accessible with disabled access. A handbook with access details can be provided on
request.

LIDAR:-
As part of a wider project called Cost of Innovation (see below) this residency is specifically designed as a
creative investigation of the use of LiDAR and point clouds as a medium.
LiDAR scanning is a technology most commonly used to make high resolution maps, it has multiple
functions in geological and seismic contexts, it is used in architecture such as the rebuild of Notre Dame and
also used in autonomous cars. It creates phenomenal 3D imagery with millimeter accuracy using laser
scanning.
LiDAR scanners and point clouds are an emerging technology within contemporary and digital art and this
residency will give you access to a broad range of equipment to capture, create, manipulate and display
whatever it is you decide to investigate with this technology through the residency. These include:
- FARO Focus 350s Scanner
- Ouster OS-1 68 channel Lidar
- full HTC vive suite
- high end GPU computing
- 4 HD laser projectors
Invisible Flock Cost of Innovation Residency - UK
Further to this you will have full access to our studio’s making equipment (see below).
We are specifically wanting to support artists who are looking to explore the medium in new and
interesting ways as such we encourage you to propose ideas that use LiDAR for example in new and critical
ways, in mediums where it has relatively little prominence or that explores new audience methods of
presentation. The residency has no formal project output but we would expect any learning, tools and
workflows to be disseminated to the wider sector. This could take the form of a video diary, process blog, a
talk, or a github repository depending on what it is you plan to explore and how it is you make work. This is
not prescriptive and we are happy to be led by you but the residency is here to further both your practice
and the sector’s technical capacity as a whole.
Prior use of a LiDAR or point clouds is not necessary and we will provide training and onboarding as well as
technical guidance. Whilst you do not need to know how you are going to achieve your aims during the
residency and initial setup and general questions will be supported you will need to be able to work
independently.

Details:-
The residency aims to create a supportive environment for skill sharing and development; and is designed
to be accessible for artists at any career stage.
The residency will be tailored to the bespoke requirements of the applicant in order to ensure that the
opportunity will foster practice development. Invisible Flock will provide practical resources and space in
addition to mentorship, support and advice where appropriate.
We encourage applications from artists that have interests aligned with that of Invisible Flock, particularly
with an environmental or socially engaged focus and/or a research and cross practice led approach.
Within this residency there is a focus on process, development and skill sharing, rather than that of a
finished work. As a residency focussed around exploration and process we have no expectation that you
know specifically how to achieve the things you want to explore.
The Cost of Innovation:-
This residency will be contextualised within a project titled The Cost of Innovation, a three year project that
investigates models and tools for innovation in the creative sector, exploring how true technical innovation
can be supported and pushed.
In practical terms the Cost of Innovation is a three year project investigating models and tools for
innovation in our sector. A purchasing plan for a series of cutting edge pieces of equipment with a series of
research and residency opportunities attached to each exploring new ways of skill sharing within our
sector. As well as exploring how true technical innovation can be supported and pushed we will also look at
the impact and invisible costs of innovation and the pressures of it both for artists and the environment
more generally.
The project aims to reduce socio-economic barriers to innovation in the cost of new technologies by
creating access points to cutting edge equipment and tools through opportunities such as this residency.
Invisible Flock Cost of Innovation Residency - UK
About Invisible Flock:-
Invisible Flock operates at the intersection of art and technology.
We believe that art today must have a positive impact on society and the world we live in and as artists we
have a responsibility to open up collective thinking and to build space for critical inquiry.
We are an award winning interactive arts studio based in the UK, making innovative artworks to be
experienced and participated in by thousands all over the world. Drawing directly from the world around us
we aim to create art and foster relevant art practices that have a long lasting transformative effect and that
sit across multiple contexts and adjacent sectors, allowing us to bring our creative thinking and unique ways
of employing technology to bear in contexts such as conservation, climate science, education, design, urban
planning and healthcare.
The medium of technology has always been the best way for us to articulate new questions and generate
alternative understandings of complex systems.
We create highly sensory installations and environments asking us to re-negotiate our emotional
relationship to the natural world. Some examples of our practice include GPS powered AR art games,
transformed discarded beach plastic into 3D printed artworks, large ambisonic sound installations as well as
pioneering digital/physical installations that exist out at sea. Recently we created Aurora, a multi sensory
installation about climate change that re flooded a disused reservoir in Liverpool.
www.invisibleflock.com

Facilities:-
Our artist led studio includes a design space, workshop, laboratory and project space, it is where all of our
work and research takes place and is equipped accordingly.
The workshop is designed for fabricating with a wide variety of materials; wood, metal, plastics, equipped
with a Laser cutter, a CNC machine, 3D printers and both bench mounted and hand tools.
The laboratory is a fully equipped electronics prototyping lab, with an array of tools, boards and
components, as well as digital third party tools. We also have a wide variety of computing options;
embeddable boards to powerful GPU machines and field recording, sound equipment and LiDAR scanners,
access to licences for software such as Touch Designer, Reality Capture and Faro Scene.
The rural location at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park allows artists to access the 500 acre park consisting of
woodlands and lakes, creating the option of making outdoor works and using the landscape and ecologies
present in the park as inspiration.
Desirable skills and experience:-
An existing creative practice
A proven ability to self- learn or acquire new skills
Invisible Flock Cost of Innovation Residency - UK
A collaborative mindset (you will be sharing a working studio with Invisible Flock and another artist, whilst
you are not expected to collaborate you will be expected to share)
Access and Accommodation:-
We can provide accomodation for artists based outside of Yorkshire.
The residency requires you to travel to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park during the duration of the residency.
YSP travel details can be found here: https://ysp.org.uk/visit/getting-here
In addition to this, there is adequate free parking directly outside our studio for residencies on site. We are
also able to support with transport to and from Wakefield train station or Darton train Station (both benefit
from direct links to Leeds and Sheffield), in addition to members of the core team commuting to and from
Leeds/Sheffield throughout the week.

Application Process:-
Invisible Flock are committed to a policy of equal opportunities which requires that all staff, freelance
contractors, volunteers and artists are treated fairly irrespective of their age, race, ethnic or national origin,
gender, sexual orientation or any disability.
If you have any specific access needs in terms of this proposal process please do not hesitate to contact us
and we will accommodate you.
Please complete the application form here: https://forms.gle/S26xXM3fK4pVmAwr8
Please ensure you fill out the form specifically for the ‘UK Residency - UK based Artist’
Please also send us a digital portfolio of up to 5 items, via wetransfer.com to [email protected]
Please ensure the files are labelled: 'YOUR NAME Residency (UK)’
Applications will be judged on: The quality of your ideas and work. Your reasons for applying to the
programme and why you would benefit from it.

We welcome all questions and enquiries in building your application to assist this process, especially those
with less experience in traditional and/or formal applications. Get in touch with Amy Balderston, General
Manager; [email protected] before the deadline on 13 April 2020 if you have any queries.

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Not for me but sounds really cool. I have often thought there is a way to use this as some kind of art.
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Carbix wrote: Fri Mar 06, 2020 8:00 pm Not for me but sounds really cool. I have often thought there is a way to use this as some kind of art.

nice one.. perhaps we should have a competition here? let us see your artistic side everyone ;)
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I dont get it? What do they want you to do?
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Be creative with Lidar... ;)
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asks a room full of engineers to be creative LOL.
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