Future Art Ecosystems R&D Fellowship: Art x Convergence
Fellowship Open Call
Organisation: Serpentine
Programme: Future Art Ecosystems (FAE) R&D Fellowship: Art x Convergence
Award: £10,000 per fellow + travel and accommodation support
Location: Hybrid / London, UK
Duration: September 2026 – March 2027
Deadline: 7 June 2026, midnight BST
Open to: Artists, curators, technologists and organisers working at the intersection of art and advanced technologies
Apply: Via the online form
Serpentine Arts Technologies launches the inaugural Future Art Ecosystems (FAE) R&D Fellowship: Art x Convergence.
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.
The inaugural FAE Fellowship runs from September 2026 to March 2027 in a low-residency hybrid format, combining biweekly online cohort sessions and bespoke mentorship with three in-person weekend intensives in London across September 2026, November 2026, and March 2027 (exact dates will be shared with selected fellows).
Four fellows (individuals or collectives) will each receive a £10,000 award, alongside travel and accommodation support for the London weekends, plus specialist seminars, workshops and structured peer learning through the cohort.
Applications are open until midnight BST 7 June 2026 to practitioners working at the intersection of art and advanced technologies, and international applicants are welcome, provided fellows can attend the three London intensives.
About Future Art Ecosystems
Future Art Ecosystems (FAE) was created to support organisational innovation in the arts, specifically around ecosystem design for art and advanced technologies (AxAT). While critical discussions on technologies like AI, blockchain, and immersive media are well established, attention to the operational and infrastructural conditions that enable AxAT practices has been limited.
Since 2019, FAE has brought together artists, technologists, cultural institutions, and civic actors committed to building systems that drive creative and organisational innovation.
About Arts Technologies
Serpentine’s Arts Technologies programme proposes critical and interdisciplinary perspectives on advanced technologies through artistic interventions.
Supporting artist-led experimentation that challenges and reshapes the role that technologies can play in culture and society is at the heart of Arts Technologies’ commitment to Serpentine’s public mission. The programme supports artists in nurturing ambitious ideas and developing artworks that work with advanced technologies as a medium, tool or topic, often evolving iteratively and operating beyond gallery walls.
The foundation of the Arts Technologies programme is located in an evolving R&D programme that supports the development of infrastructures for ongoing artistic exploration and interrogation of wider technological conditions within society.
FAE initiated by Victoria Ivanova; led by Tommie Introna, Tsige Tafesse, and Kay Watson.
