Archaeology of the Inner Voice
Events
Re:generative
The theme of the 24th edition is "Re:generative," a concept that relates to the sustainability of living species. In a context of profound changes and transformations, the regenerative emerges as an alternative to restore, renew, or rebuild lost or invisible memories. From the perspective of sustainability, it implies thinking about actions that ensure survival as a vital matter for its re-existence.
PartArt4OW
Engaging local communities for protecting and restoring marine and freshwater ecosystems and biodiversity. PartArt4OW is looking for interdisciplinary and intersectoral projects mixing art, science and participatory practices in innovative ways. We believe that collaborations between the creative and cultural sectors, the scientific community and the civic society organisations can lead to stronger projects.
Imagining Ecological Futures 2025
The residency provides a unique opportunity for visual artists and artistic researchers to work at the intersection of art, science, technology, and ecology. The aim is to foster art-driven interdisciplinary research and artistic creation that critically addresses and creatively explores ecological futures through digital and technological media.
Open call “Residency at the Astronomical Observatory of UNamur” 2025
The KIKK galaxy, which promotes digital and creative cultures at the crossroads of art, science, technology and society, along with its Creative Hub: TRAKK, in collaboration with UNamur (University of Namur) Astronomical Observatory and the Delta, the cultural space of the Province of Namur is launching an Arts & Sciences residency program around astronomy.
Decelerating Extinction: Pathways to Liveable & Flourishing Metahuman Futures
This forum aims at addressing the radical crisis of the present without palliatives, putting at the centre the elephant in the room: the denialism going on in supposedly critical milieus of the global north. Exposing the dead ends and fallacies of a hidden supremacism philosophy, the forum aims to break through the global wall of silence and denialism for an eventual deceleration on the Highway to Extinction.
Politics of the Machines (POM) Perth 2025 – Synthetic Sentience
This edition of the POM-conference will explore the evolving politics of sentience across a wide array of fields, including, but not limited to, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, cultural studies, creative arts, philosophy, bioart, music, psychology, food, and the intersection of art & science.
Afterglow Exhibition
Afterglow is an exhibition envisioned around the graphic quality of light, as well as its traces and incandescence both real and metaphorical. The participating artists explore cross-cultural practices via a variety of analog and digital media, relating light to unfolding contemporary considerations in the global Light Art panorama.
Food Sound. Il suono nascosto del cibo
Assaporiamo il cibo con tutti i sensi: gusto, olfatto, vista, tatto e anche udito. Anche l’udito? Ebbene sì! Spesso non ci facciamo caso, ma i suoni influenzano le nostre scelte alimentari e di consumo. Rifletti sul legame tra suono, scelte alimentari e neuroscienze e scopri cosa ha portato scienziate e scienziati a dimostrare che “mangiamo anche con le orecchie”.
Fruit Art | Real vs. Virtual Life + AI Avatar AIAG
Fruit Art explores the hidden universe of the inner world of the fruits, guided by the enigmatic AI avatar AIAG (i.e., GAIA). The FA-RVSVL EP1 Apple has been invited to showcase at the World AI Cannes Festival (WAICF), which will take place at the prestigious Palais des Festivals in Cannes, February 13 – 15, 2025
Uncertainty: CERN Art and Science Summit 2025
This year’s theme, Uncertainty, aligns with UNESCO’s declaration of 2025 as the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. This initiative celebrates the profound impacts of quantum science on technology, culture, and our understanding of the natural world, while also marking a century since a group of scientists laid the foundations of quantum physics in Europe.
Plants Intelligence
This year, Riga-based RIXC Center for New Media Culture celebrates its 25th anniversary. Since its founding, local collaboration and international networking have been at the heart of RIXC’s development. In this spirit, the 2025 festival is created together with key partners from Latvia, the Baltic-Nordic region, Europe, and world-wide.
Conference on ethics and aesthetics of artificial images (EA-AI 2025)
The Ethics and Aesthetics of Artificial Images (EA-AI) conference invites submissions from scholars across relevant disciplines, including but not limited to media theory, philosophy, art history, visual culture, new media studies, computer science, and artificial intelligence research. We also welcome contributions from practitioners in design and architecture, as well as legal experts. This interdisciplinary conference seeks to examine issues arising from the generation and dissemination of im...
London Heritages 2025
The Digital Heritage strand of the 2025 London Heritage(s) conference Critical Questions – Contemporary Practice is intended to highlight work being done at the intersection of heritage and technology studies: whether that be cases studies of innovative projects, surveys of critical questions in the field, examples of recent or completed research projects, or discussions on teaching and learning in the sector.
The Virtual Polis
This conference call aims to delve into the transformative capabilities of interactive media, multi-channel design, eXtended Reality (XR), spatial computing, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), and strategically staged historic forms of media that shape interactive geographies. This exploration focuses on redefining urban and rural narratives, encouraging inclusive participatory development, and confronting emerging societal challenges.
Festival of Ecological Imagination – Sensing the Climate
[ITA] Il festival si ispira a prospettive antropologiche, filosofiche ed ecologiche che mettono in discussione la separazione tra umano e non umano, mente e corpo, natura e cultura.
[ENG] The festival draws inspiration from anthropological, philosophical, and ecological perspectives that question the separation between human and nonhuman, mind and body, nature and culture.
Spazi Naturali / Spazi Artificiali
I tre concetti in gioco nel titolo, “spazio”, “naturale” e “artificiale” offrono una serie di spunti sia singolarmente che combinati insieme. Certo, il binomio naturale/artificiale appare in questo momento storico-culturale fondamentale per comprendere come e quanto si sta trasformando il mondo circostante. Il termine “naturale” rimanda anche alla nozione di “reale”, mentre il termine “artificiale” può anche essere affiancato o sostituito dal concetto di “virtuale”.
White Fades – Art, Science and Climate Change in the Polar Lands
[ITA] All’Istituto Italiano di Cultura a Oslo prosegue fino al 15 novembre 2024 la mostra di arte contemporanea dedicata alla ricerca estetica dell’artista italiano Roberto Ghezzi dal titolo White Fades - Art, Science and Climate Change in the Polar Lands.
[ENG] The Italian Cultural Institute in Oslo presents White Fades, a contemporary art exhibition dedicated to the aesthetic research of the Italian artist Roberto Ghezzi.
Electric Dreams. Art and Technology before the Internet
Discover how artists used machines and algorithms to create mesmerising and mind-bending art between the 1950s and the early 1990s. From the birth of op art to the dawn of the internet age, artists found new ways to engage the senses and play with our perception. Electric Dreams celebrates the early innovators of optical, kinetic, programmed and digital art, who pioneered a new era of immersive sensory installations and automatically-generated works.
Origins of Futures
[ITA] La riflessione è articolata in quattro ambiti importanti per la società: innovazione e progresso sostenibile, comunità e connessioni, conoscenza e inclusione, immaginari e fiducia. Il contributo di oltre 50 personalità del mondo accademico, della ricerca e professionisti di eccellenza, provenienti da 15 diversi paesi.
[ENG] The reflection focuses on 4 key areas: innovation and sustainable progress, communities and connections, knowledge and inclusion, imaginaries, and trust. Contributions...
Entanglement of Desert Water: on the water conflict between demands for energy transition and rights of a fragile ecosystem
The Atacama Desert is the driest in the world with a fragile and unique ecosystem, co-evolved to survive with the small natural hypersaline lagoons on the salt plains. This lithium-rich groundwater is increasingly pumped and evaporated for its lithium salts, making use of lithium as a critical raw material to service a much-needed battery-led transition away from carbon fuel, addressing the existential issue of human-induced climate change. Ultimately, this is also destroying the fragile groundw...
Reverse Contradictionary
[ENG] The result of provocative and edgy imaginations of renowned net.art pioneer Vuk Ćosić and the acclaimed collective IOCOSE, the new vocabulary - that looks at the digital sphere with irony and biting criticismis - is edited in collaboration with new media expert Vladan Joler.
[ITA] Reverse Contradictionary, frutto dell’incontro tra le fantasie provocatorie e taglienti del celebre pioniere della net.art Vuk Ćosić e dell'acclamato collettivo IOCOSE. Scritto in collaborazione con l’esperto di...
Generative Art Where the Beauty Voice Survives – Future Visions on Past Steps
Humanity & AI. The theme of this conference focuses on how to preserve the human complexity, with Generative Art and AI. Art, poetry, music, architecture, and historic cities need generative ideas for their adaptation to the deep new demands of our fast-changing time. Our field of interest is to identify these possibilities and relate the most advanced creative approaches of Generative Art and AI.
Marco Barotti & Robertina Šebjanič, Fossilized Futures
The immersive installation invites the audience to explore its story through an audiovisual experience, where the digital artwork merges with physical kinetic sculptures, transcending the poetic and scientific themes of ancient ecosystems, contemporary landscapes, and speculative futures. A multichannel soundscape weaves together audio recordings of rivers, forests, and the city, blending sonified river data with the ethereal voices of the Namur chamber choir.
More-than-Planet: Earth Gazes Back
How can we adapt to the changes that are already happening? How is the planet and its bioregions, biomes, and inhabitants sensing, seeing, and reacting to us? How can we prepare for those changes that are likely to come? What is the role of local and other-than-human knowledge, on one hand, and information acquired from space, the depths of Earth, and through satellites and remote sensing, on the other, in describing our hybrid landscapes and lifeforms?