OPEN CALL – MEDRAR INTERNSHIP PROGRAM 2023

Techies, bookworms, and arts lovers, this one’s for you!

We are looking for two interns to join our internship program at Medrar. You will get to be part of the arts & culture scene in Cairo and develop your skills within a supportive environment. If you’re a fresh graduate or a senior in university with organizational and/or technical skills, apply below!

Archiving Internship

The Archiving Intern will learn how Medrar’s physical and digital assets – content that is stored digitally, like photographs and videos – are managed and associated with programs and exhibitions. The intern will work directly with both the Technical Manager and Communications Officer to help store, manage, distribute, retrieve, and archive Medrar’s physical and digital assets. 

Medrar has a wide range of archive material specialized in publications related to arts and culture events since the early beginning of the millennium. The physical archive includes flyers, catalogs and brochures documenting various events and festivals in the different disciplines of visual arts that have occurred in Egypt, but also more broadly in the region since the early 2000s. The intern will research publication information and history and archive. Moreover, Medrar has an audio-visual archive of events from the same time period, being progressively made available on Medrar TV, which the intern will work closely with.

Hence, this internship will allow you to have access and closely explore extensive contemporary art experiences, events and practices in Egypt and the region that remain undocumented and unknown outside of Medrar’s archive. You will learn simple and practical archiving methods and you will witness, as well as take part in, discussions which are anchored by 3 main questions: Why is archiving important? How can it be useful? And what are the different possibilities offered by this practice?

If you ever dreamt of working with publications, have an interest in working at museums or festivals with large archives, and have a vested interest in exploring the arts scene and its productions in Cairo, this is the internship for you!

Job Description

• Watch & view different locally archived documentation videos across the years and add tags & categories.
• Add credited artists/curators/project managers/institutions data for documented events.
• For Medrar.TV Youtube channel, add virtual tags in google sheets for published videos to create youtube playlist for similar tagged events or for the different editions of same main event (ex. exhibition and events that tackle the perception of body, DCAF 1,2,3,4 …., Cairo Video Festival 8th 9th 10th … etc.).
• Filter through archived raw video material.
• Data Entry for CVF Website (Artists & artworks names, participating organizations & countries).
• Gather data about artworks submitted to CVF (ex. #techniques used #inspiring artistic movements #topics discussed).
• Organize Submissions info sheets for different CVF editions.
• Categorize & label available books & publications in Medrar’s Library.
• Add digital data for publications in the library.
• Research book and publication information and background.
• Organize the physical books & publications in a user-friendly manner.

Skills & Qualifications:

• Fresh Graduate or Graduating Senior.
• Fluent in English and Arabic.
• Detail-oriented and organized, with excellent time management skills.
• Excellent research skills and knowledge. Research-based majors will be considered a plus.
• Decent knowledge of Google Workspace tools (sheets, docs, forms, …).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Collaborative, team-oriented, and willing to learn.
• Interest in arts, archiving, multimedia content, publication, and library sciences.

Internship Learnings Points:

• Being in close contact with a huge amount of events & interviews associated with various arts & culture institutions and artists from different backgrounds.
• Gaining access to terabytes of submitted video artworks from all over the world & looking into a rich collection of publications.
• Learning some advanced archiving techniques using software tools (WordPress, SQL Databases, etc.). No technical background is required.

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Media Lab Internship Program

For the tech aficionados, our Media Lab Internship awaits you! 

The Media Lab intern will work closely with the Technical Manager of the multimedia lab and provide support in maintaining equipment and related technical activities, as well as the implementation phases of upcoming exhibitions technical setups. The intern will also work on organizing & collecting data about the device components, equipment state & usage frequency in the inventory. They will learn to efficiently and effectively organize different formats of exhibitions that require a diverse set of skills and they will be encouraged to innovate by proposing novel or creative strategies in setting up the screenings and artworks. Interns will discover and work with a very wide and rich scope of equipment. They will learn their different usages, setups, the possibilities they offer as well as the different challenges they can cause. Interns will gain hands-on technical experience that could benefit them later on in a variety of professional and casual contexts. If you are eager to drown in a sea of cables, gadgets and computers and figure out different ways to manage and utilize these assets, this is for you!

Job Description:

• Maintain & Setup the equipment needed for each of Medrar’s current activities & exhibitions (VR headsets, Cameras, Sound Systems, Projection, Screencasting, Attached Digitronic Devices, Media Streaming…).
• Get familiar with newly purchased equipment & installed softwares. (Ex: wireless HDMI transmitters, laser projectors, sound cards, 5.1 speakers, htc vive cosmos headset, cutting plotter …).
• Manage storage: inventory count & stocktaking of available equipment, devices, and accessories.
• Perform data tracking & reporting for rented equipment, most used/unused devices.
• Conduct research into new equipment and technologies for possible future needs.

Skills & Qualifications:

• Fresh Graduate or Graduating Senior.
• Fluent in English and Arabic.
• Huge learning capacity, especially when facing new equipment & softwares.
• Ability to organize different types of assets (digital & physical).
• Acquainted with the digital scene of used & trending technologies.
• Decent knowledge of Google Workspace tools (sheets, docs, forms, …).
• Technical know-how (adept at using various technologies and equipment).

Internship Learning Points:

• The intern will gain hands-on technical experience.
• The intern will discover and work with a very wide and rich scope of equipment. They will learn their different usages, setups, the possibilities they offer as well as the different challenges they can cause.
• The intern will learn to efficiently and effectively organize different formats of exhibitions that require a diverse set of skills.

The internships will start October 1st, 2023, and will last for 1 month (with possible renewal). You must be available 20-24 hours a week. The internship will be paid. If you have any questions, please email mona@medrar.org.

If you are interested in applying for either internship, please fill in THE FORM by Saturday, September 23rd, 2023.