Open Call: A Short-Film Festival About Public Art That Explicitly Wants XR and AI Work
Most film festivals treat XR as a sidebar and AI-assisted work as a problem. This one names both in the call — provided the work is really about public art.
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Open Call: A Funded Residency at the Vasulka Chamber in Reykjavík, Deadline September 3
The archive of Steina and Woody Vasulka, video art's founding tinkerers, is opening its doors to one international artist working with sensors, AI, sound, software, or hybrid practice. Applications close September 3.
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Community Spotlight: KIKK, the Belgian Festival That Turns a Medieval Town Into a Digital-Culture Lab
Some art-tech festivals are giants you visit once. KIKK is the one a whole town throws every autumn — talks, exhibitions spilling across Namur, workshops, and a market where the art-and-business worlds actually meet. It turns 15 this year.
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Community Spotlight: Artisan's Asylum, One of America's Biggest Makerspaces, Reinvented in Allston
A 52,000-square-foot floor of laser cutters, welding bays, robotics benches, and looms, shared by hundreds of makers. Artisan's Asylum is proof that the makerspace model can scale — and survive a cross-city move.
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Community Spotlight: NYC Resistor, the Brooklyn Hacker Collective Where MakerBot Was Born
Before there was a desktop 3D-printing industry, there was a Brooklyn hackerspace where its founders built the first MakerBot. NYC Resistor is still here — still teaching soldering, synths, and TouchDesigner to whoever shows up.
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Open Call: ´ace's Production & Exploration Residencies Court Cross-Medium Digital and Sound Work — Deadline July 31
Most residencies pick a lane. ´ace's Production & Exploration programs specifically want work that blurs them — digital, sound, performance, curatorial. The next quarterly deadline is July 31, so this one's close.
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Open Call: The AI Media Award Spans Six Generative-AI Categories — Deadline Aug 31
Most AI film prizes judge one thing. The AI Media Award splits generative work into six lanes — art, animation, music video, fashion, advertising, narration — so a music-video maker isn't judged against a short film. Entries close August 31.
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Open Call: The Astana AI Film Festival Has a $1 Million Prize Fund — Submissions Close Aug 15
A million-dollar prize fund for AI-made cinema — with one firm rule: the AI has to be the core of how the film was made, not a finishing filter. The Astana AI Film Festival's global call closes August 15.
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Open Call: Akademie Schloss Solitude's Web Residency Pairs You With a Developer and a €1,200 Grant — Deadline Aug 7
Most residencies give you a room. Akademie Schloss Solitude's Web Residency gives you a developer, a UX designer, a microsite, and €1,200 — all remote, all focused on web-native art. Applications close August 7.
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A Free, Week-Long Generative AI Hackathon Is Taking Registrations for October
Most AI hackathons default to business tooling and agents. This one's prize categories are built around creative output, which changes who actually shows up.
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A Five-Month Art-and-Tech Residency Just Started, Built Around a Theme Worth Sitting With
Most residencies pick a medium. This one picked a question — what does a technologically mediated community actually look like — and opened the door to anyone working on it from any discipline.
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