Creative Technologies

Northern European Mobility Opportunity for Artists/Arts Practitioners [Call closes 18th August]

Northern European Mobility Opportunity for Artists/Arts Practitioners

NEMO – Northern European Mobility Opportunity

Organiser/s: Nordic Culture Fund and arts funding agencies of Ireland, England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales

Deadline: 18-09-2026

The NEMO programme supports emerging artists and arts practitioners across the Nordic countries, UK, and Ireland by providing financial grants to foster international creative collaborations. It aims to encourage confidence in working with international partners, develop new artistic networks, and promote accessibility and inclusion for diverse communities. Applicants must be based in one of the participating regions and demonstrate collaboration plans with a partner from another region.

https://nordiskkulturfond.org/en/funding-programmes/nemo-northern-european-mobility-opportunity

Artistic Research and the Lingering Gaze of Thought [SAR2026 Keynote Published]

Artistic Research and the Lingering Gaze of Thought by Henk Borgdorff

Artistic Research and the Lingering Gaze of Thought, by Henk Borgdorff, is the text of a talk delivered at the 17th Conference of the Society for Artistic Research (SAR) in Galway. Borgdorff argues that artistic research should be understood not as opposed to academia but as a cutting-edge form of it, pointing to Australia’s recent recommendation to retire the term “Non-Traditional Research Output.” He surveys what distinguishes artistic research—its engagement with practices and material things, its grounding in experimentation, participation and interpretation next to its methodological pluralism, and its relation to 4E-cognition (embodied, embedded, extended, enactive)—while sharing common ground with fields like visual anthropology and science and technology studies. The heart of the piece is a proposal to rethink “discursivity” beyond language, treating material configurations of sound, image, movement and gesture as forms of rigorous, non-propositional reasoning. 

The text can be found on the Journal for Artistic Research website: https://www.jar-online.net/en/artistic-research-and-lingering-gaze-thought

Henk Borgdorff is emeritus professor of Research in the Arts at the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA), Leiden University and the Royal Conservatoire, University of the Arts, The Hague. Borgdorff has published widely on the theoretical and political rationale of research in the arts.

The Journal for Artistic Research (JAR) is an international, online, open-access and peer-reviewed journal that disseminates artistic research from all disciplines. Its Network space provides a forum for JAR readers to share unreviewed contributions including reflections and book reviews, while also housing the JAR network channels.

JAR is published by the Society for Artistic Research (SAR), an independent, non-profit association.

Creative Futures Academy – Microcredential Learner Fee Subsidy [Applications open]

Micro-credential Learner Fee Subsidy (LFS) at NCAD & IADT

Creative Futures Academy are delighted to be awarded significant Micro-credential Learner Fee Subsidy (LFS) to support learners attending our future-focused courses in both the National College of Art & Design and the Institute of Art Design + Technology, Dun Laoghaire.

Courses include:

NCAD

IADT

See CFA website for further details:

Up to 80% Micro-credential Learner Fee Subsidy offered to CFA Learners in 2026

Survey on Artistic Research: Performance, Teaching and Publication Practices [Now open]

Survey on Artistic Research: Performance, Teaching and Publication Practices

How are artistic performance, artistic research, teaching and academic publications recognised and evaluated in higher music education today?

Researchers from Széchenyi István University and Eötvös Loránd University (Hungary) are conducting an international survey examining careers, working conditions and evaluation systems in Higher Music Education Institutions worldwide.

The study explores:

• the balance between artistic activity, artistic research, teaching and scholarly publication;

• promotion and career pathways in conservatoires and university music departments;

• institutional expectations regarding research output;

• the recognition of artistic research within evaluation and promotion systems;

• challenges faced by academic and artistic staff in different national contexts.

We are particularly interested in understanding how institutions evaluate publications in relation to artistic practice and artistic research, and how these expectations influence professional development.

We warmly invite academic staff, artistic researchers, performers, teachers, administrators and doctoral candidates working in higher music education to participate.

The questionnaire is anonymous and takes approximately 15 minutes to complete.

Survey link:
https://elteppk.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_37pAuHb2hKyVDFQ

Your contribution will help provide an international overview of current practices and support evidence-based discussions on the future of evaluation systems in higher music education.

x4 Funded PhDs at Trinity College Dublin [Closing date June 26th]

Call for Applications – Funded PhD in Digital Humanities

Click on the hyperlinks below to download the call for four doctoral students will be funded under this award with specialisations across the domains of:

This unique multidisciplinary approach will provide the students with invaluable experiences and skills extending far beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries, preparing them to become leaders in academia or industry settings.