ICI Berlin - Kulturlabor Berlin

Application Instructions

Application Instructions FAQ

ICI-Fellowships 2010/2011

Core Project Tension/Spannung
Focus Kippbilder/Multistable Figures

1. Please read the

2. Please choose two recommenders who are able to comment on your suitability for the fellowship and the potential of your project. Ask them to send their letters of recommendation directly to application(at)ici-berlin.org, indicating your name in the subject line.

3. Please prepare the following material in English or German as rtf-, word-, pdf-, or jpg-documents:

A. Information sheet

B. Curriculum Vitae

Please include:

  • education
  • honours, grants, and awards
  • relevant positions, experiences, activities, and initiatives
  • publications and projects

Please do not include personal pictures or indications of age, race, ethnic origin, or religious affiliation.

C. Please include a copy of your last relevant diploma or degree certificate.

D. Project Proposal with Abstract

Please write an abstract (about 1.000 characters) of your project proposal.

In your project proposal (no more than 10,000 characters in total), please indicate:

  • the topic
  • the questions, and goals of your project
  • the methodology to be employed
  • any preliminary work done
  • a timetable of the planned form of publication (book publication, extended essay, exhibition, performance etc.).

Please describe how the project bears upon the focus Kippbilder / Multistable Figures of the core project Tension / Spannung and how you expect to contribute to an exchange with other fellows and benefit from it.

The proposal should demonstrate an interest to reflect upon the conceptual and intellectual basis of the project and to discuss it with fellows from various academic disciplines.

E. Work Samples

Please include a chapter from your book or dissertation, an article, work in progress, your portfolio, or some equivalent material or documentation. (No more than 50,000 characters or equivalent. Any of the following formats are acceptable: pdf, odt, doc, rtf, jpg, tiff, or audio/video formats rendered by standard web-browsers.)

Please make sure that your application is complete and send all the documents in one mail message of no more than 2 MB to application(at)ici-berlin.org.
If you cannot compress and reduce the size of your documents to this limit, please make your documents available through a web-site, indicating in your message the links to the documents to be considered for this application.

Deadline is 10 January 2010.

 

The ICI Berlin will confirm receipt of all applications via e-mail. If you don’t receive a confirmation within two weeks of your submission, please contact us at +49 (30) 473 7291-10.

Further questions? Please read carefully all the instructions, linked pages and the continuously updated FAQ before contacting us at info(at)ici-berlin.org.