The following open calls are supported by the alliance with researcher Susana Vargas Mejia and the New Frontiers in Research Fund from the Government of Canada. With national and international open calls, and partnerships with universities, the Center will be a dedicated platform for artists, museum professionals, academics, students, and independent investigators to explore art and its role in society and actively participate in the creation of knowledge around the museum’s collection, archive, and exhibition program.

Under this agreement, the Research Center will focus on three main areas:

• Research on the collection, photographic archive, and exhibitions developed by the museum.
• Residencies and fellowships for thinkers and researchers from various disciplines to interact with the Bogota Museum of Modern Art as a center for research, co-creation, and dialogue.
• Knowledge and co-creation spaces with academic activities such as research workshops in collaboration with universities, aimed at promoting knowledge and developing research in a practical and real-world environment.

Residencies at MAMBO provide emerging thinkers and researchers from diverse disciplines the opportunity to interact with the Bogota Museum of Modern Art, fostering research, dialogue and co-creation.

• Each residency will last 2 months, from August to October 2024, during which the research-creation project will be carried out.
• Participants will receive a stipend of 3,000,000 COP/1,000 CAD for their research-creation, supported by the New Frontiers in Research Fund of the Government of Canada
• The residencies will focus on utilizing the MAMBO collection, archive and/or exhibition program as the primary resource for research.
• This year, the following residencies will be offered: Digital, Research, Curatorial, and Conservation in New Media.
• From July 8 to 19, 2024, the call was open. A total of 183 applications and proposals were received from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Spain, the United States, Mexico, Peru, Portugal, Uruguay, and Venezuela, submitted by undergraduate and graduate students, artists, art historians, writers, designers, audiovisual producers, journalists, social communicators, anthropologists, philosophers, educators, curators, architects, musicians, sociologists, political scientists, art educators, archaeologists, conservators, and cultural managers.
• The jury for the first edition of the MAMBO residencies consisted of Eugenio Viola, Artistic Director of the Bogotá Museum of Modern Art; Juaniko Moreno, curator of MAMBO; Susana Vargas, coordinator of the MAMBO Research Center; and Elly Yazdanpanah, postdoctoral researcher at The University of British Columbia (Canada), whose practice explores cultural identity, museum practices, and public art.

*Digital Futures in Museum Practices is a research project led by Susana Vargas-Mejia and supported by the New Frontiers in Research Fund of the Government of Canada [Anita Sinner PI, Cristian Zaelzer Co-PI, Susana Vargas-Mejía Co-I, Trish Osler Co-I, and Samia ElSheikh Co-I, NFRF-2022-00245].

This residency is aimed at graduate and recent graduate students interested in curatorial practices and museum studies, who seek to enhance their skills through active participation with MAMBO’s Curatorial Department, with a focus on digital practices.

The Research Center at MAMBO draws upon research supported by the Government of Canada’s New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF) [Anita Sinner PI, Cristian Zaelzer Co-PI, Susana Vargas-Mejía Co-I, Trish Osler and Samia ElSheikh, NFRF-2022-00245, Worlding Higher Education Differently: Co-creating a Technology-Art-Science Commons].

El Centro de investigación del MAMBO es respaldado por New Frontiers in Research Fund del Gobierno de Canadá [Anita Sinner PI, Cristian Zaelzer Co-PI, Susana Vargas-Mejía Co-I, Trish Osler y Samia ElSheikh, NFRF-2022-00245, Worlding Higher Education Differently: Co-creating a Technology-Art-Science Commons].

Le Centre de recherche au MAMBO appuyés par le fonds Nouvelles frontières en recherche du gouvernement du Canada [Anita Sinner PI, Cristian Zaelzer Co-PI, Susana Vargas-Mejía Co-I, Trish Osler, Samia ElSheikh, NFRF-2022-00245, Worlding Higher Education  Differently: Co-creating a Technology-Art-Science Commons].