Events
Quantum Creative Challenge
Qollab, an emerging community effort dedicated to making quantum computing more accessible, are backing a small number of projects with a monetary grant, IonQ compute credits, hands-on support, and a spotlight for your work.
Project Funding Program For Media Art (Karlsruhe)
Karlsruhe’s Department of Cultural Affairs has announced its project funding program for media art. The focus is on projects specifically developed for public space that achieve high visibility and accessibility for a broad audience. The aim is to enable artistic works that use media-based forms of expression to reflect on...
EYEBEAM 2026 – Speculating On Plurality
This 2026 Residency calls on emerging artists based in NYC within the 5 boroughs to apply to the Open Call; artists whose practice and thinking act as catalysts in defining our paths ahead, and align with the theme Speculating on Plurality. This residency supports emerging artists seeking to further develop...
Scores For Social Software (UCLA)
Open call for Cycle 2 working group members to develop a score for social software over a 10-week development cycle. The project is faciliated by Casey Reas and is open to both UCLA Student and LA-based artists. The group meetings will include time for prototype testing, peer review, and discussion...
CCL at Royal Ballet and Opera
Apply to join an intensive week-long Choreographic Coding Lab (CCL) embedded within the Royal Ballet and Opera during the RBO/SHIFT Festival, alongside other creatives, technologists, and practitioners exploring AI in performance contexts.
Ambivalences – Artistic Creation in Digital Environments
The interregional cooperation programme Ambivalences – run by the three regional hubs of Brittany, Normandy and Pays de la Loire – is calling for projects of artistic creation in digital environments. The selected projects must be part of an artistic approach that uses forms of writing that renew or hybridize...
ACC CREATORS 2026 Residency
The National Asian Culture Center (ACC) invites artists, creators, and interdisciplinary practitioners to participate in a five-month residency program based in Gwangju, South Korea. The theme of this edition, Speculative Communities, examines designed and technologically mediated forms of community, addressing their potential and limitations in current and speculative social conditions.
KIKK Astronomy Residency 2026
Hosted by KIKK in collaboration with the University of Namur, this residency invites artists to explore astronomy and the cosmos through artistic and technological approaches. Projects may engage with themes such as exoplanets, space debris, gravity, time, light, data visualisation, sound, AI, or immersive environments. Residency takes place between 27/05/2026...
DIGRA 2026 – Call For Proposals
DiGRA 2026, the annual international conference takes place at Maynooth University (IR) from 14-18 June 2026, gathering scholars, designers, and artists around the theme “Intersectional Pleasures.” As part of the event, the committee has launched a call for an on-site Exhibition Showcase running throughout the conference. The showcase invites playable...
Intelligence – Exhibition Season Open Call
Intelligence is an invitation to think beyond singular, human-centered, or claims around machine intelligence. The Science Gallery (Bengaluru) invites a mirror, a provocation, and curiosity to reimagine intelligence— biological, artificial, creative, collective, and poetic. For this exhibition-season, they are looking to work with individuals or groups who are critically exploring...
KIKK x CCN Residency
KIKK Festival and the Centre culturel de Namur are launching an open call for the residency Art, Science & Tech 2026. Two artists will be welcomed to residence in Namur: one international & one from the Wallonia-Brussels Federation (Residency period: April 27 – May 22, 2026).
WILD BITS 2027 – Call for Projects
The technological art farm Maajaam (EE) is looking for installations, interventions, or process-based works that fit into a natural landscape and examine the human condition in today’s technological society. The artworks must be durable for outdoor conditions. Proposals can include new site-specific works as well as previously created pieces that...
S+T+ARTS Prize 2026
Submissions are now open for the S+T+ARTS Prize, awarded to pioneering innovations at the intersection of science, technology, and the arts. Winners will receive a total of €40,000 in prize money. The deadline is March 4, 2026. Photo: Ars Electronica / Martin Hieslmair
Prix Ars Electronica 2026
Submissions for the Prix Ars Electronica are now open. In 2026, the renowned media art prize is accepting entries in the categories Digital Humanity, Interactive Art +, New Animation Art, and u19—create your world. Participants compete for the four coveted Golden Nicas, each with prize money of up to €10,000....
FILE 2026 – Call for Projects
FILE – International Electronic Language Festival in Sao Paulo (Brazil) invites artists, researchers, educators, and creators from Brazil and abroad to submit works in the fields of installations, VR, AR and XR, digital architecture, artificial intelligence, animation, video, electronic music and AI, robotic art, and other emerging technologies.
Dataland AI Artist Residency
Dataland invites applications for their inaugural artist residency program in partnership with Google Arts & Culture. This new initiative is designed to support creators working at the intersection of artificial intelligence and creative practice, offering artists a rare opportunity to explore how AI can transform culture, storytelling, and design.
Implicit-Explicit Open Call
邊界_RG (Biānjiè Research Group) invites game developers, artists, designers, software engineers, writers, theorists, Unreal Engine practitioners, blockchain researchers and interdisciplinary practitioners to participate in the development of IM-EX (implicit–explicit) in collaboration with 邊界_RG.
UNESCO AI Ethics Residency
Somerset House Studios and UNESCO launch a new joint residency programme, which will commission three international artists to create new online works critically engaging with intercultural ideas around AI and ethics, supported by a remote residency.
Mesh Festival 2026: Open Call
Mesh Festival 2026 is now accepting submissions. Infrastructures of Care invites experimental artistic, research-driven, and collaborative projects exploring how digital technologies transform urban life and how hybrid spaces can become more just, accessible, and sustainable.
Soft Data and Common Wares 2026
Studio Tillt invite applications to the 2026 A-I-R Soft Data and Common Wares, at the University of Washington on the topic of Hyperlocality. The project is an interdisciplinary collaboration between the DXARTS Softlab and Studio Tilt. Both labs are interested in collecting, archiving, and critically transcoding data from the intimate...
Rijksakademie Residency 2027
The Rijksakademie welcomes artists to develop their work over a one or two-year period in Amsterdam. Residents are supported with a studio, a work budget and a stipend and benefit from an array of opportunities for exchange, including peer to peer dialogue and visits from a wide range of leading...
Microdosing A.I.
Microdosing A.I. is an online production opportunity for artists and designers facilitated by V2_ Lab (NL) and Marginal (RO). They are looking for 10 inspiring projects engaging with low-tech AI: systems that think, sense, or act without power sockets, big tech, or data centers. Apply anytime between 1 and 30...
Collide Stockholm – Arts at CERN x Nobel Prize Museum
Artists and collectives from any country are invited to submit a proposal for a fully-funded, two-month residency split between CERN (Sept – Oct 2026) and the Nobel Prize Museum (Nov 2026). This is an annual residency programme for artists with a distinct interest in science and technology who have a...
MUTEK 2026: Call for Projects
The call for projects for the 27th edition of the MUTEK Montréal Festival, taking place from August 25 to 30, 2026, is now open. This call invites digital artists, electronic musicians, and audiovisual performers to submit their projects for presentation at the festival.
Bing Space Art Residency
The Star Chain of Arts Project, led by artist Xu Bing, focuses on launching a series of satellites to create an independent and interconnected space art platform. The initiative aims to fully utilize the capabilities of each satellite to explore and expand the possibilities of interstellar curation. Its goal is...
Web Residencies No. 21 –– Polymorphic Futures
The Web Residencies call No. 21 (Akademie Schloss Solitude) invites artists to explore how blockchains can become engines of collective imagination and social transformation for 'Polymorphic Futures'. This call looks for proposals that experiment with the social, aesthetic, and political potentials of blockchain as a medium for world-building, and imagine...
25AV – Open Call
25AV invites artistic collaboration projects and collectives from across Europe(+) to apply for the 25AV Residency Programme, a pan-European platform for collaborative artistic production in the fields of media art, sound, performance, and audiovisual experimentation.
The Arctic Hideaway Artist Residency
Two-week residency during March and April 2026, offering time and space for reflection, creation, and connection on the remote island of Sørvær, Norway.