iLAB is a collaborative residency program between movement based artists and scientists, environmentalists, urban designers/landscape architects, architects and others that integrate creative practice within the different fields/disciplines through an engagement with the ecology of New York City.

The goals of iLAB are:

• to invigorate and re-imagine relationships between the public and the urban environment through kinetic experience,
• to engage artists and practitioners across the disciplines of dance, art, and the ecology of physical interrelationships such that we create and investigate innovative approaches to science, infrastructure, urbanisms, and architecture within a performative context,
• to support the development of process in engagement over product such that process is itself a product for artistic and public action.

Financial Support
For each residency iLAND will provide up to $5,000 towards artists fees, supplies and materials.

Residency Schedules
Schedules can be flexible to accommodate the team's needs but must be two weeks minimum and one month maximum during the months of May through October 2009. We encourage a renewable second year based on the progress of the initial process.

Proposals
Proposals should include an outline of the goals and plans for implementation of the collaborative process envisioned and should include a clear format for engaging the public in the project. The proposed collaborative projects may include but are not limited to performances, fieldwork, experiments, exhibits, installations, workshops, restoration projects or any combinations there of. Each proposal MUST include some form of public interactions/engagement with the creative process of the collaboration.

Selection Criteria
Proposals will be selected based on the projects ability to provide a clear collaborative process, its engagement with the ecology of New York City and it’s ability to engage the public in some way with the creative process of the collaboration. We encourage projects that engage the Brooklyn Littoral Zone in 2009.

Emerging artists/collaborators are encouraged to apply. The selection committee will place an emphasis on innovation, experimentation and long-term lifespan of the collaboration or project.

More Information
For more information please contact or 917-860-8239. We would be happy to assist applicants in suggesting collaborators for projects. Application guidelines are available on this website.