Technology & New Media

ARTSFORMATION invites you to apply to the RESISTANCE Participatory Arts Productions scheme, which will take place in Lesvos, Greece between 11-21 April 2023. 10 artists will be selected to participate in a programme aimed at spurring the production of individual artworks that respond to the themes set out by ARTSFORMATION, as well as the challenges posed by Europe’s digital transformation. The programme is open to citizens of the European Economic Area (EEA). Swiss and UK citizens are also eligible.

ésam Caen/Cherbourg is inviting applicants for an artistic research residency in 2023-2024 at the Laboratoire Modulaire. Initiated in 2019, the Laboratoire Modulaire intends to question the notion of ‘spatialisation’ by exploring the constantly evolving relationships between digital devices and the design of spaces: immersive environments (sound or visual), virtual reality, augmented reality, crossed reality. The call is aimed at artists conducting a research related to the issues raised by Laboratoire Modulaire and working on digital practices and technologies.

NEW NOW - Festival for Digital Arts is looking for trailblazing creatives who deal with the relationship between humans, nature and technology. The NEW NOW Festival will open on the 1 June 2023 and run until 4 June 2023 with a conference and the ThinkHalle, their virtual festival. You can apply with talks, panels, workshops and performances as well as off-stage projects such as audio walks or prototypes, or with a digital contribution.

For the Wild Bits exhibition, Maajaam is offering a residency for artists to create technological art installations consisting of sounds, lights, texts, sculptures or their online counterparts that can be placed in natural spaces like forests, fields, swamps and lakes. The residency will take place during June and August 2023 over around three weeks. Produced works will remain in Maajaam and will be displayed at satellite exhibitions in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania until 2025.

The New Real have announced a new AI Art commissioning opportunity for an established creative practitioner (or practitioners) to develop a new AI Art work that probes the uncanny interplay of humans and machines, and illuminates the social implications of recent developments in AI. The commission will take place across 2023 beginning in February, with work in progress at events in March and May, and culminating in the launch of the work produced in Edinburgh in Summer/Autumn 2023.

During October and November 2023, Kyber Theatre in Cagliari (Italy) will organise the 10th edition of the International Theatre, Art and New Technologies Festival ‘The Wonders of Possible’. This call invites Italian and international artists and companies (maximum 3 people), whether emerging or established, to submit projects around the theme of the ‘interaction between theatre and new technologies’.

For CODE 2023, creative professional and non-professional artists from the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany are invited to take part in a five-month journey of dialogue, critical discussion and co-creation about digital rights. Between February and June 2023 you will work with other participants on group artworks to be presented at international festivals and events.

Mapping Festival is organised by PPING, a Geneva-based non-profit cultural association. Its goal is to promote the audiovisual, technological and transdisciplinary arts on the French-speaking part of Switzerland and to make them known internationally. The festival currently has three open calls for its 2023 edition.

Realities in Transition (RIT) is calling for creative XR projects that are reimagining and expanding the notions of XR by drawing a critical, reflective path of thinking and promoting a common, open, and sustainable XR at a European level. In total, seven projects will be offered a residency at V2_ Lab in Rotterdam, The Netherlands from 6 March - 5 May 2023. The call is open to emerging creatives who are European residents.