human measure
Art, Research & The Human Experience
open call
A large amount of valuable research remains within academic papers, reports, datasets, and institutional spaces, often making it difficult to reach wider audiences. Human Measure asks what happens when we bring this knowledge beyond its original context and explore it through art, storytelling, and creative collaboration.
Through artist and researcher partnerships, the project explores how data, evidence, and ideas can be translated into accessible, engaging, and meaningful creative forms. We are interested in the human experiences, overlooked perspectives, unexpected patterns, and difficult questions that research can reveal and how artistic practice can help us encounter them differently.
We welcome artists and researchers interested in working across disciplines, challenging conventional ways of communicating knowledge, and exploring how research can become something people feel, question, experience, and understand.
details
Locations: Global submissions welcomed
Ages: Open to artists of all 18+ due to sensitive topics
The Starving Artist welcomes artists and researchers from any discipline. Selected participants will be paired based on their interests, research, creative practice, and working preferences to create an original artistic response to research, data, evidence, or a research question.
artists
Visual artists, photographers, filmmakers, designers, illustrators, and interdisciplinary creatives. Any medium is welcome, shaped by each collaboration’s direction.
researchers
Academics, PhD candidates, and researchers from any discipline.No previous interdisciplinary experience required.
NO AI-GENERATED CONTENT
please apply here
Google Form: https://forms.gle/AzkdU8nZN1q75xf67
Submission Deadline: Dec 31, 2026
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There is no submission fee and no participation fee, as we firmly believe in providing an accessible platform for artists to share their voices and stories.
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If you have any questions or require further information.
hello.thestarvingartist@gmail.com
artworks by ally zlatar. all images are the intellectual property of the artist and cannot be used externally without explicit permission.
Disclaimer & Terms of Participation
Participants retain ownership of their original work. Authorship and ownership of co-created work must be agreed upon between collaborators. Via participating in Human Measure, participants grant The Starving Artist non-exclusive, ongoing permission to exhibit, publish, reproduce, archive, and promote their work with appropriate credit.
Participation is voluntary and unpaid. No participation fee is charged, and any revenue from publication sales supports The Starving Artist endeavours.
Participants retain ownership of their original work. Authorship and ownership of co-created work must be agreed upon between collaborators. Via participating in Human Measure, participants grant The Starving Artist non-exclusive, ongoing permission to exhibit, publish, reproduce, archive, and promote their work with appropriate credit.
Participation is voluntary and unpaid. No participation fee is charged, and any revenue from publication sales supports The Starving Artist endeavours.
Participants are responsible for their contributions, conduct, deadlines, and relevant copyright, consent, confidentiality, and research ethics requirements. The Starving Artist will facilitate artist–researcher pairings but cannot guarantee compatibility or outcomes and is not responsible for collaborator disputes or independent conduct, except where liability cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.
By applying, participants acknowledge the approximately three-month collaboration and agree to these terms if selected.
hello.thestarvingartist@gmail.com
By applying, participants acknowledge the approximately three-month collaboration and agree to these terms if selected.
hello.thestarvingartist@gmail.com
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