{"id":64735,"date":"2025-10-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/?p=64735"},"modified":"2025-12-16T12:02:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T12:02:30","slug":"unesco-ai-ethics-residency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/opportunities\/unesco-ai-ethics-residency\/","title":{"rendered":"UNESCO AI Ethics Residency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Somerset House Studios & UNESCO<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Free to Apply<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Closing: 15th January 2026<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Remote residency commissioning three international artists (NOT UK-based) to create new online works critically engaging with intercultural ideas around AI, ethics, governance and regulation. For mid-career artists over 18 with 6+ years’ experience producing and presenting work, from any discipline. Particularly interested in non-Western perspectives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each artist receives \u00a37,500 artist fee plus \u00a37,500 production budget. 3-month R&D period (April-June 2026) includes monthly meetings with Somerset House Studios’ producers, advisory sessions with UNESCO, dedicated mentor from Studios community and UNESCO Expert Network, regular cohort meetings, facilitated introductions to Studios artists\/alumni. Artists attend UNESCO’s Global Forum on Ethics of AI in June 2026 (location TBC, travel and accommodation covered) to share research\/works in progress with international policymakers from 80+ countries. Final works presented on Somerset House’s Channel platform December 2026, with potential London event. A<\/p>\n\n\n\n

rtists must engage with UNESCO’s Recommendation on the Ethics of AI human-rights-centred principles. Must NOT use generative AI tools in artwork creation. Applications accepted in written, audio or video format. Selection panel includes Marie McPartlin, Dr James Wright, Dr Jahnavi Phalkey, Nouf Aljowaysir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Somerset House Studios and UNESCO commission three international mid-career artists (NOT UK-based) for remote AI ethics residency. \u00a315,000 total per artist (\u00a37,500 fee + \u00a37,500 production). Attend UNESCO Global Forum June 2026, present work December 2026. Non-Western perspectives encouraged. Deadline 15th January 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"wp-custom-template-post-opportunity","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[880],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opportunities"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}