Location: Worldwide (project streamed on Boiler Room channels)

Award: Up to GBP 10,000 to produce the project, plus in-kind support from Boiler Room and a full release across Boiler Room's channels

Duration: Production timeline TBD by project; output is a streamed broadcast on Boiler Room.

Deadline: 17 May 2026

Open call for individual musicians, collectives, and curators to pitch a project to be streamed on Boiler Room. The fund looks to platform overlooked scenes and spaces, innovative programming concepts that prioritise underrepresented artists, marginalised communities, and forward-thinking collaborations. While Boiler Room's archive is heavily DJ-focused, applicants are encouraged to explore live performance, instrumentation, and non-club genres. Winning application receives up to GBP 10,000 to bring the project to life, plus additional in-kind support and a full release on Boiler Room's channels. Deadline: Sunday 17 May at 23:59 BST. This is the 14th edition of Broadcast Lab.

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Location: Doha, Qatar OR La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland (one residency in each location)

Award: Round-trip flights + accommodation + living expenses allowance + mentorship + QAR 30,000 / €8,000 acquisition fee for resulting artwork (museums' permanent collections) + participation in international exhibition as part of the Cultural Olympiad (including LA 2028)

Duration: 3 months (1 September to 1 December 2026)

Deadline: 30 Apr 2026

Joint residency by the 3-2-1 Qatar Olympic & Sports Museum and The Olympic Museum in Lausanne for digital and immersive media artists to critically engage with sports culture and Olympic Legacy. Residents get exclusive access to museum collections, mentorship and expert support. The Doha residency is hosted at QOSM; the Swiss residency is at La Becque Artist Residence in La Tour-de-Peilz. Open to multi-disciplinary artists worldwide aged 18 to 35 (as of 31.12.2026) whose practice involves a significant element of digital art (any new media form, possibly combined with physical media). Free entry. Submit in English via the official online form by 30 April 2026 at 23:59 (GMT+1).

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Location: Anywhere (legally registered nonprofits only)

Award: €5,000 unearmarked micro-grant

Duration: Starting point for long-term collaboration (mentorship, peer exchange, follow-on support)

Deadline: Closed 24 Apr 2026

Unearmarked €5,000 micro-grant for cultural and creative nonprofits advancing bold, unconventional practices toward a more just, inclusive and equitable world. Beyond the grant, recipients gain access to in-kind support, mentorship, learning opportunities, peer-to-peer exchange, visibility and networking. Open only to active, legally registered nonprofit organisations (not individuals; an organisational bank account is required), regardless of geographical location. Looking for organisations that place creativity at the core of their mission, prioritise disadvantaged and/or marginalised communities (primarily youth aged 16 to 27), and focus on long-term systemic change with a local-yet-globally-relevant perspective. Not interested in art-for-art's-sake, conventional NGO approaches, or amateur/improvised initiatives. The 2026 call ran 30 March to 24 April 2026, 17:00 CEST. Award decisions announced in September; agreements and disbursement by December 2026.

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Location: Global

Award: 3 x $5,000 category awards + $15,000 Gold Award

Duration: One-off prize

Deadline: 23 May 2026

International art prize across three categories, each with a $5,000 award: Legacy Futures (works engaging past, present and future, examining our relationship to technology, culture and time); Systems & Structures (works examining or critically engaging with cultural, ecological, technological and social systems via code, data, networks, biological or environmental processes, institutional frameworks etc., e.g. misinformation, machine vision, human-machine relations); and Experiential Innovation (works prioritising experience via participation, presence, sensation or environment, including live coding, performance, interactive installations, experiential VR/AR and cross-modal practices). The Jury also selects one Gold Award Winner across all categories, awarded $15,000 in 2026. Two-stage judging: an International Selectors Committee curates a longlist of finalists, then a Jury Panel selects the winners. Standard entry fee $45.00; submissions close 23 May 2026 at 19:00. If the entry fee is a barrier, contact info@lumenprize.org.

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Location: International (online submissions)

Award: 5 winners x €1,000

Duration: One-time award

Deadline: 08 May 2026

Open call for any form of digital art submittable as a video, around the theme 'RestArt Reality': screen-native works engaging with pseudo-evidence, invented archives, alternative chronologies, reconstructions and 'false' testimonies. Five winners each receive €1,000.

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Location: Online

Award: €1,500 to €7,000 per project

Duration: Project-based (work delivery deadline 30 October 2026)

Deadline: 04 May 2026

Open call for artists, curators and collectives worldwide to propose projects that take a clear-eyed view of internet histories and explore how they can open pathways toward more equitable futures. The brief: what protocols, networks, archives and shared conditions are needed to build the internet we actually want? Respond to netstalgia with error 406 not acceptable. Jury: Chia Amisola, Olia Lialina, Peter Sunde and Vladan Joler. Project deadline 4 May 2026 (23:59 CEST); work delivery 30 October 2026.

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Location: Kyoto, Japan

Award: Roundtrip flight, private accommodation and $800 USD stipend

Duration: 4 weeks (1 to 30 November 2026)

Deadline: 17 Jul 2026

Four-week residency in Kyoto for artists, curators and writers from anywhere in the world, working in drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, film, video, new media, installation, fiction and nonfiction writing, poetry, interdisciplinary or social practice. Open to all career stages, 21 and over. Selected participants notified by 1 September 2026.

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