Open Call

Ghost in the Feedback Loop | Open Call for Virtual Exhibition Artists

Underground Art And Design

No Funding
Remote

Eligibility

We welcome a wide range of practices, including but not limited to: · Generative art and design · Code-based experiments · Narrative fiction · Poetry · AI-assisted Photography and film · Animation · Interactive web pieces · Sound art · Game Design/ Virtual Environments / World-building · Mixed/hybrid forms Participation Benefits: · Inclusion in a permanent online exhibition (New Art City) · A text-based interview published in the TechnoMirage publication · A feature on UAAD’s website, reaching audiences in 103 countries · Dedicated social media features (reels + feed posts) · A spotlight in our weekly newsletter (6,000+ subscribers) · Media exposure through distribution on major U.S. platforms

Number of Participants

20-25

Deadline

Selection Results (Announcement Dates)

Duration

September 08, 2025 - October 31, 2025

Costs

  • $65.00 program fee (one-time)

Meals

No meals

Public Programs

Exhibition

Disciplines

Animation, Architecture, Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, Biotech, Blockchain, Conceptual Art, Curatorial, Design, Digital Media, Fiction, Film, Illustration, Immersive Experiences, Installation, Interdiscplinary Arts, Literature, Mixed Reality, Moving Image, Multimedia, Museum Technology, Music, Music Composition, Painting, Performance Art, Photography, Playwriting, Poetry, Printmaking, Robotics, Scientists, Screenwriting, Sculpture, Social Practice, Sound Art, Tech, Textile, Theatre, Video Art, Video Games, Virtual Reality, Visual Arts, Wearable Technology

Languages

English

Program Description

Permanent Virtual Exhibition on New Art City + Featured Artist Interview in Publication Part of TechnoMirage, a broader event series exploring creative AI futures. Statement: In the feedback loops of machine learning, certain bodies, cultures, and ways of knowing are made visible, distorted, or erased. Like ghosts—excluded yet ever-present—they haunt the machine. They slip through algorithmic blind spots, bend systems’ logic, and disrupt with glitches and ruptures that unsettle computational control. But ghosts don’t just haunt—they rewire. They assert presence, reframe meaning, and speak in forms the system was never trained to understand. Through cracks in the loop, they reemerge as designers of new imaginaries for themselves and for the communities the system failed to see. In this open call, we welcome artists, designers, technologists, researchers, writers, worldbuilders, and collectives whose work critically engages AI and algorithms and resonates with this statement.

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