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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.

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!

10 Jul 2026 Palmer Gallery Open Call for self-taught artists - solo show

Palmer Gallery is delighted to announce the return of our annual open call for self-taught artists. The winner will present a solo show as part of our online exhibition programme - PG Studios - which principally aims to support self-trained artists who did not attend traditional art school. Applications will be independently judged by a panel of art world professionals (to be announced week commencing 6th July).

13 Jul 2026 Upė Foundation Curatorial Fellowships

Various opportunities and various deadlines, please see link.

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

17 Jul 2026 V&A Adobe Creative Residency programme - Architecture Residency: Housing and the Future City

Sculpture and Dance residencies also available

Open calls for the Adobe Creative Residencies 2027 are now open. Information about the open calls and how to apply are available in a number of formats.

https://vanda-production-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/2026/06/10/09/03/56/30dc6001-5b78-40a7-ad89-9bf35c1624e8/Architecture%20and%20Schools%20_Full%20JD.pdf

18 Jul 2026 Open call for field contributors: FemLENS

femLENS is a feminist non-profit association. We particularly welcome applications from women and girls in communities that are rarely centred in international media.

19 Jul 2026 CCA (Centre for Contemporary Art, Goldsmiths) Residents programme

Applications are now open for our 2026-2027 Residents programme. We are looking for Lewisham-based, as well as Goldsmiths’ student and alumni groups, to become part of our Residents Programme, which was developed to broaden the voices of the CCA. Up to 2 community groups, collectives, and initiatives will be invited to join our Residents Programme.

19 Jul 2026 Folding Chair - Equality Institute - Call for pitches

We’re delighted to once again be invitating writers, photographers, artists and creatives to send original pitches or works for consideration to Folding Chair.

Over the next two weeks we’re seeking creative submissions from diverse voices that explore – through a gender equality and intersectional feminism lens – climate and social justice, the possibilities within systems change, and the evolving landscape of democratic freedoms.

Folding Chair is our digital journal, and a space for conversations, perspectives, and storytelling that sparks conversation and moves us closer to equity.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DabSRG8G0rO/

20 Jul 2026 mnemotope magazine: issue 010

mnemotope is our flagship magazine, and the beating heart of bog bodies press. roughly four times a year, we publish a wide-ranging collection of stories from up to 70 people from all over the world - there’s no theme and no restrictions on grammar or form, so it becomes a wonderfully varied publication containing everything from essays to poetry to notes app lists to sketches and beyond. simply put, mnemotope is a wide and welcoming platform for the brilliant stories that traditional literature often overlooks.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSekmhEREBKaguU19iEkBfLCbNU9tqEtpbb-bHcw56LlcgTp1g/viewform

24 Jul 2026 Paid Opportunity: Research Assistant - LSE Cities

LSE Cities is seeking a Research Assistant to contribute to a new project examining how early childhood development (ECD) becomes embedded in urban policy agendas.

31 Jul 2026 TED & Posca Artist Residency - ‘Visible Mending’

USD $15000 honorarium Based anywhere in the world

In 2026, four artists will be selected to develop community-rooted public interventions to be implemented in 2027. Each selected artist will receive a total of USD $15,000 to cover artist fees, production costs/community activation, and documentation of the work.

While the term of the residency is one year, this initiative will run for multiple years, expanding the cohort year by year (2027, 2028, and 2029), while building an evolving global archive of civic artistic interventions connected through a shared conceptual framework.

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 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 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.

31 Jul 2026 Call for sessions: The Symposium for Urban Design History and Theory (SUDHT) 4

University of Sheffield September 15–18, 2027

CFPs open on 28 September 2026.

The fourth edition of the Symposium on Urban Design History and Theory welcomes sessions and papers that connect to questions of urban design history and theory. Within this broad call, we particularly welcome submissions linked to the 2027 theme – Beyond Repair – that address urban design’s relationship with damaged places and people, and the positive uses, but also abuses, of narratives of repair. The symposium asks what histories and theories can tell us about urban design’s promises in the face of planetary crises.

The deadline for session proposals is July 31, 2026, and the call for papers will open on September 28, 2026.

31 Jul 2026 Inspection Pit 2027 Artist Residency

West Sussex, England 30 Jan-27 Feb 2027

Inspection Pit’s residency programme is designed to provide artists with the time and space they need to focus on their practice without distractions.

The selected artist is invited to stay on-site for up to one month in private accommodation, with access to a dedicated studio for independent work. They may also have the opportunity to present a body of work in a solo exhibition approximately six months after the residency ends.

Accommodation is provided free of charge, and a bicycle is available for use in the local area. The artist must provide their own food and studio materials, and cover all travel, transportation and day-to-day living costs.

31 Jul 2026 Somersault Magazine Issue 03

Submissions are now open for Somersault Magazine Issue 03.

Open to all creative work (photography, design, visual art, essays, articles, music, fashion etc.)