The Affect and Colonialism Web Lab offers two digital fellowships from May 2022 until October 2022. The idea of this programme is to bring together two persons with different backgrounds, one being a university-based researcher and another from outside academia working in the arts, journalism, or activism. For a period of six months, the tandem of fellows will receive an honorarium that enables them to devote a significant amount of time and energy to realise a larger joint online exhibition format for the Web Lab. These formats can go far beyond a series of short videos and can include a curated selection of commissioned digital artwork, online events, digital roundtables or lectures, or other interactive formats that prospective fellows will be free in proposing and realising.
Applications can come from tandems of one scholar and one practitioner working on the intersection of affect and colonialism with an interest in exploring digital forms of communicating knowledge. In order to complement the work of the past two digital fellowships, the organisers particularly welcome applications that include a regional focus on Asia and the Pacific. They especially encourage applications from the Global South and from indigenous people. They invite tandems of academic and non-academic knowledge makers such as artists, journalists, activists, filmmakers, researchers, writers, architects and curators, among others. Please only hand in one joint application as a tandem!
Each fellow receives a stipend of 6000€ for the time of the fellowship. The fellowships are online, residence in Berlin is not required, you can work from anywhere in the world. Additional funds for realising the online exhibition (technical support to accommodate innovative digital formats and the commission of digital artworks) are available.
The Affect and Colonialism Web Lab is a generative space to discuss colonialism’s affective lives and afterlives. Knowledge makers within and beyond academia explore new modes of co-learning and creative forms of collaboration. The Web Lab allows for agile interventions on pressing issues related to the entanglement of affect and colonialism in various parts of the world.
The Web Lab’s three main areas are: (1) a platform for short videos by a diverse community of authors from academia, the arts, political activism, and journalism, (2) a podcast series, (3) a digital fellowship programme with a tandem of fellows curating larger online exhibitions every semester.
How to apply?
Your application should consist of each person’s CV, a one-page cover letter / letter of intent and a one-page idea sketch for a digital exhibition format that your tandem would like to realize on the Web Lab. Please send your application to: info@aac-weblab.net. Please make sure to send in your application until March 13th 2022 at the latest. We will get back to you with our decision by the end of March 2022.
The Web Lab is administered by the Collaborative Research Center Affective Societies at Freie Universität Berlin in collaboration with Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the German Research Foundation (DFG).
