Fwd: Call for Applications Open :: 2026 ANAT Synapse residency program

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https://mailchi.mp/anat/announcing-anat-salon-sydney-5706001 Call for Applications Open :: 2026 ANAT Synapse residency program ANAT is now calling for applications to the 2026 ANAT Synapse residency program and welcomes submissions from Australian artists who work in any genre with conceptual aims that intersect and deeply engage with science and/or technology.   The program brings artists and researchers together in partnerships that generate new knowledge, ideas and processes beneficial beyond both fields. A distinguishing feature of the residencies is their creative research focus, with applicants supported in collaborative experimentation rather than anticipating or producing specific outcomes. The successful artist will undertake the residency in 2026 across 16 weeks full time (or the part-time equivalent).  To ensure suitability between the artist and host organisation, a joint application must be submitted, led by the artist. It is the responsibility of the artist to identify the nature of the proposed research collaboration and establish a dialogue with their intended host prior to application.   While we don’t have annual themes, we prefer to host artists and research partners from different artistic, scientific and/or technological disciplines each year. KEY DATES: Call open: Thursday 31 July 2025 Deadline for applications: 3 pm (ACDT), Wednesday 29 October 2025 Notification of outcome: December 2025 Residency period: Between February and October 2026    ANAT Synapse Residencies 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | OLDER Image:  2011 ANAT Synapse resident George Khut with Lizzie Muller and Greg Turner. Cardiomorphologies v.2, installation view in ‘Embodied Encounters’ exhibition, Beall Centre for Art + Technology, University of California, Irvine, C.A., 2014. Image courtesy of Beall Centre ANAT is assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia and the South Australian Government through CreateSA. ANAT and our project partners pay respect to the First Nations of the land known as Australia and to the Traditional Owners in their continued cultural, spiritual and technological practices. This extends respect to all First Nations peoples beyond Australian shores. As the very first storytellers, First Nations peoples hold invaluable knowledge and perspectives that are vital in the research, interrogation and development of traditional and emerging technologies, across both our physical and digital realms.  Together we are gathering across many unceded lands that have been forcibly colonised. ANAT works on Kaurna yarta and widely across many Countries.