🎉 CALLING ALL DISABLED CREATIVES + TECH TINKERERS! 🎨🤖
Applications now open for the Leonardo CripTech AI Lab 2025
🗓️ Deadline: May 1, 2025 (Anywhere on Earth)
Are you a disabled artist, technologist, or cultural worker interested in shaping the future of artificial intelligence? Do you want to explore how AI intersects with disability, access, and creative expression? Ready to question the hype and reimagine what these tools can do for us, by us?
Then this opportunity is for YOU.
The Leonardo CripTech AI Lab is a fully-funded virtual creative incubator centering disabled artistry, experience, and leadership. Across 4 months of workshops, talks, project development, and collaborative learning, you’ll dive deep into the possibilities of AI from a disability justice lens — led by the incredible M Eilo (BlinkPopShift), known for their groundbreaking work in computational prosthetics and wearable tech art.
🌱 What you get:
Full tuition & required software covered 💯
$500 commission for your final AI-related artwork 💵
1-on-1 mentorship + workshops from artists, scholars, and technologists
A creative cohort of disabled peers from around the world
A public platform to showcase your work
🌍 Open to international applicants
🧠 No previous AI experience required
🧰 All kinds of creators welcome — visual artists, coders, performers, poets, organizers, educators, designers, tinkerers…
This is your chance to help shape new algorithmic futures — ones that value disabled ways of knowing, moving, and making.
🔗 Learn more + apply here: https://leonardo.info/opportunity/open-call-leonardo-criptech-ai-lab-2025