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.
Wave Farm | Research and Production Program
Wave Farm welcomes proposals from artists, researchers, and thinkers for three open-call research and production opportunities.
The transmission art residency and fellowship opportunities support projects that specifically engage the field of transmission art. The spatial sound residency opportunity supports the development of an audio work for a spatial sound environment.
Rewards: $1,000-$2,000 stipend
Image: Wave Farm Study Center in Acra, NY
Institute for Electronic Arts | New Media Residency
This residency program provides opportunities for artists to advance their careers and knowledge of developing new media studio technologies and practices. They support experimentation that can be instrumental in the production of an expanding and culturally significant catalogue of electronic, time-based, and new media artworks.
Rewards: $1,000 stipend, housing, technical support and more
Image: Alfred University
Animatou Genève | Call for Contemporary Animation
As the leading international animated film festival in French-speaking Switzerland, Animatou promotes and distributes animated works to the public in French-speaking Switzerland, meeting a real demand from animation enthusiasts. Internationally, the festival has become a key platform for the year-round promotion of animated films from Switzerland and abroad.
For their 2026 festival, submissions are open for various short animation competitions.
Rewards: Cash prizes between CHF 500 and CHF 5,000
Image: Animatou
Idle Hands | Incubation Award
Idle Hands invites emerging and mid-career artists based in New York City to apply for their Incubation Award. For this award cycle, the theme is Tactility, approached through the lens of time-based media, including film, video, sound, and other durational practices. Within this context, tactility refers to how sensory experience, embodiment, and material presence are conveyed, simulated, or questioned over time.
Rewards: $10,000 stipend, professional mentorship, and solo exhibition
Image: Idle Hands
Video Archaeology Lab | The DEAD MEDIA Residency
The DEAD MEDIA Residency is the first ever video art residency offered by the Video Archaeology Lab operated by artist Michael Chernoff. This residency is a work and educational opportunity for artists across various disciplines who are seeking, or already incorporating, analog video media, visual effects, and electronic techniques into digital media and video/film projects.
Rewards: $1200 stipend, housing stipend, studio access and more
Image: Video Archaeology Lab
BRIC | BRIClab: Video Art Residency
BRIClab: Video Art is a year-long residency through BRIC’s Media Education and Contemporary Art Departments to support the creation of a video or film short or a longer work-in-progress.
Rewards: $2,500 stipend, free courses, production support, public screen and more
Image: BRIC
Lumen Prize 2026
This year marks the 15th annual Lumen Prize, the leading international award for art created with technology. There are three award categories for innovation, spanning technology and creativity: Legacy Futures Award, Systems & Structures Award & Experiential Innovation Award.
Rewards: 3 x $5,000 prizes and 1 x $15,000 prize
Image: Lumen Prize
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