Intensive Mentorship
This 3-month Intensive Mentorship is designed for artists to have the opportunity to work as part of a creative team to nurture their concepts into tangible immersive artwork prototypes. The artist’s idea leads the project, supported by the technical expertise of a creative team and advice from a selection of industry mentors.
Where needed, participating artists may be paired by PICA with developers, technologists and/or programmers suitable to their proposal. Alternatively, artists may already have a preferred technical team they’d like to include in their application.
Over a three-month period, these teams will engage in self-directed and collaborative research and production towards their prototype’s development. Participants will have the opportunity to test and iterate their concepts and receive feedback from a variety of mentors.
This program acts as a laboratory-style development period for artists looking to work in an interdisciplinary way to design, test, prototype and evaluate an idea and expand their practice to contribute to West Australian’s growing immersive arts industry.
Participants will meet in person and online throughout the program to share their progress. At the conclusion of the program, an Open Studio event will be held at PICA where participants can share their work with industry and the general public.
The Intensive Mentorship includes:
- A fee of $7000 for a 3-month development period.
- Fees to support two key technical contributors (developer, technologist, programmer, etc).
- Monthly cohort meetings to share project progress and receive feedback.
- A series of guest mentors who share knowledge and provide feedback at the monthly cohort meetings.
- An Open Studio presentation of the prototypes at PICA, with the opportunity to receive feedback from industry representatives and the general public.
Key Dates
EOIs Open
Monday 10 March 2025
EOIs Close
Friday 31 March 2025
Applicants Notified
Friday 11 April 2025
3-month Intensive Mentorship Commences
May–July 2025
Monthly Cohort Meetings
#1 Introduction 3 May 2025 (online meet)
#2 Saturday 31 May ½ day 10am– 1pm (online meet)
#3 Saturday 28 June ½ day 10am – 1pm (onsite meet)
Open Studio at PICA
Saturday 26 July 2025
Eligibility
- It is expected that you will meet with your team as regularly as you require to develop your prototype.
- In compliment, it is expected that you will meet with your Creative Mentor fortnightly throughout the 3-month mentorship. These meetings can take place URL or IRL and are anticipated to run from 45-90 minutes each. Dates for these fortnightly meeting are to be set by the team and their mentor.
- This program is open to Western Australian artists only.
- Applicants are not required to have attended the Foundational Symposium but should demonstrate an understanding of or an idea of how to work with immersive reality technologies through equivalent experience.
- Travel bursaries will be available for any participating artists living in regional or remote Western Australia.
How To Apply
EOIs for this program are now open and close on 31 March 2025. All attendees of the Foundational Symposium are encouraged to apply.
Enquiries
Artists are encouraged to submit any questions about the program prior to making their submission. Please direct enquiries to Lillian Silk, Program Manager boorda yeyi on lillian.silk@pica.org.au.
