GEN Center for Arts and Sciences is a Uruguayan institution designed to produce interdisciplinary projects in order to build bridges between Art, Science and Technology. The institution is a social connector, a cross pollinating platform where scientists, technologists and artists can devise new ways of influencing positive social change. Although it is an independent organization, it works in close collaboration with many governmental agencies, cultural institutions and companies. It produces films, TV series, documentaries, performing arts and multimedia projects.
One of the main aims of GEN is to stimulate, through widely shared artistic endeavors and large scale media projects, a new social consideration of the possibilities of education, a proactive discussion on how to change and scale traditional ways of producing goods, and an innovative exploration of how technology can be used in combination of biological research to protect our natural environment.
It is also an independent cultural venue with facilities especially designed for a wide range of activities. The key to Gen’s functionality is that it is a modular space, which adapts itself to each of its uses, allowing it to accommodate for a range of artistic and cultural activities. It is a project especially created to generate a wider vision of culture in Uruguay, with greater dialogue between the different pursuits of knowledge.
RESIDENCIES
We offer short term residences for artists and scientists from around the world, during which they will undergo creative processes, provide lectures, hold exhibitions and show their work and ideas to the public in open studios, establishing contacts with other artists, critics, curators and local thinkers and scientists. Residencies should be funded by institutions from the applicant’s country.
There are no specific call for entries or application dates. In order to apply for a residency, just, send us a mail including a detailed presentation in pdf format explaining your project, to the following address: contacto@gen.org.uy
