Resources for Artists + Technologists

The next three months in New York, nearest first: deadlines in white, events as points, shows on view in violet. Picked and checked by The IMC Lab.

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The next three months, nearest first

  1. Today Fri 23 Oct
  2. Fri 23 Oct, 6 pm MUGIC user meeting
  3. Sat 24 Oct Fall Saturdays
  4. Sat 24 Oct, 8 pm Liturgy
  5. Until Sun 25 Oct PLAZA
  6. Sun 8 Nov, 12 pm Second Sundays: November
  7. Closes 12 Nov, 6 pm Manhattan Arts Grants 2027
  8. Closes 15 Nov, 11:59 pm AGENCY NYC Residency, spring 2027
  9. Closes 2 Dec, 11:59 pm Tribeca Games, 2027 festival
  10. Fri 18 Dec, 4 pm ITP/IMA Winter Show 2026
  11. Until Sun 20 Dec LaJuné McMillian: Child/ren of the Bloom
  12. Until Sun 3 Jan Overexposed: Art, Technology, and the Body

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Open calls and funding

  • Closes

    Manhattan Arts Grants 2027

    Lower Manhattan Cultural Council

    Project funding for public arts projects in Manhattan in 2027.

    Manhattan-based individual artists, collectives and nonprofits, all disciplines. The apply page does not state amounts.

  • Closes

    AGENCY NYC Residency, spring 2027

    Eyebeam

    A residency for artists working on agency and AI, with mentorship and access to tools.

    $5,000 stipend. Lives in the five boroughs, applies as an individual, not in a full-time degree program, on site at least one day a week.

  • Closes

    Tribeca Games, 2027 festival

    Tribeca Festival

    Submissions for unreleased games, VR and AR included, for the Tribeca Games section and Creators Market.

    Submission fee $40 to $80, rising after 28 Oct and 2 Dec; a late round runs to 4 Mar 2027. Unreleased work only; no tabletop.

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  • No date yet

    Artist Fellowships, 2027 cycle

    New York Foundation for the Arts, funded by NYSCA

    Unrestricted grants; the 2027 categories include Interdisciplinary Work, which names immersive experiences, and Video/Film.

    $8,000, free to apply. Age 25+, New York State resident for two years, not in a degree program. Opens fall or winter 2026; date not announced.

  • No date yet

    Creative Capital Award

    Creative Capital

    A national open call for project grants to artists making new work, technology-based work included.

    The 2027 call closed on 2 Apr 2026. Next call not announced.

  • No date yet

    Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants

    New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)

    Emergency grants for artists facing medical emergencies, open to several disciplines including Digital/Electronic Arts and Video/Film

    Ages 21+, US Resident; disciplines: Choreography/Dance, Digital/Electronic Arts, Video/Film, Visual Arts Application opens Tuesday, October 20 at 10AM ET.

NYC events

  • Fri

    MUGIC user meeting

    596 Broadway, #602

    Mari Kimura unveils the free MUGIC Plugin for wearable motion sensors that turn gestures into music and live-performance controls.

    Free; RSVP by email to studio@harvestworks.org

  • Sat

    Fall Saturdays

    159 Pioneer Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn

    The building stays open until 8 pm: the fall exhibitions, including LaJuné McMillian’s Child/ren of the Bloom, and a bonfire in the garden.

    Also 31 Oct, 7 Nov, 21 Nov. See the page

  • Sat

    Liturgy

    22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

    Haela Hunt-Hendrix presents a limited capacity solo program for looped electric guitar, voice, electronics, and piano, with new compositions

  • On now, until

    PLAZA

    Josie Robertson Plaza, 10 Lincoln Center Plaza

    Andrew Schneider turns people-watching on the plaza into an interactive artwork, once a day for two weeks. Bring headphones.

    Free; registration encouraged

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  • Sun

    Second Sundays: November

    159 Pioneer Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn

    Open studios, exhibitions, workshops and live music across the building. All ages.

    Free, RSVP

  • ITP/IMA Winter Show 2026

    370 Jay Street, Brooklyn

    Two days of interactive student projects. Fri 4 to 8 pm, Sat 2 to 6 pm.

    Free; tickets required, registration opens in December

  • On now, until

    LaJuné McMillian: Child/ren of the Bloom

    159 Pioneer Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn

    A floor-to-ceiling video installation that follows the visitor’s hands with sensors.

  • On now, until

    Overexposed: Art, Technology, and the Body

    Changing Exhibitions Gallery, Museum of the Moving Image

    Sixteen artists and research films on cinema, X-ray imaging and how the body is seen.

    Included with museum admission

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  • Pioneer Works

    159 Pioneer Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn · Galleries and garden open Wednesday through Sunday, 12-6 pm

    An arts and sciences center with galleries, studios and a garden, presenting art, science and music.

  • ZeroSpace

    Downtown Brooklyn · Events by RSVP

    A production and creative studio (LED virtual-production stage, motion capture, volumetric capture) that hosts recurring NYC meetups: NYC Creative AI Forum (formerly ComfyUI NYC), DATLAB NYC (TouchDesigner) and Embodied AI NYC. The link is its events calendar; new dates appear here on their own. The IMC Lab’s founder is an executive partner.

  • Eyebeam

    Programs and residencies; no public street address on its site

    A nonprofit that supports artists making work about how technology shapes our lives through residencies, fellowships and public programs.

  • New Museum and NEW INC

    235 Bowery, Manhattan

    The New Museum and NEW INC, its art and technology incubator, which runs an open call for members.

  • Museum of the Moving Image

    36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens · Thu 2–6 pm, Fri 2–8 pm, Sat–Sun 11 am–6 pm; galleries $10–20

    A museum dedicated to the art, history, technique and technology of the moving image, with exhibitions, screenings and programs.

  • Harvestworks

    596 Broadway, #602, Manhattan (by appointment)

    An experimental production space supporting artists working with new and emerging technologies.

  • CultureHub

    47 Great Jones St, 3rd Floor, Manhattan · Mon–Fri, 11 am–6 pm

    An art and technology community founded by SeoulArts and La MaMa.

  • bitforms gallery

    131 Allen St., Manhattan

    A gallery, founded in 2001, representing artists engaged with new technologies and media art.

  • NYU ITP

    370 Jay Street, Brooklyn

    NYU’s graduate program on the imaginative use of communications technology; its public shows are listed above when dated.

  • Whitney Museum of American Art

    99 Gansevoort Street, Manhattan · Closed Wednesdays; Fridays 10:30 am-10 pm; other days 10:30 am-6 pm

    A museum of American art; its artport is the Whitney’s portal to internet and new media art.

  • MoMA PS1

    22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, Queens

    A contemporary art institution in Long Island City, described as artist-centered and community-driven.

  • Roulette Intermedium

    509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn

    A Brooklyn venue presenting experimental music, movement and media since 1978.

  • ISSUE Project Room

    22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn

    A Brooklyn performance nonprofit founded in 2003 presenting interdisciplinary artists

  • The Kitchen

    Temporarily at Westbeth, 163B Bank Street, Manhattan

    A nonprofit space showing work across dance, music, performance, video and art.

  • Recess

    46 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn

    A residency program giving artists street-level space to use as a studio, exhibition venue or place for experimentation.

  • Fridman Gallery

    169 Bowery, Manhattan · Thursday-Sunday 11AM-6PM and by appointment

    A gallery showing visual, sound and performance art, hosting concerts with the non-profit New Ear Inc.

  • Wonderville

    1186 Broadway, Brooklyn

    An arcade bar with 30+ custom-built free-to-play games by the NYC games community; 21+.

Tools 24

  • Unity Personal

    Real-time 3D engine for apps, games and XR.

    Free for individuals and small organizations under $200K of revenue and funds raised in the last 12 months.

  • Unreal Engine

    Epic’s real-time 3D engine.

    Under Epic’s standard license, a 5% royalty applies only once a product passes $1M in gross revenue. Terms for non-game work: see Epic.

  • Blender

    3D modelling, animation and rendering.

    Free and open source (GNU GPL), for any purpose; what you make with it is yours.

  • Godot Engine

    Open-source engine for 2D and 3D games.

    Free, MIT license.

  • three.js

    3D on the web. The particle field on this site’s homepage is built with it.

    Free, MIT license.

  • Harvestworks audio studio

    A New York nonprofit media arts center (since 1977) whose studio outside engineers can book for multichannel recording and mixing.

    Rates are not listed; ask Harvestworks.

Open source, most-starred first. Each one is not archived, was updated in the last 12 months and has a recognised license; stars measure popularity, not fit.

  • stable-diffusion-webui

    AI image/video · 165k stars · AGPL-3.0 · updated March 2026

    Stable Diffusion web UI

  • ComfyUI

    AI image/video · 138k stars · GPL-3.0 · updated October 2026

    The most powerful and modular diffusion model GUI, api and backend with a graph/nodes interface. The fastest local inference engine in the world.

  • whisper

    audio/music · 111k stars · MIT · updated August 2026

    Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision

  • opencv

    computer vision · 91k stars · Apache-2.0 · updated October 2026

    Open Source Computer Vision Library

  • pixijs

    3D/web · 48k stars · MIT · updated October 2026

    The HTML5 Creation Engine: Create beautiful digital content with the fastest, most flexible 2D WebGL renderer.

  • mediapipe

    computer vision · 37k stars · Apache-2.0 · updated October 2026

    Cross-platform, customizable ML solutions for live and streaming media.

  • p5.js

    creative coding · 24k stars · LGPL-2.1 · updated October 2026

    p5.js is a client-side JS platform that empowers artists, designers, students, and anyone to learn to code and express themselves creatively on the web. It is based on the core principles of Processing. Looking for p5.js 2.0? http://beta.p5js.org

  • aframe

    XR/splats · 18k stars · MIT · updated July 2026

    :a: Web framework for building virtual reality experiences.

  • Playcanvas engine

    3D/web · 17k stars · MIT · updated October 2026

    Powerful web graphics runtime built on WebGL, WebGPU, WebXR and glTF

  • openFrameworks

    creative coding · 10k stars · custom (see repo) · updated October 2026

    openFrameworks is a community-developed cross platform toolkit for creative coding in C++.

  • supersplat

    XR/splats · 10k stars · MIT · updated October 2026

    3D Gaussian Splat Editor

  • supercollider

    audio/music · 6.8k stars · GPL-3.0 · updated October 2026

    An audio server, programming language, and IDE for sound synthesis and algorithmic composition.

  • 3d-force-graph

    3D/web · 6.5k stars · MIT · updated September 2026

    3D force-directed graph component using ThreeJS/WebGL

  • Cinder

    creative coding · 5.5k stars · custom (see repo) · updated March 2026

    Cinder is a community-developed, free and open source library for professional-quality creative coding in C++.

  • GaussianSplats3D

    XR/splats · 2.9k stars · MIT · updated October 2025

    Three.js-based implementation of 3D Gaussian splatting

  • hydra

    creative coding · 2.7k stars · AGPL-3.0 · updated April 2026

    Livecoding networked visuals in the browser

  • open-brush

    XR/splats · 1.1k stars · Apache-2.0 · updated October 2026

    Open Brush is the open source, community led evolution of Tilt Brush! Forked from https://github.com/googlevr/tilt-brush

  • ml5-next-gen

    computer vision · 187 stars · custom (see repo) · updated October 2026

    Repo for next generation of ml5.js: friendly machine learning for the web! 🤖

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Here is a list of NYC art + tech open calls, events, places and open-source tools, checked weekly: https://www.theimclab.com/resources.json (calendar: https://www.theimclab.com/resources.ics). I am a [role: artist, developer, studio] working on [goal]. Plan my next 90 days: which calls to apply to (with deadlines), which events to attend and who I would meet, which tools to learn. Confirm dates on each organizer's own page before I act.

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From the lab 5

From our older list 4

This page began in 2019 as a list of more than 1,500 links, mostly free programming books and courses. Those books and courses are still collected, and kept current, by the free-programming-books project, so we point you there. The rest of the old list that still holds up is below or in the sections above.

  • free-programming-books

    Free programming books, courses and interactive tutorials in many languages, maintained by its community. Our 2019 list was a copy of it.

  • Freesound

    A collaborative database of sounds shared under Creative Commons licenses.

  • Creative Commons

    Free licenses for sharing creative work; Freesound’s sounds use them.

  • Scratch

    Free, block-based coding and a creative learning community for kids.