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In collaboration with Galleria Continua, La Residencia (a Belmond Hotel in Mallorca’s UNESCO protected Sierra de Tramuntana) has launched an open call inviting artists to apply for one of three residencies: May-June 2023, July-August 2023, or September-October 2023.

The main goal of ARTeCHÓ is to create a peer-to-peer learning community for artists to learn more about the technical side of the art-making process and its intersection with new technologies, Crypto Art, blockchain, and NFT marketplaces. 15 artists and designers will join a 7-month Fellowship Programme (April - October 2023) where they work on their proposed projects and present them to the public at the end of the trajectory. The Fellowship Programme focuses on digital productions but does not exclude other forms.

BETA PUBLICA announces the X EDITION of the International Choreographic Showcase BETA PUBLICA, which will take place 1-4 June 2023 at the Sala Negra of Teatros del Canal within the Madrid en Danza festival. The BETA PUBLICA Showcase is open to the participation of creators from any country in the world. Presented choreographies must be of contemporary style, adapted for presentation in a conventional stage space with multimedia resources. Works should be 10-15 minutes in length.

This call for a curatorial residency aims to provide a curator from any country of origin with a work space, funding, institutional support and international visibility. The residency is split into two periods: an initial stage during the month of May 2023 in Barcelona accompanied and managed by LOOP in collaboration with Fabra i Coats: Fábrica de Creación y Centre d’Arts Santa Mònica, and a second stage during the month of June 2023 in Madrid, managed by the Matadero Centre for Artists in Residence.

Organised by Colección SOLO, SOLO AI ‘23 Awards is an open call that aims to foster, acknowledge and support the use of AI as an artistic tool within the paradigm of the digital world. One winning artist will be selected for a grant and to take part in a collective exhibition held at Espacio SOLO in Madrid between February and December 2023.

As a member of the international collaboration A-Place, LOOP (a platform dedicated to the study and promotion of the moving image) will commission a video production to investigate the process of creating a sense of place in one of the six cities participating in the project (Barcelona, Bologna, Brussels, Lisbon, Ljubljana and Nicosia). Multidisciplinary artists who are legal residents in the European Union can apply.

For the We Make Culture project, the Youth Peace Ambassadors Network is looking to gather 20 participants from Spain, France, Germany and Greece to engage in a training programme that will equip them with peace-building and human rights education skills to address issues that are a threat to peace. Participants must commit to attend two training sessions: 14-21 April 2023 in Evian, France; 3-10 July 2023 in Guriezo, Spain.

CdM Cultural Foundation has launched a call for proposals aimed at early music groups and performers to be part of the VII edition of Renaixement Festival to be held in Valencia between 14-16 September 2023. Selected proposals will be incorporated into the Festival programme on 15 September 2023 at 8pm with a concert at the Church of the Monastery of Sant Miquel dels Reis.

Casa Árabe and PHotoEspaña jointly present the third edition of NUR, an open call for applications for a photography exhibition on contemporary Arab culture that will be displayed at Casa Árabe’s premises as part of the 26th PHotoESPAÑA International Photography Festival, within its official programme, to be held in 2023.

VOJEXT (Value Of Joint EXperimentation in digital Technologies for manufacturing and construction) and S+T+ARTS are offering residencies for three selected artists in robotics labs in Spain and Italy from March until December 2023. Applications are open to all artists with an interest in robots in construction, architecture, arts and crafts.

Ever since its first edition in 2006, Technarte is the event where artists, designers and researchers from all around the world meet to share their vision of the fusion between art and technology in a close and friendly atmosphere. Speakers are sought for the next edition, taking place in Bilbao, Spain on 19 May 2023.