Call for Artists: AI in the Arts Research Projects

We’re looking for artists in Belgium who want to push what AI can do in the arts. Bring us a question, a sensation, a tension. We’ll build with you, crafting experiments, models, instruments, and interfaces that make your research sing.

Think: image systems that feel, diffusion models that remember, voices that bend space, movement that choreographs with you, archives that dream, rooms that listen.

What you’ll explore

• Image and diffusion practices (custom training, style transfer, controllable generation)
• Sound, music, and voice (hybrid synthesis, multilingual dramaturgy, live processing)
• Performance and motion (embodied AI, stage-responsive systems, mocap + generative)
• Archives and memory (curation tools, provenance, incomplete histories, speculative repair)
• Spatial and urban media (AR/VR installations, data sonification, sensing)

Your project is research-first. We’re here for method, prototyping, iteration, and presentation, without losing the poetry.

What we bring

• Model craft (diffusion, multimodal, fine-tuning, retrieval, interpretability)
• Fast prototyping (interactive tools, agents, MLOps, staging)
• Ethical practice (consent, licensing, transparency, bias auditing)
• Production support (docs, packaging, exhibition builds)

Quick notes

• This call sits within FRArt 2026 in Belgium
• 9-24 months of funded research, proposals in French or English
• Our expression of interest deadline: 7 October 2025
• FRArt key dates: main author validation 27 January 2026 at 14:00, final submission 3 February 2026 at 14:00, start between 1 June and 1 December 2026
• FRArt key dates: main author validation 27 January 2026, final submission 3 February 2026, projects start June to December 2026

Hard requirements

• Author: artist or artistic collective; higher arts degree or proven artistic research
• Author applies with an ESA partner (Higher School of Arts) — we will coordinate the ESA partnership
• Budget: up to €50,000 total, eligible lines include Personnel, Operating, Equipment
• Subcontracting belongs under Operating, ESA costs are not eligible
• Duration: 9-24 months, research focused, not production of an existing project
• Language: French or English
• ESA accompanying agreement is required and uploaded by the main author before validation
• After main author validation on e-space, no edits or resubmission are allowed

Pitch your project

Tell us what you want to make, what it should feel like, and what the world might learn from it.

Questions, clarifications, or scheduling help: contact@ingram.tech