**Introducing “Synthetica and Alterica” - Silicon Valley International Contemporary Art Competition and Art Review Exhibition:**

In an age where technology permeates every aspect of our lives, **Synthetica and Alterica** invites artists to explore the evolving relationship between artificial intelligence and the human experience. This is not merely an exhibition but a reflection of the complex interplay between innovation and identity in our increasingly digital world.

We seek to showcase works that question how technology is reshaping our understanding of creativity, identity, and otherness. **Synthetica** represents the seamless integration of technology and artistic expression, a merging of human and machine that pushes the boundaries of what we consider possible in the creative realm. **Alterica**, on the other hand, delves into concepts of exclusion and difference, exploring how technology both connects and isolates, creating spaces of belonging while also reinforcing divides.

Winners will receive certificates of recognition and their achievements will be highlighted in major media outlets across the UK, US, Europe, and beyond, granting them significant international exposure.

Online exhibition opportunity from December 30, 2024, to January 30, 2025, 

Exhibition grand prize winners will also secure a coveted spot in the 2025 group exhibition at ArtX Gallery. 

The recipient of the Grand Prize will be invited to join the academic committee, enhancing their professional involvement in the art community.

If any winning artworks are sold during the competition or exhibition period, the artist will retain the full commission from these sales.

**Award**

* **Master Award**
* **Best Creativity Award**
* **Best Visual Effect Award**
* **Art Innovation Award**
* **Rising Star Award**
* **Excellence Award**
* **Honorable Mentions**

  

Synthetica and Alterica  International Art Review Exhibition

At The Holy Art Gallery, we are committed to being at the forefront of art showcasing and innovation.

  
We are thrilled to announce The VR Experience!

  
Our VR shows will take place at selected events around the world, where guests will have the opportunity to immerse themselves in our virtual reality gallery using headsets provided by our team.

  
Additionally, each show will be available online for three full months. Online visitors can explore the exhibition through their web browser (on laptops, mobile phones, etc.) or with their own VR headset!

  
We can't wait to share this ground-breaking experience with you.

Step into the future: The VR Experience

The Adachi Contemporary UKIYOE Award 2024 is now calling for 21st-century ukiyo-e artists. Ukiyo-e prints, loved worldwide, are the result of a collaborative effort by three artisans: the ukiyo-e artist, represented by masters like Hokusai and Hiroshige, who draws the original design; the carver, who meticulously carves the design onto woodblocks; and the printer, who transfers the image onto washi paper. The works created by these artists have served as a “mirror of the times,” reflecting the societal and cultural contexts of their era and captivating many people. Since its inception in 2009, the Adachi UKIYOE Award has sought artists to become the next generation of ukiyo-e artists, producing designs that serve as the foundation for modern ukiyo-e. Award winners will have the opportunity to collaborate with contemporary carvers and printers to turn their designs into woodcut prints. Would you like to become a ukiyo-e artist like Hokusai and create works in collaboration with today’s carvers and printers?

* **1st Prize**: 300,000 yen + your picture will be made as a woodcut print by contemporary artisans and a complete print will be given to you

  
* **2nd Prize**: 150,000 yen + your picture will be made as a woodcut print by contemporary artisans and a complete print will be given to you

  
* 3**rd Prize**: 50,000 yen

THE ADACHI CONTEMPORARY UKIYOE AWARD 2024

**The Lab Program is a cross-disciplinary art laboratory based in Mexico City that usually receives one resident artist per month.** Submissions are open all year round and dates arranged according to availability.

  
Applicants interested in questioning their production process and willing to expand their questions through genuine curiosity as main critical guide are welcome to apply. Site-specific art making, embodied art-practices and, expanded narrative fields as methods of research in the process of this residency are encouraged.

  
Participants get the chance to share their work in process and final outcomes in public events, usually hosted in one of our peer art-spaces in the City.

  
The format of each public presentation depends on the nature of the project developed during the time of the residency. Projects are usually based on site specific production and art research dynamics. The making of artists’ books, as a way to democratize the knowledge of each investigation is highly encouraged but not mandatory.

Each resident needs to pay for their own housing, living, production and traveling expenses.

The Lab Program operates as a self-funded art-lab, actively collaborating with other independent spaces in Mexico City. Recognizing the financial constraints artists often face, we strive to make our program accessible. Our fee, already significantly subsidized by the lab's resources, is just half of the actual cost. While we understand that everything comes with a price, we're committed to providing mediation, curatorial, and research support prior to your arrival, helping you submit your project or research for potential funding opportunities from your home country or city.

Get in touch, we can find a way to make your engagement possible! Currently welcoming submissions from any discipline or background, as long as you view your practice as a form of site-specific, spatial narrative, and/or embodiment engagement.

**ESP**

El Lab Program, opera como un laboratorio de arte autogestionado, colaborando activamente con otros espacios autogestionados en la Ciudad de México. Reconocemos las limitaciones financieras que a menudo enfrentan los artistas, y nos esforzamos por hacer de este programa y red de colaboradores un espacio accesible. La tarifa, ya está significativamente subsidiada por los recursos propios del laboratorio, y es solo la mitad del costo real. Aún así nos encantaría brindar apoyo de mediación, curaduría e investigación antes de tu llegada, y ayudarte a presentar tu proyecto de creación-investigación para posibles oportunidades de financiamiento desde tu lugar de origen o ciudad.

¡Escribe y quizás, podemos encontrar una manera de hacer posible su participación!

Actualmente, estamos recibiendo aplicaciones de cualquier disciplina o antecedente, siempre y cuando tu práctica se involucre con una forma de narrativa espacial específica, práctica sitiuada y/o cuerpo.

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🗓️ Deadline for early Spring: December 29th, 2024

Submission link is on the bio or www.thelabprogram.com

thelabprogrammx@gmail.com

The Lab Program | Spatial narratives + Site-Specific Art

The Living Room Exhibitions is a queer-led curatorial collective and zine based in Chicago, IL. We aim to foster queer community and uplift artists. 

  
We are currently looking for visual artists to represent. If you believe you would be a good fit, please fill out our form and we will reach out to you with further information. 

Open Call for Artists/Representation

FotoCreativaBA is an international training space in Contemporary Photography and Combined Arts, created in 2010\. It is aimed at photographers interested in expanding their knowledge and projects, and in professionalizing their artistic practice. It is our commitment to accompany artists in their exploration, research and production processes, up to the presentation and circulation of their works, through the formation of specialized coordination teams, groups of contemporary artists and close, personalized monitoring. 

  
FotoCreativaBA Artistic Residency, member of Res Artis -Worldwide Network of Arts Residencies- is located in the center of the City of Buenos Aires, in the Galería Patio del Liceo, a gallery of artists, designers and bookstores, ideal for connecting with your project. From this new space we welcome visual artists, photographers, researchers, curators and work groups looking for time and space to reflect, discuss and create.

  
Our mission is to promote and develop cultural projects linked to Photography and Combined Arts, establishing a lively dialogue between artists from various disciplines.

  
The call for applications is open all year round for residency proposals from March to December 2024, for a minimum period of 1 week. 

Accommodation is not included. However, we will work to find one. We have two private accommodations for reference.

**We offer a general structure to the resident artist that may vary depending on each project:**

\- Regular feedback and project monitoring.

\- Study visits to natural, historical or industrial heritage according to each artist's project.

\- A tour of galleries and art spaces of the city.

\- Monthly agenda of the residency and local events.

\- Free access to all FotoCreativaBA activities and training during the residency.

\- Registration of residence and the process. Publication on our networks.

\- Open studio at the end of the residency.

**The resident will have at his disposal:**

\- Professional support

\- The gallery as a workspace

\- Virtual library

\- Internet

FotoCreativaBA Artistic Residency 2024 [Buenos Aires]

This grant aims to support projects that will enhance further understanding of Japanese arts and culture. Successful candidates may be granted up to $5,000\. The Japan Foundation Los Angeles handles Arts and Culture grants for the 13 states west of the Rocky Mountains. These include **Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.**

  
The Japan Foundation New York handles applications for the remaining states that are east of the Rocky Mountains along with Japanese Studies Grants. Please visit New York office website for additional information.

Successful candidates may be granted up to **$5,000**.

  
**Grant Coverage:**

  
 1\. Publicity fees

 2\. Printing costs of programs, flyers, and brochures

 3\. Honoraria for artists and lecturers

 4\. Travel Expenses for artists and lecturers, including per diem and accommodation expenses

 5\. Shipping cost of films, exhibits and other materials related to the proposed event

 6\. Facility fee

  
 The grant will be paid in the form of reimbursement for the preceding expenses. The award money will be remitted upon receipt of the final report and proofs of payment.
  
  

JFLA Mini Grant For Japanese Arts & Culture Program

Artistic residencies should stimulate peer-to-peer exchange of ideas, experience and artistic skills, and provide participants with the opportunity to meet, interact and work together in a culturally diverse and inspiring environment. By fostering cultural mobility and cooperation, the awarded artistic residencies will stimulate regional partnerships as well as quality co-production of multicultural contents, which in the long run will enrich intercultural dialogue and creativity in the WBs region. 

  
Residencies will equip participants with knowledge and skills on how to create artistic expressions using multimedia tools and how to access the WBs and EU markets. Artistic residencies will also envisage workshops and talks with speakers from the WBs on various topics, including the professional status of artists and the improvement of their economic and social working conditions in light of the specific WBs context. 

  
Active participation in any of the above exchanges should promote Western Balkans’ participation in regional and international events and improve mobility of designated stakeholders within Western Balkans and between Western Balkans and the European Countries. Attendance to such events will enable the creation of linkages and the use of various tools for improvement of their area of interest and expertise. 

Grants up to 3,750.00 EUR are available. Total amount available under this Open Call: 250,000.00 EUR.

Culture and Creativity for the Western Balkans

From now until the 31st of December, 2024, **artists working in various fields who live and work in Germany may apply for a four- to eight-month residency at the Tarabya Cultural Academy in Istanbul. In addition, the Turkish-German co-production grants will again be awarded in cooperation with the Allianz Foundation**. Tandems of cultural professionals from Germany and Türkiye may apply for these grants on a joint basis.

  
The residencies offer artists and cultural professionals from Germany a space for the contemplative development and completion of their creative endeavours, working in exchange and cooperation with local artists and cultural institutions in Türkiye. The Tarabya Cultural Academy works to strengthen and intensify cultural exchange and dialog between Germany and Türkiye, to offer new perspectives on German-Turkish relations, and to promote the artistic development of creative professionals from both countries. The residency also provides a protected artistic space in increasingly challenging times for artistic creation.

  
The grants provide artists and cultural practitioners from Germany a space for the contemplative development and realization of their creative work in exchange and cooperation with local artists and cultural institutions in Türkiye. The promotion and intensification of cultural exchange and dialogue between Germany and Türkiye, the opening up of new perspectives on German-Turkish relations and the support of the artistic development of creative artists from both countries are central aspects of the program of the Tarabya Cultural Academy. In addition, the residency provides a protected space for artistic creation in increasingly challenging times.

  
In addition, in cooperation with the Allianz Foundation, co-production grants are awarded to tandems of cultural professionals who live in Germany and Türkiye. The Allianz Foundation supports artists and artistic initiatives that develop ideas for social change, provide new perspectives on solving the pressing challenges of our time, and that work for social justice, open societies, and the preservation of a planet that is worth inhabiting. Applications that address these ideas and issues are expressly welcome. Both members of the tandem receive a monthly cash stipend to implement their joint artistic project and are involved in the residency programme’s activities.

**RESIDENTS WHO LIVE AND WORK IN THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY**

The cash grant consists in a lump sum grant for living costs in the amount of 2,500 euros per month. In addition, non-cash benefits include provision of furnished accommodation (apartment with cooking facilities and bathroom), defrayal of costs for water, electricity, heating and basic cleaning against a lump sum of 20 euros monthly paid by the resident. The lump sum grant is intended to cover travel and transport costs and costs that arise through fulfillment of the terms of the residency by the residents.

  
**TURKISH-GERMAN CO-PRODUCTION RESIDENTS**

Both tandem partners receive a monthly cash grant to realize their joint artistic project. The monthly rate for residents from Germany corresponds to that of the regular Tarabya Cultural Academy residencies; for residents from Turkey, the monthly rate is 2,000 euros (in TL according to the current exchange rate). The grant for residencies for Turkish partners is provided by the Allianz Foundation.

  

The Tarabya Cultural Academy 2025-26

The Europe + Heritage programme offers advice, a travel grant scheme and a support grant scheme for European heritage cooperation.

  
Heritage can be both tangible and intangible: it includes natural heritage, built and archaeological sites, museums, monuments, artworks, historic cities, literary, musical and audio-visual works, and the knowledge, practices and traditions of citizens.

  
DutchCulture supports sustainable heritage cooperation between the Kingdom of the Netherlands and Europe by supporting and facilitating (international) expert meetings and exchanges while underlining the European context of heritage. We identify trends and opportunities and are in close contact with the heritage field. Please keep us up to date on your tangible and intangible heritage projects with and within Europe by sending us an email.

  
**For whom**

The Europe + Heritage Programme is designed for heritage organisations and professionals that are based in the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Netherlands, Aruba, Bonaire and Sint Maarten) and wish to visit a European partner, invite a European partner or set up a cooperation with a European partner.

  
DutchCulture offers consultations in English or Dutch to organisations and individuals who want to start a European heritage project. We do so by offering information about national and international funding opportunities and connecting projects and organisations to international partners. Please do not hesitate to contact Jacomine Hendrikse, advisor Europe + Heritage, to schedule your consultation.

As of February 2024, a pilot programme for the Caribbean part of the Kingdom offers an increased travel voucher to applicants based in Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Saba, Sint Eustatius and Sint Maarten. With a travel voucher of €1.500 instead of €250 for applicants based in the Netherlands, we hope to stimulate cooperation between the Caribbean part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and Europe. The amount of the Travel Grant Scheme remains the same for all applicants based in the Kingdom of the Netherlands and is a maximum of €5.000.

  
DutchCulture supports heritage cooperation between the Kingdom of the Netherlands and Europe by offering two grant schemes: the Travel Grant Scheme and the Support Grant Scheme.

  
**1\. Europe + Heritage Travel Grant Scheme (Reiskostenregeling)**

Cooperation starts with establishing contact and getting to know each other. To facilitate this, DutchCulture has created the Travel Grant Scheme. Under this scheme, vouchers of **€250** (for applicants based in the Netherlands) or **€1.500** (for applicants based in Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Sint Eustatius, Sint Maarten or Saba - the Caribbean part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands).

  
**2\. Europe + Heritage Support Grant Scheme (Ondersteuningsregeling)**

The goal of the Support Grant Scheme is to promote the establishment of contacts with the European heritage sector and the exchange of knowledge between the Netherlands and the rest of Europe. The Support Grant Scheme offers grants of **€5.000** maximum. 

The Europe + Heritage Programme

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