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" Realities in Transition | Open Call #3 Uncharted Grounds with L.E.V. Festival "

Realities in Transition | Open Call #3 Uncharted Grounds with L.E.V. Festival

Artist residency that explores VR environments imagined as a voyage

L.E.V. Festival (ES) invites artists with experience in VR development to create a virtual world for VRChat, exploring virtual environments as spaces for artistic experimentation and discovery. The selected participants will imagine VR as a journey shaped by movement — encouraging exploration, detours and encounters with the landscape — with the resulting work premiered at L.E.V. Festival.

About the residency

The residency aims to explore virtual space as a social, artistic and experiential environment, focusing on how VR can transform the act of wandering into a collective form of digital sightseeing. We are interested in developing a VR world that encourages visitors to explore, encounter one another and create shared experiences beyond conventional forms of interaction.

Projects may combine 3D environments, sound, interactive elements and spatial storytelling to create a place that is discovered rather than simply observed. RiT welcomeS work that experiments with the possibilities and limitations of VRChat as an artistic medium, and that questions how movement, curiosity and chance can shape the experience of a virtual landscape.

Particular attention will be given to the relationship between individual and collective presence: How does a virtual landscape change when experienced together? Can strangers develop temporary communities through exploration? What kinds of social rituals, playful interactions or unexpected encounters can emerge in a shared virtual world?

The residency would also provide an opportunity to experiment with the possibilities and limitations of multiplayer VR and VRChat as artistic spaces, questioning how digital environments can become places for collective creation, imagination and connection.
INFO
AMOUNT

➜ Three grants of 10,000€ gross (one per selected artist)

➜ An additional production budget of up to €15,000 gross.

➜ 6-month online residency (residency schedule: January to June 2027)

APPLICATION DEADLINE

October 23rd, 2026, 23:59 (CEST)

ELIGIBLE COUNTRIES
Austria - Belgium - Bulgaria - Croatia - Cyprus - Czech Republic - Denmark - Estonia - Finland - France - Germany - Greece - Hungary - Ireland, Republic of (EIRE) - Italy - Latvia - Lithuania - Luxembourg - Malta - Netherlands - Poland - Portugal - Romania - Slovakia - Slovenia - Spain - Sweden - Ukraine
ELIGIBILITY

For the development of this virtual world, RiT is looking for three individual artists who will work collaboratively throughout the residency. The selected participants will be chosen based on their individual profiles and expertise, with the aim of bringing together, as a group, the range of skills required to undertake a project of this nature.

Please indicate which of the following skills match your expertise and support your selection with relevant examples from your portfolio.

- Unity developer / CTO.
- 3D/2D Artist / Assets creation
- Animation artist.
- Sound Artist.
- Narrative writer.
- Character creator.
- Interaction (UX) designer

APPLICATION DETAILS

For more information about the application details and eligibility criteria, please visit the official website.

NOTE

*The calls that are listed on our website are shared for informational purposes and are sometimes subject to change. Please visit the organization's official open call website for up-to-date information.

DEADLINE

2026-10-23

TYPE OF SUPPORT

Public funding

FUNDING COUNTRIES

All EU Countries

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KEYWORDS
Arts - AI - Audio-visual arts - Data science - Digital media arts - Machine learning - Science - Virtual media art