Opportunities for Digital & New Media Artists
When working as a digital or new media artist, you can often be excluded from opportunities geared towards more traditional art forms. With that in mind, we've compiled a list of residencies, grants, and prizes that prioritise artists working with technology. Whether you work with sound, video, installation, or something in between, there’s something here for you.
Urban Art Lab in Seoul | 2026 G.MAP Digital Art Culture Lab
The Gwangju Media Art Platform (G.MAP) an institution of Gwangju, UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts, invites artists and teams working in digital art to the 2026 Digital Art Culture Lab: Project Lab, a 5-month creation support program (August-December 2026) covering the entire creative process, from idea development through production, showcase, and archiving.
Rewards: Creation/production grant max. 30,000,000 KRW per team, mentoring, and showcase/exhibition opportunity
Padimai | Onchain Artist Residency
The Onchain Artist Residency is an open call for artists to engage with questions of technology, mediation, documentation, and access. Structured as a remote residency with designed online community engagements, it supports the development of research-led practices at the intersection of contemporary art and digital culture.
Rewards: Honorarium of 15,000 SGD and additional 5,000 SGD for documentation
The Creative Industries Fund NL | Immerse\Interact Grant Scheme
The Immerse\Interact Grant supports the development, realisation and distribution of artistically high-quality, immersive and/or interactive media productions by both independent and established producers in the Netherlands.
Rewards: Funding between €15,000-€125,000
Paula Strunden, Rhetorical Bodies: An XR Dance Performance, MU Hybrid Art House Eindhoven. Photo: Hanneke Wetzer, 2023.
Emerging Digital Artist Award | 2026 Award
The Emerging Digital Artists Award is Canada’s award for critical experimentation in digital media. Canadian artists working in still image, moving image, screen-based interactive, XR, or digital installation are encouraged to apply.
Rewards: $5,000 prize, exhibition, and more
CoSTAR Network | Screen Lab: Spatial Audio in Virtual Production
CoSTAR Screen Lab invites companies, technologists, and creatives to explore innovative applications of spatial audio to enhance audience interaction with visual assets in virtual production. This call asks: how can spatialised audio become an interaction layer that lets audiences or human talent discover, navigate, influence, and meaningfully engage with visual assets during production or live/hybrid digital performances?
Rewards: £35,000 funding, equipment, and more
Fundację Pinata | 3rd International Digital Art Biennial “THE ONE”
“THE ONE” will be dedicated to the future of our planet. The competition’s goal is to spark a discussion about the ongoing destruction of Earth caused by human activity—the progress of civilization. Fundację Pinata will accept works by professional artists and art students from around the world, created using digital techniques, in two categories: GRAPHICS (digital graphics, digital painting, digital collage, digital drawing) and VIDEO (videos and animations). Accepted works will be on display from November-December 2026 at the Forum Gallery, located at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń.
Rewards: Exhibition and cash prizes 1,000-3,000 PLN
Ontario Place | Lumière – The Art of Light 2027
Lumière: The Art of Light will temporarily transform Trillium Park at Ontario Place in February - March 2026. This free exhibition invites local artists to explore light as a creative medium under the theme “Structures of Light.” The theme focuses on installations where light serves as the primary artistic medium, shaping form, structure, and spatial experience. Submissions will only be accepted from Ontario-based applicants.
Rewards: Funding of up to $18,000 CAD
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