Neuro Chroma Fund for Nigeria's Next Generation

Supporting the rising generation of Nigerian creators fusing art and technology: AI artists, animators, manga makers, and game developers proving the future is already theirs.

Named for a cyberpunk anime born in its own community and now living on Artizen, Neuro Chroma Fund is a statement from Nigeria's next generation of creators: we are capable of building futures as bold as anyone's. Across northern Nigeria and beyond, young artists are coming of age fluent in AI art, animation, manga, game design, VR, and film, brilliant, connected, and chronically overlooked by the institutions that fund creative work. This fund backs them at the intersection where art, science, and technology meet, and it's led by Ivan Ajidagba, a community organizer and Artizen creator who has spent years bringing together artists, designers, technologists, and cultural communities to experiment, learn from each other, and ship work that didn't wait for permission.

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Eligibility

We welcome AI artists, animators, manga and comic artists, game developers, VR and 3D artists, filmmakers, photographers, and interdisciplinary experimenters excited by the overlap of art, technology, science, and immersive experience. Young Nigerian and African creators are this fund's heartbeat, and creators everywhere who share that next-generation spirit are welcome.
To qualify for this fund:
- Your project must use art, design, technology, or interdisciplinary research as its primary medium
- Show us real experimentation across disciplines: work that imagines possibilities beyond today's tools
- Bring your community with you: this fund favors creators who lift others as they build

Projects (27)

17 curated · 10 submitted

Project	Status	Raised
RooTed	curated	$8,986
Re:IMAGINED	curated	$1,215
Healing Through Art: The Wellness Workshop	curated	$1,522
Game Con Kaduna	curated	$897
Project Level up	curated	$1,232
Community Story Telling	curated	$674
NEURO-CHROMA: Genesis Protocol	curated	$629
Healing Voices: Community Health Through Storytelling and Care	curated	$2,019
CodeBridge Africa: Open Technology Education for the Next Generation	curated	$1,105
AJO - Community Finance	curated	$1,461
Element of Chawaza	curated	$1,356
The Heritage Within	curated	$1,092
Origin	curated	$6,553
Altered Frequencies	curated	$1,352
Lines of us	curated	$942
In Bloom, A Macro Study	curated	$4,751
Beyond the Game: Football Through the Lens of Health	curated	$60
HERITAGE COLLECTION: Fashion, Music & Blockchain Show	submitted	$20,742
For Cool Kids	submitted	$26,182
Akuya	submitted	$234
The International Artists Project Documentary	submitted	$563
Becoming HER	submitted	$10
4&BY	submitted	$0
BEAUTY EMPIRE: The Board Game—Turning taste into power!	submitted	$352
Project Keystone: AI-Powered Engineering Document Intelligence	submitted	$1,373
Grassroots Football Africa	submitted	$746
FROM MINE TO CLINIC NIGERIA	submitted	$612