Hungry EcoCities Open Call

Have you always had an idea to raise awareness around resource waste through artistic interventions? Are you an experienced artist with the ability to develop new ideas around these topics? Do you know how you can contribute to the actions suggested under the Hungry EcoCities project? If any of these apply to you, this project can contribute to your professional and artistic development while ensuring a bigger impact deriving from your work.

Hungry EcoCities is a groundbreaking initiative that seeks to develop responsible, art-driven solutions for the agri-food industry using AI-enabled technologies. This programme will host 20 S+T+ARTS residencies aimed at prototyping these solutions for end-users. These ‘experiments’ give an opportunity to think differently, to bridge perspectives, to give a voice to unheard actors.

Hungry EcoCities is now launching the first open call for artists. They are looking for artists who can combine technology and art to explore digital questions and investigate them within 3 selected directions for the future of food: Mega Scale, Local Conditions, and City+Farming Synergies. The goal is to experiment and come up with solutions for the future of food through a more healthy, sustainable, responsible, and affordable agri-food system enabled by AI.

The first open call (Call for Artists) will select up to 10 artists that will explore and prototype AI applications in the agri-food sector through artistic means.

Individual applications from Artists can be submitted between the 1st of March 2023 at 09h (Brussels time) and the 15th of May 2023 at 17h (Brussels time).  

• Maximum funding per artist: up to 40 000 EUR
• Duration of the Humanizing Technology Experiments residency: 9 months
• Number of selected applicants: up to 10 artists

Apply here.

Hungry EcoCities, a Horizon Europe project will support and encourage artists to use their creative skills and technological know-how to contribute to new stories of food production and consumption which support paths to innovation rooted in resources regeneration and human empowerment.