future art ecosystems r&d fellowship
The inaugural Future Art Ecosystems (FAE) R&D Fellowship: Art x Convergence is a six-month, low-residency programme supporting individual practitioners and broader ecosystem development in art and advanced technologies.
Launching in September 2026, the FAE Fellowship will convene four practitioners working across art and advanced technologies. Applications are now open for artists, curators, technologists and organisers, supporting early-stage creative research grounded in process, dialogue and shared learning.
Fellows are invited to pursue a defined research question connected to their practice or a project in development, in response to this year’s FAE Fellowship theme of Art x Convergence. Through a combination of professional and specialist mentorship, network development, cohort exchange, and public-facing process sharing, the FAE Fellowship supports the fellows’ research in motion.
Art x Convergence serves as a prompt and a provocation for the 2026 cohort. The theme is an invitation to explore how AI is reshaping cultural and societal systems. It points to the condition of convergence where AI’s capacity to pursue goals, model environments and act in the world creates unprecedented challenges, requiring new frameworks for how we relate to embodiment, robotics, legal constructs, markets and planetary organisation.