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01 Jul 2026 Call for work - 7th Small File Media Festival

The seventh Small File Media Festival is open for submissions! Artists, activists, media pirates, rogue technologists, and filmmakers: this is your call-out. An all-out intervention to save the world one pixel at a time.

We challenge media makers to intervene in the 4K dystopia of bandwidth imperialism by creating original small-file movies in any genre. This year we especially welcome narrative and documentary alongside our usual arthouse, glitch, punk, and sci-fi.

The frictionless ease of online video hides the environmental damage and surveillant objectives of networked digital media. Small Files are an alternative to these dopamine-poisoning channels; an indiscreet, tactical medium capable of circumventing the dystopic structures of bandwidth imperialism.

If you’ve made it, you can submit it, as long as it’s no more than 1.44MB per minute. If your work is only ten seconds long, that’s only 144KB!

01 Jul 2026 CFP: Pleasure as the Aim of Art? The Place of Pleasure in Seventeenth-Century European Art Theory and Practice

University of Lausanne, Nov 26–28, 2026

Abstracts accepted in EN, FR

Considering both creation and reception, this conference proposes to examine the various facets of artistic pleasure in seventeenth-century Europe. The perspectives developed may invite a broader reconsideration of the complex place of pleasure in early modern thought on art, its potential role in the construction of a system of the arts (Du Bos and especially Batteux) and in the development of eighteenth-century aesthetics (Baumgarten, Burke, Kant). Often regarded as secondary, pleasure may thus be reinvested with genuine heuristic value, both for analysing past discourses and practices and for reflecting on our own ways of apprehending, engaging with and even studying works of art in the broadest sense.

15 Jul 2026 CFP: Art, Aura, and the Algorithm

PNCA 2026 Symposium: Art, Aura, and the Algorithm. Oct 1-3, 2026

What happens to art, authorship, and presence when AI enters the creative process?

We invite proposals from artists, writers, and scholars interested in questions like:

  • Can AI-generated art possess aura?
  • What becomes of authorship, originality, and artistic presence today?
  • How is aura produced, performed, or gamified online?
  • What new forms of creativity emerge through human–machine collaboration?

FORMAT: We are accepting proposals for individual papers (15–20 minutes). Research, creative practice, and community-based work are all welcome. Graduate & advanced undergraduate students are especially encouraged to submit. You don’t need all the answers—just a strong question to explore.

https://pnca.willamette.edu/culture/symposium

31 Jul 2026 Postdoc: British Council UK 90th Anniversary Fellowship 2027

The British Council celebrated its 90th anniversary in 2024. We are delighted to announce a research partnership between the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh and the British Council.

We are awarding up to two 12-month Fellowships starting in January 2027 – open to postdoctoral researchers based in any ODA-recipient country where the British Council operates (see list of countries on page 139 of their Annual Report or the list below).

Fellows will spend the first ten months of their Fellowships at IASH, followed by up to two months based in their home countries focused on knowledge exchange and dissemination in collaboration with the British Council.

31 Jul 2026 Funding: Hugo Burge Foundation 2026 Grant Programme

Applications opening on 1 June 2026

The Hugo Burge Foundation is a major new arts funding body. In 2025, its first full year, we distributed £400,000 of grant funding to individuals, communities and organisations across the United Kingdom.

Our grant funding is focused on three key areas: Creative Education, Creative Communities, and Creative Individuals.

31 Jul 2026 CRASSH Exhibition: Knowledge in a Fractured World

Artists and creatives are invited to submit works to CRASSH’s 25th anniversary exhibition, which takes place from 5 October – 11 December 2026 at the Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP.

The theme of the anniversary programme and exhibition is ‘Knowledge in a Fractured World’.

The programme will examine how knowledge is produced, contested, and translated into action amid political polarisation, technological disruption, environmental crisis, and shifting global power relations.

For the exhibition, the theme can be interpreted in the widest sense – from personal to global.