Rhode Island Nexus

PIXILERATIONS [v.7] is 11 days of exhibitions and performances using new media including interactive electronics, web technology and the moving image. This year’s fringe festival sweeps to the far reaches of the global frontier with provocative installations by Taiwanese artist Dar-Kuen Wu, Rhode Island’s Megan and Murray McMillan, and REDUX (Mark Cetilia and Joe Cantrell). Pixilerations extends its reach to new venues with performances at Firehouse 13 (Providence’s West Side), and Machines With Magnets (Pawtucket).

Part of the annual FirstWorks Festival, Pixilerations is a new media showcase curated by leading experts in the field. Local, national and international artists, selected from over 350 applicants, investigate issues ranging from the controversy around surveillance technologies to private space as commodity to the richness of digital technology as an artistic tool. Pixilerations is co-sponsored by the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and Brown University, and produced by FirstWorks.

Dear Designers - the clock is ticking towards RISCA's October 1 Grants deadline, which includes the Design Innovation Grant.  Below, please find a brief description of the DIG grant and a link to more information.  The goal of this grant is to provide an incentive for design creatives to take that fabulous idea they have sitting on the shelf, dust it off and bring it to the next stage of development.  The deadline is Oct 1 and one award will be given.  If you or anyone you know has any questions about this opportunity, please contact me! DIG Grant: http://www.arts.ri.gov/individuals/dig-guidelines.php RISCA recognizes that Rhode Island is home to a wealth of talented design professionals who are skilled innovators, entrepreneurs and problem solvers.  The DIG program seeks to encourage these professionals to develop plans and concepts that represent a high level of creative problem solving and innovation in a design field. 

The Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (RISCA) will offer one competitive $6000 grant annually to Rhode Island designers for design ideas that are highly creative and show potential for innovation and/or implementation.  Grant proposals should address one of the following goals:

• Innovation of a specific kind of design, process or application
• Creation of a product or service that has a potential public benefit

The DIG grant is a cash award for Rhode Island designers who demonstrate excellence and innovation in their field.  Awards are based upon samples of past work and proposals for future work.  Grant recipients are not required to pursue implementation of winning design proposals or completion of design projects.  However, award recipients will be asked to pursue the next phase of their project such as meeting with potential partners, creating more detailed schematics, creating a project development plan, etc.

Grant Amounts:
One grant of $6000 will be awarded each year.

Deadline:
October 1

Eligibility:

• Applicants must be at least eighteen years of age.
• Students pursuing graduate or undergraduate degrees in an arts discipline or an arts-related subject area at the time of application may not apply.
• Applicants must be residents of the State of Rhode Island for at least twelve consecutive months prior to the date of application. Rhode Island State Law (§ 44-30-5) defines a "resident" as someone "who is domiciled in this state" or "who is not domiciled in this state but maintains a permanent place of abode in this state and is in this state for an aggregate of more than one hundred eighty-three (183) days of the taxable year.
• Cristina M. Di Chiera
  Director Individual Artists Programs
  Rhode Island State Council on the Arts
  One Capitol Hill
  3rd Floor
  Providence, RI 02908
  (401)222-3881

A Better World by Design is a three-day internationally acclaimed conference in Providence, RI that connects students, professionals, and individuals from a variety of disciplines in order to build a global community of socially conscious and passionate innovators. Presenters share engaging stories, workshops teach creative skills, and discussions reframe perspectives. A Better World by Design is an immersive experience, one that deepens our understanding of the power of design, technology, and enterprise to reshape our communities and sustain our environment.

Why is our conference different? A Better World by Design is completely student organized and places innovation over individual success. We encourage the free sharing of ideas among engineers, designers, policy makers, professors and students and create a collaborative platform to produce tangible change, locally and globally. The conference will expose you to different perspectives—both theoretical and practical—on many relevant issues. How does an architect build for the poor? In 2008, we heard from Architecture for Humanity Founder Cameron Sinclair and learned to build with bamboo from RISD Professor of Architecture Miya Buxton. How can an enterprise be both profitable and empowering? Last year, we heard from Project H Founder Emily Pilloton on community perspectives in product design. Dozens of pertinent questions like these are addressed in presentations, panels, workshops, tours, and projects. And you’ll meet hundreds of inspiring professionals and students at social events. Any casual conversation could spark opportunities for collaboration.

The South County version of Open Coffee hosted by Michelle Girasole! Don't miss the opportunity to meet and network with your fellow entrepreneurs in the southern end of the Ocean State.