[Industry Direct] PHI Studio & Agog Are Seeking Immersive Artists for a Four Week Residency Program

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Are you an artist, designer, or artistic technologist working with XR, immersive storytelling, or interactive media? Do you’ve a challenge that wants time, house, and knowledgeable steerage to totally take form? If that’s the case, we’d love to listen to from you.

The PHI Immersive Residency is now accepting purposes for its subsequent cohort, on the theme of “XR for Impression”—and we’re calling on creators from North America (together with Canada, the USA, Mexico, Greenland, Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, and Bermuda) who’re exploring the sides of immersive artwork, narrative innovation, and experiential design.

A Residency for the Immersive-Minded

Hosted by PHI Studio in Montreal, Canada, and introduced in partnership with Agog: The Immersive Media Institute, a grantmaking and capacity-building group that evokes creators and changemakers to make use of XR for good, the residency program is designed to assist creators by providing collaborative alternatives with PHI Studio consultants and assets.

The residency presents artists the prospect to spend 4 weeks creating an immersive or interactive challenge with the assist of PHI’s internationally acknowledged group. This system is open to artists whose initiatives handle and interact audiences in modern challenges and pressing world points.

PHI Studio is thought for producing and touring groundbreaking experiences like Area Explorers: THE INFINITE. Our in-house experience spans artistic route, technical design, narrative improvement, and large-scale immersive manufacturing. This residency presents early entry to that community, these expertise, and the liberty to focus deeply in your work.

It is a residency for initiatives of their improvement section to conceptualize, plan, and prototype. It’s an area to experiment, take a look at, and evolve your imaginative and prescient with the steerage of a group that is aware of easy methods to carry immersive work to audiences world wide.

What You’ll Get

• 4 weeks in residence at PHI Studio in Montreal
• Mission Growth Assist: Tailor-made assist and mentorship from PHI Studio in the course of the residency, together with help with conceptualization, creation, scenography, manufacturing, technical improvement, and programming assist, or different PHI Studio experience
• A grant of $15,000 CAD to assist the work carried out all through the residency program
• Lodging during the residency, round-trip journey bills and native transportation for artists residing exterior of Montréal metropolitan space during the residency.
• Entry to PHI’s artistic neighborhood, trade community, and technical instruments

We’re particularly keen on initiatives that interact with immersive media in recent and sudden methods like prolonged actuality (XR) applied sciences, synthetic intelligence, and immersive sound or audio.

Who Ought to Apply?

This residency is open to artists, teams, or collectives working in immersive, XR, interactive or experiential disciplines. You don’t must have all of the solutions, however you need to have a powerful idea, a willingness to discover, and a transparent thought of how PHI Studio’s assist may assist push your work additional.

We welcome purposes from rising and established creators alike, and we encourage artists from underrepresented communities to use.

The way to Apply

The applying course of is easy:

1. Go to the residency software web page
2. Learn by way of the residency particulars and eligibility
3. Submit your software type and your challenge proposal

Deadline to use: June 24, 2025, at 11:59 PM EDT

Questions? Attain out to us at phiimmersive@phi.ca. We will’t wait to see what you’re engaged on!