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Fellowships

The Fellowships Programme, established in 2023, is designed for mid-career makers who are engaged in a research project within the field of Digital Culture. With this programme, makers and/or collectives are encouraged to explore new technologies, themes and tools, and initiate collaborations. Between 2023 and 2025, three fellows will work on their research proposals every year, which they will then present during the Netherlands Film Festival (NFF).

Following a selection, three makers/collectives a year will be given the space to deliver a research proposal at the intersection of society and technology within the disciplines of science, visual art, film, gaming, design or other types of visual culture. Each year the research concludes with a report of the research results. After three years, the Fellowships Programme is completed and the results are published on the NFF website.

Rules

As a fellow you will receive a fee of €20.000,- and a working budget of €5.000,-. The duration of the second Fellowships Programme is from September 2024 up to and including September 2025. The track consists of three milestone meetings, three Fieldtrips and several meetings with specialists, guests and the other Fellows. The research period concludes with the presentation of the work during the Storyspace exhibition that will take place during the festival in the main hall of Neude Library. Your research will be shared with the sector through the communication channel of NFF.

Registrations for 2025 have been closed since april 20th.

ARK Fellowships 2023

ARK on their Fellowship research and experience

The notion that an artwork has only one creator, where the individual artist with their unique artistic vision and style defines the work, is gradually changing. Techniques are becoming more complex – think of AI – and demand multidisciplinary approaches. Long live the collective!

ARK is such a collective: an international and interdisciplinary group of designers, artists, creative technologists, musicians, and researchers, who strive to make technologies more democratic and fairer.

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Špela Petrič on her Fellowship research and experience

We are being flooded by AI: how dangerous is it, and how will it shape our society? Her research asks what humans would look like if they were made “healthier” by AI. She starts in a place where AI is already being deployed: tomato farming.

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Tina Farifteh on her Fellowship research and experience

Her research proposal Empathic Rage, written for the 2023 Fellowship Programme, is about how to use empathy and anger to save the world.

FAQ Fellowships

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The Fellowships Programme would not be possible without the support of Creative Humanities Academy of Utrecht University, Gieskes-Strijbis Fund and the Institute of Sound & Vision (Beeld & Geluid).