Currently 17 active tech and infrastructure grants, fellowships and residencies open to applicants in the US. 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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Grants for large-scale interactive installation art shown at Black Rock City 2027; much of the funded work is creative-tech, light and kinetic. Two-stage process: a Letter of Intent now, with invited full proposals due mid-January 2027. FUNDING STRUCTURE: the official page publishes the overall picture rather than a per-award figure: a USD 1.5 million annual budget across roughly 75 projects, grants covering 40 to 60% of a project's proposed budget, and grants over USD 20,000 described as rare. ELIGIBILITY: open internationally, individuals and collectives; attending the event is recommended but not required. DEADLINE: Letter of Intent due 29 October 2026, 5pm PDT; late LOIs are not accepted.
Foresight Institute's AI for Science and Safety Nodes request for proposals funds open, AI-first projects across three calls: I. Local Compute (compute that individuals and communities physically own and control), II. Coordination and Accountability (supercollaboration and decentralised alignment, human empowerment, and AI insurance and open governance: multi-agent oversight and verification, tools for collective deliberation, decision rules for when human control adds value, and independent risk assessment or insurance mechanisms for frontier labs), and III. AI-first Science (automated nanotechnology, whole-brain emulation, frontier bio). Grantees can also get workspace in the San Francisco or Berlin AI Nodes (a community xNode runs in Cape Town) and private compute. All funded code, data and outputs must be open-sourced. Projects are judged on fit with the focus area, impact on reducing existential risk from AI, feasibility within 1 to 3 years, AI-first working methods, ability to execute, and high-risk, high-reward potential. ELIGIBILITY: individuals, teams and organisations worldwide; nonprofits and for-profits welcome (for-profits must justify the need for grant funding). Priority goes to applicants who want to work in person at one of the Nodes, but it is not required. Review takes about three months; applications can opt in to sharing with Lightcone Commons. DEADLINE: 31 October 2026, 23:59 PDT.
The AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowships place scientists and engineers inside US federal agencies, congressional offices and the judicial branch for a year of hands-on policymaking, contributing technical knowledge and analytical skills to the federal policy process. AI, data and computing policy placements are among the largest tracks, and AAAS runs a dedicated AI legislative branch cohort that places AI experts in congressional offices at GS-12 Step 10 on the DC locality scale. ELIGIBILITY: US citizens holding a PhD or equivalent doctoral degree in any science or engineering field, or a master's degree in engineering plus three years of post-degree professional experience; some tracks accept a bachelor's plus five years. Relevant expertise includes AI, machine learning, computer science, robotics and data science. Fellows must reside in DC, Maryland or northern Virginia during the fellowship year. TIMELINE: the application portal opens 1 August 2026 and closes 1 November 2026 at 11:59pm ET, with eligibility notification in late November, interview notification January to February 2027, semi-finalist interviews in March, placement offers by early May, and the fellowship year running 1 September 2027 to 31 August 2028. Apply through fellowshipapp.aaas.org.
The Processing Foundation's 2027 fellowship cycle supports artists, educators and creative technologists working on open-source projects, with a USD 10,000 stipend over an 8-month fellowship period. THREE TRACKS: Collective Intelligence (remote, US-based), co-designing AI education tools with youth, aimed at educators with software development or AI/ML experience; Gaming the System (hybrid, Los Angeles), building an open-source toolkit for video game design with underserved communities, for game makers and creative coders based in LA; and DIY Computing (hybrid, New York City), developing open-source hardware and software environments for custom computers, for early-career hardware artists in NYC (applicants currently enrolled in degree programs are ineligible for this track). ELIGIBILITY: US applicants only; hybrid tracks require residency in LA or NYC respectively. International applicants are pointed to the Foundation's Microgrants and Processing Community Day instead. APPLICATION: via nomination form, selecting one track; self-nominations are allowed. Selection by a panel of the Processing Foundation team and external reviewers, judging strength of the project, fit with the Foundation's mission and potential impact. TIMELINE: nominations open 7 October 2026, close 1 November 2026 at 11:59 PM PST; fellows notified 14 December 2026; fellowship runs 25 January to 26 September 2027.
ACLS Digital Justice Grants fund digital projects in the humanities and interpretive social sciences that critically engage with the interests and histories of people of colour and other historically marginalised communities, including Black, Latinx, Indigenous, disabled and LGBTQ+ communities. The programme's stated aims are to diversify the digital domain, advance justice and equity in digital scholarly practice, and contribute to public understanding of racial and social justice issues, with an explicit interest in scholars working with under-utilised or understudied source materials and those at institutions with less infrastructure for digital work. TWO TRACKS, one deadline: SEED GRANTS of USD 10,000 to 25,000 for projects in the start-up or prototyping phase, covering planning, prototyping and methodology testing; and DEVELOPMENT GRANTS of USD 50,000 to 100,000 for projects that have moved past proof of concept and can show preliminary work and evidence of engagement. ELIGIBILITY: at least one principal investigator must be a scholar in the humanities or interpretive social sciences, and awarded funds must be administered by a US institution of higher education. WHAT IS NOT FUNDED: creative works such as novels or films, textbooks, straightforward translations, purely pedagogical projects, and institutional indirect costs. Note that outputs are expected to be made as widely available as intellectual property allows, ideally under the most liberal open-source or Creative Commons licence. TIMING: applications go through the ACLS online fellowship and grant administration system (ofa.acls.org) by 3 November 2026 at 17:00 ET; grant terms begin between 1 July and 31 December 2027 and run 12 to 18 months. The programme is funded by the Mellon Foundation.
The Federation of American Scientists' Metascience Fellowship places three full-time fellows inside federal research agencies such as the NSF or DOE for one year, after a pre-service residency at FAS. Fellows advise agency leaders on evidence-based research reform, analyse grantmaking, peer review and open-science practices, design experiments with built-in evaluation, write briefing memos, coordinate metascience work across agencies and give hands-on technical help. Placements may be extended depending on funding and performance. ELIGIBILITY: US citizens only; current federal employees cannot apply. Mid- to senior-career professionals with an advanced degree or equivalent experience in a scientific, engineering or public-policy field, willing to work mostly in person in the Washington, DC area. Fellows must start at FAS no later than 4 January 2027. Applications take a CV and three responses of up to 300 words each, submitted through the FAS platform. DEADLINE: 9 November 2026, 11:59PM ET; late applications are not reviewed.
The NYC track of Eyebeam's AGENCY residency cycle supports New York City-based artists exploring questions of agency at a moment when AI systems increasingly act, decide and carry out tasks on our behalf: how to preserve human agency as these systems shape human behavior, how to assert agency in imagining and building the societies we inhabit, and what agency becomes when understood as collective, relational, entangled and more-than-human. Projects might engage AI directly but do not have to; critical and creative approaches to power, autonomy, technological systems, collective action, human and nonhuman relationships, and the social and material structures of agency are all welcome, including reimagining AI through collective governance, repair, rehearsal or mischief, and repurposing AI systems toward new tools, methods and models for the public good. Residents receive a USD 5,000 stipend, mentorship, and access to tools and technical expertise through Eyebeam's network. ELIGIBILITY: individuals only (no collectives this cycle); not enrolled in a full-time degree program; not committed to another residency during the term; must live in New York City within the five boroughs and be able to work on site at Eyebeam at least one day a week for the full term. TIMELINE: deadline Sunday 15 November 2026, 11:59 PM ET; interviews 7-10 December; notifications 14 December; residency 15 March to 11 June 2027. Info session Monday 19 October 2026, 1 PM ET. Apply via Submittable, free.
Data Through Design, the annual exhibition of artworks that creatively analyze, interpret and interrogate data from New York City's Open Data portal, opens its 10th anniversary call, held in conjunction with NYC Open Data Week. THEME: reflections, reverberations and the arc of data over time; the evidence of time (footprints, traces, scars, markers of change), temporal mirrors and kaleidoscopes, messages from the past and future, fractals of time and visuals of scale. Artists may also respond to a previous DxD theme in light of time, and alumni artists are particularly encouraged to apply, including by revisiting past projects. FORMATS: digital, analog, physical, performance, sound works, walks, installations, creative coding, participatory mapping, drawings and more; the organizers highlight participatory data collection, radical and cognitive mapping, and data experienced through time, sound and the senses. REQUIREMENT: projects must reference or use at least one NYC Open Data dataset; other data, including novel and experimental collection systems, is welcome alongside it. WHAT YOU GET: USD 900 stipend, half before and half after the exhibition, plus inclusion in the multi-media group show in New York City, tentatively 26 March to 11 April 2027. Work must be installation-ready by 19 March 2027 and delivered to the venue 22 to 24 March. ELIGIBILITY: open to artists, civic technologists, data enthusiasts, city dwellers and creative practitioners; applicants must be approved to work in the US to be paid the stipend. The submission process has been revamped for this edition, with a new rubric and submission materials to review. APPLICATION: free, via the submission form on the DxD website. DEADLINE: 15 November 2026 at 23:59 EST.
Code:ART is the City of Palo Alto's digital art festival celebrating creative technology in public space, returning 13 to 16 October 2027. This call commissions one artist or team to create a signature interactive installation for Lytton Plaza with a USD 20,000 budget. ELIGIBILITY: open to individual artists and teams based in the US or internationally; individuals must be over 18, and for teams at least one member must be over 18 and able to contract with the City; applicants in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties are particularly encouraged. You may also apply to the parallel Interactive Media Installations call, but can receive only one commission across both. APPLICATION: via SlideRoom. DEADLINE: Monday 16 November 2026, 23:59 Pacific Time.
Code:ART is the City of Palo Alto's digital art festival celebrating creative technology in public space, returning 13 to 16 October 2027. This call selects up to five interactive media installations for the festival, each with a budget of up to USD 9,000. ELIGIBILITY: open to artists nationally and internationally, individuals and teams. You may also apply to the parallel Lytton Plaza Installation call (USD 20,000), but can receive only one commission across both. APPLICATION: via SlideRoom. DEADLINE: Monday 16 November 2026, 23:59 Pacific Time.
Molly Crockett's lab at Princeton, based in the Department of Psychology and the University Center for Human Values, is hiring a postdoc to start in summer or fall 2027. The research topic is flexible. The lab uses methods from computational social science and cognitive science informed by theory from science and technology studies and feminist epistemology, studying feedback loops between individual psychology, institutions and culture, and how the tech industry co-opts these processes to concentrate power. It is especially interested in bridging quantitative and qualitative methods for understanding human experience, and in how culture and power shape which questions are valued and which methods are legitimised. The lab is industry-independent and accepts no research funding from the tech industry; it uses a variety of ML methods and aims to develop thoughtful approaches to automation in scholarship, so it suits researchers excited about AI in science but wary of hype and industry influence. WHAT YOU GET: an USD 80,000 salary from stable institutional funds, initial one-year appointment renewable up to three years. APPLICATION: via Interfolio; questions about fit to mj.crockett@princeton.edu. Review of applications begins 20 November 2026 and continues until the position is filled.
Annual design commission for an ambitious, technically challenging large-scale public artwork or structure, built over summer 2027 by more than 100 young people working with Beam staff. The selected designer collaborates through bi-weekly remote planning meetings and may visit the build with travel reimbursed, making this genuinely remote-friendly for a physical commission. A strong fit for creative-technology and installation practices. AWARD: USD 5,000 to the proposer plus roughly USD 15,000 in fabrication budget. ELIGIBILITY: open worldwide, any age, individuals or teams. DEADLINE: 30 November 2026, 11:59pm EST.
Wave Farm, the Warhol Foundation-backed transmission arts center in Acra, NY, opens one application covering all its 2027 opportunities: the Transmission Art Residency, the Spatial Sound Residency, and two Radio Art Fellowship tracks (Research, and Community Engagement) connected to Wave Farm's WGXC radio station. WHAT YOU GET: a USD 1,000 stipend for each 10-day residency and USD 2,000 for each two-month fellowship, with access to Wave Farm's research library, transmitter and receiver equipment, and on-site staff support to develop a new transmission artwork. ELIGIBILITY: international; collaborations allowed; full-time students are ineligible except rare post-graduate cases; past residents and fellows may reapply; applicants may apply to as many opportunities as they wish but will be offered at most one; DJ sets are explicitly ineligible. A strong fit for signal-based, broadcast, spatial sound and radio-adjacent work. DEADLINE: 1 December 2026 at 11:59 pm EST. Finalists are interviewed by Zoom, with notifications in late February 2027 and residencies during 2027.
CURRENTS presents one of the leading art and technology festivals in the United States, held every summer in Santa Fe, New Mexico since 2010, bringing together established and emerging new media artists from the USA and worldwide. The 2027 edition (11-20 June 2027) accepts submissions in: installations (interactive and non-interactive); audio experiences; virtual, augmented and mixed reality environments; robotics, kinetic and electro-mechanical objects and installations; multimedia performance; fabrication, 2D/3D printing and wearables; and experimental single channel video, documentary and animation. The festival is a collaboration between the non-profit Parallel Studios, partners throughout the city, and interns and volunteers. SUPPORT: selected artists may be eligible for travel, lodging and shipping support, though the festival warns it may not be able to cover international shipping given costs and risks, and may instead be able to supply needed equipment; no artist fee is published. SUBMISSION FEE: USD 30 single, USD 25 each for multiple. DEADLINE: 8 December 2026; participating artists announced March 2027. Questions to connect@currentsnewmedia.org.
The Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri funds people and teams to build and launch a tool, workflow or product that helps newsrooms, in three tracks: Individual (USD 75,000), Institutional (USD 75,000, paid to a host organisation or the fellow) and Emerging Technology (USD 100,000, where AI or another new technology must be essential to the solution). The output must be a free, open-source resource usable by US journalists; tools limited to one city or state are unlikely to be funded. The fellowship is remote and runs for eight months from 28 June 2027 with an in-person kickoff at RJI and a couple of paid visits. ELIGIBILITY: anyone, anywhere; no age, background or journalism credential required. Applications open 2 November 2026 on Submittable; a shortlist is invited in early to mid February 2027 to submit a fuller application, with finalist interviews 5 to 23 April 2027. DEADLINE: 8 January 2027 (first round; no time zone stated, RJI is on US Central time).
A one-year fellowship placing Fellows directly inside government, non-profit and social-enterprise host institutions across the United States to design and implement high-impact programs, translating data-driven insights into actionable policy recommendations, new programs and operational changes for the partners they serve. STIPEND: USD 47,000 living stipend for the year (scaled up for higher-cost cities) plus a reimbursable health-insurance stipend up to USD 5,000. ELIGIBILITY: primarily intended for candidates graduating from their academic programs in 2026 and/or already working full-time; this is a full-time 12-month commitment. PROCESS: applications and interviews are considered on a ROLLING basis starting in March, so applicants are encouraged to apply early; most engagements begin between June and November, with partner match meetings 6 to 8 weeks before the anticipated start. APPLY: https://www.adf.uchicago.edu/apply
The ILIAD Intensive is a four-week, full-time, in-person program for mathematically strong researchers interested in foundational AI alignment, running in London (at LISA) and in Berkeley. It runs five days a week, 10am to 6pm, in cohorts of 15 to 30 participants. CURRICULUM, across five clusters: Alignment (decomposing the alignment problem, pretraining, post-training and deployment, reward learning); Learning (deep learning theory, singular learning theory, training dynamics); Abstractions, Representations and Interpretability (mechanistic interpretability, natural latents); Agency (reinforcement learning, decision theory, agent foundations); and Safety Guarantees (debate, steganography, the limits of interpretability). MONEY: no tuition is charged. Each participant receives a USD 5,000 travel and housing allowance, office space at the venue, and lunch and dinner five days a week. Participants book and pay for their own travel and accommodation out of the allowance. ELIGIBILITY: a strong mathematical background, typically graduate-level study or a completed degree in mathematics, physics or theoretical computer science, though mathematical maturity is weighted more heavily than specific credentials. Research experience, general competence and motivation are also assessed. Prior machine learning or alignment experience is not required. DEADLINE: no fixed closing date is published. A single application covers several upcoming programs and applicants indicate their preferred dates and locations; applications are being accepted for the October 2026 and November 2026 cohorts. HOW TO APPLY: through the application portal at iliad.ac/apply. Questions to contact@iliad.ac.