opportunities/open calls

134 likes, 3 comments - softer.global on May 8, 2026: "Open Call: Is the future of computing homemade? We’re delighted to introduce a new residency program! 🫶 We are inviting creative technologists and curious makers to join an exciting two-week residency to design, build and demystify cyberdecks. In a world with increasingly black-boxed technologies and rapidly growing AI models, cyberdecks feel like a safe haven, a breath of fresh air, devices that give us hope for brighter tech futures built on playfulness, participation and decentralisation. When: August 3-16, 2026 Where: SOFTER Lab, Copenhagen, Denmark Application deadline: 1 June 2026, 12:00 CEST For more details and to apply, please head to our website (🔗 in bio) or softer.global Residency kindly supported by @tuborgfondet CREDITS Slide 1: Transformation Charms by @sianfan Slide 5: Clamshell e-reader by @mewtru".

Serpentine Arts Technologies launches the inaugural Future Art Ecosystems (FAE) R&D Fellowship: Art x Convergence.

Freelance Position on Co-Design for Scholarly Search Tool Development

VIA Art is a non-profit organization where art patrons join forces as partners in a new model of philanthropy to support (V)isionary (I)nitiatives in (A)rt.

Funds are available for distribution in 2026, with the aim of growing and deepening the field of collective imagination practice.

The Just Tech Fellowship supports researchers and practitioners investigating the intersection of technology and social justice.

Turn your expertise into influence. The Studio helps thinkers, organizers, and creators working on tech politics to build sustainable platforms for change.

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Open Call | SIT-PLU Residencies 2027

Our open call for projects Error 406 [Netstalgia] Not Acceptable focuses on the notion of netstalgia: a selective and idealized remembering of earlier phases of the internet. We are looking for projects that reject the longing for a mythic “old internet” and confront the politics of netstalgia head-on.

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The O'Shaughnessy Fellowship supports the builders, researchers, and creatives advancing civilization with up to $100,000 in equity-free funding.

The Critical Pathways to Sustainability community, in collaboration with Towards a Circular Economy and Society, is excited to invite applications for our 2026 Fellowship Program.

Are you ready to prompt and play? Join our IRL prompt-off with Google Creative Lab this May!

Data Conversations increases the societal and economic impact of the CCI sector by tackling the challenges stemming from lack of know-how and implementation skills for impact design, data collection and literacy and digitalisation and AI.

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601 likes, 6 comments - hipermedula_org on March 30, 2026: "𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗘𝗿𝗿𝗼𝗿 𝟰𝟬𝟲 [𝗡𝗲𝘁𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗴𝗶𝗮] 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 Error 417 Expectation Failed @mediengruppe_bitnik 📅 Hasta el 4 de mayo de 2026. Ya está disponible la segunda convocatoria de proyectos de Error 417 Expectation Failed: Error 406 [Netstalgia] ¡Inaceptable! Esta vez, nos centramos en la noción de netstalgia: un recuerdo selectivo e idealizado de fases anteriores de internet. La netstalgia es la gestión de crisis del capitalismo de plataformas disfrazada de memoria cultural. Convierte el cansancio de las plataformas en un renacimiento estético, dejando intactas la extracción, la captura de datos y el control corporativo. Apoyamos obras de arte que cultiven una visión lúcida del pasado: obras que desafíen una netstalgia que simplemente suaviza la crítica o refuerza las políticas de plataforma existentes, a la vez que exploran cómo la revisión de la historia puede abrir caminos hacia futuros más equitativos. Nuestra convocatoria abierta pregunta qué protocolos, redes, archivos y condiciones compartidas son necesarios para construir una internet habitable hoy; cómo abordar la gobernanza, la moderación y la sostenibilidad en los llamamientos a la descentralización; cómo crear espacios en plataformas restrictivas para ampliar el margen de acción de los usuarios; y cómo movilizar la migración hacia alternativas ya existentes. 🕳️ Becas de 1.500 € a 7.000 € 🕳️ Abierto a artistas, curadores y colectivos de todo el mundo 🕳️ Fecha límite: 4 de mayo de 2026 🕳️ Jurado: @hotemogf, Olia Lialina, Peter Sunde y Vladan Joler "Justo cuando los usuarios se sienten agotados por los algoritmos, la automatización de la IA y la consolidación empresarial, la industria reinventa la estética y la esencia de la "vieja internet" como solución... " Noemi Garay Murcia @noemi_lia2000 #netart #hipermedula #netstalgia #becasarte #digitalart 👉 Ver más información en hipermedula.org o perfil de IG #convocatorias o seguir link: https://tinyurl.com/235wkpxu".

66 likes, 1 comments - schoolofma on April 7, 2026: "Announcing Artist-Residency Scholarships at ACUD's School of Machines, Making & Make-Believe! Deadline to apply: 20. April. For each of our School of Machines summer programs we are offering two artist-residency spots for local Berlin artists with a relevant art practice along the lines of course topics. This residency offers a free spot in one of the summer programs, a one-month membership to Make-Believe Studio following the program and the opportunity to present your work to the public at the end of the residency. In exchange, residents agree to offer a skill-sharing workshop for program participants during the initial four-week program. Our current summer program topics include: *Data Cyborg Stories: Investigative storytelling for liberation using data and AI *Creating alt ctrl games as feminist practice *Performative Media as art practice, research, and public action For more info about each program, links in bio! Please share with all your Berlin peeps! Danke im Voraus! 3 Video background from past program, edited by @irina.spicaka 3 #art #technology #design #data #ai #videogames #altctrl #performance #digital #touchdesigner #godot #rag #berlin #artists #activist #creativetech #adult #summerschool #nomorewars #schoolofma 🍉".

130 likes, 0 comments - creativecodingutrecht on April 10, 2026: "CCU and @amartefonds invite Netherlands-based artists to apply for Practices of Alliance: a research-driven residency for an artist working at the intersection of art, technology, and ecology. Through an open-ended research trajectory, you will develop site-specific, scalable prototypes (e.g., performances, installations) that explore the transformative potential of making-with human and more-than-human others. 📅 End of May — July 2026 📍@hofvancartesius, Utrecht 🌿The residency concludes with a one-week Summer Camp at @artphywessinghuizen in Groningen, July 12th- 19th Find more info in our link in bio!".

441 likes, 23 comments - newmediacaucus on April 6, 2026: "Critical Playground invites freelance writers to contribute analytically rigorous work at the intersection of design, technology, art, and culture.⁠ ⁠ We are interested in submissions that engage one of the following editorial themes:⁠ • Designing with AI — AI as cultural and infrastructural system⁠ • Materials That Behave — Responsive, adaptive, or emergent material performance⁠ • Politics of Platforms — Power, labor, governance, and monetization in creative infrastructures⁠ • Post-Digital— Hybrid making across hand, code, and machine⁠ • Designing for Collapse & Continuity — Climate adaptation, maintenance, stewardship⁠ • Creative Research as Practice — Knowledge generated through making and experimentation⁠ ⁠ We are commissioning in-depth articles (typically 800–900 words) that situate projects, studios, labs, exhibitions, or technologies within broader cultural, institutional, or technical contexts. We do not publish press releases, product announcements, or promotional copy.⁠ ⁠ @criticalplayground #artswriting".

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880 likes, 10 comments - lucyparsonslabs on March 27, 2026: "***UPDATE 2: Following collective budgeting, we have decided the fellowship stipend is $15,000, with additional funds available for typical office expenses. Follow the QR code or the link in bio for application information! Are you a researcher? Are you looking to gain experience with an organization that works for a better world? apply for our summer research fellowship! **PREVIOUS UPDATE: Compensation for the role will be shared here by or before March 27th (we've got another round of participatory budgeting early next week!). That said, the hourly amount is planned to be NO LOWER than the median hourly rate in the Chicagoland area ($25.73 as of 2024 for Chicago-Naperville-Schaumburg according to IDES). Thank you for your patience :)".

342 likes, 0 comments - opencallpalette on March 28, 2026: "Error 417 - Open Call for Internet Art Projects Grants €1,500-€7,000 · Worldwide Error 417 Expectation Failed announces its second open call - Error 406 [Netstalgia] Not Acceptable - focused on critical approaches to internet culture and technology The call goes beyond nostalgia for the “old internet” and supports projects that question platform power, data economies, and digital infrastructures shaping our reality Who can apply: Artists, curators, collectives - from anywhere in the world; platforms, developers, and experimental initiatives; projects in digital and net-based practices. Themes: internet culture & its histories platform capitalism & data extraction decentralization & alternative networks governance, moderation, digital ecosystems critical, research-based & experimental approaches Conceptually strong proposals are a priority. What’s included: Grants: €1,500-€7,000 Participation in exhibitions and public programs (online & offline) Connection to an international network of media art practitioners ⏰Application deadline: May 4, 2026 Project deadline: October 30, 2026 About the organizer: an independent Swiss initiative launched by !Mediengruppe Bitnik, supporting experimental internet art, critical tech practices, and open-ended processes 🔗 error417.expectation.fail #opencall #internetart #mediaart #digitalart #opencallpalette".

LI-MA and ICK are looking for a Documentalist / Researcher for Documentation Intuition Machine

Apply for the Globethics AI Governance Fellowship 2026 in Geneva. Fully funded programme for early-career leaders in ethical AI.

The Internet Phone Book returns with an invitation to submit your personal website for publication in their second issue. Published since 2025, the Internet Phone Book is an annual publication …

45 likes, 0 comments - realities_in_transition on March 25, 2026: "OPEN CALL REMINDER — #RiT2 The Reciprocal Trap. 🔎 An invitation to collectively explore the loop between human behaviour & machine world-building! What’s the residency about? → Not a solo project → A collective XR artwork ⮑ 3 artists + 1 creative technologist ⮑ 6-month hybrid residency with @v2_unstable ⮑ From idea → prototype → public presentation ✨ What you get: • €15,000 grant (per artist) • Mentorship (XR, storytelling, ethics, distribution…) • 2-month on-site residency + public Test Lab • Support for the artwork’s circulation A space to experiment, collaborate and question XR practices! #RiT2 ⚡️ @biennalechroniques + @levfestival + @v2_unstable + @dark.euphoria.13 + @betafest_irl + @meet.digitalculturecenter + @novaiskra".

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