Fearless City Mobile Project is a two-way social media system for marginalized residents and artists of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside (DTES). It is an interactive communication system that uses Mobile Muse 3's technology platform to confront the digital divide through peer training, skill sharing, collective collaboration, and open learning models.

What do you imagine can be advanced with mobile handsets, live screens, and a low-income inner city community? Small grants (including travel) are available for you to work in Vancouver to demonstrate how mobile can be an instant tool of media creation using a variety of strategies:  two-way rich media file sharing around specific themes or issues; Mobile video cameras, surveillance, live screens and public space; locative media such as QR codes, geotagging, and an accessible wireless mesh network; strategies to break the digital divide, employing accessible user interfaces; and more.

OBJECTIVE: To test the technical and conceptual potential of the Mobile Muse 3 platform, and use it to push the boundaries of digital storytelling, community engagement, and audience activation.

SCOPE: Short-term mobile media projects that engage a specific conceptual or technical question, and may fall along a spectrum from a solo exploration to rigorous community participation. Proposals should consider how they can engage Fearless City Mobile participants in some capacity of the project. This may include mentoring workshops, hands-on demonstration, gathering image resources, performing, outreach, or documentation.

ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS: Local and or international artists with a developed practice in media arts and a commitment to exploring the possibilities of mobile media devices and strategies. Local organizations that are interested in exploring the use of mobile media.

CONTRACT VALUE: $1,000 - $4,000 CDN, with a limited number of small grants of $500.00.

PROPOSAL ELEMENTS:
* CV and Bio;
* Project Proposal: should speak to the elements of the Mobile Muse 3 platform being utilized, technical experimentation to be explored, intended community process and engagement,  approach to bridging the digital divide;
* Schedule of Program and Deliverables (must be completed by March 15, 2009);
* Itemized Budget. Must articulate human and technical resources being provided by the applicant, and being requested of Fearless City Mobile;
* Samples of previous related work (0-5);
* Sketches, outlines or diagrams related to the proposed project.

DEADLINE: Immediately - Oct 31, 2008

ADDRESS APPLICATIONS TO: amy@fearlessmedia.ca

Websites

http://www.fearlesscity.ca/story/please-distribute-call-proposals