The Community Magazine
Festivals, conferences, hackathons, residencies, open calls, grants, and the people organizing this whole scene.
Noisebridge in San Francisco has been running since 2007: a 6,000 sq ft hackerspace at 272 Capp Street with woodworking, electronics, laser cutters and 3D printers, operating as a do-ocracy on consensus and donations. Classes and workshops are free and open to anyone — no membership or payment required — with regular weekly events including Circuit Hacking Monday and Gamebridge.
Colossal's editorial director Grace Ebert published a letter on September 16 committing the magazine to human-created content throughout — image selection, headlines, the daily newsletter — and rejecting automation despite the efficiency it would bring. The team is four people, sustained by memberships, and the letter frames the friction as the point.
The European Media Art Platform opened its 2027 residency call on September 3, with a deadline of November 6, 2026 at 2pm CET. Artists, duos and collectives apply for a two-month production residency at one of 15 host organisations across Europe. Applicants must be residents or taxpayers of an EU member state or eligible Creative Europe country, and the 2027 round requires a collaborating partner.
The Asia Culture Center's ACC NEXT 2027 open call, themed 'Prototype,' seeks interactive installation, generative video and image, kinetic and robotic art, and XR work from Asian artists under 40. Roughly ten are selected for a KRW 3,000,000 artist fee plus up to KRW 2,000,000 in materials, travel and accommodation, exhibiting April 2 – August 22, 2027.
POR:TAward, run by the Lisbon association POR.T.A. (POR TODAS AS ARTES), is an open call dedicated to digital art with a €10,000 main award and two €500 merit awards. Artists and collectives worldwide may submit one completed work; entry is €15 and the deadline is October 24, 2026.
YICCA 26/27, the International Contest of Contemporary Art run by Association Moho, accepts work in any medium, including video, installation and performance, from individuals and groups worldwide. Deadline Oct 8, 2026; €50 entry fee; prizes of €3,000 / €1,000 / €500 plus a €1,000 student prize; 18 finalists exhibit in Venice Nov 14–28.
´ace in Buenos Aires accepts applications through October 31 for 10–15 day micro-Residencies open to artists worldwide at any career stage, across 40+ disciplines including digital media, electronic arts, and virtual reality. There's no application fee and no stipend: the base cost is $1,500 USD, reduced for artists under 30. We're flagging the economics up front because most listings don't.
The Supporting Act Foundation is accepting applications until 11:00 CET on October 1, 2026 for ten €10,000 artist grants, disbursed as €1,000 monthly installments. It's open to artists in ten European countries with 2–10 years of professional practice, no application fee, and it's medium-agnostic — the filter is collaborative, community-rooted work, not what you make it with.
MacDowell, one of the longest-running artist residencies in the United States, is accepting Fellowship applications for Spring/Summer 2027 residencies through September 10, 2026 — free studio space plus need-based stipends and travel reimbursement across architecture, film/video, interdisciplinary arts, music composition, theatre, and visual arts.
The Arts Council of Ireland's Digital Artist in Residence programme at University of Galway is accepting applications through September 11 — a six-month, €18,000 residency embedded in the university's Centre for Creative Technologies, open to mid-career and established Irish digital artists working across AI, VR, AR, and data visualization.
Hiding in Plain Site, an international short-film festival dedicated entirely to public art, is open for submissions through September 10 — a rare open call that explicitly welcomes XR and AI-generated or AI-assisted moving-image work, not just traditional documentary film.
Printed Matter's 2026 Publisher Work Grant offers three unrestricted $10,000 awards to independent artists' book publishers — with eligibility rules written specifically to favor small, under-resourced presses over established ones.
Hackaday's 2026 Retrocomputing Challenge is a low-barrier, genuinely broad open call — restore a Commodore 64, build a modern-internals TRS-80 look-alike, or write new demoscene code for a decades-old platform, all judged as equally valid entries, with submissions open through October 27.
Spruill Gallery's seventh annual AMPLIFY competition is offering $10,000 and a permanent public mural commission on the historic Spruill Smoke House in Dunwoody, Georgia — open to any US-based artist or team, any medium, deadline August 28.
CPR's year-long 2027 Artist-in-Residence program gives six NYC artists $2,000 plus up to 150 hours of subsidized rehearsal space — applications close August 24, 2026, verified directly on CPR's own site.
MacDowell's Spring/Summer 2027 fellowship window closes September 10, 2026 — free studio residencies, need-based stipends, and travel grants for artists across seven disciplines, open internationally.
A year of mentorship and $20,000 ending in your own show at a major New York museum — the QM-Jerome Foundation Fellowship is one of the more direct paths from 'emerging' to 'exhibited' out there.
No entry fee, no medium restriction, no career-stage cutoff — a genuinely low-barrier way to pitch a gallery in Oslo for next year's program.
A modest cash prize, but a clean structure: two separate tracks mean a photographer and a painter aren't competing against each other for the same slot.
No genre restriction, no career-stage cutoff — just $1,800 and a real editorial writeup, four times a year. Entries for the summer round close August 20.
This one's a sprint, not a marathon: submissions for The New Emergence Art Prize close August 3, three days after this posted. Worth a look if you already have work ready to go.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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