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| Kala Fellowship | |
|---|---|
| Name | Kala Fellowship |
| Formation | 2018 |
| Type | Fellowship |
| Headquarters | Bengaluru |
| Region | India, Global |
| Language | English |
Kala Fellowship The Kala Fellowship is an international arts and technology residency and talent development program based in Bengaluru that supports interdisciplinary practitioners in visual arts, media, and software. It collaborates with institutions, festivals, galleries, and universities to nurture artists, researchers, and technologists through mentorship, residencies, and commissions. The program connects fellows with leading cultural organizations, corporations, and academic laboratories to foster projects at the intersection of art, design, and computation.
The program operates across studios, laboratories, museums, and event platforms including collaborations with institutions such as the Tate Modern, Museum of Modern Art, Centre Pompidou, Serpentine Galleries, Guggenheim Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, Smithsonian Institution, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Louvre Museum, British Council, Goethe-Institut, Asia Art Archive, Sotheby's, Christie's, Saatchi Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts, Whitney Museum of American Art, Fondazione Prada, MAXXI, Hayward Gallery, Neue Nationalgalerie, Kunsthalle Zürich, Serralves Museum, Mori Art Museum, National Gallery Singapore, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of New South Wales, São Paulo Museum of Art, Museo Reina Sofía, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Documenta, Venice Biennale, Berlin Biennale, Whitney Biennial, Frieze Art Fair, Art Basel, SXSW, TED Conference, IDFA, Sundance Film Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival, IFFR, Viennale, Berlinale, Cannes Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, Locarno Festival, Annecy Festival, Ars Electronica, SIGGRAPH, ISEA, Transmediale, CTM Festival, Mutek, Sonar, Moogfest, Prix Ars Electronica, Turner Prize, Pulitzer Prize, Palme d'Or, Golden Lion, Nobel Prize, MacArthur Fellowship, Rhizome, New Museum, ZKM Center for Art and Media, CalArts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, Harvard University, Yale School of Art, Royal College of Art, Central Saint Martins, Columbia University, Pratt Institute, King's College London, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, National University of Singapore, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.
Founded in 2018 by curators, coders, and producers from networks spanning Bengaluru, Mumbai, New Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, London, Berlin, New York City, Los Angeles, Paris, Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore, Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Toronto, Mexico City, São Paulo, Buenos Aires, Cairo, Istanbul, Dubai, Johannesburg, Nairobi, Lagos, the Fellowship grew from pilot residencies and partnerships with cultural festivals and technology labs. Early collaborators included members of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, researchers from MIT Media Lab, and curators associated with Serpentine Galleries and Tate Modern, enabling exchanges with biennales, museums, and tech conferences. Over subsequent cycles the program expanded its network to involve galleries, commissioning bodies, and academic partners across Europe, North America, Latin America, Africa, and Asia.
The Fellowship aims to support experimental practice that bridges art, design, code, and social inquiry by providing time, space, mentorship, and resources. It seeks to amplify voices working with emerging tools and platforms found in maker spaces, artist studios, and research labs affiliated with organizations like ZKM Center for Art and Media, Ars Electronica, Rhizome, OpenAI, DeepMind, Adobe Research, NVIDIA Research, Google Arts & Culture, Facebook AI Research, Microsoft Research, IBM Research, Intel Labs, Fraunhofer Society, Hewlett Foundation, Ford Foundation, Gates Foundation, British Council, Asia Art Archive, Asia Culture Center, Asia Society, Goethe-Institut, Fondazione Prada.
Activities encompass residencies, workshops, public talks, exhibitions, screenings, and commissioned projects. Fellows engage with mentors from institutions like MIT Media Lab, Stanford University, Royal College of Art, CalArts, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Tate Modern, MoMA, Serpentine Galleries, and labs such as Google Research, DeepMind, and NVIDIA Research. Public outputs have been presented at platforms including Documenta, Venice Biennale, Art Basel, Frieze, SXSW, SIGGRAPH, Ars Electronica, Transmediale, and national museums. The program offers technical support, fabrication facilities, stipends, and exhibition budgets in partnership with galleries, film festivals, and academic departments.
Candidates apply through an open call evaluated by curators, technologists, and academics linked to institutions such as Tate Modern, Whitney Museum of American Art, Serpentine Galleries, CalArts, MIT Media Lab, Stanford University, Royal College of Art, Columbia University, University of Oxford, National University of Singapore, and regional cultural councils. Eligibility focuses on interdisciplinary practitioners—artists, filmmakers, coders, designers, researchers—with project proposals suited to residencies and commissions. Selection criteria include artistic merit, technical feasibility, conceptual rigor, and potential for public engagement, judged by panels that have included representatives from major museums, biennales, and tech research labs.
Alumni work across contemporary art, film, interactive media, and research and have participated in exhibitions, screenings, and commissions with institutions like Tate Modern, MoMA, Guggenheim Museum, Serpentine Galleries, Documenta, Venice Biennale, Art Basel, Frieze, Ars Electronica, SIGGRAPH, Sundance Film Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival, Berlinale, Cannes Film Festival, Whitney Biennial, MAXXI, Fondazione Prada, New Museum, ZKM Center for Art and Media, CalArts, MIT Media Lab, Stanford University, Royal College of Art, Central Saint Martins, National Gallery Singapore.
The Fellowship is funded through a mix of philanthropic grants, cultural foundations, corporate sponsorships, and institutional partnerships with entities like the Gates Foundation, Ford Foundation, Hewlett Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, British Council, Goethe-Institut, Google Arts & Culture, Microsoft Research, Adobe, NVIDIA, Intel, Sotheby's, Christie's, Tata Trusts, Government of Karnataka, regional arts councils, and international cultural agencies. Partnerships include collaborations with museums, universities, research labs, galleries, and festivals for residency placements, commissions, and public programs.
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