Call for Artists – AmbienteOS

About the Open Call

Call for Artists – AmbienteOS seeks local artists for three categories of work: Photography and Video, Drawing and Painting, and Written Work. The opening reception is scheduled for Friday, September 26. Photography and Video Work: Seeking footage and images that convey a feeling of people, fashion, surveillance, uneasiness, everyday life, unsettling locations, liminal spaces, dreaming, under the influence, nightmares. These works will be shown on vertical and horizontal screens in one or more of 5 video timelines. Submissions must be sent as a MP4, JPEG, PNG, GIF, or SVG file. Painting and Drawing: Size limitation: under 4 ft wide. Seeking portraits, landscapes, interiors, and abstract work. Paintings featuring the use of technology, people and nature, visions of the future, optimism, aesthetics, cool and calm colors. Please specify the title, dimension, medium, year created, of your work. Please provide a short artist statement about the work. Written Work: Poetry, short response. Short written work will be used and displayed throughout the exhibit. Short cryptic phrases or short paragraphs about: communication, being alive, people, everyday life, anxiety, healing. This can be submitted as a docx, email, or PDF file. About the Show: Through the illegal collection of user data, technology corporations are able to train machines to make more accurate predictions about how people will plan, sense, and act. But how accurate do these corporations have the right to make those prediction? This feedback loop is dangerous and hard to escape, designed this way on purpose to lour and capture people. The artists in this show are critical of the political, economic, and social climate which these technologies and corporations enable, and call out the ways technology is used to cause harm to people and the environment. AmbienteOS is an art show. The artwork highlights processes of automation and improvisation, and the relationships between people and personal computing.

What is Offered

Exhibition opportunity in a physical art show.

Requirements

Seeking local artists. Photography and Video submissions must be MP4, JPEG, PNG, GIF, or SVG file. Painting and Drawing size limitation: under 4 ft wide. Written Work can be submitted as a docx, email, or PDF file.

How to Apply

Fill out the provided contact form, specifying category of work and links to work. Submissions for Photography and Video should be MP4, JPEG, PNG, GIF, or SVG files. Submissions for Written Work can be docx, email, or PDF files. For Painting and Drawing, include title, dimension, medium, year created, and a short artist statement.