CALL TO ARTISTS
Deadline to Apply: Sunday, 18 August 2024. Per week-long, in-person residency through which artists will discover learn how to adapt their collage follow to sport design or incorporate video games and play as a theme of their paintings. Play is a essential a part of being human. Play is how we strive new issues, uncover new abilities, and incorporate new methods of being. Play may reinforce social bonds and convey us into group with others. Video games are an unbelievable software for storytelling, worldbuilding, and social engagement. On this residency, we are going to discover the historical past of collage and video games, gaming and play as a theme for paintings, and brainstorm and workshop our concepts collectively. We may have devoted time for playtesting them with one another in addition to with avid gamers who aren’t artists so as to get suggestions from various sources. We’ll discuss collage as artwork belongings and illustrations for video games, video games that use collage as a mechanic, and sport diffusion fashions. Artists will go away the residency with a plan for ending and distributing their video games or paintings. At Kolaj Fest New Orleans 2025 residency artists might be invited to debut their video games. Learn Extra
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Kolaj Journal, a full coloration, print journal, exists to indicate how the world of collage is wealthy, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing historical past and tradition, collage artists forge new pondering. To grasp collage is to reshape one’s pondering of artwork historical past and redefine the canon of visible tradition that informs the current.