Platform Dalí has issued an open call for its first cycle of research and creation residencies, placing artists within the daily operations of five scientific institutions in Barcelona: the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS), ICFO – the Institute of Photonic Sciences, the Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC), the Institute for High Energy Physics (IFAE), and the ecosystem of the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB), including the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) and European Molecular Biology (EMBL) Barcelona. The programme is designed for artists who require sustained intellectual engagement with scientific practice rather than a brief studio visit. Five artists will be selected, each assigned to one partner institution, and will undertake a twelve-month residency structured in three phases: an introductory visit of up to three days, an on-site residency of up to forty-five days, and a subsequent period of creation or research. The thematic prompt, 'What is real?', invites proposals that interrogate the epistemological and material conditions of contemporary science—from quantum phenomena to genomic data—without reducing the residency to illustration or science communication. The residency is not a production grant in the conventional sense. It offers access: to researchers, laboratories, computational infrastructure, and the institutional rhythms of scientific inquiry. Artists are expected to develop a project informed by close engagement with their host institution, and the programme’s structure—introductory visit, on-site residency, and extended research period—suggests a commitment to depth over spectacle. There is no application fee, and the call is open to artists of any nationality and at any career stage, though the selection committee will likely favour proposals that demonstrate a genuine capacity for interdisciplinary dialogue and a clear articulation of how scientific context will shape the work. For artists whose practices already engage with systems, data, ecology, physics, or the philosophy of science, this residency offers a rare opportunity to work within the institutions that produce scientific knowledge. The absence of a specified prize or exhibition outcome is notable: the programme appears to prioritise process, research, and the development of new work over immediate public presentation. Artists should consider how their proposal might benefit from the specific expertise of each partner institution—whether supercomputing, photonics, marine science, high-energy physics, or biomedicine—and articulate a research trajectory that is both feasible and intellectually ambitious.