The Australia Council for the Arts is offering grants to support artists working in interdisciplinary and hybrid arts to engage in research and development, creative development and/or production. This category primarily supports the following activities:

* research and development
* creative development
* production

Projects may propose one or more of the components mentioned above and presentation of works may be included within the proposal. In this funding round the Inter-Arts Office encourages applications from artists exploring participatory experiences for audiences through interdisciplinary or hybrid arts such as:

investing the audience with an element of creative agency in a work and so blurring the lines between ‘creator’ and ‘viewer’

using audience interaction to help generate the artistic experience or to materially create elements of the work

using locative media to create performance or game-play involving audiences in public environments.

If you believe your project may be eligible for support through inter-arts projects, please contact Inter-Arts Office staff to discuss your proposal. Find out more at Inter-Arts Projects or call the Australia Council’s Inter-Arts Office on 02 9215 9166 or toll free 1800 226 912.

Inter-Arts project grant applications close 1 December 2008.

Deadline: Any time

Australia Council Market Development aims to create more demand for Australian performing arts through supporting the promotion of Australian performing arts and the development of new markets and audiences, in Australia and internationally.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

The Go See Fund provides travel assistance to professional Australian presenters to attend performances of works in the Australian performing arts for the purpose of considering presentation of these works in their programming.

The objective of this program is to support greater access for Australian presenters to more works, develop knowledge, awareness and relationship to Australian performance works, increase national touring of Australian performance works already invested in by the Council or State/Territory funding bodies and support greater audience and market potential for the work.

ELIGIBILITY … (more…)

Nine artists have been short-listed for the inaugural $75 000 Premier of Queensland’s National Art Award in New Media. Peter Alwast (QLD), Julie Dowling (WA), Anita Fontaine (QLD/NL), David Haines and Joyce Hinterding (NSW), Natalie Jeremijenko (QLD/USA), Adam Nash (VIC), Sam Smith (NSW), John Tonkin (NSW) and Mari Velonaki (NSW) are the artists short-listed for the inaugural award.
On 31 October 2008 the Award will be presented to one of these exhibiting artists. The exhibition and Award will be presented every two years and the award-winning works will become part of the Queensland Art Gallery’s permanent collection.

Accompanying the Award is the $25 000 Premier of Queensland’s New Media Scholarship, to be presented to an emerging Queensland-based new media artist to support travel and study.

Expressions of interest for the travel and study scholarship are available
at www.qag.qld.gov.au/new_media

Submissions due: 5 September.

The Award exhibition will be on display in GoMA’s new media gallery.
1 November - 8 February.
http://www.qag.qld.gov.au/exhibitions/coming_soon/premier_of_queenslands_national_art_award_in_new_media