Technology & New Media

The Soft Data and Common Wares residencty calls for artists to join conversations on diverse topics such as: the non-neutrality of data, algorithmic bias, digital labour, the invisible infrastructures of data collection, gender and the body, networks, methods, sonic technologies, interpretative nature of data, and earth + space + body. Residencies will take place over one month during spring 2024, within the period from 1 April – 30 June 2024.

In a digital-first fellowship cycle running 15 February – 15 August 2024, Eyebeam call on artists to bring their innate mental, spiritual, and physical aspects of what it means to be human into play with technology to affirm humanity’s role as creators, not spectators, of our collective techno-future.

FREEYOU Next is looking for 3 digital creatives, to join a 6-month fellowship programme and develop projects around young people’s digital literacy. The fellowship will run November 2023 - May 2024, with online meetings, online mentorship, and a physical residency of at least two weeks with a partner organisation.

For its research residencies, the European project tekhnē welcomes artists, researchers, art educators and cultural workers working with and around autonomous and experimental approaches to technology, and reflections about what can be considered technology. Residency lengths vary between two and six weeks, between December 2023 and December 2024.

Kulturschafft e.V., CSN Lab, and Untitled Tbilisi are launching an open call for participation in an online mentoring programme from September to October 2023, followed by a programme of visit(s) and an exhibition in Yerevan from 6-12 November 2023. The project is aimed at artists, curators, cultural managers, art educators, and other cultural practitioners from Armenia, Georgia, and those who migrated to Germany, Armenia, and Georgia due to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine and political repressions in Belarus.

Medialab Matadero are calling for projects for the LAB#03 Collaborative Prototyping Lab, an intensive two-week workshop coordinated by internationally renowned experts/artists to collectively develop projects related to the theme of Synthetic Minds. The laboratory will take place in person at the Matadero Madrid facilities, between 24 January – 10 February 2024.

The STARTS4AFRICA Residencies will be a new residency programme dedicated to promoting Sub-Saharan Africa innovation at the nexus of Science + Technology + Arts. The organisers are looking for 8 African institutions in Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, DR Congo and Tanzania to be residency hosts.

Applications are now open to a new residency programme between Beta festival in Dublin and transmediale in Berlin. The two-month residency is open to four artists and will take place in Berlin, Dublin, and online between September and November 2023.

Organised by NeMe Arts Centre in Limassol, Cyprus from 3-4 November 2023, MoneyLab#13 aims to interrogate the state of our recent and emerging technologies, and how they relate to hegemonic economies working around three themes: blockchain, DAOs, NFTs and other crypto-related topics; dematerialisation of money, cashless society, CBDC/digital euro; revenue models for the arts. To this end, NeMe are seeking submissions for:

S+T+ARTS AIR is launching a new S+T+ARTS residencies programme focused on two main themes: Resilient Interspecies Urban Ecosystems and Human AI Ecosystems. Applicants must be citizens or permanent residents in Member States of the European Union and its Overseas Countries and Territories (OCT) or Associated Countries to Horizon Europe.