DIGITAL ART RESIDENCY

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About the programme

arebyte’s Digital Art Residency is a programme dedicated to support creatives critically engaging with technology to develop their practice over a period of four months. Based at arebyte Digital Art Centre in Camden, the residency provides a creative practitioner with a studio space, a series of mentoring sessions and opportunities to engage with London’s digital art scene through arebyte’s events programme. 

This 2025 Autumn Open Call is open for creatives producing work that responds to our current programme focused on ‘The Body, The Mind, The Soul’, which explores human experience in the digital age, investigating how technology is shaping our physical existence, while expanding our mental and philosophical dimensions. 

Who can apply

The residency is open to practising artists, researchers, and creative practitioners working within the fields of digital art, emerging media, and technology. We welcome applications from individuals interested in either developing a specific project with defined outcomes or using the residency as a period of open-ended research and development.

Eligibility Criteria

  • Must be an artist or creative working with technology as a medium and conceptual framework.

  • Must be aged 18 or over.

  • Must not be enrolled as a student during the residency period.

  • Must be based in London and available to work in person from arebyte’s Camden location for the full duration of the four-month residency

Access needs

The building is wheelchair accessible. If you have access needs, or if you would like to apply in alternative formats, please email opencall@arebyte.com

 

The residency offers

  • A working space during 4 months at arebyte Digital Art Centre in Camden

  • 1 in-progress sharing event or open studio with a public Q&A

  • 4 curatorial support sessions and 2 production session provided by arebyte

  • An online residency profile and artist interview featured across arebyte’s digital channels and newsletter

Residency Timeline

  • 24th Nov 2025: Submission deadline

  • Mid Dec 2025: Successful participants notified

  • 5th Jan 2026: Residency starts

  • 30th April 2025: End of residency

 

Application process

The online form requires:

  • An overview of your practice

  • A project description responding to the theme of ‘The Body, the Mind, The Soul’ detailing what you aim to achieve during the residency

  • A portfolio (no more than 6 pages) showing examples of your work, writing or research in PDF format

Selection Process

Participants will be selected by arebyte’s curatorial and production team based on:

  • Artistic merit and originality of the proposal.

  • Relevance to digital art and new media practices.

  • Potential impact of the residency on the applicant’s practice.

  • Feasibility of the project or research within the four-month timeframe.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

  • We define digital art and new media technologies as art that manifest as websites, computer games, CGI, screen based and projection, AI, generative art, augmented reality, virtual reality, video, digital sound, digital performance, on-chain experiments, 3D printing, motion capture, and numerous other innovative digital practices.

  • We seek proposals that explore the transformative potential of using digital mediums, reflecting on how we perceive and interact with art, altering realities, and reimagining artistic expression both conceptually and technologically. In your proposal you should reflect on the theme of ‘The Body, The Mind, The Soul’ which can be found here.

  • We only accept applications from creative practitioners who will be living in London for the full 4 month duration of the residency and it is the applicant’s responsibility to ensure that they have the right to live and work in the UK.

    Please note that this residency does not offer accommodation.

  • Unfortunately not, we can only accept applications from individual creative practitioners.

  • No. You can use the time at the residency to explore, create, research or plan. The residency is open for individuals to work on a project with set outcomes or alternatively to use the time spent on research and development.

  • arebyte

    • 24/7 hour access desk space located on the 1st floor of arebytes’ Camden studios. Please note that the desk spaces are located in a shared environment, so all sound based work must be conducted through headphones.

    • Free wifi

    • Shared facilities (kitchen and common area)

  • Successful applicants will be notified within 10 days of the open call deadline. Unfortunately due to the high number of submissions, we will not be able to provide feedback to unsuccessful applications.

  • If your proposal is selected as a successful applicant, then you will be one of the participating ‘Artist in Residence’. We do not expect successful applicants to finish the residency with a finished project or exhibition. We do, however, expect you to be onsite, using the desk space at least twice a week as this is an onsite residency.

    In addition, you will need to attend an internal networking event, give arebyte access to visual documentation that can be shared across social media platforms.

  • Participants will have to identify whether they are a person with a disability in the submission process and will have to submit an access rider upon accepting the offer of being a part of the residency.

    The desk space is located on the 1st floor, but the building is wheelchair accessible. When you apply, we ask you to submit any access needs you might have. If you would like to apply in alternative formats, please email hello@arebyte.com

  • We are prioritising individuals who currently do not have access to studios for the development of their practice.

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