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// papers/SCORE.md and papers/SUBMISSIONS.md.
// Dates are ISO YYYY-MM-DD; AoE deadlines treated as end-of-day UTC-12.
const DEADLINES = [
+ {
+ section: 'passed',
+ venue: 'Guggenheim Fellowship 2027',
+ venueUrl: 'https://www.gf.org/',
+ track: 'Fine Arts / Music Composition — instrument-builder framing',
+ deadline: '2026-09-15',
+ deadlineExtra: 'work samples due Sept 29',
+ conference: 'US & Canada · unrestricted · one application per year',
+ status: 'declined',
+ statusLabel: 'Not filed',
+ draftPath: 'fall-radar-2026/report.tex',
+ notes: 'Unrestricted mid-career fellowship (typically $40k–$55k). Career narrative + statement of plans + references; samples can follow until Sept 29. From the 2026-08-31 fall radar (verify the 2027 cycle dates on-site). Realistic only if the Princeton materials are recycled before the fuser office days (Sept 14–15) and the CultureHub residency (Sept 16–25). Not filed — Sept 15 fell on the fuser office days; no draft folder and no filing record (checked 2026-09-19). Next cycle Sept 2027.',
+ },
+ {
+ section: 'passed',
+ venue: 'Hodder Fellowship 2027–28',
+ venueUrl: 'https://arts.princeton.edu/fellowships/hodder-fellowship/',
+ track: 'Visual arts — planned Princeton double-file',
+ deadline: '2026-09-08',
+ deadlineExtra: '23:59 ET',
+ conference: '$93k · ten months of independent work at Princeton, no teaching',
+ status: 'declined',
+ statusLabel: 'Not filed',
+ draftPath: 'fall-radar-2026/report.tex',
+ notes: 'Same Lewis Center portal and day as the Arts Fellowship; the radar\'s plan was one CV + samples + 750-word proposal filed to both. No filing record found 2026-09-09. Next cycle ~Sept 2027.',
+ },
+ {
+ section: 'passed',
+ venue: 'ICST — Spatial Audio Residency 2027',
+ venueUrl: 'https://www.zhdk.ch/en/research/icst/icst-air/residency-a-spatial-audio-20727',
+ track: 'Special Sign: Field Rotation — 17-speaker Ambisonics + 256-channel WFS',
+ deadline: '2026-09-01',
+ deadlineExtra: '24:00 CET',
+ conference: 'Zurich · 2–3 weeks · CHF 180 per diem + up to CHF 500 travel',
+ status: 'declined',
+ statusLabel: 'Not filed',
+ draftPath: 'icst-spatial-audio-2027/DRAFT.md',
+ notes: 'Vault draft (concept, portfolio, CV outline) written Aug 3; never uploaded to the ZHdK form and no confirmation mail (checked 2026-09-19). Same Sept 1 collision as INHABIT and ICLC — ICLC took the day. Annual call; re-aim for Sept 2027 with the CultureHub six-laptop recording as the portfolio anchor.',
+ },
+ {
+ section: 'passed',
+ venue: 'Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics — INHABIT 2027',
+ venueUrl: 'https://www.aesthetics.mpg.de/',
+ track: 'Special Sign: Rotating the Listener — performing arts / music',
+ deadline: '2026-09-01',
+ deadlineExtra: '23:59 CET',
+ conference: 'Frankfurt · 4 months · €8,000 fee + €2,000 accommodation + production budget',
+ status: 'declined',
+ statusLabel: 'Not filed',
+ draftPath: 'max-planck-inhabit-2027/DRAFT.md',
+ notes: 'Vault draft (artist statement, 500-word proposal, portfolio plan) written Aug 3; no careers-portal submission and no confirmation mail (checked 2026-09-19). The Department of Music\'s live-context research is the strongest institutional match for the spatial laptop fleet — the best candidate for the 2027 call.',
+ },
+ {
+ section: 'open',
+ venue: 'New Music USA — Creator Fund',
+ venueUrl: 'https://newmusicusa.org/',
+ track: 'Up to $5,000 — Whistlegraph / notepat as new music',
+ deadline: '2026-11-21',
+ deadlineExtra: 'window opens Nov 6',
+ conference: 'This cycle covers the West, so LA eligibility holds · ~50–60 awards',
+ status: 'new',
+ statusLabel: 'New',
+ draftPath: 'fall-radar-2026/report.tex',
+ notes: 'The radar\'s "best dollars per hour" pick: a short application for a bounded new-music project. From the 2026-08-31 fall radar; confirm the 2026 window and regional rotation on-site when it opens.',
+ },
+ {
+ section: 'open',
+ venue: 'Harvestworks — Artist in Residence',
+ venueUrl: 'https://www.harvestworks.org/',
+ track: 'Tech-centered sound commission — custom instrument',
+ deadline: '2026-12-20',
+ deadlineExtra: 'approximate · verify',
+ conference: 'New York · ~$5,000 commission + engineering support',
+ status: 'new',
+ statusLabel: 'New',
+ draftPath: 'fall-radar-2026/report.tex',
+ notes: 'A new tech-centered sound work with in-house engineering support — shaped exactly like Menu Band / the MacNeoPolitan instruments. From the 2026-08-31 fall radar; deadline is approximate until the 2027 call posts.',
+ },
// --- Verify ---
{
section: 'verify',
@@ -392,7 +470,7 @@
// --- Open windows ---
{
- section: 'open',
+ section: 'passed',
venue: 'Error 417 — Error 406 [Netstalgia] Not Acceptable',
venueUrl: 'https://error417.expectation.fail/406/netstalgia-not-acceptable/open-call',
track: 'Internet art open call (Fia)',
@@ -405,18 +483,54 @@
notes: '€1,500–€7,000 grant + mentoring + online exhibition. Critical approaches to internet protocols, infrastructures, governance, archives, and user agency on networked technologies — not "old internet" nostalgia.',
},
{
- section: 'active',
+ section: 'passed',
venue: 'Printed Matter — NY Art Book Fair',
venueUrl: 'https://www.printedmatter.org/opencall',
track: 'Project Space (Fia)',
deadline: '2026-05-08',
conference: 'NYABF 2026, MoMA PS1, Sep 24–27',
- status: 'go',
- statusLabel: 'Active',
+ status: 'declined',
+ statusLabel: 'Not filed',
proposalUrl: 'https://aesthetic.computer/printed-matter-2026',
proposalLabel: 'The AC Papermill',
draftPath: 'printed-matter-project-space-2026/DRAFT.md',
- notes: 'Aesthetic Computer\'s working artistic-publishing press in public for four days at MoMA PS1: five years of papers, dossiers, cards, and the bound Reader on free display, plus the press still operating with new pages added daily. Fee covered by Aesthetic Inc; self-funded application.',
+ notes: 'Aesthetic Computer\'s working artistic-publishing press in public for four days at MoMA PS1: five years of papers, dossiers, cards, and the bound Reader on free display, plus the press still operating with new pages added daily. Fee covered by Aesthetic Inc; self-funded application. Not filed — no submission record after the May 8 deadline, and the fair (Sept 24–27) collides with the CultureHub performance on Sept 24. Track the 2027 open call (~April).',
+ },
+ {
+ section: 'passed',
+ venue: 'TOKAS — International Creator Residency 2027',
+ venueUrl: 'https://www.tokyoartsandspace.jp/en/',
+ track: '3-month funded Tokyo residency',
+ deadline: '2026-06-16',
+ deadlineExtra: '18:00 JST',
+ status: 'declined',
+ statusLabel: 'Not filed',
+ draftPath: 'tokas-2027/DRAFT.md',
+ notes: 'Draft + research compiled 2026-06-01 in grants/tokas-2027; no submission record (checked 2026-09-19). Next window ~May 2027.',
+ },
+ {
+ section: 'passed',
+ venue: 'IDFA DocLab 2026',
+ venueUrl: 'https://www.idfa.nl/en/info/doclab',
+ track: 'Festival entry — interactive / immersive',
+ deadline: '2026-06-16',
+ deadlineExtra: 'final tier · €45 fee',
+ status: 'declined',
+ statusLabel: 'Not filed — fee',
+ draftPath: 'idfa-doclab-2026/DRAFT.md',
+ notes: 'Curatorial selection, no cash; €45 entry fee. Draft compiled 2026-06-01 in grants/idfa-doclab-2026; not entered (checked 2026-09-19).',
+ },
+ {
+ section: 'passed',
+ venue: 'transmediale — Lattice Labs 2027',
+ venueUrl: 'https://transmediale.de/',
+ track: 'Collaborative lab working group',
+ deadline: '2026-06-07',
+ deadlineExtra: '23:59 CEST',
+ status: 'declined',
+ statusLabel: 'Not filed',
+ draftPath: 'transmediale-lattice-labs-2027/DRAFT.md',
+ notes: 'Draft + research compiled 2026-06-01 in grants/transmediale-lattice-labs-2027; no submission record (checked 2026-09-19).',
},
{
section: 'rolling',
@@ -443,18 +557,18 @@
notes: 'Submitted 2026-08-05 for an initial papers.aesthetic.computer pilot: human access stays free while verified bots and agents pay per request in stablecoins. The application also names structured research, feeds, datasets, a planned read-only Papers MCP/search interface, and later selective API or prompt/tool requests.',
},
{
- section: 'submitted',
+ section: 'decided',
venue: 'CultureHub',
venueUrl: 'https://www.culturehub.org/residency',
track: 'LA Residency (Fia)',
deadline: '2026-05-20',
deadlineExtra: '23:59 PT',
- conference: 'CultureHub LA · Fall 2026 – Winter/Spring 2027',
- status: 'submitted',
- statusLabel: 'Met',
+ conference: 'CultureHub LA · Sept 16–25, 2026',
+ status: 'accepted',
+ statusLabel: 'Accepted — residency Sept 16–25',
proposalUrl: 'https://aesthetic.computer/culture-hub-2026',
proposalLabel: 'Notepat Jam',
- notes: 'Submitted 2026-05-21. Meeting completed 2026-07-28 — good conversation. 1–2 weeks at CultureHub LA with reconfigurable lighting/audio/video/projection, technical support, $2,000 stipend, marketing, documentation, and one public presentation. Notepat Jam — a six-channel audio piece performed solo on six salvaged laptops booted into AC Native, each voicing one channel of the 5:1 Kalio surround, plus open programming (a public workshop + dialogue teaching the software). Awaiting follow-up.',
+ notes: 'Submitted 2026-05-21; meeting 2026-07-28; accepted. Ten-day residency at CultureHub LA with a $2,000 stipend. Program AC Presents 2 New Pieces: Sept 19 public workshop (free, bring your own computer), Sept 23 full tech rehearsal + livestream test, Sept 24 performance — Note(s)pat(ial) Native on six surplus laptops and The MacNeoPolitan Trio on three MacBook Neos, closing with open free-play. Event pages and RSVP were still not live on culturehub.org as of Sept 8.',
},
{
section: 'submitted',
@@ -486,7 +600,7 @@
notes: 'Submitted 2026-05-22; rejected 2026-06-15. KidLisp Keeps v12 — A reusable preservation contract for executable generative art on Tezos. $45,000 across 5 milestones (~14 weeks): v12 contract work (rotatable signer registry, role separation, holder-governed metadata, opt-in v11→v12 migration claim) released as a reusable Smart Contract Template, plus tutorial videos, polish on the custom keeps wallet, four NELA Computer Club appointments + one public workshop in LA, and an outreach campaign into the existing fxhash and objkt creative-coding community. Draft stays in vault for a future cycle.',
},
{
- section: 'open',
+ section: 'passed',
venue: 'SIGGRAPH Asia 2026',
venueUrl: 'https://asia.siggraph.org/2026/submissions/technical-papers/',
track: 'Technical Papers — submission form',
@@ -497,7 +611,7 @@
notes: 'Acmtog double-blind, 7pp + ≤2 figures-only pages. Source scaffold in siggraph-asia-2026-tech/ adapting arxiv-latency.',
},
{
- section: 'open',
+ section: 'passed',
venue: 'SIGGRAPH Asia 2026',
venueUrl: 'https://asia.siggraph.org/2026/submissions/technical-papers/',
track: 'Technical Papers — full paper',
@@ -508,7 +622,7 @@
notes: 'Upload deadline May 13. See siggraph-asia-2026-tech/CONVERSION-NOTES.md for what changes from the arXiv source.',
},
{
- section: 'open',
+ section: 'passed',
venue: 'ICCC 2026',
venueUrl: 'https://computationalcreativity.net/iccc26/',
track: 'Early Career Symposium',
@@ -519,7 +633,7 @@
notes: 'Lighter lift than a short paper. Decide whether to pursue if ICCC short paper was missed.',
},
{
- section: 'open',
+ section: 'passed',
venue: 'ArtsIT 2026',
venueUrl: 'https://artsit.eai-conferences.org/2026/',
track: 'Full Papers — sound/image track',
@@ -530,20 +644,20 @@
notes: 'Springer LNICST, Web of Science / Scopus indexed. Brief in artsit-2026/SIMPLIFIED-BRIEF.md — a venue-specific Whistlegraph recast for the sound/image relationships track, drawing on arxiv-whistlegraph/.',
},
{
- section: 'open',
+ section: 'decided',
venue: 'Serpentine — Future Art Ecosystems R&D Fellowship',
venueUrl: 'https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/future-art-ecosystems-rd-fellowship-art-x-convergence/',
track: 'Art × Convergence fellowship (Fia)',
deadline: '2026-06-07',
deadlineExtra: 'midnight BST',
conference: 'Sep 2026 – Mar 2027 · low-residency, 3 London weekends',
- status: 'go',
- statusLabel: 'Active',
+ status: 'rejected',
+ statusLabel: 'Rejected Jul 27',
draftPath: 'serpentine-fae-2026/FORM-ANSWERS.md',
- notes: 'Form-ready — spine settled on re-founding personal computing as a commons / creative OS + laptop orchestra (FORM-ANSWERS.md is the final field-mapped paste sheet; the older voice-thread DRAFT.md is superseded). £10,000 award + travel/accommodation for the London intensives. Inaugural cohort of four practitioners working at the intersection of art and advanced technologies; early-stage creative research grounded in process and dialogue. Submitted via an Airtable form; two selection rounds (Serpentine Arts Tech shortlist, then external jury). International applicants welcome if they can attend the three London weekends. Blocking: pick 2 references, assemble portfolio PDF (≤10pp), optional ≤3-min video, open the live form to confirm field order/caps.',
+ notes: 'Submitted 2026-06-07 via the Airtable form (confirmation received). Rejected 2026-07-27 — close to 1,000 applications for four inaugural places; FAE encourages reapplying next year. Spine was re-founding personal computing as a commons / creative OS + laptop orchestra; £10,000 award + travel for three London weekends. FORM-ANSWERS.md stays the base for the 2027 cycle.',
},
{
- section: 'open',
+ section: 'passed',
venue: 'SIGGRAPH Asia 2026',
venueUrl: 'https://asia.siggraph.org/2026/submissions/',
track: 'Art Papers',
@@ -554,7 +668,7 @@
notes: 'No directory yet.',
},
{
- section: 'open',
+ section: 'passed',
venue: 'SIGGRAPH Asia 2026',
venueUrl: 'https://asia.siggraph.org/2026/submissions/',
track: 'Art Gallery / Emerging Tech / XR',
@@ -564,7 +678,7 @@
statusLabel: 'New',
},
{
- section: 'open',
+ section: 'passed',
venue: 'SIGGRAPH Asia 2026',
venueUrl: 'https://asia.siggraph.org/2026/submissions/',
track: 'Posters',
@@ -574,7 +688,7 @@
statusLabel: 'New',
},
{
- section: 'open',
+ section: 'passed',
venue: 'SIGGRAPH Asia 2026',
venueUrl: 'https://asia.siggraph.org/2026/submissions/real-time-live/',
track: 'Real-Time Live!',
@@ -586,31 +700,32 @@
notes: 'Corrected from the superseded August 7 date on the submissions overview. Live, real-time interactive demonstrations; a viable AC Native/notepat route only if the six-laptop system can be shown as a reliable stage demo rather than a general project reel.',
},
{
- section: 'open',
+ section: 'submitted',
+ draftPath: 'iclc-2027-performance/DRAFT.md',
venue: 'ICLC 2027',
venueUrl: 'https://iclc.toplap.org/2027/',
track: 'Papers / performances / workshops / installations',
deadline: '2026-09-01',
deadlineExtra: 'extended from Aug 15',
conference: 'Mar 9–13, 2027, Antwerp',
- status: 'new',
- statusLabel: 'New',
- notes: '10th International Conference on Live Coding; 2027 theme: Dialogues. No submission fee. Short papers are 2–4 pages; long papers are 5–12 pages. Proceedings receive article-level DOIs. Single-blind review; substantial generative-AI use in paper or performance-abstract writing must be disclosed.',
+ status: 'submitted',
+ statusLabel: 'Submitted Aug 31',
+ notes: '10th International Conference on Live Coding; 2027 theme: Dialogues. No submission fee. Short papers are 2–4 pages; long papers are 5–12 pages. Proceedings receive article-level DOIs. Single-blind review; substantial generative-AI use in paper or performance-abstract writing must be disclosed. Submitted 2026-08-31 via Fourwaves — performance proposal Note(s)pat(ial) Native — twelve sound bodies on six surplus laptops (5-page PDF, four figures, hosted reel); confirmation received. Notification Nov 1, 2026.',
},
{
- section: 'active',
+ section: 'verify',
venue: 'Princeton Arts Fellowship',
venueUrl: 'https://arts.princeton.edu/fellowships/princeton-arts-fellowship/',
track: 'Music (2027–29 cycle: dance / music / theater only)',
deadline: '2026-09-08',
deadlineExtra: '23:59 ET',
conference: 'Two academic years at Princeton, Sept 2027 – Jul 2029',
- status: 'go',
- statusLabel: 'Drafting',
+ status: 'verify',
+ statusLabel: 'Passed — no filing record',
proposalUrl: 'https://aesthetic.computer/princeton-2026',
proposalLabel: 'Composer of instruments',
draftPath: 'princeton-arts-2026/DRAFT.md',
- notes: '$93k/yr salary as Associate Professional Specialist + research fund; teach one course/semester. Spine: music artist / instrument builder — the laptop-orchestra lineage back at the campus that invented it. Lifetime cap of two applications; this is №1. Verify materials on the live portal (site is Cloudflare-walled to bots).',
+ notes: '$93k/yr salary as Associate Professional Specialist + research fund; teach one course/semester. Spine: music artist / instrument builder — the laptop-orchestra lineage back at the campus that invented it. Lifetime cap of two applications; this is №1. Verify materials on the live portal (site is Cloudflare-walled to bots). 2026-09-09 check: no portal confirmation in mail and the draft still carries open ⟨confirm⟩ items (three references, work-sample picks), so this looks unfiled. If it was filed, move to Submitted; if not, the lifetime count stays at zero and the next music-eligible cycle is ~Sept 2027. The Hodder Fellowship (same portal, same day) was the planned double-file and is likewise unrecorded.',
},
{
section: 'active',
@@ -629,12 +744,13 @@
section: 'open',
venue: 'NLnet Foundation',
venueUrl: 'https://nlnet.nl/propose/',
- track: 'NGI Zero — free/open-source software grants',
- deadline: '2026-10-01',
+ track: 'Restack / CodeSupply — free/open-source software grants',
+ deadline: '2026-11-03',
conference: 'Deadlines the 1st of every even month',
+ deadlineExtra: '12:00 CET (noon)',
status: 'go',
statusLabel: 'Draft KidLisp spine',
- notes: '€5k–€50k. Strongest AC fit: KidLisp as an open creative-computing language for kids. Single-spine rule: KidLisp only.',
+ notes: '€5k–€50k. Strongest AC fit: KidLisp as an open creative-computing language for kids. Single-spine rule: KidLisp only. Verified 2026-09-19 on nlnet.nl/propose: "Next deadline: November 3rd 2026 12:00 CET (noon)"; the open funds are Restack and CodeSupply (the NGI Zero Commons Fund closed June 1). A Restack draft aimed at the Aug 1 round sits unfiled in grants/nlnet-ngi-zero-2026 — retarget it rather than starting over.',
},
{
section: 'rolling',
@@ -643,8 +759,8 @@
track: 'Retroactive grants 1–5 ETH for shipped Base projects; 2 ETH/wk rewards pool',
deadline: '',
status: 'go',
- statusLabel: 'Post-ship',
- notes: 'Apply retroactively once WhistlegraphCodes ships on Base (1–5 ETH ≈ $2.5–12.5k); weekly Builder Rewards via builderscore.xyz start with public building. Scouted via Twitter/Farcaster — building in public is part of the application.',
+ statusLabel: 'Grants only — Rewards ended',
+ notes: 'Apply retroactively once WhistlegraphCodes ships on Base (1–5 ETH ≈ $2.5–12.5k); weekly Builder Rewards via builderscore.xyz start with public building. Scouted via Twitter/Farcaster — building in public is part of the application. Update 2026-09-09: Talent Protocol\'s Builder Rewards program has ended (final campaign closed Jul 27, 2026; Talent Protocol winding down, ecosystem rewards end Oct 29), so the weekly-ETH half of this row is gone. Only the retroactive Builder Grant remains — verify it is still funded before the Codes drop.',
},
{
section: 'rolling',
@@ -694,89 +810,89 @@
notes: 'Not pursuing — declined 2026-06-04. DRAFT v0 stays in vault cac-iaf-2026/DRAFT.md for a future call. $50,000 unrestricted (Legacy tier; same call also has Emerging $5k and Established $10k). Eligibility: 18+, California resident ≥ 2 years, primarily reside + work in LA County (via LAPP), not previously awarded Legacy statewide. Unrestricted — for sustained practice, not a project pitch. Letter of support (1 page, colleague, uploaded directly by writer) was the blocking item.',
},
{
- section: 'open',
+ section: 'passed',
venue: 'SSRC Just Tech Fellowship',
venueUrl: 'https://www.ssrc.org/programs/just-tech/just-tech-fellowship/',
track: 'Fellowship (Fia, sourced 2026-05-14)',
deadline: '2026-06-28',
deadlineExtra: '23:59 EST',
conference: 'One-year fellowship (Jan–Dec 2027) · US residents',
- status: 'go',
- statusLabel: 'Active',
+ status: 'declined',
+ statusLabel: 'Not filed',
draftPath: 'ssrc-just-tech-2026/DRAFT.md',
- notes: 'Up to $60,000 unrestricted for one year at the intersection of technology and society. DRAFT v0 ready (2026-06-15) — spine: Aesthetic Computer as a digital community commons + AC Native low-end creative OS / public device library; personal statement + full work proposal mapped to all six required sub-questions. Direct precedent: p5.js\'s Lauren Lee McCarthy was a 2024–26 fellow as an Artist. Next: confirm portal fields, trim to caps (≤1,000 / ≤3,000 words), pick two work samples. Not open to full-time students; any citizenship.',
+ notes: 'Up to $60,000 unrestricted for one year at the intersection of technology and society. DRAFT v0 ready (2026-06-15) — spine: Aesthetic Computer as a digital community commons + AC Native low-end creative OS / public device library; personal statement + full work proposal mapped to all six required sub-questions. Direct precedent: p5.js\'s Lauren Lee McCarthy was a 2024–26 fellow as an Artist. Next: confirm portal fields, trim to caps (≤1,000 / ≤3,000 words), pick two work samples. Not open to full-time students; any citizenship. Not filed — DRAFT v0 was never trimmed to the caps. Next cycle ~May–June 2027.',
},
{
- section: 'open',
+ section: 'passed',
venue: 'CCI — CALI Futures',
venueUrl: 'https://cciarts.org/cali-futures/',
track: 'The artist-owned computer — AC self-hosting, AC OS, device library',
deadline: '2026-08-28',
deadlineExtra: '11:59 a.m. PT',
- status: 'go',
- statusLabel: 'Priority',
+ status: 'declined',
+ statusLabel: 'Not filed',
draftPath: 'cci-cali-futures-2026/DRAFT.md',
- notes: 'Up to $5,000; no fee. Draft rewritten 2026-08-18 against the published application preview — nine sections, narrative capped at 350 words per question. Spine is the post-2020 artist-owned infrastructure, with Whistlegraph\'s 2019 origin disclosed as prior practice. Remaining: one-page budget, two references, two-page CV, and Submittable identity verification, which must be completed before the 11:59 a.m. cutoff.',
+ notes: 'Up to $5,000; no fee. Draft rewritten 2026-08-18 against the published application preview — nine sections, narrative capped at 350 words per question. Spine is the post-2020 artist-owned infrastructure, with Whistlegraph\'s 2019 origin disclosed as prior practice. Remaining: one-page budget, two references, two-page CV, and Submittable identity verification, which must be completed before the 11:59 a.m. cutoff. Not filed. CCI extended the deadline to 2:59 p.m. PT the same day, but the Submittable identity check and two references were never completed. Draft, budget PDF, and CV are ready in the vault for the ~June 2027 cycle.',
},
{
- section: 'open',
+ section: 'passed',
venue: 'James Castle House',
venueUrl: 'https://www.boiseartsandhistory.org/opportunities/james-castle-house-residencies/',
track: 'Two-month residency — MacNeopolitan',
deadline: '2026-08-28',
deadlineExtra: '11:59 p.m. MST',
- status: 'candidate',
- statusLabel: 'No fee',
+ status: 'declined',
+ statusLabel: 'Not filed — solo rule',
draftPath: 'james-castle-house-2027/DRAFT.md',
- notes: '$4,000 + housing and utilities for two months at the Boise house where James Castle worked; 2027 periods are March–April, June–July, or September–October. Draft and research written 2026-08-18, requesting March–April. Solo residency, no companions, and a background check; the resident pays travel, food, supplies, and liability insurance, and gives one public event. Whether a resulting work must be donated is unresolved — the current call page does not say so.',
+ notes: '$4,000 + housing and utilities for two months at the Boise house where James Castle worked; 2027 periods are March–April, June–July, or September–October. Draft and research written 2026-08-18, requesting March–April. Solo residency, no companions, and a background check; the resident pays travel, food, supplies, and liability insurance, and gives one public event. Whether a resulting work must be donated is unresolved — the current call page does not say so. Not filed. The two-months-alone-in-Boise question was never decided before the cutoff. Draft and PREP.md are ready for the ~Aug 2027 cycle.',
},
{
- section: 'open',
+ section: 'passed',
venue: 'SAT × LAB7',
venueUrl: 'https://7fingers.com/support',
track: 'Performing Arts & Technology — MacNeopolitan',
deadline: '2026-08-31',
deadlineExtra: '17:00 as published',
- status: 'go',
- statusLabel: 'Exact fit',
- draftPath: 'funding-pipeline-2026-08-07/PROPOSAL-OPTIONS.md',
- notes: 'CAD $10,000 + Montreal studio/support. Real-time collective interaction, spatial sound and interactive dramaturgy among three computer characters.',
+ status: 'declined',
+ statusLabel: 'Not filed',
+ draftPath: 'sat-lab7-2027/DRAFT.md',
+ notes: 'CAD $10,000 + Montreal studio/support. Real-time collective interaction, spatial sound and interactive dramaturgy among three computer characters. Not filed — draft v0 only (2026-08-09), form fields never confirmed. Watch for the 2027 call.',
},
{
- section: 'open',
+ section: 'not-pursuing',
venue: 'Epic MegaGrants',
venueUrl: 'https://www.unrealengine.com/megagrants',
track: 'Real-time 3D / open-source tools — conditional',
deadline: '2026-09-04',
deadlineExtra: '23:59 ET',
- status: 'verify',
- statusLabel: 'Only if authentic',
+ status: 'declined',
+ statusLabel: 'No authentic fit',
draftPath: 'funding-pipeline-2026-08-07/PROPOSAL-OPTIONS.md',
- notes: 'Typically $5,000–$75,000. Apply only if genuine Unreal/UEFN or open-source real-time-3D work already exists.',
+ notes: 'Typically $5,000–$75,000. Apply only if genuine Unreal/UEFN or open-source real-time-3D work already exists. Dropped at the Sept 4 mark — there is no real Unreal/UEFN or real-time-3D work to point at.',
},
{
- section: 'open',
+ section: 'submitted',
venue: 'Platform Dalí',
venueUrl: 'https://platformdali.org/en/call/open-call-for-residencies-2027-what-is-real/',
track: 'What is real? — MacNeopolitan',
deadline: '2026-09-07',
deadlineExtra: '23:59 CEST',
- status: 'go',
- statusLabel: 'Top tech-art fit',
- draftPath: 'funding-pipeline-2026-08-07/PROPOSAL-OPTIONS.md',
- notes: '€7,500 artist fee + up to €25,000 production, with travel/support. Three synchronized computers negotiate one unstable shared reality with Barcelona Supercomputing Center.',
+ status: 'submitted',
+ statusLabel: 'Submitted Sept 7',
+ draftPath: 'platform-dali-2027/DRAFT.md',
+ notes: '€7,500 artist fee + up to €25,000 production, with travel/support. Three synchronized computers negotiate one unstable shared reality with Barcelona Supercomputing Center. Submitted 2026-09-07 via calls.platformdali.org, about two hours before close; confirmation email received. Barcelona Supercomputing Center requested as first-choice partner, Sept–Nov 2027 period. Notification expected November 2026.',
},
{
- section: 'open',
+ section: 'passed',
venue: 'Embassy of Foreign Artists',
venueUrl: 'https://www.eofa.ch/en/open-call/',
track: 'Geneva Digital Humanities — Whistlegraph',
deadline: '2026-09-15',
- status: 'candidate',
- statusLabel: 'No fee',
+ status: 'declined',
+ statusLabel: 'Not filed',
draftPath: 'funding-pipeline-2026-08-07/PROPOSAL-OPTIONS.md',
- notes: 'CHF 1,400/month + room. Whistlegraph computational counter-archive using Geneva collections.',
+ notes: 'CHF 1,400/month + room. Whistlegraph computational counter-archive using Geneva collections. Not filed — no draft and no filing record at the Sept 15 deadline (checked 2026-09-19).',
},
{
section: 'open',
@@ -800,7 +916,7 @@
status: 'candidate',
statusLabel: 'Prepare, not cash-now',
draftPath: 'funding-pipeline-2026-08-07/PROPOSAL-OPTIONS.md',
- notes: 'A resubmission must materially answer the June rejection: open creator infrastructure, interoperability, onboarding, documentation and maintenance—not an NFT collection.',
+ notes: 'A resubmission must materially answer the June rejection: open creator infrastructure, interoperability, onboarding, documentation and maintenance—not an NFT collection. 2026-09-09: fxhash closed Aug 17, 2026 (team let go in Feb; works survive only via objkt, Verse, Le Random) — the preservation argument for Keeps writes itself; pair it with the HEK × Tezos Foundation 2026 preservation partnership. XTZ $0.27, Tezos-wide objkt sales ~$50k/week. Portal is rolling with quarterly review: in by Sept 30 means an October decision.',
},
{
section: 'open',
@@ -816,27 +932,29 @@
},
{
section: 'submitted',
+ deadlineExtra: 'emailed',
venue: 'FUTO Grants',
venueUrl: 'https://futo.org/grants/',
track: 'Email application — Legendary Grant ask, microgrant floor',
- deadline: null,
+ deadline: '2026-08-31',
conference: 'Rolling · email review',
status: 'go',
statusLabel: 'Sent Aug 31',
draftPath: 'emergent-ventures-2026/DRAFT.md',
- notes: 'Emailed grants@futo.org 2026-08-31 — "computers belong to you" pitch: AC Native de-landfills laptops into instruments; asked for Legendary Grant consideration, glad to start with a $1k–$5k microgrant. Same spine as the EV application.',
+ notes: 'Emailed grants@futo.org 2026-08-31 — "computers belong to you" pitch: AC Native de-landfills laptops into instruments; asked for Legendary Grant consideration, glad to start with a $1k–$5k microgrant. Same spine as the EV application. No reply as of Sept 9.',
},
{
- section: 'submitted',
+ section: 'decided',
+ deadlineExtra: 'submitted · rejected Sept 3',
venue: 'Emergent Ventures (Mercatus)',
venueUrl: 'https://www.mercatus.org/emergent-ventures',
track: 'Rolling grant — AC Native 1.0 + device library',
- deadline: null,
- conference: 'Response typically within a week',
- status: 'go',
- statusLabel: 'Submitted Aug 31',
+ deadline: '2026-08-31',
+ conference: 'Decision in three days',
+ status: 'rejected',
+ statusLabel: 'Rejected Sept 3',
draftPath: 'emergent-ventures-2026/DRAFT.md',
- notes: '$50,000 / 12 months requested (rolling, non-dilutive). 645-word proposal in EV\'s structure; Special Sign reel as multimedia; laptop hero attached. Submitted 2026-08-31; watch for mercatus.gmu.edu email through ~Sept 7.',
+ notes: '$50,000 / 12 months requested for AC Native 1.0 + the device library (rolling, non-dilutive). Submitted 2026-08-31; rejected 2026-09-03 by form letter — no individual explanation, "many requests fall outside the scope of our mission or would be better supported through venture capital or philanthropy"; EV invites further submissions later. A resubmission needs a narrower, more zero-to-one spine than the whole OS.',
},
{
section: 'not-pursuing',
@@ -849,18 +967,6 @@
draftPath: 'funding-pipeline-2026-08-07/PROPOSAL-OPTIONS.md',
notes: 'Confirmed winding down (funding-research sweep, verified 2026-08-31): the foundation is concluding its fellowship programme. Do not draft against the old Nov 1 date. See grants/RESEARCH-startup-funding-2026-08-31.md.',
},
- {
- section: 'open',
- venue: 'NLnet',
- venueUrl: 'https://nlnet.nl/propose/',
- track: 'Open-source grant — Menu Band / AC',
- deadline: '2026-11-03',
- deadlineExtra: '12:00 CET · reopens Sep 3',
- status: 'go',
- statusLabel: 'Prepare now',
- draftPath: 'funding-pipeline-2026-08-07/PROPOSAL-OPTIONS.md',
- notes: '€5,000–€50,000. Libre synchronization, reproducible builds, accessibility, privacy, packaging and documentation.',
- },
{
section: 'passed',
venue: 'Restless Egg — Batch 2',
@@ -891,12 +997,12 @@
venue: 'Guthman Musical Instrument Competition 2027',
venueUrl: 'https://guthman.gatech.edu/thecompetition',
track: 'Menu Band / MacNeopolitan as instrument',
- deadline: '2026-10-01',
- deadlineExtra: 'UNVERIFIED · prior cycles closed Oct 1',
+ deadline: '2027-10-16',
+ deadlineExtra: 'per guthman.gatech.edu, read 2026-09-19',
conference: 'Finalist concert March 2027, Georgia Tech, Atlanta · ~$10k prize pool',
- status: 'verify',
- statusLabel: 'Verify',
- notes: 'The one instrument-design jury. Site is JS-only — confirm the 2027 deadline on-site before drafting. Demo video + description + photos.',
+ status: 'new',
+ statusLabel: 'Next cycle',
+ notes: 'The one instrument-design jury. Site is JS-only — confirm the 2027 deadline on-site before drafting. Demo video + description + photos. Site read 2026-09-19: "The deadline for submissions is October 16, 2027." Not part of the fall 2026 cluster; the demo video can wait for a staged MacNeoPolitan performance.',
},
{
section: 'open',
@@ -1122,9 +1228,9 @@
track: 'Open technology — Aesthetic Computer / AC Native',
deadline: null,
conference: 'Applications open · terms confirmed case by case',
- status: 'verify',
- statusLabel: 'Fit check',
- notes: 'Strong philosophical fit for user-owned, inspectable creative computing. FUTO lists $1,000–$5,000 microgrants and larger Legendary Grants for established open-source projects, but does not publish standard large-grant amounts or explicit company eligibility. Confirm the route before drafting.',
+ status: 'go',
+ statusLabel: 'Inquiry sent Aug 31',
+ notes: 'Strong philosophical fit for user-owned, inspectable creative computing. FUTO lists $1,000–$5,000 microgrants and larger Legendary Grants for established open-source projects, but does not publish standard large-grant amounts or explicit company eligibility. Confirm the route before drafting. Inquiry emailed 2026-08-31 (see Submitted); no reply as of Sept 9.',
},
{
section: 'funding',
@@ -1189,10 +1295,10 @@
track: 'Zero-to-one project grant — Menu Band',
deadline: null,
conference: 'Rolling',
- status: 'go',
- statusLabel: 'Apply',
+ status: 'candidate',
+ statusLabel: 'Resubmit later',
draftPath: 'funding-pipeline-2026-08-07/PROPOSAL-OPTIONS.md',
- notes: 'Amount unpublished. Propose a bounded 90–180 day Menu Band pilot: synchronization, artist cohort, MacNeopolitan presentation and continued-use evidence.',
+ notes: 'Amount unpublished. Propose a bounded 90–180 day Menu Band pilot: synchronization, artist cohort, MacNeopolitan presentation and continued-use evidence. The first application (AC Native 1.0 spine) was rejected 2026-09-03; EV invites later submissions. Hold this narrower Menu Band pilot as the next ask, not before 2027.',
},
{
section: 'funding',
@@ -1243,16 +1349,16 @@
notes: 'Not a grant: $125,000 for 7% plus $375,000 uncapped MFN SAFE. One company story: Menu Band is the product; MacNeopolitan is the demonstration.',
},
{
- section: 'funding',
+ section: 'decided',
venue: 'South Park Commons Member Residency',
venueUrl: 'https://www.southparkcommons.com/residency',
track: 'Founder exploration — Jeffrey / Menu Band',
- deadline: null,
+ deadline: '2026-07-05',
conference: 'Rolling · six months',
- status: 'go',
- statusLabel: 'Zero equity / no cash',
+ status: 'rejected',
+ statusLabel: 'Rejected Jul 15',
draftPath: 'funding-pipeline-2026-08-07/PROPOSAL-OPTIONS.md',
- notes: 'No cost, cash or equity rights. Best route for refining the company boundary before accepting a dilutive accelerator.',
+ notes: 'No cost, cash or equity rights. Best route for refining the company boundary before accepting a dilutive accelerator. Submitted 2026-07-05; rejected 2026-07-15 (form letter: a very small community with limited space, no individual feedback). The board carried it as open until 2026-09-19.',
},
{
section: 'funding',
@@ -1327,6 +1433,19 @@
statusLabel: 'New — from Fia',
notes: '€10,000 stipend (pre-tax) + Fablab and material infrastructure + individual workspace + curatorial guidance + logistical/financial support for public activities. Five thematic areas: Sentient Media, The Metabolic Sublime, Synthetic Minds, Weird Futures, The Mechanics of Truth. Individuals or collectives; emerging and established both welcome. Extended stays expected Mar–Jun 2027. Sourced from Fia via iMessage 2026-09-16; verified same day. Deadline lands 3 days after the CultureHub LA premiere.',
},
+ {
+ section: 'open',
+ venue: 'NSF SBIR Phase I — spatial laptop fleet',
+ venueUrl: 'https://seedfund.nsf.gov/',
+ track: 'Bootable distributed-audio runtime for heterogeneous laptops',
+ deadline: '2026-11-04',
+ deadlineExtra: '17:00 local · full proposal — invited Project Pitch required first',
+ conference: 'Up to $305,000 · 6–18 months · no equity',
+ status: 'candidate',
+ statusLabel: 'Pitch not sent',
+ draftPath: 'nsf-sbir-spatial-fleet-2026/PROJECT-PITCH.md',
+ notes: 'Vault holds a complete four-section Project Pitch (innovation, technical objectives, market, team) written for Aesthetic Inc. NSF answers a pitch in one to two months, and only an invited pitch may file a full proposal — so the Nov 4 window needs the pitch submitted now, or it rolls to the next cycle. No pitch submission or NSF mail found 2026-09-19.',
+ },
{
section: 'open',
venue: 'A\' Design Award',
@@ -1352,6 +1471,28 @@
statusLabel: 'New — from Fia',
notes: '$30,000 stipend for ~10 hours a month over 12 months — the best money-to-effort ratio currently open. A learning cohort for independent workers, freelancers, artists, and advocates reimagining the social safety net; no developed project required. Eligibility is squarely a US-based independent practice. Applicant webinars Sept 17 (9–10:30 AM PT) and Oct 1 (5–6:30 PM PT), identical content. Interviews Nov 2–16. Scheduling collision: the Jan 2027 start and Jan 29–30 in-person convening sit inside Matadero\'s Jan–Jul Madrid block. Sourced from Fia via iMessage 2026-09-08 ("I wanna apply to this!"). Run by the Center for Cultural Innovation — the same funder as CALI Futures, submitted 2026-08-28 with a decision due Nov 17. That draft is substantially reusable, and CCI reads both. ~8 fellows selected. First convening is in Southern California, not cross-country.',
},
+ {
+ section: 'open',
+ venue: 'apexart — New York Open Call 2027–28',
+ venueUrl: 'https://apexart.org/opencallsprocess.php',
+ track: 'Curatorial proposal — NELA Computer Club / AC Papermill as exhibition',
+ deadline: '2026-10-31',
+ conference: 'Five winners · $10,000 exhibition budget each · NYC',
+ status: 'new',
+ statusLabel: 'New',
+ notes: 'Blind, crowdsourced jury; no fee; open worldwide. A 500-word curatorial proposal, not an artist application — the strongest AC shape is the working press or the computer club as a show. Sourced from the Fuser Assembly newsletter, 2026-09-16.',
+ },
+ {
+ section: 'open',
+ venue: 'GPU World',
+ venueUrl: 'https://www.gpuworld.org/submit',
+ track: 'Fiction or non-fiction — a world with one GPU per person',
+ deadline: '2026-10-31',
+ conference: '$100,000 prize pool',
+ status: 'candidate',
+ statusLabel: 'Verify terms',
+ notes: 'Essay-shaped prize; the monthly AC essays and the free-vs-open paper are the raw material. Confirm rights, length and judging before drafting. Sourced from the Fuser Assembly newsletter, 2026-09-16.',
+ },
{
section: 'open',
venue: 'UCLA — Dept. of Art, Arts & Architecture',
@@ -1385,6 +1526,16 @@
statusLabel: 'Paused — $25 fee',
notes: 'No payment authorized. Resume only through a waiver.',
},
+ {
+ section: 'not-pursuing',
+ venue: 'Foundwork Artist Prize 2026',
+ venueUrl: 'https://foundwork.art/artist-prize',
+ track: '$10,000 unrestricted + juror studio visits',
+ deadline: '2026-09-25',
+ status: 'declined',
+ statusLabel: 'Paused — $18 fee',
+ notes: 'Requires a public Foundwork profile and an $18 entry fee. Same fee rule as Prospect and Wassaic. Sourced from the Fuser Assembly newsletter, 2026-09-16.',
+ },
{
section: 'not-pursuing',
venue: 'AwesomeNYC',
@@ -1435,7 +1586,7 @@
}
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- const DATA_AS_OF = '2026-09-16';
+ const DATA_AS_OF = '2026-09-19';
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@@ -1448,13 +1599,16 @@
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- const decided = DEADLINES.filter(d => d.section === 'decided').sort((a, b) => b.deadline.localeCompare(a.deadline));
+ // Rows without a deadline (rolling, email-only) sort last instead of
+ // throwing — a null deadline in Submitted blanked the whole board.
+ const byDate = (a, b) => (a.deadline || '9999-12-31').localeCompare(b.deadline || '9999-12-31');
+ const active = DEADLINES.filter(d => d.section === 'active').sort((a, b) => byDate(a, b));
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