Results posted: 10 June 2022
6
Projects funded
$474,629
Total funding awarded
27
Eligible applications received
$2,919,742
Total funding requested
6 grants totalling $474,629 have been offered to support projects by New Zealand artists and practitioners in this funding round, across the three funding pools (General, Māori and Pacific).
This fund supports researching, developing and/or creating new artwork in the digital space to be experienced by global audiences. The aim of the fund is to amplify innovative digital arts practice and encourage exploration and experimentation. It does this by supporting the development of new, high-quality digital artwork for global audiences.
The Global Digital New Work Fund has two rounds - one for Research and one for New Work.
Read a summary of this round's results which includes an overview of the results and commentary on our observations about what the strongest applications this round included.
Who got funded
Across both the Research and New Work rounds, 11 grants totalling $523,172 have been offered to support projects by New Zealand artists and practitioners in this funding round, across the three funding pools (General, Māori and Pacific). We received 45 eligible applications, with a total of $3,098,334 requested.
This was broken down as follows:
- New Work grants: 6 projects totalling $474,629 were supported. $2,919,742 was requested by 27 applicants
- Research grants: 5 projects totalling 48,543 were supported. $178,593 was requested by 18 applicants.
Results by funding pool were:
- General Arts: 8 projects totalling $230,882 were supported. $2,224,716 was requested by 38 applicants
- Ngā toi Māori: 2 projects totalling $152,290 were supported. $426,466 was requested by 4 applicants
- Pacific Arts: 1 projects totalling $140,000 were supported. $447,153 was requested by 3 applicants.
Artforms were supported as follows:
- 1 Community Arts
- 1 Dance
- 1 Literature
- 3 Multidisciplinary Arts
- 1 Pacific Heritage Arts
- 1 Theatre
- 3 Visual Arts
Successful applications will lead to 15 activities in the following regions:
- 5 Auckland
- 5 Online
- 3 Wellington
- 2 Overseas
The following results are for the New Work round. See the results for the Research round
Funded projects
$10,500 - To create a live-stream, digital artwork to be exhibited live in Iceland and online.
This content is tagged as Community arts .
APPLICANT: Celia Harrison
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$63,253 - To create three high-quality, immersive and interactive dance works called 'Vector', using VR technology.
This content is tagged as Dance .
APPLICANT: Joanna Cook
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$140,000 - Towards an online presentation of traditional Pacific dance using motion capture and animation.
This content is tagged as Pacific heritage arts .
APPLICANT: Pacific Kids Learning
FUNDING POOL: Pacific arts fund
$142,290 - To create a publication, and new photographic portaits with augmented reality image and sound, to promote Māori culture from the past to the future.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
APPLICANT: Suzanne Tamaki
FUNDING POOL: Ngā toi Māori fund
$73,586 - Towards a series of born-digital artists' projects presented on a new digital platform.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
APPLICANT: Te Tuhi Contemporary Art Trust
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
$45,000 - Towards a tokenized artefact of programmer Vitalik Buterin, consisting of 3D scanned material, renditions, NFTs and tokenomics.
This content is tagged as Visual arts .
APPLICANT: Walter Langelaar
FUNDING POOL: General arts fund
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