New Commission For Art Science Fellowship Amsterdam Emergence Festival 2027

The Emergence Art Science Fellowship Amsterdam opportunity invites artists, makers, and collectives to propose new commissions for the Emergence Festival 2027. The fellowship is part of Emergence at All Scales, a Dutch research consortium exploring how complex structures, patterns, materials, behaviors, and forms of collective life arise from simple ingredients, local interactions, or microscopic rules. Selected projects receive a production budget of up to €20,000 including VAT per project, research support, curatorial support, and a festival presentation in Amsterdam. The deadline is June 30, 2026.

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Opportunity Snapshot

What: Open Call for New Commissions for the Emergence Festival 2027
Who: Artists, makers, and collectives
Where: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Award / Support: Production budget of up to €20,000 including VAT per project; research support; curatorial support; development in dialogue with EAAS researchers; festival presentation
Residency Duration: New commission developed in dialogue with EAAS researchers, with premiere at Emergence Festival 2027
Deadline: June 30, 2026
Official Link: https://www.d-iep.org/artsciencefellowships
Strategy Coach Notes: https://www.patreon.com/pformart/posts/strategy-coach-161362479

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Strategy Coach Notes for this opportunity focus on how to structure the three-page project proposal, one-page budget, curriculum, and portfolio as one coherent application system. The strongest applications will need to show a clear artistic concept, a defined relationship to emergence research, a feasible production plan, and a public-facing festival outcome. Join the network to access the Strategy Coach Notes and use them to organize your application before the deadline.

About The Art Science Fellowship Amsterdam

The Emergence Art+Science Fellowships are connected to Emergence at All Scales, a Dutch research consortium that brings together researchers across mathematics, physics, astronomy, chemistry, and related fields. The call asks applicants to propose new works inspired by emergence. The official page frames the central questions around how complexity arises, how simple ingredients or local interactions give rise to structures, patterns, materials, behaviors, and collective life, and how space and time emerged. Selected projects will be developed in dialogue with EAAS researchers and will premiere at the first Emergence Festival in June 2027.

The opportunity supports new commissions rather than general research time. Applicants should propose a work that can move from concept into public presentation within the fellowship structure. The call welcomes projects that connect to EAAS research, scientific ideas, methods, data, simulations, concepts, ambitions, or early findings. The final work should function as an artistic public experience for a broad audience. The program offers production support, research dialogue, curatorial guidance, and presentation through the festival context.

What Is Offered

• Production budget of up to €20,000 including VAT per project
• Research support
• Curatorial support
• Development in dialogue with EAAS researchers
• Festival presentation
• Premiere at the first Emergence Festival in June 2027
• Inclusion in the EAAS research context
• Potential visibility through festival and archive materials

Who Should Apply

This opportunity is for artists, makers, and collectives. It is especially relevant for applicants working across visual art, digital art, film, installation, performance, theatre, dance, music, sound, and interdisciplinary forms. Strong applicants should be able to connect artistic method to scientific inquiry. The proposal should show how the project engages emergence through a specific artistic form, production process, and public outcome. Applicants should avoid broad thematic framing and focus on a project that can be developed with researchers and presented in Amsterdam in June 2027.

Timeline

Deadline: June 30, 2026
Premiere: Emergence Festival 2027, June 2027

Why The Art Science Fellowship Amsterdam Matters

This fellowship offers substantial production support for artists working across art, science, research, and public presentation. The €20,000 production budget gives applicants room to propose a developed commission with material, technical, collaborative, and presentation needs. The research relationship with EAAS creates a strong framework for artists whose work already engages systems, complexity, collective behavior, matter, scale, data, public knowledge, or scientific imagination. For Contemporary Performance readers, this is a strong fit for performance, installation, sound, digital media, theatre, dance, and hybrid practices.

Apply

Apply through the official DIEP application page:
https://www.d-iep.org/artsciencefellowships

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