Creative Technologies Fellowship

Somerset House Studios in partnership with UAL Creative Computing Institute (CCI) open applications for our latest Creative Technologies Fellowship. The fellowship offers a unique development and commission opportunity for an artist who is looking to explore the ways in which computational systems can be used as part of a critical practice exploring social or environmental questions.

Over a 12-month residency across both sites commencing September 2024 and running in parallel with the academic year, the artist will receive practical and technological support to develop a new work which will be presented at Somerset House in Autumn 2025. The opportunity includes access to workspace, labs, technical expertise, and academic support to facilitate practice-led research, along with curatorial advice, producer support and studio facilities.
Artists are invited to demonstrate an interest in one or more of the creative computing research areas outlined below, highlight how this opportunity might benefit their practice, and propose a project they would like to develop over the course of the fellowship, with relevant and achievable aims using the chosen technology. 

MAIN AREAS OF CREATIVE COMPUTING RESEARCH:
CCI has a diverse range of research activity allied to the creativity afforded by computational practices. It explores the possibilities of new technologies to transform the world at both the macro scale and the scale of the individual. There are three pillars that frame the research agenda: 

• Creativity, Machine Learning and AI: This platform explores how a foundational technology of the 21st century can be used in creative ways and examines how people will act with such technologies in deploying their personal and collective creativity.
• Human Computer Interaction: This platform explores how we behave with emerging technologies and what they will mean for products, services and culture.
• Platforms, Big Data and Digital Citizenship: This platform explores how the huge amount of data aggregated to the key platforms of our time can be understood, explored and contribute to a public discourse of a globalised and networked society and associated equalities dynamics.