Diriyah Art Futures announces an open call for applications to its next digital and technology-led creative production and training programme (October 2026 to October 2027) targeting emerging artists working in New Media and Digital Art.
The Diriyah Art Futures centre, a cornerstone for new media and technology art in the region, has developed its Emerging New Media Artists Programme in collaboration with Le Fresnoy - Studio National des Arts Contemporains in France.
The first three months of the academic year will be a series of thematic and conceptual explorations offered by artists and theorists through seminars, lectures, screenings and workshops. In the following six months, artists will receive personalised mentorship from prominent artists, while they produce artwork using the technologies offered by the Diriyah Art Futures labs (such as advanced audio-visual techniques, immersive reality, coding, sensing, machine learning and spatial audio-visual environments). The artwork produced will be exhibited with Diriyah Art Futures as a final curated and juried outcome of the one-year programme.
The Emerging New Media Artists Programme has been developed with emerging creative practitioners from all over the world in mind, with a particular focus on those from the Middle East and North Africa. Applicants should be 35 years or younger, at graduate or postgraduate completion stage and have experience in developing and creating New Media and Digital Art.
What selected participants may receive:
- Accommodation
- Exhibition
- Funding
- Travel
