Citizen AI Arts and Technology Fellowship 2026 to 2027

Applications are open for the Citizen AI Arts and Technology Fellowship 2026 to 2027, a fellowship bringing together artists and creative practitioners from different generations, disciplines, backgrounds, and career stages to explore the relationship between art, artificial intelligence, emerging technologies, democracy, community, and public life.

The fellowship provides a space for creatives to examine how emerging technologies are shaping society while exploring questions around creativity, civic participation, ethics, community engagement, and public dialogue. Participants are encouraged to bring perspectives that may be supportive, critical, questioning, experimental, or interdisciplinary.

The programme is open to emerging, mid career, and established creatives. Applicants do not need an academic degree or previous experience with artificial intelligence. They also do not need to work directly with AI. Instead, the fellowship is interested in people with an active creative practice and a genuine interest in exploring the connections between creativity, technology, communities, democracy, and public life.

About the Fellowship

The Citizen AI Arts and Technology Fellowship is designed as a collaborative environment where creative practitioners can investigate the evolving relationship between artificial intelligence, art, technology, democracy, communities, and public life.

The fellowship welcomes people working across traditional and emerging creative disciplines. Participants can bring artistic practices that engage communities, create public dialogue, examine technology, explore social questions, or experiment with new approaches to creative work.

The programme does not require applicants to share a particular position on artificial intelligence. Instead, it welcomes a range of perspectives and encourages participants to consider both the possibilities and challenges associated with emerging technologies.

Fellowship Benefits

• $3,000 Year 1 stipend for participation in inquiry, co design, community engagement, and collaborative development

• Separate compensation for designated Citizen AI workshops or activities that fall outside the core fellowship commitment

• Opportunities for deeper involvement during Year 2

• Potential participation in production and fabrication

• Opportunities to contribute to facilitation and public programming

• Opportunities to help implement ideas developed through the Year 1 process

• Compensation for Year 2 involvement based on the scope and level of engagement

Programme Areas

Applicants may have experience or interests connected to one or more of the following areas:

• Community engaged, socially engaged, participatory, or co creative practice

• Public art and placemaking

• Creative work in public spaces

• Arts based research

• Storytelling and public dialogue

• Facilitation

• Democracy and civic participation

• Belonging and community voice

• Social, cultural, and ethical questions surrounding technology

• Critical perspectives on artificial intelligence

• Supportive perspectives on artificial intelligence

• Experimental and speculative approaches to technology and society

• Community organizing

• Education and advocacy

• Public engagement

Creative Disciplines

The fellowship welcomes creative practitioners working across a broad range of disciplines, including:

• Visual art

• Performance

• Public and socially engaged art

• Design

• Digital media

• Filmmaking

• Creative technology

• Music

• Movement

• Fibre and textile arts

• Writing

• Storytelling

• Interdisciplinary practice

• Other creative forms and practices

Eligibility Criteria

• Open to emerging, mid career, and established creatives

• No academic degree is required

• No previous artificial intelligence expertise is required

• Applicants do not need to work directly with AI

• Applicants should have an active creative practice or sustained engagement in a creative field

• Applicants should demonstrate an interest in the relationship between creativity, technology, community, democracy, and public life

• Applicants should have experience with, or demonstrated interest in, collaborative, participatory, community engaged, or public facing work

• Applicants should demonstrate curiosity about emerging technologies and their possibilities and challenges

• Applicants should be committed to respectful, inclusive, and ethical engagement

• Applicants must be able to participate consistently in bi monthly fellowship meetings and collaborative activities

Required Application Information

The current opportunity listing does not specify a detailed document checklist. Applicants should therefore use the official fellowship application form and provide the information requested there.

Applicants should be prepared to demonstrate:

• Their active creative practice or sustained creative engagement

• Their interest in creativity, technology, community, democracy, and public life

• Their experience or interest in collaborative and community engaged work

• Their curiosity about artificial intelligence and emerging technologies

• Their approach to the possibilities and challenges presented by technology

• Their commitment to respectful, inclusive, and ethical engagement

• Their ability to participate consistently throughout the fellowship

How to Apply

1. Review the Citizen AI Arts and Technology Fellowship 2026 to 2027 requirements and areas of interest.
2. Confirm that your creative practice and interests align with the fellowship's focus on art, technology, community, democracy, and public life.
3. Prepare the information requested through the official application form, highlighting your creative practice, relevant experience, interests, and ability to participate.
4. Submit the completed application through the fellowship application platform.