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.

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

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