The New York State Council on the Arts in Partnership with Wave Farm
Application deadline: January 15, 2018
Funding available for newly completed media artworks by New York State artists
The Media Arts Assistance Fund (MAAF) provides artists with up to 10,000 USD in support for the distribution of a recently completed work in all genres of time-based andmoving image media, including emergent technology. Distribution Grants enable new work to reach public audiences and advance public engagement in the media arts.
Requests must be for work completed within the 2017 calendar year. Funds are available for:
–Festival submission fees
–Distribution and exhibition format duplication and packaging
–Promotional materials
–Shipping
–Publicity
–Exhibition equipment and supplies
–Documentation
–Artist fee
MAAF is made possible through a regrant from the NYSCA Electronic Media and Film program. Artists in all regions of New York State are eligible to apply for funds.
Applicants are encouraged to read the MAAF Artists guidelines at wavefarm.org, and are may contact Wave Farm’s Media Arts Grants program (MAG) mag [at] wavefarm.org prior to submitting an application with any questions.
About Wave Farm
Wave Farm is a non-profit arts organization driven by experimentation with broadcast media and the airwaves. Our programs—Transmission Arts, WGXC-FM, and Media Arts Grants—provide access to transmission technologies and support artists and organizations that engage with media as an art form.
Transmission Arts programs support artists who engage the transmission spectrum, on the airwaves and through public events. The Wave Farm Artist Residency Program is an international visiting artist program. The Transmission Arts Archive presents a living genealogy of artists’ experiments with broadcast media and the airwaves. Wave Farm Radio is a continuous online radio feed and site-specific broadcast on 1620-AM.
Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM is a creative community radio station based in New York’s Greene and Columbia counties. Hands-on access and participation activate WGXC as a public platform for information, experimentation, and engagement.
Wave Farm’s Media Arts Grants program includes fiscal sponsorship as well as the New York State Council on the Arts in Partnership with Wave Farm: Media Arts Assistance Fund (MAAF) and New York Media Arts Map, which support electronic media and film organizations, as well as individual artists, in all regions of New York State through a regrant from the NYSCA Electronic Media and Film program. wavefarm.org
About NYSCA
The New York State Council on the Arts is dedicated to preserving and expanding the rich and diverse cultural resources that are and will become the heritage of New York’s citizens.
NYSCA Electronic Media and Film (EMF) advances artistic exploration and public engagement in the media arts. EMF is dedicated to experimental and creative expression in all genres of time-based and moving image media, including emergent technology. Support is provided for projects that employ electronic media, film andtechnology as an art form, including historical and rarely seen works that enable media arts appreciation. nysca.org
