Residencies & Retreats
Emerging New Media Artists Programme, Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
The Emerging New Media Artists Programme is a supported one-year programme of theoretical engagement, creative production and technical training for emerging artists working in New Media and Digital Art. Developed in collaboration with Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains, the programme offers participants access to cutting-edge technology, production facilities, and mentorship from leading international artists and scholars.
Deadline: June 16, 2025
Deadline: June 16, 2025 – Diriyah Art Futures (DAF), the MENA region’s first New Media Arts hub, has announced a call for applications for the second cycle of its Emerging New Media Artists programme, set to launch in October 2025.
Submission Fee: Free
Eligibility: The programme is designed for artists worldwide who are 35 years or younger, at graduate or postgraduate completion stage, with experience in New Media and Digital Art.
About the residency: The Emerging New Media Artists Programme is a supported one-year programme of theoretical engagement, creative production and technical training for emerging artists working in New Media and Digital Art. Developed in collaboration with Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains, the programme offers participants access to cutting-edge technology, production facilities, and mentorship from leading international artists and scholars.
Over the course of the year, participants will explore themes such as AI, virtual and augmented reality, sound, cinema and digital archives, culminating in a final curated exhibition at DAF.
THEME:
The first three months of the academic year span a series of thematic and conceptual explorations led by artists and theorists through seminars, lectures, screenings, and workshops.
Topics include:
Nature, human, non-human
Nature, Climate, Environment and Societal Transformation
The body and technological transformations of living beings
Migration, post-colonialism and a critique of capitalism
Mapping Memory, the relationships between digital practices and the archive
Internet and the post-internet era
Global Modern and Contemporary Art and Arabic Regionalism
In the following six months, you will receive personalised mentorship from prominent artists, while you produce your artwork using the technologies offered by the Diriyah Art Futures labs. You will have access to cutting-edge technologies such as advanced audio-visual techniques, immersive reality, coding, sensing, machine learning and spatial audio-visual environments. The artwork you produce will be exhibited with Diriyah at Futures as a final curated and juried outcome of the one-year programme
Artists are invited to explore a range of contemporary fields in New Media Arts, including:
Reality and Artificial Reality
Sound and Cinema Creation
Humans and Artificial Intelligence