Announcing the Philo Artist in Residence Program

Film was once named the seventh art and games the ninth, but the work that matters now - as this year’s Whitney Biennial makes plain - lives where painting, film, games, and sound dissolve into one another. The most interesting creative work of the next few years will come from artists and AI making things together - not AI replacing the artist, and not the artist using AI to churn out generic clips, but a real collaboration where your taste stays in command and the machine extends what you can reach. We want to fund that work and learn from it.

So we’re inviting a small number of artists for a one-to-two-month residency to make one finished piece with AI as a genuine collaborator. The form is up to you: a short film, an anime, an interactive game, or an audio-first experience. You keep full creative authorship.

What you’ll get

• A front-row seat to the frontier. Find out where the latest AI models actually help in creative production, and discover new forms of human-AI co-creation - art forms that go beyond the ninth.
• A world-class team. Build alongside our artist team - award-winning film directors, anime artists, and game developers - and our research team of frontier-lab researchers.
• A path to a global audience. If the piece is genuinely exciting, we’ll help you submit it to international festivals.
• Covered compute and tooling. We provide the GPUs, the models, and the tools you need.

What we’re looking for

We’re looking for dreamers and art generalists - the kind of artist who can be a one-person film studio, game studio, or anime studio. People who have more ideas than time or budget to make them: the film you never got funded, the game too big to build alone, the world you’ve only ever sketched.

How to apply

Send a short proposal, no more than two pages, to team@philolabs.ai. We review on a rolling basis and spots are limited, so the earlier the better - early deadline June 22, 2026, regular deadline July 13, 2026. Include:

• Your art practice. Any work you’ve made in the past - a portfolio, links, or samples.
• The end product. The form and the goal of the piece.
• Timeline. A rough one-to-two-month plan, stage by stage (e.g. pre-production, production, and post-production).
• Cost estimation. A rough budget, so we can size compute and support.

Please format your email subject as
AIR-[Name]-[Media: Film / Anime / Game / Others]-[Area: US / APAC / EU / UK / Others]