Artist Researchers In Residence

The UmArts Artist Researchers in Residence Programme (ARIR) provides the opportunity for artists and makers to contribute to the UmArts research environment for one month during 2024 or 2025. The programme focuses on interdisciplinary practice-based researchers from the visual arts, sound arts, media arts, performing arts, architectural, design, maker and hacker communities to develop short term projects in the UmArts research studio and contribute to the UmArts research environment including the Art & AI Working Group.

In 2024/2025 we are recruiting artists and makers, one for the UmArts ARIR programme and one for the TAIGA ARIR programme:

TAIGA ARIR: UmArts will support one artist researcher in residence through the TAIGA focus area in Art and AI micro-project. The artists will be invited to develop new projects investigating Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning as part of the Art and AI Working Group. 

ARIR: UmArts will support an research based artists in a more generalized field of arts practice who will contribute to the UmArts interdisciplinary research environment. 

The new round of Artists Researchers will be announced in March 2024. Further questions about the residence or the application. Please contact Clara West clara.west@umu.se Research Coordinator at UmArts.

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Elena Mazzi, Artist Researcher in Residence, April 2024

Elena Mazzi will be undertaking a residency at UmArts in April 2024 funded by the Italian Council, in partnership with Maria Luna Nobile, Associate Professor at Umeå School of Architecture. Elena Mazzi’s practice is based on the examination of specific territories where she reinterprets the cultural and natural heritage of places, interweaving stories, facts and fantasies handed down by local communities, in order to suggest possible resolutions to the man-nature-culture conflict. Her somewhat anthropological working method favour a holistic approach aimed at repairing the rifts that occur in society. Mazzi studied at the University of Siena and the IUAV in Venice, after which she trained at the Royal Institute of Art (Konsthögskolan) in Stockholm. She is currently undertaking a practice based PhD at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts à la Villa Arson in Nice, France.