Immersive Arts
Immersive Arts is a groundbreaking, UK wide programme aimed at breaking down the barriers for artists to create and engage with immersive technologies, through an inclusive and accessible programme of funding, training, research and events. Join us at our Inspiration Day or sign up to a webinar to learn more.
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We want to equip artists across the UK with the tools to explore immersive technologies within their creative practice.
Our programme will offer community, training, mentorship, and funding opportunities to develop creative work and grow the immersive arts community across the UK and beyond.
£3.6 million in grant funding will be made available to artists between 2024 and 2027 through 3 rounds of funding opening in October 2024, Spring 2025 and Spring 2026 with the aim to fund over 200 artists.
*Applicants must be based in the UK
Funding Strands Available
Explore: £5,000
Purpose: Support early stage creative exploration with immersive technologies.
Details: Ideal for individuals, small groups, or organisations (10 employees or fewer) new to immersive arts. Get funding to experiment with new technologies, collaborate, and share your learning with no need to create a finished piece.
Experiment: £20,000
Purpose: Support experimental immersive artwork for small audience testing.
Details: For individuals, micro-entities or small organisations (10 employees or fewer) to get ideas off the ground and into development and testing phases.
Expand: £50,000:
Purpose: Support prototypes and existing work for public presentation.
Details: For individuals, collaborations, micro-entities, or small organisations (50 employees or fewer) looking to advance existing projects to their next stage for development, testing or presentation.
Programme Partners
Immersive Arts is run by a collaborative consortium of ten partners who are deeply embedded within the UK’s immersive arts and research communities, and committed to creating positive change in the sector.
The programme’s lead hub is Pervasive Media Studio. UWE Bristol are the academic lead and Watershed are the Executive Producers, working in close partnership with University of Bristol and cultural organisations in Belfast and Derry~Londonderry (Nerve Centre), Cardiff (Wales Millennium Centre) and Glasgow (Cryptic).
The training and events programme is being led by Crossover Labs, alongside strategic support from Unlimited, Innovate UK Immersive Tech Network and XR Diversity Initiative and an international Advisory Board.
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Funders
Funding for Immersive Arts is provided through a collaboration between the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Arts Council England (ACE), the Arts Council of Wales (ACW), Creative Scotland and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland (ACNI). Funding from Creative Scotland, ACW and ACNI is provided by The National Lottery.
