Open name: ghost within the loop – Bulletins

The Photographers’ Gallery explores how images is connecting, charming and radically altering our world immediately. Since 2012, TPG’s in depth work round digital and new applied sciences has been pioneering in pondering by way of images’s relationship to computational tradition. The Gallery’s programmes have supported artists commissions, exhibition, academic research and public occasions by way of the Gallery and the net platform Unthinking Photography that explores images’s more and more automated, networked life.

The Goethe-Institut London locations a powerful emphasis on exploring the intersection of artwork, know-how, ecology and society. Recent areas of focus embrace inventive and theoretical explorations of decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs), blockchain, synthetic intelligence, and quantum applied sciences—significantly in relation to their potential affect on civil society. The programmes foster dialogue between German and UK-based practitioners and goals to create area for forward-thinking, socially engaged inventive practices.

Together, The Photographers’ Gallery and Goethe-Institut London are initiating a brand new R&D collaboration to analyze the cultural, societal, emotional and aesthetic implications of manufacturing artwork for machines. We invite proposals for 2 micro-commissions from artists or collectives based mostly within the UK or Germany.

Through this open name and future discussions, workshops and alternatives, we hope to make seen and interrogate the place this subsequent technology of images is located, what kind it takes and the way its symbolism, information and networks reconfigure the seen worlds being constructed round us.

The ensuing analysis and artworks will inform a brand new fee featured on Unthinking Photography and introduced at The Photographers’ Gallery. 

The alternative is open to artists and collectives working throughout photographic, digital, and transferring picture practices. Each chosen proposal will obtain EUR 1,500.

We are significantly occupied with proposals that take into account:
How cultural practices shift inside computational environments. How suggestions loops form inventive manufacturing. The implications of constructing work for machine viewers.

Proposals might deal with (however usually are not restricted to) themes comparable to:
Human-in-the-loop. Ghost within the machine. Machinic audiences: artworks created for methods or non-human brokers (e.g. social media bots, automation, digital twins, AI companions). Emotion detection and affective computing. Anthropomorphic intelligence. Synthetic cultures. Training, reinforcement, or steady studying methods. Intersections between creativity and AI-driven infrastructures.  computation pipelines between creativity and different makes use of of AI. Prompt engines. Geographical restrictions of data and censored response. Emerging aesthetics formed by AI. AI psychosis and machine hallucination. Collective intelligence and distributed cognition. Computation and information colonialism.

Timeline
November 20, 2025: Open name deadline
November 27, 2025: Selection panel
December 1, 2025: Selected tasks contacted

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