CultTech Lab
Education → Production → Showcase
CultTech Lab is a full-cycle program where creative teams address cultural challenges defined together with the Lab’s partners, transforming them into artistic works and tech-enabled products.
CultTech Lab is a full-cycle program where creative teams address cultural challenges defined together with the Lab’s partners, transforming them into artistic works and tech-enabled products.
How it works
Structured around thematic tracks, the Lab unfolds in three stages:
School — guided exploration and idea development with curators and experts.
Studio — funded production and realization of selected projects.
Showcase — international presentation at the CultTech Summit and partner platforms.
School — guided exploration and idea development with curators and experts.
Studio — funded production and realization of selected projects.
Showcase — international presentation at the CultTech Summit and partner platforms.
Why CultTech Lab
- To experimentally explore industry challenges and develop research-based artistic and tech-enabled projects.
- To connect artists, technologists, and partners in sustained, challenge-driven collaboration.
- To advance the mission of more culture for more people with tech.
Open Call Now Open
Apply: 2 March – 2 April
Apply: 2 March – 2 April
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Track 1
Music. Gamification of UnderstandingFocus: Gamifying the Experience of Contemporary Academic Music
Contemporary academic music challenges listening habits through new sounds, structures, and technologies.
This track invites participants to design interactive, game-based experiences that make complex music engaging and accessible. -
Track 2
Memory. AI for ReconnectionFocus: Artistic Research on Reconnecting Memory and Cultural Identity through AI
Migration and cultural displacement reshape how memory and identity are carried across languages, geographies, and digital environments.
This track invites participants to use AI as a tool for artistic research, developing performative, spatial, and digital works that reactivate memory as a living, evolving process.
How to Apply
CultTech Lab is open to individuals and teams worldwide, with no restrictions regarding age, gender, education, or professional status. Applications may be submitted individually or as a team.
To apply, read the industry challenge statement of the selected track, develop a project idea in response, and outline it in the application. Introduce the team behind the proposal and their roles in bringing it to life. If applying individually, make sure the project can be developed independently.
Full submission details are available on the track pages.
To apply, read the industry challenge statement of the selected track, develop a project idea in response, and outline it in the application. Introduce the team behind the proposal and their roles in bringing it to life. If applying individually, make sure the project can be developed independently.
Full submission details are available on the track pages.
Grants
Participation grants are available for the School program. Studio projects receive individual production grants.
Program Benefits
School Phase
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A two-month guided program with art and tech curators - Dedicated support from the Lab’s learning team and invited experts
- A vibrant interdisciplinary network fostering dialogue and collaborative problem-solving
- Development of the concept into a production-ready project plan
- Each member of our team has at least 5 years of legal experience.
- One-year membership in the CultTech Association
- Certificate of completion
Studio Phase
For projects selected for the Studio, teams also receive:
For projects selected for the Studio, teams also receive:
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A 3-day Studio Camp (travel and accommodation covered) - Dedicated producer support
- Presentation at the CultTech Summit (travel and accommodation covered)
- Additional presentation opportunities at partner platforms
- Production grants
CultTech Lab Weekly
All teams receive sustained, high-impact public visibility throughout the program.
CultTech Lab Weekly is a public short-form series documenting the Lab’s journey from draft to prototype. Through team video diaries, curated session moments, and prototype updates, it makes the creative process visible episode by episode — giving audiences projects to follow and showing how experimentation turns into tangible outcomes.
CultTech Lab Weekly is a public short-form series documenting the Lab’s journey from draft to prototype. Through team video diaries, curated session moments, and prototype updates, it makes the creative process visible episode by episode — giving audiences projects to follow and showing how experimentation turns into tangible outcomes.