You may have noticed we've taken a bit of a break from Pixelfed lately. We were kind of thrown off by the fact that several of our Ukraine trip pics were being removed from the Pixelfed Local Feed moments after we posted them. We reached out to @admin @pixelfed to see why this kept happening but never heard back. This really had us stumped because we thought we were leaving shady social media politics behind when we abandoned Meta. 🤔

As independent artists/designers we'd certainly be best served by steering clear of all controversy and focusing on our wares. But we can't help ourselves. We wear our hearts on our sleeves and when we have transformative experiences - like a trip to a war torn country - we want to share them with you. And we'll have this impulse even if it means getting shadow banned from a platform. It's a risk we'll take to maintain our humanity in the short lives we live.

While we had planned to share many more pics from our Ukraine trip, we're going to cut this series short in order to give the platform some time to figure its shit out.

We'll finish out the next few rows in our grid layout and then we'll move on. We may pepper in the rest of this series at a later date if we feel the platform has matured and is able to receive the content without bias.

In the meantime, since we are designers and we are aiming for an aesthetically pleasing feed, we're going to archive our last two posts about censorship. But we'll screenshot them so we can continue the conversation here in the comments of this post.

We know this has been an earful so we'll leave you with this photo of some statues overlooking the vehicular wasteland of the wreckage of war.

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OPEN CALL
Nordic-Baltic Sound Residence Network invites established composers and sound artists to fulfill their creative ideas, applying for double residence programs. This project connects four residence centres: NOTAM - Norwegian centre for Technology Art and Music, (Oslo, Norway), DAR - Druskininkai Artists’ Residence (Druskininkai / Vilnius, Lithuania), Inkonst (Malmö, Sweden), Sound Art Lab (Struer, Denmark). The artists selected for the program will visit 2 different residencies and spend 2-3 weeks in each of them, working on their projects with professional technical support.

The selected artists will receive a fee of 2 711 eur, travel allowance up to 300 eur for each residence visit (600 eur in total), additional green travel allowance (350 eur), free accommodation and studio space, as well as administrative and tutorial assistance.

Application must include:
1. CV, contact info and portfolio (max. 3 pages) with 2-3 most relevant audiolinks;

2. Short description of the project with the estimated results at the end of the project period (up to 1000 characters);

3. Priority list of the residencies and dates preferred;

4. Motivational letter explaining why the particular residencies are chosen, as well as expectations from the visits (up to 1000 characters).

The application form:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

More info:
artdruskininkai.lt/en/news/202…

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