CREATIVE ARCHIVE ARTISTS' PLACEMENTS
Arts Council England and the BBC (for the Creative Archive Licence Group)

Arts Council England and the BBC, on behalf of 
the Creative Archive Licence Group, are pleased 
to announce two placements that are available to 
established artists working in any art form.

Two individuals will be selected to spend up to 4 
months on placement with the Creative Archive 
project, starting from January 2006. The 
successful applicants will have the opportunity 
to develop their professional career by 
undertaking research and producing new art works 
that creatively reuse sound and television 
materials from the BBC Archives.

The placements offer specialist support and 
hosting by the BBC. The BBC will provide access 
to BBC premises including adequate facilities for 
both artists during the course of their 
Placements. This will include providing the 
artists with such access to BBC personnel and 
facilities as shall be required for the purposes 
of each Placement, including editing facilities 
and other 'ordinary' resources. The BBC will 
provide an information pack to the selected 
artists no later than 2 weeks before the start 
date of the placements. The BBC will also offer 
an induction period starting on the day of 
commencement, which will include such information 
and introductions as are necessary to assist the 
artists in orientating themselves as quickly as 
possible within the BBC.

The chosen artists will be based on BBC premises 
(at a site to be agreed) and be provided by the 
BBC with a workstation comprising desk, 
telephone, networked computer, a BBC email 
address, and other ordinary resources.  Basic 
training in the use of equipment will be provided 
where necessary. Each of the successful artists 
will be eligible for a bursary of £10,000 to 
enable them to undertake this career development 
opportunity.

A description of the scope and aims of each 
placement follows. As you will see, they are each 
slightly different: one gives you the opportunity 
to work with any material from the BBC archive, 
the other with materials cleared for re-use by 
all members of the Creative Archive Licence 
Group. This affects how any resulting art works 
can be distributed or exhibited. The application 
form will ask if you have a preference for 
Placement 1 or Placement 2.

Placement 1: 'Unrestricted Access.' The 
successful artist will have unrestricted access 
to materials from the entire BBC sound and 
television archive, which comprises thousands of 
hours of full programmes and stock footage. The 
artist will be able to research, identify, 
preview and select BBC archive content in the 
formats available. It is likely that offline 
content will be viewed on audio and videotape, 
with the final selection being digitised for 
editing. The artist on this placement will have 
'free rein' to creatively reuse or remix these 
materials to create completely new artworks. Any 
resulting artwork(s) will need to be rights 
cleared for exhibition; but at minimum it is 
likely to be shown within the BBC's properties.
	Depending on the material chosen, content 
used by the artist on this Placement may not be 
capable of the necessary rights clearances to be 
able to publicly display or communicate the 
artworks outside of the BBC.

Placement 2: 'Unlimited Distribution.' The 
successful artist will have the opportunity to 
work with the wide range of archive materials 
that are cleared for reuse and distribution 
through the Creative Archive project. This will 
include television and film archives that are 
being released by the BBC, Channel 4 Television, 
the BFI and other Creative Archive partners. The 
artist will be supported as required by specified 
personnel to enable the artist to research, 
access and creatively reuse this archive material 
through video editing and/or the use of other 
technical equipment specified as 'ordinary 
resources' by the BBC.
Art works produced by the artist on this 
Placement will be generated from archive assets 
licensed under the terms of the Creative Archive 
Licence and thus they will already be licensed 
for re-use under a 'share-alike' license which 
will also therefore apply to new works produced 
by the artist during the Placement. For further 
information about the Creative Archive Licence 
please see the attached information.

Who Can Apply?
The Creative Archive Artists' Placements are open 
to artists with significant professional 
experience working in any art form and who are 
living and working in England only. Recent 
graduates are not eligible. Selection will be by 
competitive application. These placements do not 
constitute a contract of employment. These 
placements are being delivered as part of the 
Arts Council's 'Artist Time Space Money' project 
portfolio and by the BBC through the Creative 
Archive project.

How Do I Apply?
Applicants should fill in the application form 
attached, then print it out and send the 
completed form and a CV consisting of no more 
than two sides of A4 (font size 10 point or 
above) to:
CREATIVE ARCHIVE ARTISTS' PLACEMENTS,
Interdisciplinary Arts Department,
Arts Council England,
14 Great Peter Street,
London SW1P 3NQ

Please note that the closing date for 
applications is Friday 18 November 2005. We 
cannot consider any applications that are 
submitted after this date.

Guidelines on filling in the application form.
The application form includes the following 
questions, which you should answer as clearly as 
possible, by typing into the boxes on the form - 
which will expand to accommodate your answers.

1) Why are you interested in the Creative Archive Artists' Placements?
Please explain as clearly as you can why these 
placements in particular are of interest to you.

2) Please describe your work and professional interests.
Use this section to give us an overview of your 
art practice and tell us about the professional 
interests which inform your art work.

3) Please briefly list (in no more than 300 
words) three recent projects you have worked on 
or awards you have received. (These could include 
research projects, art works, exhibitions or 
publications of any kind.)
Use this section to give us some brief specific 
examples of your work. You can use this section 
to show us that you have a significant 
professional practice as an artist (working in 
any art form); to highlight previous projects in 
order to demonstrate your suitability for these 
placements, or; to highlight previous awards that 
you have received.

4) Please describe your interest or any past 
experience in working with radio, television or 
film.
This question gives you an opportunity to tell us 
about any previous work that relates to radio, 
television, film or other forms of moving image.

5) Please share ideas that you would like to 
explore during this placement or tell us about 
any areas of the BBC archive or categories of 
broadcast material that are of special interest 
to you.
Use this section to tell us more about any 
particular types of BBC archive material that you 
may want to explore during the placement. Are 
there particular subject areas that are of 
special interest?

6) Please tell us how this placement will help 
you to develop your career as an artist.
Looking at the development of your career as an 
artist, can you tell us more about why this 
placement, and the time, space and money it would 
bring, would be of benefit to you.

7) You will be asked to indicate whether you have 
a preference for Placement 1 or Placement 2. 
Please read the placement descriptions on page 2 
(above) and 'click on' the relevant box on the 
application form to indicate your preference.

A judging panel comprising Arts Council and BBC 
staff will assess applications for the Creative 
Archive Artists' Placements. It is likely that we 
will draw up a shortlist of applicants who will 
be invited in for interview early in 2006.

Follow the BBC links on the Arts Council's 
Creative Archive web page, or below, in order to 
find out more about the Creative Archive project, 
the Creative Archive Licence Group, or the 
Creative Archive Licence itself.


Arts Council England is the national development 
agency for the arts. Between 2003 and 2006 we 
will invest £2 billion of public funds in the 
arts in England, including funding from the 
National Lottery. We support talent from every 
sector of the artistic society. We are totally 
committed to equality and diversity and to 
ensuring that people throughout the country can 
participate in and experience the highest quality 
arts activities. Applications are sought from 
artists of ALL racial and ethnic backgrounds, 
including from underrepresented Black and 
Minority ethnic groups.
www.artscouncil.org.uk/creativearchive

The BBC is the UK's leading public service 
broadcaster. It exists to enrich people's lives 
with great programmes and services that inform, 
educate and entertain. Its vision is to be the 
most creative, trusted organisation in the world. 
It provides a wide range of distinctive 
programmes and services for everyone, free of 
commercial interests and political bias. They 
include television, radio, national, local, 
children's, educational, language and other 
services for key interest groups.  The Creative 
Archive project is a new initiative designed to 
provide free, non-commercial, access to selected 
areas of the BBC's television and radio archives 
for home and personal use.
www.bbc.co.uk/
http://creativearchive.bbc.co.uk


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