We invite proposals for creative practice of all kinds.
The research project Sustainable AI Futures (AHRC BRAID) is seeking creative practitioners to create original artworks (in any medium) exploring AI and the environment. We expect to award three mini-residencies, each consisting of £2,750 plus up to £1,000 of expenses (travel, materials etc.).
This is an opportunity to be part of a timely interdisciplinary project investigating AI and its complex impacts on our planet. Artists-in-residence will have the opportunity to engage with the project team’s expertise, and use it to inspire and inform their work.
Artists-in-residence will undertake creative practice (which may be entirely new, or develop existing work in new directions), and will deliver some form of event. The event could be an artist talk as part of one of the project’s workshops, or it could be a stand-alone event (e.g. public arts workshop, performance).
Timeline: We expect to confirm our decisions by February 2026, with mini-residencies to be completed by November 2026.
Suggested angles: We are open to many different angles, including but not limited to: Indigenous knowledge in relation to both AI and the climate / environment; decolonial approaches to AI and the climate / environment; AI and climate change against the background of MAGA-Silicon Valley convergence (and fall-out?); reviving obsolete / ‘dead tech’; subversive and imaginative uses of mainstream AI tools ‘against the grain’; AI, climate justice, and slow violence; interventions around building alternative AI infrastructures and capacity; resisting AI / abolishing AI; creative uses of AI against anthropocentrism; AI, the environment and archives; AI, the environment and data surveillance; AI and solastalgia / eco-grief. We would especially like to see work that is interactive / participatory.
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