The European Media Art Network, delivering the yearly European Media Artists in Residence Exchange (EMARE) since 1995, expands and transforms into The European Media Art Platform (EMAP). With the support of the Creative Europe funds of the European Union, the European Media Art Network (EMARE) will expand its network from four to 11 countries, and transform into the European Media Art Platform (EMAP) by the end of this year. With this, the oldest media art residency program, the European Media Artists in Residence Exchange (EMARE), which will celebrate its 23rd anniversary in 2018, will be continued and become the biggest international residency platform for emerging media artists.

The members will include some of the leading media art institutions from across Europe:

• Werkleitz Centre for Media Art, Halle (Saale), Germany  (lead organisation)

• Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece

• Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Austria

• Bandits Mages, Bourges, France

• Foundation for Art & Creative Technology (FACT), Liverpool, United Kingdom

• IMPAKT, Utrecht, Netherlands

• Kontejner, Zagreb, Croativa

• LaBoral Centro de Arte y Creación Indstrial, Guijón, Spain

• M-Cult, Helsinki, Finland

• RIXC, Riga, Letland

• WRO Center for Media Art Foundation, Wroclaw, Poland

EMAP offers residencies tor new media artists in the fields of digital media, computer-based art, filmmaking, media based performance, sound, and video across its 11 members countries. Alongside this, participating artists are supervised and mentored by art market and film industry experts, as well as becoming part of an extended touring programme through the different members’ festivals.

The first EMAP/ EMARE call for artist submissions will be published by mid October 2017.