(ALL, MEDIA ARTS, etc.) Fabrica
Via Ferrarezza, 31050 Catena di Villorba, Italy. One year residency with stipend and travel money. Fabrica is the Benetton Research and Development Communication Centre. Led by an international team, Fabrica is an applied creativity laboratory, a talent incubator, a studio of sorts in which young, modern artists come from all over the world to develop innovative projects and explore new directions in myriad avenues of communication, from design, music and film to photography, publishing and the Internet. It is currently offering residencies to artist, designers, creative engineers to do applied research in the following areas: web design, social networking, online gaming, physical computing, device art, 3D. It is also possible to apply for the following disciplines: Media (Music, Video and Film), Photography, Visual Communication, Writing.
Fabrica is housed in a stunning building by Japanese architect Tadao Ando and is situated outside Treviso in North Italy.
Fabrica offers bursaries to successful applicants. The bursary includes travel to fabrica, as well as accommodation, living expenses and a small grant.
Fabrica is located in Catena di Villorba, 12 km from Treviso (a medieval town in the north of Italy with a population of around 80,000). The town is 3 hours from Milan and 5 hours from Rome.
For more info, email or go to the site:
E-mail [email protected]
www.fabrica.it
