Citizen AI Arts & Technology Fellowship 2026-2027 ($3,000 stipend) – YOA

Deadline: September 30, 2026

Applications are open for the Citizen AI Arts & Technology Fellowship 2026-2027. The fellowship seeks to convey collectively multigenerational artists and creatives from various disciplines, backgrounds, and profession levels to discover the connection between artwork, AI and rising applied sciences, democracy, neighborhood, and public life.

They encourage functions from creatives whose work, pursuits, or expertise have interaction a number of of the next:

• Community-engaged, socially engaged, participatory, or co-inventive observe
• Public artwork, placemaking, and inventive work in public areas
• Arts-based analysis, storytelling, facilitation, or public dialogue
• Democracy, civic participation, belonging, or neighborhood voice
• Social, cultural, moral, or political dimensions of expertise
• Critical, supportive, or questioning views on AI and rising applied sciences
• Speculative, interdisciplinary, or experimental approaches to expertise and society
• Community organizing, training, advocacy, or different types of public engagement

Benefits

• Year 1: Fellows will obtain a $3,000 stipend for participation within the fellowship’s inquiry, co-design, neighborhood engagement, and collaborative improvement course of. Participation in designated Citizen AI workshops or actions past the core fellowship dedication will probably be compensated individually.
• Year 2: The fellowship is envisioned to maneuver right into a extra intensive implementation part. Selected individuals might have alternatives for deeper involvement in manufacturing, fabrication, facilitation, public programming, and implementation of concepts developed via the Year 1 course of. Compensation for Year 2 will replicate the elevated scope and degree of engagement.

Eligibility

• No educational diploma or prior AI experience is required. They welcome rising, mid-profession, and established creatives from various skilled backgrounds and disciplines, with various ranges of familiarity with synthetic intelligence. Applicants don’t have to work instantly with AI applied sciences.
• Creative practices might embody visible artwork, efficiency, socially engaged and public artwork, design, digital media, filmmaking, inventive expertise, music, motion fiber and textile arts, writing, storytelling, interdisciplinary observe, and different inventive types.

Applicants ought to display:

• An energetic inventive observe or sustained engagement in a inventive subject.
• Interest within the relationship between creativity, expertise, neighborhood, democracy, and public life.
• Experience with, or demonstrated curiosity in, collaborative, participatory, neighborhood-engaged, or public-dealing with work.
• Curiosity about rising applied sciences, together with each their potentialities and challenges.
• A dedication to respectful, inclusive, and moral engagement.
• The potential to take part constantly in fellowship bi-month-to-month conferences and collaborative actions.

Application

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For extra info, go to Citizen AI Arts & Technology Fellowship.