Currently 65 active open calls, across AI, arts, film, journalism, research, tech and cross-disciplinary practice. Hand-curated and updated weekly. Almost every entry is funded; a few notable unpaid open calls and festival submissions are included as clearly flagged exceptions. Browse the list below, or use the interactive desk for filtering and shortlisting.
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Fonds Podiumkunsten's route for Dutch festivals and venues bringing in exceptional foreign performing arts and concerts that Dutch audiences would otherwise not see. The applicant must be a Netherlands-registered legal entity running a venue or festival and carrying artistic and financial responsibility for its own programme, so individuals and sole traders cannot apply. Grants are calculated from travel and transport costs of the incoming artists, at a maximum of EUR 25,000 per production and EUR 75,000 per applicant across several productions. The core test is that the foreign work is rarely or never seen in the Netherlands and substantially enriches the existing Dutch offer, which favours experimental, non-canonical and cross-disciplinary programming over mainstream touring. Experimental music and sound-art programming is not excluded; the selection criterion is rarity and added value, not genre. Applications go through the Mijn Fonds portal and there is no fee. Four rounds run each year. TIMING: because the scheme competes against a shared EUR 267,500 per-round pot and assessment takes several weeks after the deadline, organisers should apply at least one full round ahead of the performance date and must not have the activity already underway. Success rate in 2025 was 60 percent of 33 applications.
Annual scheme funding festival organisations in the creative industries (design, architecture, digital culture, fashion, e-culture, etc.) presenting a 2027 edition. Application window opens 25 August 2026 at 15:00 CEST and closes 23 September 2026 at 16:00 CEST. Supports both content programming and the organisational/curatorial running of a festival; applicants must be organisations rather than individuals, but the scheme is the natural home for any artist-led collective or platform that runs a critical-AI / digital-culture / surveillance-focused festival event. Note the wider 2026 context: Stimuleringsfonds is restructuring its grant offering for 2027, and several individual schemes (Design, Digital Culture) have been reduced to two rounds in 2026. The Festivals scheme is a separate annual track and one of the cleaner ways to access SCI funding for an event-format project.
Joint open call from the Creative Industries Fund NL and the Cultural Participation Fund supporting platforms that develop design-based learning, covering product design, textile and fashion, spatial design and creative coding. Maximum EUR 75,000 per application from a EUR 720,000 pool, with regional quotas including the Caribbean part of the Kingdom. ELIGIBILITY IS NARROW: only foundations (stichtingen) may apply. Educational institutions and organisations already receiving four-year BIS funding are excluded, and individuals cannot apply. Deadline 23 September 2026, 16:00 CEST.
The Grey Space in the Middle in The Hague invites young transdisciplinary makers based in the Netherlands whose practices engage with the intersections of art, technology and society to submit an existing artwork for State of States, a thematic exhibition diptych unfolding across two group shows (27 November - 6 December 2026 and 7 - 17 January 2027). The exhibition explores how artists locate themselves within a state, political or holistic, informed by digital culture: statehood, belonging, digitalism, inclusion/exclusion, space-claiming and network-systems are the guiding keywords. Selected artists are divided into groups of five per exhibition; each receives a EUR 375 fee, and can earn up to EUR 725 more for co-organising and participating in a context programme developed collectively between selection and build-up. APPLY with a description of the artwork (max 500 words), up to 10 images, recordings for moving image or sound work, a portfolio and a link to socials/website. Deadline: 25 September 2026, midnight.
NOTE: this is a paid student research assistantship (a 0.2 FTE appointment) rather than a grant, and only currently enrolled students are eligible. Four student research assistants with a background in art, design or related fields are sought for a three-month research project on gender representation in text-to-image generative AI systems. The project treats artistic production as a research method: generative AI models increasingly shape contemporary visual culture, and these systems reflect, reproduce, and sometimes challenge cultural assumptions about identity, gender, and social roles. ROLE: each assistant develops an individual artistic exploration of gender representation in generative AI, with considerable creative freedom in approach, themes, prompts, and modes of experimentation; documents their creative and research process; participates in periodic group discussions and research meetings; and contributes to collective reflection on the project's findings. OUTCOMES: the four art projects will be presented in a collective exhibition on the theme 'Visual Imaginaries of Gender in Generative AI', and the students' documented experiences and reflections will feed into an academic publication taking an auto-ethnographic perspective on artistic engagement with generative AI. Applications are particularly encouraged from students interested in the intersection of art, technology, critical inquiry, and questions of gender and representation. APPLICATION: send a motivation letter and art portfolio to Piera Riccio (p.riccio@uva.nl). DEADLINE: 25 September 2026.
BNG Cultuurfonds funds arts and culture projects that add value for Dutch municipalities and their inhabitants, explicitly including temporary exhibitions, public programmes and festivals developed by professional makers. Media art, digital culture and cross-disciplinary work qualify as long as a professional maker's artistic vision leads the project. Only stichtingen (foundations) may apply: no sole traders, associations, individuals, or foundations in formation. Applications go by email to aanvraag.cultuurfonds@bngbank.nl with a signed form, a project plan of at most 3,500 words, a specified budget and coverage plan, current statutes and a recent KvK extract. The grant is EUR 5,000 to 15,000 and can cover no more than 35 percent of the budget. TIMING IS THE MAIN TRAP: for the 27 September 2026 deadline, feedback comes at the end of December 2026 and the project may not start before 1 January 2027, with applications for earlier-starting projects rejected outright with no exceptions. Missing documents are flagged up to one week before the deadline, so anything submitted in the final week cannot be corrected. Plan for roughly four months of lead time. Excluded: amateur art, talent development, education-focused projects, semi-permanent public art, publications, building or renovation, and regular operating costs. Further rounds: 3 January 2027, 28 March 2027, 27 June 2027, 3 October 2027 and 2 January 2028.
Resynthesising the Traditional is CTM Festival's long-term initiative co-curated by Stas Sharifulla, taking resynthesis (the computer-music method of analysing a sound to extract its components) as a metaphor for critically engaging with tradition and heritage, against conservative views of culture as frozen and untouchable. The artistic lab at its heart is an open toolbox for artists connecting to the traditional outside exoticisation, cultural essentialism and uneven power dynamics. THEME, AT THE EXTREME: this edition invites artists and practice-based researchers whose work examines the ethical, aesthetic and political implications of traditions entangled with extremity: intensity, transgression, transformation, marginality, outsiderness, endurance, conflict and excess. The call explicitly looks past the usual noise, violence and loud-popular-music tropes and past masculine codings of the extreme, toward current queer and feminist reframings, treating extremity as a relational condition, chosen or imposed, produced between majoritarian centres and their minoritarian outsides. Guiding questions include what it means to follow a tradition to its extreme consequences, who is allowed to push tradition to its limits and whose practices get framed as inauthentic or dangerous, what it means to practise tradition under war, displacement, repression or ecological crisis, and how traditions might offer ways of inhabiting extreme times. Preference goes to work engaging technological, bodily, aesthetic and theoretical forms at that intersection, especially in unexpected or rarely recognised ways. WHAT HAPPENS: theory and practice workshops from the co-hosts with individual and group exercises, closed 15 to 20 minute oral presentations by each participant, a solo public performance or presentation (15 to 20 minutes) at a free-entry event, inputs from specialists such as artists, researchers and technologists, guided individual and group sonic improvisations, field trips and site visits, and feedback sessions with the co-hosts and curators. AFTERWARDS: participants may propose new artistic work or research, solo or in collaborations formed at the lab, to the artistic team; selected works are shortlisted, and up to two are commissioned and presented at CTM in January/February 2028. ELIGIBILITY: an existing practice tied to (re)connecting with traditional ideas and sounds through a contemporary lens and how that overlaps with the extreme, plus clear ideas or questions about the next step you want to take. Approaches may be technological, instrument-focused, compositional, aesthetic, research-oriented or otherwise. Working knowledge of English is recommended, and any concerns about that can be flagged in the form. Up to six participants are selected by co-hosts Karina Utomo (extreme metal vocalist, composer and collaborative artist) and Luigi Monteanni (sound researcher and ethnomusicologist completing a PhD at SOAS on extreme metal in Bandung). The lab is a time-intensive full-day commitment and participants must agree to give the short public performance. APPLY through the form with a portfolio link (PDF, max 10 pages, public access, works from the last five years, text kept minimal) and a link to a specific audio track or section (max five minutes) that best represents your current practice. CTM asks that AI support rather than replace your own voice in the application. TIMELINE: deadline 28 September 2026; participants announced mid to late October 2026. Questions to resynth@ctm-festival.de.
A fully funded art-science residency from Ars Electronica and Ceske Budejovice, European Capital of Culture 2028, exploring how art and science can collaborate on urgent environmental challenges: climate emergence, sustainable agriculture, geoengineering, permaculture, water resource management, and the broader ecological impacts on local communities. Selected residents work in direct collaboration with local scientists in Ceske Budejovice. WHO CAN APPLY: artists, designers, creatives and artist collectives with more than 5 years of professional creative practice and documented interdisciplinary work; experience in community engagement and science collaborations is essential; applicants must be 18+, of any nationality, and legally eligible to work and travel in the EU. WHAT YOU GET: a EUR 24,000 package (EUR 6,000 artist fee, up to EUR 15,000 production, up to EUR 3,000 travel and subsistence) plus one month of housing covered separately; two winners are selected. STRUCTURE: the residency runs January 2027 to April 2028, with a required on-site stay of up to one month in February/March 2027, an optional stay in August/September 2027, and a March 2028 stay for festival installation, exhibition and deinstallation. HOW TO APPLY: online form with project title, a written proposal of max 250 words, a scientific direction statement (max 100 words), artistic vision (max 100 words), community connection plan (max 100 words), a super short pitch (3 to 30 words), 3 to 7 images, an optional 1-minute video, a portfolio link and contact information. Two-round selection (online application then interview); winners notified by November 2026. Deadline 28 September 2026 at midnight CET.
culture360.ASEF.org, the arts platform of the Asia-Europe Foundation, invites proposals from writers and content producers for its open call 'Arts in the Wake of AI': articles, podcasts and video interviews that foreground how cultural professionals and organisations across Asia and Europe are adapting to AI technologies, from generative tools and machine learning to recommender systems and algorithms. WHAT THEY WANT: case-study-based contributions grounded in real-world evidence, experiences or practices, on topics including the impact of AI on cultural diversity, fairness and inclusivity; the environmental costs of AI in the cultural sector; and AI governance in the cultural sector (policy, copyright, intellectual property and the ethical use of AI-generated cultural content). Academic research papers and non-arts subjects are not considered. FEE: SGD 250 per commissioned article, podcast or video interview. FORMATS: journalistic articles of 800 to 1,000 words with at least four credited images; podcasts and video interviews of 15 to 20 minutes. ELIGIBILITY: nationals of ASEM partner countries with previous experience in writing, podcasting or video production, proficiency in English, and knowledge of or involvement in the Asian and European arts and culture scene; an existing channel for further dissemination is an advantage; the work is fully virtual. Up to two proposals per application. Only selected writers are notified. Queries to culture[at]asef.org. Deadline 29 September 2026 at 6 PM Singapore time, via the online application form.
Gallery Route One, a nonprofit artist-run gallery in Point Reyes Station, offers a two-year fellowship for emerging artists from the greater Bay Area. WHAT YOU GET: USD 1,500 toward the production and presentation of work; a minimum of ten exhibition opportunities across the 24 months, including one solo show and one two-person exhibition; mentoring from GRO artists; publicity, receptions, artist talks, radio appearances and studio visits; website and social media exposure; professional development; networking with artists, donors and the community; and eligibility to teach in GRO's Artist in the Schools Program. ELIGIBILITY: artists aged 21 to 40 who live or work in the greater Bay Area within commuting distance of Point Reyes Station, with a serious fine arts practice built on training, education or experience, a portfolio of work from the last five years, and clear goals for artistic development and public exposure. Two fellows are selected each cycle. Applications are accepted 1 to 30 September 2026 via the form on the fellowship page. DEADLINE: 30 September 2026.
transmediale e.V. in Berlin invites applications for the Festival Curation of transmediale 2028, one of the leading festivals for art and digital culture, now in its fifth decade. The curator (an individual or a group) develops the curatorial concept and programme for the 2028 edition: establishing the festival concept, theme and title; developing the event and programme structure in dialogue with the festival management, executive and advisory board; selecting participants, projects and artworks; producing related texts; contributing to public relations and fundraising; and working within the festival team's infrastructure and budget policies. The programme spans discourse formats (lectures, panels, conversations, presentations, talks), workshops, a video and film programme, a performance programme, and art projects. Since 2025 transmediale invites a new curator for each edition, and it seeks curatorial approaches that bring genuinely new questions and reference points to the field, grounded in critical reflection and political engagement rather than technological trends. CONDITIONS: freelance position, December 2026 until March 2028, circa 70 percent commitment with full-time work from October 2027; EUR 40,000 net (individual) or EUR 50,000 net (group); Berlin-based or willing to relocate, with relocation required from October/November 2027; possible extension for the 2029 edition, decided in summer 2027. REQUIREMENTS: comprehensive knowledge of international contemporary and media art; a clear curatorial and thematic vision; at least 5 years of experience in programme development across multiple formats; solid fundraising experience for cultural projects; a supra-regional network in the art and cultural scenes; fluency in English or German. HOW TO APPLY: application form (download on the call page) plus a cover letter of under 700 words, via the submission platform only. Interviews (online) on 30 October 2026 with a panel including Nora Al-Badri, Inke Arns, Asia Bazdyrieva, Gabriele Horn and Jussi Parikka. Queries to apply[at]transmediale.de. Deadline 30 September 2026 at 23:59 CET.
UNPAID COMMUNITY CALL. Algorave Istanbul, the local node of the international algorave scene (live-coded music and visuals performed for an audience), is looking for new artists to create, experiment and perform with. The call names live coding, sound, visuals, audiovisual performance, and generative or reactive systems, and says explicitly that it is open to formats the organisers have not thought of yet. WHO CAN APPLY: artists based in Istanbul. There is no stated experience requirement and no selection process described. Applications close 30 September 2026. WHAT IS OFFERED: performance opportunities and collaboration within the collective. No fee, stipend or expenses are mentioned anywhere in the call, so treat this as unpaid unless the organisers say otherwise. APPLY through the Google Form, or email algoraveistanbul@gmail.com. The call is published in Turkish and English.
The mid-size project strand of Stichting Cultuur Eindhoven, the arm's-length body that distributes the city's culture budget, and the main municipal route for an Eindhoven organisation to fund a festival, exhibition or public programme. Awards go up to EUR 35,000 and cover a maximum of 80 percent of eligible costs, so at least a fifth of the budget must come from elsewhere. Unlike the Snelgeld strand this route is closed to individuals: only private-law legal entities established in Eindhoven may apply. Rounds run three times a year in fixed windows; the next opens 1 September and closes at 17:00 on 30 September 2026, which is round 1 of the 2027 cycle. TIMING: the decision lag is long by municipal standards at up to 13 weeks after the submission window closes, so a September 2026 application is decided around the end of December 2026 and activity should be planned for 2027. Given Eindhoven's design and technology profile, media-art, design and creative-technology programming fits the remit particularly well. The parallel Snelgeld strand offers up to EUR 5,000 on rolling intake, reopening 1 September 2026 and running until 31 December 2026 or until the tranche budget is exhausted, whichever comes first.
Waag Futurelab invites artists, theatre makers, choreographers, dancers, game designers and other creative practitioners to engage directly with seven experimental generative AI Enablers being co-created with technologists and dance, theatre and gaming professionals. The call is an invitation into the development process: selected artists get access to the technologies, datasets, interfaces and assumptions that shape these systems while they are still being built. Rather than testing whether the systems work, artists are asked to interrogate why they work the way they do, who they are designed for, what forms of creativity they enable or constrain, and what assumptions about culture, intelligence, authorship, labour, bodies, audiences and society are embedded in them. Waag is looking for individuals and collectives willing to move beyond adoption into investigation, and welcomes proposals that are speculative, critical, poetic, provocative, humorous, performative, constructive or disruptive, including work that challenges, misuses, reimagines, hacks, subverts or plays with the tools, exposes hidden biases, questions environmental costs, or imagines alternative technological futures. THE SEVEN AI ENABLERS, each requiring an on-site visit to its technology partner: the Generic Procedural Content Generation Enabler (text-to-3D assets and avatars, CERTH, Greece); the Data-Driven Cultural Content Adaptation Enabler (audience-aware creative content ideation with ranked candidate ideas, CERTH, Greece); the Cross-Domain Audience Engagement Analytics Enabler (turning heterogeneous cultural participation data into interpretable engagement signals, The Audience Agency, Warrington, UK); the Dance Style Analysis and Generation Enabler (dance video into virtual 3D choreography, dissected into body, effort, shape and space components, Centre of Excellence for Research & Innovation, Cyprus); the Immersive Design Integration Enabler for Dance & Theatre (NLP-driven XR environments with speech-to-3D scene editing, Cyprus); the Music-to-Movement Translation Enabler (audio into a time-aligned feature set spanning genre classification, emotional valence-arousal analysis, rhythm extraction and latent-space projection, feeding motion generation, spatial audio and visual choreography, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece); and the Adaptive Narrative Enabler for Games & Theatre (an evolutionary AI trained on creator-written story elements that generates infinite story variations, explicitly rejecting LLMs because of their dependence on copyrighted or public-domain corpora that encode 19th and early 20th century sexism, racism and imperialism, CAUSA Creation, Austria). ELIGIBILITY: artists, designers, creative technologists, theatre makers, dancers, choreographers and game designers, as individuals or collectives; applicants must hold a European VAT number. An info session with live demonstrations of the AI Enablers runs 31 July 2026, 10:00 to 11:30 CEST (meeting ID 995 7016 2341). Applications go through Homerun using the official Application Template, uploaded as a PDF; read the Guide for Applicants, which contains the full Enabler descriptions, before applying. Questions: zoenie at waag dot org. The AI Enablers and this call are part of the Horizon Europe project HAMLET, which aims to make generative AI accessible to cultural organisations of all sizes. Closes 30 September 2026, 23:59 CEST. Free to apply.
d/p is an independent alternative exhibition space in the Nakwon Arcade, the historic mixed-use commercial and residential complex in Jongno-gu, Seoul built in 1968. Its Curator Support programme, sponsored by NakwonSangga, has selected two to three independent curators every year since 2018, giving each an exhibition venue, curatorial collaboration with the d/p team, and a modest curatorial grant to develop and realise their curatorial practice. ELIGIBILITY: individual curators or teams with at least one curating experience within the past three years. The applying curator or team cannot participate in the exhibition as an artist; curators and artists must be clearly distinguished. SELECTION: approximately two individuals or teams. WHAT IS PROVIDED: a curatorial grant of KRW 4,000,000 including tax; use of the d/p exhibition space of approximately 187 square metres; and a five-week exhibition slot somewhere between March and December 2027, with installation and deinstallation time counted separately from the five weeks. PROCESS: first round is a document review of the APPLICATION and PROPOSAL submitted in the provided format; second round is individual interviews followed by final selection. Interviews are conducted offline in principle, but may be held online if the applicant is abroad or in other exceptional circumstances. HOW TO APPLY: submit the APPLICATION via the Google Form and the PROPOSAL by email to dslashp@gmail.com between 3 August and 30 September 2026. The proposal template is downloadable from the link in the @dslashp Instagram bio. File name format: '2027 d/p Curator Support Application_Applicant Name'. Submit as PDF; if the proposal includes video, provide a link rather than a file. KEY DATES: submissions 3 August to 30 September 2026; first round results announced in the first week of October 2026 by individual contact; second round interviews in the second week of October 2026; final selection announced in the third week of October 2026 by individual contact and on the @dslashp account. Inquiries: Minji Lee, Curator, dslashp@gmail.com.
NEXT ART AI is an open AI art competition run by the HOBAN Cultural Foundation, welcoming participants of all backgrounds regardless of career, nationality or age, and framed as a way to reflect on the future of AI art through new modes of expression and artistic experimentation. TWO CATEGORIES: AI IMAGE ART, for works in a single-image format at 150dpi or higher, submitted as JPG, JPEG, PNG or BMP up to 10MB; and AI VIDEO ART, open to a wide range of video formats including animation, motion graphics and live-action footage enhanced or transformed using AI, at 1080p or higher, under one minute, 30 or 60fps recommended, stereo 48kHz audio recommended, as mp4 (h.264) or mov. Video entries are submitted as a URL via YouTube, Vimeo, Dropbox or OneDrive, or an alternative platform if those are restricted in your region; links that are inaccessible due to privacy settings may be excluded from judging. WHO CAN ENTER: individuals or teams of up to three including the representative, though you may not submit both as an individual and as part of a team. Team representatives create the account in their own name and all members submit a consent form for personal data. Applicants under 19 need a guardian's signed consent. One work may be submitted per category. RULES ON AI AND ASSETS: work must be original and created by the applicant or team, and must be image or video art created using generative AI platforms. Works that have previously won an award in another competition are not eligible. Free or paid external assets, game engines, AI frameworks, open-source tools and editing software may be used freely, but applicants must hold licences permitting commercial use for every element, and work infringing third-party rights is excluded. Even where external assets and editing software are used, the creative process must involve AI, whether AI-assisted direction, transformation, generation or other AI-based processes, and the choice of AI tools, the scope and method of their use, and the prompts themselves are all weighed in evaluating the creative use of AI. TIMELINE: applications open 1 September 2026 and close 30 September 2026 at 11:59pm KST, preliminary round early October, final round late October, announcement and ceremony early November, exhibition late November 2026. Organised and hosted by the HOBAN Cultural Foundation, sponsored by HOBAN Group, with Seoul Shinmun and EBN as media partners. Details and schedule are subject to change at the organiser's discretion.
transmediale e.V. invites applications for the Festival Curation of transmediale 2028, the Berlin festival for art and digital culture now in its 40th year. Since 2025 transmediale appoints a new curator for each edition, each bringing their own positionality on the present moment in art and technology; the organisation is especially interested in curatorial approaches that bring genuinely new questions and reference points to the field, grounded in critical reflection and political engagement rather than following technological trends. THE ROLE: develop the curatorial concept and full programme for transmediale 2028 (last week of January 2028), spanning a discourse programme (lectures, panels, conversations, presentations, talks), a workshop programme, a video and film programme, a performance programme, and art projects presented during the festival days, plus events from longstanding and new partnerships. The curator works closely with the festival team, represents the festival publicly, plays an active role in fundraising, and contributes to transmediale's local and international networks. TASKS: establishing the festival concept, theme and title; developing the event and programme structure with festival management and the executive and advisory board; selecting participants, projects and artworks; producing related texts and contributing to public relations and fundraising; adhering to budget management policies and helping acquire additional financial resources; collaborating with the team and submitting reports throughout. REQUIREMENTS: comprehensive knowledge of international contemporary and media art with the ability to critically examine the intersection of art, technology, media, science, society and politics; a clear curatorial and thematic vision; at least 5 years of experience in programme development across multiple formats with an experimental approach (experience leading cultural projects is advantageous); solid fundraising experience for cultural and artistic projects; a supra-regional network in the art and cultural scenes; excellent communication skills, integrity and a collaborative mindset; fluency in English or German; alignment with transmediale's values. CONDITIONS: freelance position, December 2026 until March 2028, ca. 70% commitment across the contract period and full-time from October 2027; Berlin-based or willing to relocate for key periods, with relocation to Berlin required from October/November 2027; the position may be filled by an individual or a group. A contract extension for the 2029 edition will be considered in summer 2027. SUBMISSION: application form (downloadable from the call page) plus a cover letter of under 700 words, via the submission platform only; additional documents are not reviewed. Queries to apply[at]transmediale.de. Deadline 30 September 2026, 23:59 CET.
Social Dive is the Tokyo Biennale 2027 open call for art projects and artist-in-residence proposals developed through research and engagement with local communities across Tokyo. Participants immerse themselves in the city's neighborhoods, from temples and historic wooden buildings to business districts, train stations and shopping streets. Selected projects are developed at 11 designated sites: Toeizan Kaneiji Temple, Yushima Seido, Otemachi/Marunouchi/Yurakucho, Kyobashi, Nihonbashi, Yaesu, Kanda, Ueno Station, Tokyo Dome City, Akihabara Electric Town, and Bakurocho/Higashi-Kanda. Proposals must respond to the biennale theme From Me to Us and be presented during Tokyo Biennale 2027 (1 October to 11 December 2027). WHAT YOU GET: JPY 100,000 honorarium, round-trip travel up to JPY 300,000, accommodation in Tokyo, project development support up to JPY 200,000, venue coordination, interpretation and translation support, and an invitation letter. WHO IS ELIGIBLE: artists, curators, researchers, collectives and practitioners in related fields, aged 18 or older, from anywhere in the world; must be available for on-site research, collaboration and implementation in Tokyo with a residency of at least one month including the opening; one proposal per applicant. SELECTION: two-stage evaluation on theme responsiveness, originality, feasibility and community collaboration. DEADLINE: 30 September 2026, 23:59 JST. TO APPLY: via the online form with profile photo, personal statement (150 words), two key visuals, project summary and background, detailed description (400 words), budget breakdown and schedule, and CV or portfolio (max 5 pages). Free to apply.
The SÍM Residency in Reykjavík announces its January to February 2027 funded residency for four artists from the Nordic-Baltic region. The two-month program invites multidisciplinary artists interested in artistic research and production addressing sustainability, ecology, social equality and Nordic cultural narratives; artists from visual arts, performance, sound, digital media and research are encouraged to apply. Participants develop individual projects while engaging in studio visits with a curator, discussions, public open studios and talks, closing with an exhibition or public presentation at Seljavegur 32. WHAT YOU GET: EUR 2,000 stipend, EUR 600 travel, EUR 500 materials, accommodation with a private bedroom, a private studio, orientation, presentation on the SÍM website and social media, and connections to local workshops (sound recording, Fab Lab, ceramics, textile, darkroom). Funded by the Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture; artists are encouraged to seek top-up funding from their home arts councils if needed. ELIGIBILITY: a permanent address in the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, Åland) or Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania), any nationality; artists living in Iceland are excluded. A BA in visual arts or a similar field is required, or equivalent professional experience; candidates without one may apply with a letter of recommendation from a curator, museum or gallery. Candidates must commit to the full 3 January to 28 February 2027 period, communicate in English, attend all meetings and events, participate in the final exhibition, and have their project documented on the SÍM website. APPLICATION: a 400-word project proposal toward the theme, stating specific interests, why the residency matters for the applicant's career now, openness to collaboration, and environmentally responsible methods and material choices. CONDITIONS: no overnight guests in the residency apartment and no pets; artists are not required to leave artwork behind. DEADLINE: 1 October 2026.
One of the largest private funders of contemporary and new music in Europe, and it funds the organising side of the field rather than individual artists, which makes it directly usable by festivals. Eligible activity includes festivals, world premieres and revivals, composition commissions, events, academies and workshops, education projects, symposia and musicological publications. Experimental and contemporary sound programming is the core remit; this is not a classical-repertoire fund. There are two annual deadlines: 1 October at 14:00 CEST for projects starting the following year with decisions by year-end, and 1 March for projects starting in July or later with decisions by end of June. Grant sizes are not published, and the Foundation aims funding at artistic rather than overhead costs. Only the organising institution may apply and only legal entities qualify: cultural institutions, orchestra managers, festival organisers and ensembles. Self-applications and applications from individuals are explicitly refused. VOLUME LIMITS are strict and worth planning around: each institution may submit one application per deadline, may be supported for only one project per year, and may be supported for a maximum of three projects across three consecutive years.
Anima, the Brussels International Animation Film Festival, is open for submissions for its 46th edition (19 to 28 February 2027). CATEGORIES: feature films, feature films for children, international professional short films, international student films, international short films for children, national (Belgian) short films, and short films in virtual reality. Films must be completed after June 2025. Submissions are free via the festival's online form until 2 October 2026. Winners in the main competitions receive cash prizes and an Anima trophy; the prize list for 2027 is published in late January. Anima is an Academy Award and BAFTA qualifying festival, and a small, approachable festival for animated and animation-adjacent experimental work. Notification to filmmakers on 4 December 2026.
The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in China, in partnership with artist-run space Making Space in Guangzhou, invites Netherlands-based artists, makers, curators, writers, researchers and other cultural practitioners to a six-week residency in spring 2027. Making Space (est. 2017) focuses on art and social practice with an emphasis on long-term research, local knowledge and care-driven collaboration. The residency is process-oriented with no obligation to produce finished work; the resident takes part in at least one public exchange (talk, workshop, reading group, screening, performance or open studio). SUPPORT: EUR 2,700 travel and artist fee subsidy (fixed per application; duos or collectives share the amount), accommodation in Guangzhou, shared studio space, curatorial and research support with access to local networks, and logistical support for public programming (extra funding may be considered for public programmes). The resident arranges their own China visa; Making Space provides an invitation letter. LOOKING FOR: practitioners engaging with alternative education, ecological justice, migration and labour, social practice, intergenerational narratives, diaspora and transdisciplinary collaboration; English communication required. APPLY by email (makingspace2017@gmail.com) with a 200-word bio, CV, 2-page project proposal and portfolio (max 20 pages) in a single PDF, in English. Result expected late November 2026. Deadline: 3 October 2026, 23:59 CST / 17:59 CEST.
The curatorial strand of the Braunschweig Projects fellowship programme at Braunschweig University of Art (HBK Braunschweig), funded by the State of Lower Saxony, offers one curator a twelve-month fellowship beginning 1 April 2027. The fellow develops a curatorial concept culminating in a final exhibition and presentation in January/February 2028; projects should ideally connect to a museum, collection or cultural institution in Lower Saxony. WHAT YOU GET: EUR 1,600 per month for twelve months, a rent-free studio apartment designed for one person (with a EUR 250 monthly contribution towards incidental living costs charged to the fellow), a subsidy of up to EUR 4,000 to support exhibition activities and a EUR 2,000 travel budget. ELIGIBILITY: applicants must have gained initial curatorial experience of at least three years; no formal degree is specified. Fellows may not hold regular income from third parties or other state funding during the fellowship, and must spend at least eight months of the HBK lecture period on site in Braunschweig. Participation in the Welcome Weeks (19 to 30 April 2027) and the final presentation is mandatory. APPLICATION: submit a project draft covering research, preparation, implementation, budget and communication plans via the HBK application portal. DEADLINE: 4 October 2026, 23:59. The artistic fellowships strand (fine arts and sound art) runs in parallel with the same deadline.
In partnership with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (UK Branch), Delfina Foundation welcomes applications from contemporary visual artists from Portugal, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde and Sao Tome and Principe for a London residency from 28 June to 17 September 2027, during Delfina's open summer season dedicated to independent research. ELIGIBILITY: applicants must be born in one of the six eligible countries (individuals currently based in the UK are not eligible); be seeking to develop their practice through research; be able to explain how an international residency may benefit their career development and local networks; and be proficient in English (the interview is conducted in English). Collectives and duos are advised to put forth one member to be in residence. THE PROGRAMME: alongside time and space to develop their work, residents get guided visits to museums, galleries, non-profits, artist-run spaces and studios, plus trips to institutions outside London; opportunities to meet artists, curators, academics and researchers through organised presentations, studio visits, events and meals; professional development including presentations and crits, portfolio reviews and mentoring; and collaborative exchange between residents through informal gatherings and meals. APPLY via the online application form (Cognito Forms, save-and-resume supported); Delfina strongly recommends reading the Guidance Notes document carefully before starting. All applicants notified by mid-November 2026. Deadline Sunday 4 October 2026, 23:59 BST.
Peripheral Acts is an experimental, artist-led residency programme supporting artistic production alongside dialogue, exchange and site-responsive experimentation, rooted in everyday urban life in the UAE. The second edition, Leaning Out, takes residential balconies as its site: suspended between private life and public view, the balcony becomes a stage for negotiations between host and guest, inhabitant and observer, framing questions of privacy, voyeurism, belonging and ownership. STRUCTURE: three commissioned artists take part in two phases. Phase 1 is four in-person gatherings hosted by residency programmer Shazia Salam in Dubai and Abu Dhabi (1, 7, 14 and 21 November 2026, roughly two hours each; attendance at all four is expected). Phase 2 is a one-month balcony takeover per artist (January, February or March 2027), during which each resident also hosts one (semi-)public event sharing their practice and process. There is no fixed formula for what can happen on the site; interventions are shaped by its conditions, permissions and chance encounters, carefully testing the possibilities and boundaries of informal public intervention in the UAE. FUNDING: AED 1,000 commission fee plus AED 1,500 production budget per artist. ELIGIBILITY: artists currently based in the UAE with easy, ongoing access to a residential balcony (their own or one belonging to a friend or family member). Questions: shaziasalam.92@gmail.com. APPLY via the Google Form. DEADLINE: 4 October 2026.
The International Bad Video Art Festival (BVAF) is an independent, artist-run initiative founded in 2017 by video artists and B-movie fans Natalia Monakhova and Andrey Slaschilin to explore whether something like bad video art exists. While B-movies have long formed a cultural niche with their own heroes and fans, the concept of bad has not been explored as actively in other art sectors; the festival studies extreme forms of video art and singles out certain works as bad videos or B-videos, probing questions of quality and boundaries in art. The IX edition takes place in November 2026 at Civico 23 Art Space in Salerno, Italy. WHAT THEY WANT: videos at the intersection of bad art, bad painting and bad cinema, meeting any of these criteria: technically poor (low resolution, over- or underexposed, unstabilized, wrong focus, poor or absent sound, bad editing, wrong color correction); lacking content (irrelevant, empty, shot just for the sake of it, without purpose, idea or concept); or consciously or unconsciously exploiting the aesthetics of camp, trash or B-movies. When submitting, explain why you consider your video to be bad; no concept statement needed. RULES: one video per artist or collective, between 1 and 8 minutes. No animation, no videos made by people under 18, no family home videos, no porn. Dialogue in languages other than Italian needs Italian subtitles, or send an SRT file and the festival will assist with translation. APPLICATION: free, via Google Form linked from the festival site. DEADLINE: 5 October 2026.
The Chaos Communication Congress is the Chaos Computer Club's annual symposium, hacker party and platform for technology, society and civil rights: four days between Christmas and New Year's Eve in Hamburg, the longest-running German IT security conference and the biggest European hacker gathering. The 40th edition (40C3) runs under the motto Model Citizens and launches several calls at once. MAIN-STAGE TRACKS (deadline 9 October 2026, 23:59 UTC; notification 3 November): Art, Culture and Beauty (lectures, lecture performances and reports on artistic work showing the body as training data, as a catwalk, as a score, or locking itself against the model; dismantling monitoring systems while cutting a good figure); Ethics, Society and Politics (fighting excessive surveillance infrastructure, autonomy instead of behavior-determining systems); Security and Hacking; Hardware; Science; Entertainment (game shows, galas, glitch battles); and Chaos Community Creations. Talks get 60-minute slots by default; commercial marketing is rejected without consideration. Submit via cfp.cccv.de/40c3/cfp. CALL FOR ART (deadline 10 October, decisions early November): installations at and around the Hamburg Messe, from large and small light works, sound works for corridors, hidden in-between spaces, artistic workshops, works that grow or fall apart over four days, unannounced performances, machines, smells and texts on walls; no exhibition history or CV needed, first works expressly welcome; describe the idea with a sketch or photos, space, power, setup time and material costs, and submit early via the Call for Art pretalx. CHAOS COMPUTER MUSIC CLUB AND CHILL FLOOR: performances, DJ sets, self-built instruments, bands with a political message, plus workshops and talks on music and hacking; include a link to your latest work or the application cannot be considered. CALL FOR PUNK (deadline 1 November, response by 1 December): musical contributions for the unofficial Spaeti stage, punk as attitude rather than genre; no ticket assistance for this one. Congress: 27 to 30 December 2026.
Cas-co and Kunsthal Mechelen invite Belgium-based emerging curators, writers, critics, researchers, art historians and research-based practitioners to apply for the Ernest Albert Invitational 2027, a four-month Reflective Residency at Cas-co in Leuven within the Off the Grid programme. The Reflective Resident joins the four artists of Cas-co's Artistic Development Residency from 14 January to 14 May 2027, developing an independent research trajectory while closely following the questions, processes and conversations emerging within the group. Reflection is understood as an active practice: creating connections, introducing perspectives, asking questions and generating new contexts around artistic work. The residency culminates in a Reflective contribution to the public programme of the group exhibition at Kunsthal Mechelen, 4 June to 29 August 2027, curated by Jessica Meuleman (Kunsthal Mechelen), Zuzanna Rachowska and Arthur Cordier (Cas-co). SUPPORT: EUR 1,100 artist fee per month, EUR 120 transportation allowance per month, and a one-time production budget of EUR 600 (EUR 5,480 total including VAT). ELIGIBILITY: Belgium-based; priority goes to applicants early in their careers, with limited institutional access, or developing interdisciplinary research practices around contemporary art. HOW TO APPLY: one PDF (max 10 MB) with a description of your practice, a proposal, CV and portfolio, via the online application form (Google Form linked from the call page). Jury meets 26 October 2026; selection announced 4 November 2026. Queries to arthur[at]cas-co.be. Deadline 14 October 2026 at 23:59 CET.
The larger of The Hague's two municipal project bands and the appropriate route for an organisation running a festival or substantial public programme in the city. Awards range from EUR 10,000 to 30,000 against an annual ceiling of EUR 600,000 for the whole strand. THE CO-FINANCING REQUIREMENT IS SEVERE and is the single most important planning constraint: the municipal culture budget may fund at most 30 percent of the total project budget, so an applicant seeking EUR 30,000 must already have roughly EUR 70,000 secured or plausibly projected elsewhere. Only legal entities may apply; individuals and informal collectives must use Category A instead (EUR 2,000 to 10,000, 70 percent coverage ceiling, next window 1 to 15 September 2026). Professional arts and culture organisations running public projects in music, theatre, dance, film, literature, visual arts or combinations are eligible. The next window opens 1 October and closes at 17:00 on 15 October 2026. TIMING: the decision term is 12 weeks after the window closes, so an October 2026 application is decided around early January 2027 and activity should be scheduled from 2027 onward. Applications are handled through the municipality's subsidy system, which migrated to Easyfunders in April 2026. This scheme is independent of Stroom Den Haag. The underlying regulation runs to 31 December 2028.
An open call for at least 10 short performances of maximum 15 minutes for the 12th edition of Teatri Riflessi in Zafferana Etnea, Sicily. THE FORMAT: the competition champions the short performance in its own right, not as a reduction of a longer work nor as a sketch for a full-evening adaptation; its strength is the artistic immediacy and urgency it carries. The framing connects ancient Greek theatre, conceived as an outdoor competition for a large audience, to the more provocative tendencies of happenings and performance art that lean on the beholder's desire to participate. STRUCTURE: semi-finalists perform on the evenings of Thursday 15 and Friday 16 July 2027; the Programmers' Panel and the Scholars' & Critics' Panel determine the finalists, who perform again in the final on Sunday 18 July. The panels bring together around 30 Italian and international artistic directors, curators, festival and theatre programmers, journalists, critics and performing arts scholars, many from the Teatri Riflessi Network and Anticorpi XL Network; the full list is published in June 2027. Past partner organisations include Antistatic Festival (Sofia), ATER Fondazione, BIG Festival, Cantieri Danza, Circuito CLAPS, COORPI, Dance ICONS (Washington DC), Danza Urbana, Derida Dance Centre, EN-KNAP and Spanski Borci (Ljubljana), Fabbrica Europa, Festival Ammutinamenti, Cluny Danse (France), Danza Canarias dentro y fuera (Tenerife), FIND Festival, Fondazione Armunia and Festival Inequilibrio, Fondazione Claudia Lombardi per il teatro (Lugano), Fondazione Sipario Toscana, Fondazione Toscana Spettacolo, Galway Dance (Ireland), Interplay Festival (Turin), L'Arboreto Teatro Dimora, La Piccionaia, Movimento Danza, New Dance For Asia International Festival (Daegu), Puglia Culture, Toplocentrala (Sofia) and Umbria Danza Festival. MONEY: each selected performance receives a gross fee of EUR 500 to EUR 1,100 depending on cast size, plus a possible travel contribution of up to EUR 250. Awards are Best Performance EUR 1,200 (from the combined weighted scores of both panels, the Jury of the Final, the Youth Jury and the Citizens' Jury), Best Dramaturgy EUR 500 and the Scholars' and Critics' Award EUR 500 (both from the Scholars' & Critics' Panel), Best Direction EUR 500 and Best Performer EUR 500 (both from the Programmers' Panel), the 'Valentina Nicosia' Fund of EUR 500 (joint decision of both panels), the 'Sandra Bressan' research fund of EUR 1,800 (awarded by the Citizens' Jury to reinvite a company to Sicily to work with the community), and the Youth Jury Award of EUR 300 to a semi-finalist, alongside the Audience Special Mention, the Companies' Choice Award and the Technical Crew Award. Fees, reimbursements and prizes are paid after the festival, provided all regulations and deadlines are met. FEES TO APPLY: none. Only selected companies pay a EUR 50 deposit on selection, fully refunded after the festival. RULES: performances should aim for 15 minutes, with total stage occupancy including set-up and dismantling capped at 20 minutes. Multiple entries are allowed but need a separate form each. No major changes are permitted after selection; minor adjustments, especially cast substitutions, must be communicated in advance and authorised by IterCulture APS. Works in languages other than Italian are welcome and are presented with Italian and English surtitles prepared by IterCulture APS. APPLICATION: a digital form linked in Article 5 of the open call regulations, with Annex A for dramaturgy (the complete script where one exists, or for dance, physical theatre and non-text work a short document on the dramaturgical research and choreographic structure) and a full video recording of the complete work; excerpts and teasers are not accepted, and for rehearsed readings, directorial notes on costumes, lighting and set design are mandatory. COMMITMENT: rehearsal attendance is compulsory, with the day assigned by the Competition Manager after selection; companies must arrive in Zafferana Etnea by their rehearsal day (rehearsals run 13 and 14 July 2027) and stay until the festival closes at 23:30 on Sunday 18 July. Rehearsals and public events run mainly in afternoons and evenings; the only compulsory morning commitment is the panel feedback session on Sunday 18 July. Online information sessions are held on Google Meet on Tuesday 22 September 2026, with the English session at 19:30 CEST. Deadline 15 October 2026 at 5pm CET.
Welcome to my Homepage is an international online residency hosted by The Museum of Human Achievement in Austin, Texas, offering artists a low-stakes opportunity to experiment, explore the web as a site for creative production, and reach new audiences with net art (artwork created on and experienced exclusively through the internet). Founded in 2014, it has hosted over 150 artists. THIS ROUND (Oulu Edition) is open only to applicants in the Oulu, Finland area, as a collaboration between the UNESCO Cities of Media Arts Oulu and Austin, and especially seeks proposals that consider digital culture from a northern perspective, bring an Arctic point of view, or take inspiration from the edges rather than the center. Selected residents (3 per cycle) receive a EUR 500 stipend, the mmm.page drag-and-drop web builder (no coding needed; hosting on your own domain is also fine), virtual studio visits, mentor conversations and promotion. Projects are shown online at welcometomyhomepage.net and in person at pop-up exhibitions alongside 3 Austin artists at the Frozen People Festival in Oulu and at MoHA in Austin. WHO IT IS FOR: all types of creative folks, no coding necessary and no need to be a net or digital artist (past residents include performers, poets, puppeteers, filmmakers, healthcare workers and musicians); the programme especially welcomes people who have not had an opportunity like this before, would benefit from a flexible online residency, or want time to experiment. Collectives can apply via a primary contact. NOT ELIGIBLE: applicants outside the Oulu area (this round only), under-18s, undergrad or grad students enrolled in an art, design or media programme during the residency, and full-time university faculty in such programmes. Jurors look for thoughtful, interesting, fun or challenging proposals achievable within the 3-week online residency; proposals for existing creative projects, promotional pages (portfolio or band sites) or projects relying heavily on visitor submissions are less successful, and the work should be experienceable fully from the browser. APPLICATION: statement of interest or residency proposal (max 300 words), artist statement (max 200 words), bio (max 200 words), and work samples (up to 4 links and/or a PDF of up to 10 images); brief and honest is preferred over fancy and academic. Selection is by a jury of Oulu Urban Culture staff, an Oulu artist, MoHA staff and a past resident, led by Residency Director Rachel Stuckey. Applicant info session online on 1 October 2026, 5pm EEST. Notification by late October 2026. Deadline 15 October 2026, 23:59 EEST. The next call open to applicants from anywhere is expected in early 2027.
Dublin City Council's Creative Hubs programme, delivered by The Ark and curated by IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Art), invites submissions for its 5th Visual Arts Exhibition Commission: an exhibition created for children, schools and families, located in Ballyfermot Library for approximately 10 weeks from April to June 2027. Proposals should respond to a general theme of nature and the natural world, in line with IMMA's ongoing programme on climate, culture and collective action (Earth Rising). The commissioned exhibition must give children under 12 a quality visual arts experience, engage with the library setting and the Ballyfermot context, and include opportunities for children to experience the artist's process (a studio visit or field trip plus an audio or video interview by children before the exhibition opens); the artist also contributes to an education and learning programme led by IMMA. Previous commissions in the series went to Aideen Barry (2015), Barbara Knezevic (2019), Jane Locke (2022) and Lucy McKenna (2024). WHAT YOU GET: EUR 10,000 for research and delivery of the commissioned works, technical installation support from IMMA, mentorship from the Arts Office if requested, and an associated education programme run by IMMA across the exhibition's run. APPLICATION: a short proposal, a brief history of your work and the principles of your practice, and a broad outline of your idea for an accessible and engaging visual arts exhibition for children; submitted via the Dublin City Arts Office Submittable page. Assessment: quality visual arts experience for children 30 percent, engagement with the library context 20 percent, cognisance of the target age group and input on the engagement programme 30 percent, feasibility and R&D structure 20 percent. A maximum of five proposals are shortlisted; shortlisted artists meet representatives of the Arts Office, Dublin City Libraries, The Ark and IMMA on 29 October 2026, with the award notified in the week of 2 November 2026. DEADLINE: 15 October 2026, 12 noon.
The Elephant Trust, founded by Roland Penrose and Lee Miller, funds experimental visual art in the UK and is one of the few no-fee UK funds for individual artists with a live deadline this autumn; the round opened 18 September 2026. It funds making new work and realising exhibitions and is historically sympathetic to experimental and unconventional projects, so media and installation work is fundable even though the Trust is an art fund rather than an art-tech institution. WHAT YOU GET: grants of up to GBP 5,000, with typical awards between GBP 2,000 and GBP 5,000; projects with a total budget exceeding GBP 30,000 are not supported. ELIGIBILITY: individual fine artists and small organisations and galleries, with projects taking place in the UK; students and educational studies are excluded; successful applicants must wait two years before reapplying. APPLICATION: direct to the Trust per its apply page. DEADLINE: 18 October 2026.
Heaven's Hospital, a research and presentation platform and exhibition at the Next Nature Museum, invites designers, artists, architects, filmmakers, writers, technologists, game developers, researchers, scientists, care professionals and other creative makers to develop new perspectives on the future of care. Starting from the question of how care environments can transform from repair factories into sensory ecosystems, the open call The Dreamed-Up Care seeks fresh ideas rather than ready-made solutions: speculative designs, artistic research, future scenarios, prototypes, new applications of AI, architecture, digital systems, rituals, films, installations, services and new forms of collaboration. TWELVE CARE ISSUES frame the call, including the shift from illness to health, the hospital as machine, staff shortages, AI changing the role of the doctor, the patient as data producer, chronic conditions, mental health, the missing human experience in hospitals, care inequality, climate and care, fragmentation of treatment, and the medicalisation of birth, old age and dying. WHAT THEY WANT: projects exploring the future of healthcare through artistic research, speculative design or technological innovation that actively engage the public (installations, interactive environments, spatial interventions, digital experiences, games, performances or other participatory forms), and cross-disciplinary work combining design with AI, robotics, immersive media, biotechnology, synthetic biology, architecture, food design, sound design, data science, ecology or philosophy. SUPPORT: three selected projects each receive EUR 15,000 to develop a first prototype or artistic intervention, become Heaven's Hospital Fellows, contribute to the ongoing research programme and may be publicly presented in the Next Nature Museum. Proposals must be feasible within the available time and budget while remaining ambitious and experimental. WHO CAN APPLY: individuals or collectives. HOW TO APPLY: one proposal per participant via the online application portal, consisting of the completed application form, a CV and a portfolio of maximum 10 pages or slides; PDF only, maximum 4 MB per file, in English or Dutch. SELECTION CRITERIA: originality and imagination, relevance to the future of healthcare, artistic and design quality, innovative use of technology, public engagement, feasibility, and potential contribution to the research programme. TIMELINE: deadline 20 October 2026; jury meets November 2026; selected participants announced December 2026; research, development and prototype production through 2027.
Humanity AI, an initiative of ten leading philanthropies, opens a USD 10 million call for community-led initiatives that shape how AI affects people's lives. ISSUE AREAS: Education (student and educator-centered work shaping AI's educational impact); Labor and Economy (worker-led efforts to ensure AI enhances rather than replaces employment); and Humanities, Arts, and Culture (artist and creator-focused work protecting cultural contributions). ELIGIBLE APPROACHES: shaping the rules for AI governance and deployment; building AI controlled by communities rather than corporations; and challenging misaligned AI deployments. Community-led means the affected community defines the goals and shapes the approach. Priority goes to open-weight and open-source AI models over proprietary ones. OUT OF SCOPE: AI literacy training, AI adoption promotion, and research-only work. GRANTS: three tiers from USD 75,000 to 1,000,000, up to three years. ELIGIBILITY: US-based 501(c)(3) organizations as lead applicants; individuals via fiscal sponsors or collaborations; Tribal governments treated as States under IRC Section 7871; for-profit entities only as collaborators, not leads; all proposals must serve US-based communities. TIMELINE: launched 10 September 2026; applicant webinar 14 September 2026; initial applications due 21 October 2026 at 4:59pm PT; finalists notified December 2026; awards announced early spring 2027. Apply via Submittable; an organizational readiness tool on the site helps assess eligibility first.
The Creative Industries Fund NL (Stimuleringsfonds) runs this residency with Videotage, a Hong Kong-based non-profit media arts institution specialising in the promotion, presentation, creation and preservation of moving image and media art in all forms and languages. The Fund is recruiting one Netherlands-based designer, maker or observer working in digital culture to spend two or three months at Videotage's studio space in Hong Kong in 2027, conducting research, broadening their network, developing new work inspired by Hong Kong, and presenting their findings or completed works. The residency encourages crossovers and experimentation, giving the participant space to explore new methodologies, widen their creative practice and produce work that pushes the boundaries of digital culture, with a focus on social and urban dynamics. The 2027 edition takes the technological 'black box' phenomenon as its starting point and invites the resident to respond to that theme within the context of Videotage. ELIGIBILITY: you are an individual designer, maker or observer within the field of digital culture; you are established in the Netherlands, Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Saba, Sint Eustatius or Sint Maarten (Kingdom of the Netherlands); you are registered in the business register of the Dutch Chamber of Commerce (KvK) or another business register within the Kingdom of the Netherlands; and you have had a professional practice in the creative industry for at least four years. NOT open to duos, collectives or cooperative ventures, nor to designers and makers who receive a grant during the work period under the Talent Development Grant Scheme, the Open Call Self-taught Designer or the Open Call Emerging Design Practices ABCSSS. Note that accepting this open call means you cannot apply to those schemes and open calls in 2027. FUNDING: EUR 5,000 for two months or EUR 6,500 for three months, covering travel, insurance, living expenses, compensation for time invested and material and transport costs; accommodation, studio use and Videotage's facilitation are covered separately by the Fund. Submit your proposal to the Creative Industries Fund NL by 21 October 2026, 16:00 CEST.
The Creative Industries Fund NL (Stimuleringsfonds) is recruiting one Netherlands-based designer, architect or spatial practitioner for a two-month residency in 2027 at Jatiwangi art Factory (JaF), an internationally recognised artistic collective based in a former roof tile factory in West Java, Indonesia. Jatiwangi's history is closely bound up with the colonial history of Indonesia: the Dutch government built large roof tile factories in the region in the early twentieth century, turning it into the most important centre of roof tile production in Southeast Asia. Now that this industry has largely disappeared, JaF develops new visions for the changing rural area with clay and community empowerment at their heart. The residency is part of Tahun Tanah, a recurring programme on the relationship between the people of Jatiwangi and the region's history of clay and terracotta civilisation; the 2027 theme is Elmu Ning Tanah (Learning from the Earth). As resident you explore with the local community what tanah (earth) means in this area, not only as a material for the terracotta industry but also as a carrier of history, memory and culture, and you help shape a future for the terracotta industry rooted in local knowledge, traditions and the needs of the community. ELIGIBILITY: you are an individual designer, architect or spatial practitioner; you are established in the Netherlands, Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Saba, Sint Eustatius or Sint Maarten (Kingdom of the Netherlands); you are registered in the business register of the Dutch Chamber of Commerce (KvK) or another business register within the Kingdom of the Netherlands; and you have had a professional practice in the creative industry for at least four years. NOT open to duos, collectives or cooperative ventures, nor to designers and makers who receive a grant during the work period under the Talent Development Grant Scheme, the Open Call Self-taught Designer or the Open Call Emerging Design Practices ABCSSS; accepting this open call means you cannot apply to those schemes and open calls in 2027. FUNDING: EUR 4,500 subsidy for the two-month residency; accommodation at JaF is a small private container house with two single beds and a bathroom/toilet. Assessment takes the form of a tender: an external advisory committee ranks proposals on the artistic quality of the work, the quality of the proposed project and the motivation in relation to the goals of the residency, and the highest-scoring proposals are awarded. Decision within eight weeks of the closing date. Submit via the Creative Industries Fund NL by 21 October 2026, 16:00 CEST.
The Creative Industries Fund NL (Stimuleringsfonds) is recruiting one Netherlands-based designer, architect or interdisciplinary maker for a three-month residency in 2027 across three locations in Suriname: Paramaribo, Moengo and Frederiksdorp, each with its own cultural, historical and social context. The residency is inspired by the Surinamese notion of alakondre (literally 'all countries'), which symbolises living together in cultural diversity and emphasises the power of coexisting differences. Rather than simply promoting harmony, alakondre acknowledges historical inequalities, cultural sensitivities and tensions ensuing from colonial and socio-economic realities, which demands openness and critical awareness of your position as a creative practitioner; personal stories, whether family history or questions of identity, can provide powerful entry points. A network of local partners supports the residency, and at each location a local maker selected by Surinamese partner organisations works alongside you, creating natural opportunities for creative exchange and dialogue. ELIGIBILITY: you are an individual designer, architect or spatial practitioner; you are established in the Kingdom of the Netherlands (the Netherlands, Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Saba, Sint Eustatius or Sint Maarten); you are registered in the register of the Dutch Chamber of Commerce (KvK) or another business register within the Kingdom of the Netherlands; and you have run a professional practice within the creative industries for at least four years. NOT open to duos, collectives or collaborative partnerships, nor to current recipients of the Talent Development Grant Scheme, the Open Call Self-taught Designer or the Open Call Emerging Design Practices ABCSSS; accepting this open call means you cannot apply to those schemes and open calls in 2027. FUNDING: EUR 8,500 subsidy for the three-month residency; one position is awarded. Assessment takes the form of a tender: an external advisory committee ranks proposals on the artistic quality of the work, the quality of the development plan and the motivation in relation to the residency's objective, and the highest-scoring proposal is awarded. Decision within eight weeks of the closing date. Submit via the Creative Industries Fund NL by 21 October 2026, 16:00 CEST.
The Creative Industries Fund NL (Stimuleringsfonds) is recruiting one Netherlands-based designer, architect, spatial practitioner or maker for a two-month residency in 2027 at Think Tanger, a multidisciplinary cultural platform dedicated to stimulating culture, creativity, innovation and exchange in Tangier, Morocco. Founded in 2016, Think Tanger unites artists, designers, researchers, entrepreneurs and local communities to explore the urban and cultural dynamics of a city in transformation and to promote understanding and dialogue, working through alternative education, creative entrepreneurship, art production and participatory research. The residency was set up with the Fund to stimulate crossovers and experiments, initiate exchanges and learn from other people's perspectives, knowledge and ideas. It offers the opportunity to carry out research, expand your network and develop new work with a focus on design, urbanism and socio-spatial dynamics, creatively researching existing presuppositions and social issues in Tangier's unique urban context. ELIGIBILITY: you are an individual designer, architect, spatial practitioner or maker; you are established in the Netherlands, Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Saba, Sint Eustatius or Sint Maarten (Kingdom of the Netherlands); you are registered in the business register of the Dutch Chamber of Commerce (KvK) or another business register within the Kingdom of the Netherlands; and you have had a professional practice in the creative industry for at least two years (note: a lower bar than the four years required by the Fund's other 2027 residencies). NOT open to duos, collectives or cooperative ventures, nor to designers and makers who receive a grant during the work period under the Talent Development Grant Scheme, the Open Call Self-taught Designer or the Open Call Emerging Design Practices ABCSSS; accepting this open call means you cannot apply to those schemes and open calls in 2027. FUNDING: EUR 5,500 subsidy for the two-month residency. Assessment takes the form of a tender: an external advisory committee ranks proposals on the artistic quality of the work, the quality of the proposed project and the motivation in relation to the goals of the residency, and the highest-scoring proposal is awarded. Decision within eight weeks of the closing date. Submit via the Creative Industries Fund NL by 21 October 2026, 16:00 CEST.
Perform Europe is the EU support scheme for cross-border touring and distribution of performing arts works across Creative Europe countries. WHAT IT FUNDS: touring of completed performing arts works (all performing arts disciplines except live music and opera); it does NOT cover production costs for new creations. Each proposal must present at least one artistic work in at least three different Creative Europe countries. GRANTS: EUR 15,000, EUR 25,000 or EUR 55,000 depending on project size, with top-ups of up to EUR 5,000 per proposal for sustainability and accessibility measures (maximum EUR 60,000 total). WHO IS ELIGIBLE: partnerships of at least three partners from at least three Creative Europe countries (the 27 EU member states plus 14 non-EU participating countries); organizations and professionals in the performing arts sector. DEADLINE: 22 October 2026, 23:59 CEST. TO APPLY: via the Perform Europe platform linked from the call page. Free to apply.
The Research Networking Day (RND) is an exchange platform for graduate or postgraduate students and independent artists conducting self-guided research traversing audio, arts, media, design, and related theoretical disciplines. The RND 2027 open call seeks innovative and critical submissions from all areas of study addressing the CTM 2027 festival theme 'Process...ing'. Nine selected candidates give short ten-minute presentations within different modules, linked by discussion rounds at the end of each module, offering an international platform to exchange with colleagues and researchers working on related ideas; research is also shared via audio/video after the festival on CTM's YouTube and SoundCloud channels. This edition takes place in collaboration with the Design Academy Eindhoven, Universitat der Kunste Berlin (UdK), and Leuphana University Luneburg. CONDITIONS: presentations take place on-site within the festival's Discourse programme, in English; applications are for individual (solo) presentations only (no duos or groups). As in previous years, no funding is available for travel and accommodation; participants receive a CTM 2027 festival pass, a catered lunch on the day, and a group dinner. Entrance to the event is free. KEY DATES: application deadline 25 October 2026 at 23:59 CET; programme announced mid to late November 2026; RND 2027 event Sunday 24 January 2027; CTM 2027 runs 22 to 31 January 2027.
First Flights funds emerging filmmakers worldwide making live action and documentary shorts in any scripted genre (scripts up to 30 pages). The autumn 2026 round awards up to GBP 7,000 / USD 10,000 in cash toward production costs, plus two Kodak awards of five 400ft rolls of 16mm film stock with complete processing, and one USD 10,000 post-production package from Periscope. Selected filmmakers also receive festival submission assistance and distribution opportunities through partner organizations. APPLY with project details, logline, synopsis, director's vision statement, completed script, director biography, budget and lookbook (sizzle reel optional); independent judges score originality, creativity, plot, pacing, characters, entertainment and message, with interviews for long-listed candidates. Production must begin within six months of the deadline. ENTRY FEE: tiered, GBP 30 until 30 September or GBP 40 until the final 31 October 2026 deadline.
The SURF Artist-in-Residence program invites artists to create work inspired by the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota. At 4,850 feet deep, SURF is the deepest underground laboratory in the United States, housed in the former Homestake Gold Mine, and hosts experiments in physics, biology, geology and engineering. The residency is modeled after programs run by the National Park Service, CERN and Fermilab, and aims to create awareness of the science and encourage interdisciplinary work. STRUCTURE: a four-week on-site visit in summer 2027 (between 22 May and 31 July, timed to the artist's schedule) with studio time, guided underground visits, tours of Lead and the surrounding Black Hills sites, and dinners with scientists; then a one-week visit in October 2027 to install an art exhibition, give up to two lectures based on the proposal, and run promotional or outreach events in the local community (which may include schools, universities, interviews or documentation of the residency). FUNDING: a USD 5,000 stipend paid in two installments; the artist may apply for up to USD 5,000 in additional funds for creating the artwork; transportation, housing and per diem for both visits; and return shipping covered up to USD 7,000. CONDITIONS: each artist donates at least one artwork, selected by a SURF representative, to SURF's permanent art collection, and is responsible for installation and de-installation in coordination with SURF and the exhibition space. A timeline and expectations are agreed in an MOU before the residency begins. PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: working underground requires being comfortable in dark spaces, following all safety protocols, walking on uneven surfaces for at least a mile at a time, and negotiating wet, slippery conditions and an elevator ride in the dark; safety training and loaned personal protective equipment are mandatory, and a SURF guide accompanies the artist at all times. DEADLINE: 1 November 2026, via the SURF AiR application portal.
Whose Archive is it Anyway? is the first in a three-part series of events at The Photographers' Gallery exploring the future of archives and archiving. This one-day event on Friday 16 April 2027 kickstarts the conversation with commissioned talks addressing what it means to make an archive today, who decides what an archive consists of, who creates an archive, who an archive is for, and who has access. The gallery welcomes submissions of real-life experiences rather than academic papers that challenge or answer these or other points related to the future of archives. SUGGESTED TOPICS: artist and photographers' legacies; institutional archives; memory (forgotten or lost histories made visible again); truth within archives (who is telling the stories and how); ownership (who has the authority to tell stories, who owns the images and their stories); relationships between those who create archives and those who use them; radical, non-traditional archives that redesign how stories are gathered and held to safeguard living memories; family archives; reclaimed photographic archives; counter archives that question dominant historical narratives; grassroots archives; technologies that reduce barriers to archives while safeguarding material; digital preservation and digitisation; and dialogic archives. ELIGIBILITY: open to all, especially those with experience of working with archives and the stories within them; applicants must be 18 or older and available to attend The Photographers' Gallery in London on 16 April 2027 to speak at the event. Selected speakers receive a fee of GBP 200 and will be notified by 18 January 2027. Questions to archive@tpg.org.uk. Deadline 1 November 2026, 11:59pm GMT.
A one-off 2026 call letting Dutch cultural institutions reuse and adapt digital technology that other institutions have already built and published in the open DigitALL Toolkit, for example translation software shared between theatres or a streaming platform adapted for a new venue. Grants run up to EUR 30,000 and cover technical modification, integration, production and deployment costs. Eligible applicants are museums, theatres, music venues, festivals, film theatres and professional performing arts producers. Applications are submitted online and assessed in order of receipt rather than comparatively, with a decision within ten weeks. The deadline was extended from 31 May 2026 to 1 November 2026 after high demand. IMPORTANT RESTRICTION: this route cannot be used to further develop your own pilot internally; it exists specifically to spread another institution's working technology across the sector. For developing something new, use the DigitALL pilot contribution instead.
The MIT Museum seeks proposals for compelling digital content exploring humanity's relationship with the BRAIN, the museum's thematic focus from April to September 2027 bringing together art, science, technology and design on cognition, neurotechnology, brain-computer interfaces, mental health and the boundaries of ability. Selected proposals run as ambient content on the two-story digital screen (3840x3024, 80:63 aspect ratio, 20'3" x 16'2") in the museum's central Exchange amphitheater. The museum wants immersive, non-linear, experimental, non-didactic work, such as artful visualizations of data or scientific phenomena; interactivity (touchscreens, QR codes) is out of scope and content-critical audio is discouraged. Content must run on the museum's existing hardware (Windows PC with RTX 3090, NEC LED wall with Analog Way 4K system). WHO CAN APPLY: artists, scientists, engineers, designers and other creative practitioners, from MIT or the broader community. SUPPORT: flat honorarium of USD 2,500-5,000 per selected proposal; no additional development funding. Applications reviewed from 2 November, accepted list finalized January 2027. Deadline: 1 November 2026.
The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp (AP University of Applied Sciences and Arts) invites applications for two-year artistic research projects starting 20 September 2027. Two-year research projects provide 55% employment for the research assignment over 24 months (as a contractual project staff member) plus EUR 2,000 in operating funds (EUR 1,000 per project year). Proposals are developed in collaboration with the Academy's research groups and must align with, endorse, and further develop the mission and vision of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp. PRECONDITIONS: the proposal must be in line with the Academy's mission/vision; the applicant must be legally employable by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp/AP Hogeschool on a contractual basis; and, at the time of application, the applicant must hold a Master's degree in Visual Arts awarded by a Belgian higher education institution (a non-Belgian degree is possible only if validated or recognised through the NARIC procedure, with proof included or a declared willingness to undergo it). PROCEDURE (two steps): STEP 1, apply via the Expression of Interest form sent to research_royalacademyantwerp@ap.be before 3 November 2026, 12:00 noon (applicants informed no later than end November 2026 whether they may develop a full dossier); STEP 2, submit the full dossier via the two-year project application form before 1 February 2027, 12:00 noon. Evaluation by an independent reading committee aims to conclude in May 2027. Contact: research_royalacademyantwerp@ap.be.
The 17th Open City Documentary Festival takes place at venues across London in April 2027, presenting international contemporary and retrospective non-fiction film, audio and cross-media work alongside filmmaker Q&As, panels, talks and workshops. The festival nurtures experimentation within the expanded field of non-fiction cinema, from artists' moving image to documentary, the essay film, audio and cross-media works; recent artists screened include Sky Hopinka, Onyeka Igwe, Luke Fowler, Ana Vaz, Jessica Sarah Rinland and Morgan Quaintance. ELIGIBILITY: non-fiction film and video, cross-platform projects and audio works completed after 1 January 2026; no strict premiere requirement, but works not yet publicly screened in London are prioritized. All selected filmmakers receive screening fees: GBP 275 for works over 60 minutes, GBP 140 for works over 40 minutes, GBP 70 for works under 40 minutes, GBP 100 for cross-platform projects (all incl. VAT). Submissions via FilmFreeway with tiered entry fees (lower before the early deadline). EARLY DEADLINE: 25 September 2026. FINAL DEADLINE: 27 November 2026; all entrants notified by 22 February 2027.
Async Museum is an independent digital space dedicated to web art with a distinctive point of view, existing to discover artists who use the web as their primary medium and to recognise their work as a new aesthetic. Its core philosophy is that the web browser is a twenty-first century canvas. Async Museum is officially seeking submissions of web-based artworks, welcoming both established practitioners and emerging voices who are pushing the boundaries of what the next generation of art can be. NOTE: this is an exhibition opportunity for web-based art rather than a paid grant; no artist fee is stated. To share your practice and submit your work, visit https://asyncmuseum.com/submit. Deadline: 1 December 2026.
Go Short, the international short film festival in Nijmegen, is open for entries for its 19th edition (6 to 11 April 2027). A small, approachable Dutch festival that programmes fiction, documentary, animation and experimental shorts. COMPETITIONS: the European Competition (fiction, documentary, animation, experimental), the Dutch Competition, and the New Arrivals Competition for European film school projects, plus a Music Video Competition and a separate strand for video games, VR/XR, performances and installations, which makes it a natural target for expanded-media and installation-based video work. DEADLINES AND FEES: early bird 15 September 2026 (EUR 12.50 per film; EUR 8 per installation/VR/game project), regular 15 November (EUR 15 / EUR 10), late 15 December 2026 (EUR 20 / EUR 12); music videos EUR 7.50 flat. Awards include Best European Short, Best Dutch Short, the New Arrivals Award and an Audience Award. Read the festival regulations for length and completion date requirements before submitting.
The European Media Art Festival (EMAF) in Osnabrueck invites submissions for its 2027 edition in three sections: Film (experimental films of all lengths and any theme), Installation (installative, interactive, spatial or sculptural media art works) and Expanded (performances, live events or workshops). WHAT YOU GET: all films selected for the International Selection are equal winners of the EMAF Award with EUR 400 prize money each; films in the Features section (over 60 minutes) receive a EUR 250 screening fee; curated programmes pay EUR 80-250 depending on length; installations and expanded projects receive a EUR 500 fee with production costs paid by the festival. Selected artists are invited to the festival with free accreditation, three hotel nights (potentially longer if setting up is required) and a contribution to travel costs. RULES: maximum 2 works per artist; only works completed in 2026 or 2027 are eligible; no premiere status required; works entered at previous editions will not be reconsidered. Films up to 60 minutes are viewed for the International Selection, films over 60 minutes for Features. Installation entries should relate to the 2027 festival theme of the archive (as an instrument of knowledge production, a site of critical intervention and a space for alternative visions of the future); Installation and Expanded entries must include a comprehensive description, tech rider, cost calculation and visual materials. Non-English-language works must have English subtitles for the selection screening. Submit digitally via the EMAF registration portal (no DVDs or physical media). Selection decisions are emailed from mid-March 2027. DEADLINE: the call closes as soon as 2,200 entries have been received, or at the latest on 15 December 2026, so submit early. No entry fee.
Sheer Spite Press, a Montreal-based independent press running since 2024, is open for submissions of zines to be distributed digitally as PDFs through its new digital distro (no print at this time). PRIORITIZING work that is long, text-centric, passionate, personal, anti-authoritarian and accessible (probably not poetry), on topics like community care, friendship, history, food, sex and kink, memoir, DIY and adventures. TERMS: the press sells your PDFs, you choose your own pricing and keep up to 80 percent of sales, paid quarterly (very modest sums expected); distribution is non-exclusive, so you can keep selling your zines anywhere else. Note this is a revenue-share distribution arrangement, not a grant or stipend. Submit via the CryptPad form linked from the call; questions to lee@sheerspite.ca. No submission fee. Open until 31 December 2026.
Artist's Fee reimburses part of the compensation an institution pays an artist for work on an exhibition: producing new work, production-related labour, event activities, and providing artwork for presentation. It does not cover expenses such as materials or transport. WHO CAN APPLY: visual arts institutions in the Netherlands or the Caribbean part of the Kingdom that publicly exhibit contemporary visual art and/or heritage without a sales objective, and that subscribe to the Fair Practice Code, the Culture Governance Code and the Diversity and Inclusion Code. CONDITIONS: the artist must hold a bachelor's degree in visual arts or have at least three years of professional experience; the fee must comply with the Fair Pay Rate Table 2023; the application must be submitted at least two months before the exhibition opens; the exhibition must open within 12 months of application; artist invoices must be paid within one month; and institutions already receiving other fair pay funding for 2025-2028 are not eligible. AMOUNT: up to 50% of the standard amount excluding VAT where the fee meets at least 100% of the guideline, with a minimum application of EUR 100. APPLY through the online system after creating an account, with a signed artist contract, the exhibition budget, artist CVs and a recent Chamber of Commerce registration. Note for artists: this is applied for by the institution, not by you, but it is worth pointing an exhibiting venue towards.
Art Heritage Festival supports festivals, biennales, triennales and similar events dedicated to the presentation of visual art and/or heritage, held in physical spaces and occurring no more than once a year. The scheme backs activities that reach diverse audiences or create meaningful public engagement with art and heritage. WHO CAN APPLY: non-profit organisations based in the Netherlands or the Caribbean part of the Kingdom; institutions for art education and post-academic institutions are excluded. NOT FUNDED: journals, publications, documentaries, symposia, conferences or online-only festivals. CONDITIONS: events must be publicly accessible and held no more than once a year; the project cannot receive simultaneous funding from other Mondriaan Fund grants or specified national cultural programmes; the organisation must subscribe to the Fair Practice Code, the Culture Governance Code and the Diversity and Inclusion Code; and fair artist compensation is mandatory where artists are involved. AMOUNT: up to 40% of eligible project costs, on a project budget above EUR 25,000. APPLY through the Mondriaan Fund online system after registering an account. Allow three months for processing; activities that have already happened cannot be funded.
Art Heritage Presentation funds presentations that are innovative and non-standard, rather than business-as-usual programming: exhibitions featuring internationally renowned artists, engaging shows offering fresh perspectives, public co-creation projects, and presentations built around special loans or commissioned work. WHO CAN APPLY: cultural institutions in the Netherlands and the Caribbean part of the Kingdom that focus on presenting cultural heritage and/or visual art, including museums, art centres and archives; art education and post-academic institutions are excluded, and the institution must be a non-profit legal entity established in the eligible territory. CONDITIONS: presentations must be open to the public; festivals, biennales and other events recurring annually or less often are handled by the separate Art Heritage Festival scheme, not this one; the organisation must subscribe to the Fair Practice Code, the Culture Governance Code and the Diversity and Inclusion Code; and artist fees must be realistic and included in the budget. AMOUNT: up to 40% of variable project costs, on a project budget above EUR 25,000. APPLY online after registering an account, with an institutional profile, project plan, presentation plan, itemised budget and, where applicable, artist information with visual documentation.
The British Council's standing Travel Grant Fund helps early to mid-career UK filmmakers and XR creatives represent their work abroad, build networks, reach new audiences and raise the international profile of new and emerging UK film and immersive talent. Supported by BFI National Lottery funding in partnership with BFI NETWORK and the BFI International Fund. WHAT IT FUNDS: travel to attend international film festivals, showcases, training and development labs, and co-production forums, across five strands: short film festival grants, feature film festival grants, interactive/XR grants (including VR, immersive storytelling experiences and installations), lab grants and co-production forum grants. AMOUNTS: short and feature festival grants GBP 150 to 1,500 (typically up to GBP 750); XR travel-only grants GBP 150 to 1,500; large XR grants GBP 1,500 to 5,000; lab grants up to GBP 6,000; co-production forum grants up to GBP 2,000. WHO CAN APPLY: UK residents or citizens aged 18+; applicants can be directors, producers or writers attached to the selected project. KEY CONDITIONS: the festival, lab or forum must appear on the British Council's Key Lists of eligible events, and the project must be registered on the British Council's UK Project Database. DEADLINE: rolling, no fixed deadlines; submit at least two weeks before the event starts (retrospective applications for past events are not accepted). Free to apply.
OSIP is the European Space Agency's standing front door for unsolicited novel ideas, launched in 2019 and now the main entry point for new concepts into ESA, both in response to specific problems and through open calls. HOW IT WORKS: ideas are submitted through two mechanisms. Campaigns are targeted calls responding to specific questions with defined timelines (recent examples include Future Navigation Demonstrators and elements for the EOCognitiveLab mission); Channels are permanently open, open-ended calls on broader topics with no deadline. Submissions can go through an optional community discussion phase, with voting and comments, before expert evaluation by ESA. WHO CAN SUBMIT: individuals, businesses, universities and organisations anywhere in the world. The catch for funding: to implement a funded idea yourself, you must be eligible to do business with ESA under Article 18 of its procurement regulations, which in practice means affiliation with an entity in an ESA member state. WHAT FUNDING LOOKS LIKE: successful ideas are typically supported as co-funded PhD or postdoctoral research (ESA plus a university), early technology development activities, or system studies; amounts vary by route and campaign. WHY IT IS ON THE DESK: this is the one genuinely public, always-open route into ESA for independent researchers, technologists and artists working with space data or space technology concepts; new campaigns appear regularly, so checking the platform periodically is worthwhile. Submit via ideas.esa.int.
NO PUBLISHED CLOSING DATE: the call gives no application deadline, so the operative cutoff is the gathering itself on 2-5 November 2026; apply early. The European Sex Workers' Rights Alliance (ESWA) brings back its Digital Rights Gathering in 2026 as The (W)horrors Edition, in Barcelona just after Halloween. It is a capacity and community-building space by and for sex workers, convened to confront the surveillance, censorship and digital violence they face online and to imagine and build more resilient digital futures. A limited number of spaces is reserved for allies working in adjacent digital rights and harm reduction spaces to host sessions. TWO CALLS ARE OPEN. (1) CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS, for sex workers who want to deepen their knowledge of digital rights, online safety and community resilience. Requirements: be a current or former sex worker who is also a member of an organisation in ESWA's network; be available for three days of interactive sessions, skill-sharing and collective learning on 2, 3 and 4 November, and free from 1 November (travel out) through 5 November (travel home), even though some final-day sessions are optional. Selected participants receive full funding covering travel, accommodation and food. (2) CALL FOR TRAINERS AND SESSION PROPOSALS, for facilitators, trainers and educators experienced in digital rights, online safety or sex worker-led organising, who want to deliver an interactive workshop, skill-share or creative session. Sessions run 90 minutes and are compensated at EUR 300 per session, with travel, accommodation and meals covered. Open to current or former sex workers, and to allies with experience in digital rights, digital discrimination, digital security and related fields. SESSION STRANDS: Digital (W)horrors, naming the threats faced online and unpacking how surveillance, censorship and platform policy work against sex workers, including shadowbanning and algorithmic censorship, over-zealous content moderation, law enforcement and third-party surveillance, deplatforming, non-consensual data scraping and retention, and the platforms and policies that enable them; Building Resilience, practical hands-on skills covering open source and privacy-respecting software, how and why to divest from Big Tech platforms, alternative and encrypted communication tools, digital security basics such as protecting data, devices and identity, and other harm-reduction strategies for working and organising online; Imagining Better Futures, creative forward-looking sessions on what a sex worker friendly internet would look like, including prototyping inclusive digital tools, platforms and spaces built by and for sex workers, new apps, alternative social platforms, community-owned tech, and speculative design exercises; Resourcing the Group, sessions focused on care and resilience, including writing and reflection, grounding and somatic exercises, tools for self-care and sustainability in activism, and space for radical rest. The organisers welcome grounded, political and creative contributions from anyone who would like to lead a session. Separate application forms for participants and for session proposals are linked from the call page. Questions: ana@eswalliance.org.
Cultuurloket DigitALL funds the digital innovation of the Dutch cultural sector and is the strongest dedicated digital-culture route currently open to Dutch cultural organisations. It is the successor to the discontinued Kickstart Cultuurfonds, backed by the VandenEnde Foundation, VSBfonds, Ammodo, Het Cultuurfonds and others. The pilot contribution of up to EUR 75,000 supports developing and running a first pilot, prototype or live version of a digital tool, which covers a wide range of creative-technology work embedded in festivals, exhibitions and public programmes. Eligible applicants are theatres, music venues, film theatres, museums, festivals and professional performing arts producers, with collaborations between institutions given priority. The pilot must be tested with the intended public audience, not only with experts, and funding cannot be used exclusively for hardware acquisition. Applications go through an online portal with no deadline and are handled in order of receipt. TIMING: a decision follows within ten weeks of submission, so plan roughly three months of lead time between applying and project start. Training and knowledge development through partner organisations is only covered when included in the submitted budget, so build it in from the outset.
The closest thing the Netherlands has to a dedicated regional art-and-technology fund, being a public-private scheme co-financed by ASML and sited in the country's main technology region. It funds professional cultural projects of high quality with national or international reach, which in practice covers festivals, exhibitions and public programmes including media art and creative technology work. Private-law legal entities only (stichting, vereniging or BV); both new and existing cultural organisations qualify. Projects are assessed on societal impact (must address at least two of accessibility, inclusivity, diversity, social cohesion), cultural entrepreneurship and sustainability, alongside professional artistic quality. Applications are accepted all year round via a two-stage route: an intake where Brabant C scouts give an initial assessment, followed by a full application, pitch session and decision. TIMING RULES ARE STRICT and are the main planning constraint: the full application must be submitted a minimum of 12 weeks before the project starts, and the project may not begin until at least 12 weeks after a complete application has been approved. The internal clock runs roughly two weeks for a completeness check, about six weeks to the pitch session, and about four weeks from pitch to decision. Brabant C never covers more than half the budget, so a matched partner is required from the outset. A separate Brabant C matching scheme for impactful culture projects is open year-round through 31 December 2026 for Brabant-based organisations outside the Brainport region.
The Audience Projects Fund distributes GBP 19.7 million of National Lottery money over three years to widen UK audiences for film and immersive work, covering exhibition, distribution, festivals, touring programmes and sector-support initiatives. It reopened in November 2025 and runs continuously with no closing date, which makes it one of the more accessible large BFI pots for organisations working on the audience-facing rather than production side. AWARDS are tiered: small pilot projects receive GBP 10,000 to GBP 20,000, while full projects can receive GBP 20,000 to GBP 500,000 per year, with immersive projects permitted to include up to GBP 150,000 of production cost inside that envelope. ELIGIBILITY is strictly institutional. Applicants must be legally constituted organisations centrally managed in the UK and not more than 50% foreign-owned. Eligible types include limited companies (not classed as 'large' under the Companies Act 2006), community interest companies, LLPs, UK local or statutory authorities, and registered UK charities or trusts. Individual practitioners cannot apply. Applicants must evidence experience in marketing, festivals, distribution, immersive installations, cultural programming, touring or sector support. TIMING: there are no deadlines but lead times are enforced. Single-film distribution projects must apply at least 10 weeks before release; all other projects at least 16 weeks before the project starts.
Contemporary art magazine commissioning paid art writing and criticism, with pitches accepted on an ongoing basis (online reviews/pitches continuous; themed print issues have set deadlines, e.g. the Spring issue around 15 September 2026). A direct paid outlet for criticism on digital, new-media and AI art. ELIGIBILITY: writers at all experience levels are invited; not restricted to Canada. Mostly pitch-based, with short online reviews accepted unsolicited.
Pink Screens, Brussels' queer film festival run by Genres d'a cote, accepts international films completed 2024 or later that were not previously submitted. Submissions are free via the festival's own form on pinkscreens.org (the FilmFreeway route may charge). No exact deadline is published, but the call is in its late phase, so submit soon.
Queer Screen's Mardi Gras Film Festival in Sydney is one of the largest queer film festivals in the world. Submissions reopened in July 2026 via FilmFreeway; the final deadline is historically mid-October (around 15 October 2026, unconfirmed). Audience awards; modest submission fees.
apexart's Open Calls turn a curatorial idea into a funded apexart exhibition, selected by a crowdsourced international jury of more than 600 people in 70 countries. WHO CAN SUBMIT: anyone, from anywhere, with no fees at any level: trained and student curators, artists, writers and creative people regardless of experience, background or location. HOW: a 500-word proposal for a focused, idea-driven, original group exhibition, submitted through the online form during the proposal window. TWO ANNUAL WINDOWS: every October for exhibitions in apexart's NYC space, and every February (to early March) for exhibitions taking place anywhere in the world except NYC; for the international call you must propose a location you have actually visited, with the specific venue settled after selection. SELECTION: jurors vote anonymously online (each proposal gets an equal number of views, submitter names hidden); proposals are judged on the strength of the idea and how well it is communicated, not on connections or CV. WHAT WINNERS GET: a USD 10,000 budget (USD 8,000 for expenses, up to USD 2,000 curator honorarium, plus up to USD 1,000 venue-rental match outside NYC), with apexart covering insurance, publicity, the printed brochure, the opening reception and most logistics including loan agreements and shipping, and staff working closely with the guest curator. Winning proposals become part of apexart's next exhibition season. Check the site for the current window's exact dates; submission forms only go live during the proposal periods.