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.
Find Your Immersive Imagination
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 with the aim to fund over 200 artists.
*Applicants must be based in the UK
Round 1 | Northern Ireland Awardees
Ten exceptional artists from across Northern Ireland have been successful in receiving Immersive Arts Funding. Under the support of Immersive Arts Producer Colm O'Donnell, each artist will begin developing their individual projects throughout 2025.
Round 1 | UK Awardees
Alongside supporting homegrown talent, Nerve Centre will also support ten Immersive Arts Awardees from across the UK in realising their creative projects.
Championing Digital Arts
Nerve Centre is at the forefront of cultivating creative technology use in Northern Ireland. Explore related projects below.
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.
Meet The Team
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.
Partners
