The BMKÖS (Bundesministerium Kunst, Kultur, öffentlicher Dienst und Sport) funding programme "Pixel, Bytes + Film" supports the development and innovation of new artistic expression formats in film, media art, music and performing arts. More specifically, funding is available for projects in the field of moving image that artistically explore digital technologies of image production (such as digital animation, XR, 3D motion capturing, 360°, artificial intelligence) and distribution and their formal spectrum and narrative possibilities.

Eligible applicants are artists (or artist teams) who have the Austrian citizenship or have their permanent residence in Austria. More details on the application to this opportunity and specific selection criteria can be found on the link below.

Decisions on selection and funding are made by a jury of experts.

Funding amount : up to 35,000 euros.

Deadline : 4th September 2023.

Direct link to the opportunity here.

Le Port Des Créateurs is a cultural incubator based in Toulon that supports nearly 100 cultural players a year, including artists, associations, entrepreneurs or students. This year this incubator launched a call to professionalize artists’ business, provide artists with a space for research and creation and develop artists’ professional network in the PACA region.

Conditions:

• Fees for the artist: €3,000 grant for the two-month residency 
• Production costs: €1,000 (each expense must be authorised in advance). Any production costs not used up during the residency period will not be redistributed to the artist.
• Individual accommodation on site.
• Transport costs: €500 (each travel expense must be authorised in advance). Transport costs not used up during the residency will not be redistributed to the artist.
• Residencies can be returned in agreement with the mentor.
• Workshops: creative spaces reserved for the artist for the duration of the residency.

  Deadline: 31/07/2023

• Direct Link to the opportunity here.

The city council of La Puebla de Cazalla is organizing an Art Program in the “Centro de Día Ocupacional Municipal” of the town. This program is part of a larger art project created in 2014 which is articulated in three fundamental acts: the workshop, the artistic residency and the “Jornadas de Art Brut”. The Artistic Residencies are imagined as a shared space between the members of the Council and upcoming artists. The collaborations are developed in the complete respect of different sensibilities and artistic expressions, in order to facilitate growing creativity from both parts.

Registrations are now open! You can apply from the 24th of April to the 10th of September 2023. 

For the 2023 edition, Alegría Castillo, head of the artistic creation programme, is calling for every artist who is interested in an Artistic Residency to work together with the members of the Occupational Center. Among all the applications, only three projects will be chosen by the council. 

Direct link to the opportunity here.

For june creative people - over 6 and under 18 years old - living in Austria, there is currently a competition call issued by UNICEF Austria to artistically design their own visions for the world.

The aim is to express oneself creatively and to depict the world in which the young artist would like to grow up, either pictorially (on DIN A4 / A3) or by means of a short video (max. 1 minute in length). More details can be found under https://unicef.at/teilnahmebedingungen-wettbewerb/

The artistic result shall be submitted via the electronic platform https://unicef-denkdirdiewelt.alpha-awards.com/ui/

Selected artists can be included wiht their submitted art in the collection of selected creations that will go into a catalogue of ideas.

Deadline : 31st July 2023

Direct link to the opportunity here.

The Albertina - Museum of modern art with art exhibitions such as Monet to Picasso https://www.albertina.at/ - organises a drawing competition. The task is to draw a hare. A template in the style of Dürrer's hare can be used, which the Albertina offers for download, or a hare can be drawn according to your own imagination.

For the submission, a photo of the image should be taken and this photo should be submitted online via https://www.formatwerk.com/edition-duerer/. More details can be found on the link below.

The selected artworks will then be exhibited and the winners can also win Albertina admission tickets and non-cash prizes. Examples from previous competitions can be seen here: https://www.formatwerk.com/duerer_galerie/zeichenwettbewerb-2022-2023/.

Deadline: 30th June 2023

Direct link to the opportunity here.

As part of the Art Visuals & Poetry Film Festival 2023 at Künstlerhaus Wien, entries are again being sought for, among others, the Poetry Performance Film Award, which is aimed at international poetry shorts up to 7 minutes in length from the fields of poetry slam, visual arts, dance or drama, and for the Intercontinental Poetry Film Competition based on Manfred Chobot, submissions are sought in English.

More information on how to enter and what is expected of artists can be found on the website below. Specific to the poetry film competition is the restriction that Manfred Chobot's poem "la luna" has been selected as the festival poem and must be used for the film adaptation. It can be found on this website : https://www.poetryfilm-vienna.com/en/node/381 and https://www.poetryfilm-vienna.com/en/la-luna/translation where even a sound file is available.

Deadline: 30 June 2023 for the Film Award German Speaking Countries/ Poetry Performance Film Award 

Deadline: 31 August 2023 for the SPECIAL AWARD based on the poem "la luna" by Mnfred Chobot.

Link to this opportunity here.