From bbf4b848620583bbfd1eed9802f651dfdcb6dcdd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "prompt.ac/@jeffrey" Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2026 19:36:38 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?deadlines:=20the=20Sept=209=20reconciliation=20?= =?UTF-8?q?finally=20lands=20=E2=80=94=20null-date=20sort=20no=20longer=20?= =?UTF-8?q?blanks=20the=20board;=20NLnet=20is=20Nov=203,=20Guthman=20Oct?= =?UTF-8?q?=202027,=20SPC=20rejected=20Jul=2015,=20six=20unfiled=20drafts?= =?UTF-8?q?=20to=20passed,=20three=20Assembly=20picks?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The 2026-09-09 reconciliation (byDate helper, CultureHub accepted, Printed Matter / Hodder / CCI / James Castle / SAT×LAB7 not filed, Platform Dalí and ICLC submitted, Guggenheim + fall-radar rows) sat uncommitted in a working tree that fell 180 commits behind origin, so production kept the localeCompare-on-null crash for nineteen days. Committed from a private index against origin/main to leave the shared working tree alone. Today: Guggenheim + Embassy of Foreign Artists passed unfiled Sept 15; South Park Commons rejected 2026-07-15 (mail); NLnet verified Nov 3 12:00 CET (Restack/CodeSupply) and the Dec 1 fallback row folded in; Guthman's site says Oct 16, 2027; ICST, INHABIT, TOKAS, IDFA DocLab, transmediale drafts recorded as not filed; NSF SBIR pitch row; apexart, GPU World and Foundwork from the Fuser Assembly newsletter of Sept 16. --- .../deadlines/index.html | 374 ++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 264 insertions(+), 110 deletions(-) diff --git a/system/public/papers.aesthetic.computer/deadlines/index.html b/system/public/papers.aesthetic.computer/deadlines/index.html index 1aba6d227c..c23eff45f7 100644 --- a/system/public/papers.aesthetic.computer/deadlines/index.html +++ b/system/public/papers.aesthetic.computer/deadlines/index.html @@ -365,6 +365,84 @@ // 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 @@ } function render() { - const DATA_AS_OF = '2026-09-16'; + const DATA_AS_OF = '2026-09-19'; document.getElementById('as-of').textContent = `verified ${DATA_AS_OF}`; if (REVIEW_MODE) { @@ -1448,13 +1599,16 @@ const root = document.getElementById('sections'); // Sort within sections - const active = DEADLINES.filter(d => d.section === 'active').sort((a, b) => a.deadline.localeCompare(b.deadline)); - const submitted = DEADLINES.filter(d => d.section === 'submitted').sort((a, b) => b.deadline.localeCompare(a.deadline)); - const open = DEADLINES.filter(d => d.section === 'open').sort((a, b) => a.deadline.localeCompare(b.deadline)); - const notPursuing = DEADLINES.filter(d => d.section === 'not-pursuing').sort((a, b) => (a.deadline || '9999-12-31').localeCompare(b.deadline || '9999-12-31')); - const passed = DEADLINES.filter(d => d.section === 'passed').sort((a, b) => b.deadline.localeCompare(a.deadline)); - const verify = DEADLINES.filter(d => d.section === 'verify').sort((a, b) => a.deadline.localeCompare(b.deadline)); - 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)); + const submitted = DEADLINES.filter(d => d.section === 'submitted').sort((a, b) => byDate(b, a)); + const open = DEADLINES.filter(d => d.section === 'open').sort((a, b) => byDate(a, b)); + const notPursuing = DEADLINES.filter(d => d.section === 'not-pursuing').sort((a, b) => byDate(a, b)); + const passed = DEADLINES.filter(d => d.section === 'passed').sort((a, b) => byDate(b, a)); + const verify = DEADLINES.filter(d => d.section === 'verify').sort((a, b) => byDate(a, b)); + const decided = DEADLINES.filter(d => d.section === 'decided').sort((a, b) => byDate(b, a)); const rolling = DEADLINES.filter(d => d.section === 'rolling'); const funding = DEADLINES.filter(d => d.section === 'funding'); -- 2.51.2