QT Literary Magazine (Canada): Open Call for Trans and Non-Binary Writers, Artists and Performers

Theme: expansion, transgression, and traversing beyond binaries

Deadline: 31 December 2025

Selected works will be featured in both print copy and during a special launch party in Toronto in February 2026.
Original pieces of prose, poetry, flash fiction, artwork, and photography may be submitted for this call. Works must have a tie-in for the print copy of the magazine.

Please submit your proposal to: submissions@qtmag.ca

Scent Art Festival 2026 (Latvia): Open Call for Visual Art, Photography, Music, Dance, Performance Art, Literature, Workshops and Lectures

Theme: Looking Through the Fog of Uncertainty

Deadline: 15 December 2025


https://forms.gle/eVqmsHHUjMdcdJU78

Scuola Piccola Zattere (Venice): Open Call for Fellowship for Artists, Curators, Researchers, Writers, Architects, Choreographers and Performers

Deadline: 19 December 2025 10:00am (Italy time)


https://www.scuolapiccolazattere.com/en/events/internationalfellowship-2-2

European Media Art Festival (Germany): Open Call for Media Artists

Deadline: 22 December 2025


https://emaf.filmchief.com/entry-forms

AI MODELS Project at Ca' Foscari University of Venice: Open Call for Abstracts for The World Algorithm: Knowledge and Power in the New Global Order Symposium

Deadline: 15 December 2025


https://www.unive.it/web/en/16571/home#c182481

Wire Festival (New York): Open Call for Light Installations

Deadline: 23 December 2025


https://wirefestival.com/opencall

G. & A. Mamidakis Foundation Art Prize (Greece): Open Call for Artists Working with Sculpture, Installation, Sound, Mixed Media, Land Art, Environmental Art, Ecological Art

Deadline: 29 December 2025 23:59 Greek time


https://gnamamidakisfoundation.org/en/vraveio-technis/

Faction (Korea): Open Call for Curators and Artists Working with Visual Art, Performance, Sound, Installation or Video

Deadline: 31 December 2025 23:59 KST


https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1uNao9SywjT39O8wBkSvoholWW0-lQXub

Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam): Open Call for Conrad Whelan 42 Fellowship for Research in Art and Cultural History

Deadline: 4 January 2026


https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/careers/vacancies/conrad-whelan-42-fellowship--1231696

Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (Spain): Open Call for Artist in Residence Program Quantum Computing UPV

Deadline: 7 January 2026


https://www.upv.es/entidades/acu/en/artistic-residency-2026/

Bright Festival (Italy): Open Call for New Media Art Projects

Deadline: 23 December 2025


https://linktr.ee/brightfestival

Google Arts & Culture (US): Open Call for Dataland AI Artist Residency

Deadline: 15 January 2026


https://www.dataland.art/blog/introducing-the-dataland-ai-artist-residency

Mesh Festival of Art and Technology (Basel): Open Call for Experimental, Artistic, Research and Collaboratiove Projects

Deadline: 15 January 2024 12:00 CET


https://meshfestival.ch/EN#open

TEA Tenerife Contemporary Biennial 2026 (Spain): Open Call for Projects

Deadline: 2 January 2026


https://teatenerife.es/convocatoria/tea-contemporary-biennial-2026/55

UNESCO & Somerset House Studios (UK): Open Call for AI Ethics Residency

Deadline: 15 January 2026


https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/somerset-house-studios/residencies-and-opportunities/unesco-ai-ethics-remote-residency

Enceladus Press (distributed by MIT press): Open Call for DIY Field Recording Practices

Deadline: 15 January 2026


To participate, please send an email to muddylistening@gmail.com including:
- A photograph of your equipment (indoor or outdoor)
- A denoscription of how you use it and, if applicable, instructions for how to build it
- A sound file or a short denoscription of a sound you recorded with it

The Prince Claus Fund (Netherlands): Open Call for 2026 Seed Award for Emerging Artists

Eligibility: list of eligible countries

Deadline: 8 January 2026 17:00 Amsterdam time


https://princeclausfund.nl/awards-and-programmes/seed-award/2026-call-for-applications

Traumburg Festival for Art and Music (Germany): Blurry Future Open Call for Artists

Deadline: not specified


https://traumburg.festiware.app/register/11

Shifting Arp (Berlin): Open Call for ARP-Research Fellowships

Deadline: 31 December 2025


https://stiftungarp.de/en/fellowship-application/

Paleohori (Greece): Open Call for Symbiotic Danscapes Facilitator-Research Artist Residency

Deadline: 24 December 2025


https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1b7kU_1MhzZq-0R9ebjqgg0MaUW43zpG45jfcyD-Rk1E/edit

Oberhausen Short Film Festival (Germany): Open Call for Entries

Deadline: 19 January 2026


https://www.kurzfilmtage.de/en/festival/submission/