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Sondra Perry 's digital work Flesh Wall is currently taking over Times Square's billboards as part of the site's Midnight Moment monthly programme of artist interventions The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation announced today the inaugural recipients of its new Knight Arts + Tech Fellowship, which annually awards unrestricted grants of $50,000 to five artists who use technologies such as artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual reality, software and coding, in what the foundation calls “thoughtful, creative or poetic ways” that “expand the field”. “By supporting...

Collective Action in Tech (CAiT) is launching a Fellowship with funding from the Jain Family Institute. Fellows will receive $500-1000 to share a story of collective action in the tech industry, past or present. This can be a protest, strike, display of solidarity, community-building effort or any other kind of collective project that empowers tech workers speaking out on workplace or broader social issues. For this fellowship, the “tech worker” has an expansive definition. We’re interested in stories not just of software engineers and data scientists, but of all workers in the tech se...