Global Digital Research Fund 2021/22

5 grants totalling $48,543 have been offered to support projects by New Zealand artists and practitioners in this funding round, across two funding pools (General and Māori).

Funding for artists, arts practitioners and arts organisations to research or test the concept for a new digital artwork that has strong potential for an international audience. 

More about the fund

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 Global Digital Research and Global Digital New Work 2021/22 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: 6 projects totalling $474,629 were supported. $2,919,742 was requested by 27 applicants
• Research: 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 Global Digital Research Fund 2021/22.