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FutureNOW - In and Of A Place PD Program 2025

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FutureNOW - In and Of A Place: Professional Development Program 2025

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Project Details

Emerging and Established Contemporary Artists and Technologists - To develop practice with a focus on the intersection of art and technology.

Where: On Kabi Kabi (Gubbi Gubbi) and Jinibara Country within the Sunshine Coast region. 
When: February - June 2025
Submissions close: Midnight Monday 27 January
Notification: within 10 days of closing date.

FutureNOW - In and Of A Place: Professional Development Program 2025

FutureNOW is Sunshine Coast Council’s investigation into the intersection of art x new technologies. It looks at how it drives creative sector development and informs (or transforms) the audience experience.    

Get Involved. 

FutureNOW is calling for proposals from contemporary artists and technologists curious to explore what that future looks like. This opportunity is open to Sunshine Coast-based individual artists, or collectives, with a contemporary arts or creative technologists practice with a curiosity for playing with emergent technologies.  

This creative development opportunity provides early career artists and creative technologists a chance to play together in exploring work created in response to and/or specifically for a place.

Being a part of FutureNOW: Professional Development Program 2025

  • A $2,000 artists/technologist stipend. 
  • Three months of co-working facilities at 2ND Space. 
  • In person and online engagements; workshops, dialogues (etc). 
  • Networking with participants of the FutureNOW cohort. 
  • Supported access to relevant emergent technologies. 
  • An industry event presenting findings and creative outcomes of the project.  

You will need to provide us with a (short) response to the question:

  • How art could inform you creative technology practise or technology your arts practise.
  • Tell us about your practise and,
  • Why you want to be involved.

It doesn’t need to be an essay, it’s our way of getting to know you and why you want to play. Your responses will be considered against the below criteria and in reflection of your personal practise as evidenced in the support materials.

To be transparent, we’re looking to engage with creatives who:

  • Embrace, critique, or investigate the creative opportunity between art x technology.
  • Promote and elevate diverse voices.
  • Generate immersive and experimental environments.

You will need to be available to engage with the program on outlined dates in 2025:


Workshop One     -  Tuesday 22 Feb
Workshop Two     -  Tuesday 22 Mar
Workshop Three  -  Tuesday 12 Apr
Workshop Four    -  Tuesday 24 May

Final Intensive Weekend - 14 & 15 June 2025

FutureNOW Background:

FutureNOW investigates current and future intersections of art x new technologies, that are a key driver of creative sector development, informing and transforming the audience experience.  

FutureNOW harnesses the potential of emergent technologies in the arts and creative sector on the Sunshine Coast. It explores new modes of arts practice, engagement, and presentation in a regional context through an iterative and evolving program of research, residencies, critical conversations, skills, and industry development opportunities.  

FutureNOW builds the capacity of the local sector, creating new networks across QLD and Australia, situating Sunshine Coast as connected and ‘competitive’ in the emergent creative space. It delivers public programming to nurture community interest and build audiences engagement, creating unique presentation opportunities for new works both in the region and beyond. 

Proposals will be assessed against the following criteria, noting that your project doesn’t need to reflect all these criteria. 

 1. Creativity, technology and innovation

  • Collaboration between established contemporary artists, researchers and/or innovators 
  • Explore the use of technology and/or ideas that will potentially shape our region
  • Builds the capacity or showcases Sunshine Coast based talent  

 2. Viability

  • Proposals that are realistic in scale for this current round of available budget and the project timeline 
  • Has, or plans to secure, additional funding sources or development in relevant areas (may include in kind support) 
  • Support material speaks to an established contemporary practice and showcases the applicant’s history of delivering projects 

3. Local connection —Sunshine Coast Council

  • Sunshine Coast based applicants and/or businesses 
  • Works with or is led by Traditional Owners to connect with local First Nations knowledge systems, technologies and/or artistic practices. 
  • Responds specifically to a locality or site within the Sunshine Coast. 
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Applicant Details

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Artist/Creative Technologist practice

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Supporting Materials

Please submit the following support material with your submission. The panel will review this support material to help them gain a better sense of your practice.

IMPORTANT: We do not accept support material submitted via post. If you have special circumstances that prevent you from submitting your supporting documents electronically, please contact the team on artscoast@sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au. 

If you cannot supply support material via URLs, you may upload a single PDF containing your collated support material.

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          Applicant Support

          For further information or assistance, please contact via email artscoast@sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au and quote your application number.

          For technical assistance completing this form please contact the Creative Arts Team on 5420 8633 during business hours Monday to Friday.

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