Deadline: December 15, 2022
For more information: https://dahj.org/cfp/call-for-ai-artists
‘WORKING EXHIBITION TITLE: ‘A Kind of Alchemy’: The Work of Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
“The painter is a medium who doesn’t realize what he is doing. No translation can express the mystery of sensibility, a word, still unreliable, which is nevertheless the basis of painting or poetry, like a kind of alchemy.” – Marcel Duchamp, 1958
When Marcel Duchamp first started displaying his readymades in the early twentieth century, he sparked a conversation around the distinguishing criteria for something to be considered a work of art. Notions of authorship, process, politics, taste, and creativity were foregrounded in a way that is emerging again today as AI Art becomes more prevalent in contemporary art scenes. ‘A Kind of Alchemy’: The Work of Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence will consider the medium of AI Art and its developing tools, such as DALL-E 2, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion, along with the artists who are at the heart of this experimentation and emerging practice.
The DAHJ Gallery is an online space for media art and exceptional art historical visualizations, hosted by the International Journal for Digital Art History. For this exhibition, a virtual reality installation will be designed in Mozilla Hubs and will showcase selected works in conjunction with this call for artists, along with video interviews and other publications that explore recent themes in AI Art. Curated by Emily Lawhead and Francesca Albrezzi, the DAHJ invites artists to apply via this google form with the following:
- Contact information
- Link to or file of work
- A short description of the artwork and the AI tools used in its making
- Artist statement
- Artist bio/ CV