Your audiovisual work
A download link to your 3–5-minute video. Standard screening format: 16:9, 1920 × 1080, MP4 / H.264, 30 fps, approximately 8–12 Mbps.
For the optional L-shaped screen, contact the team before preparing your work.
HORIZONS 2026 / VENICE & ONLINE
Art, AI & ecology.
A shared horizon.
An exhibition, a symposium and an online AI incubator exploring how art and technology connect us to the living world.
01 / EXHIBITION · VENICE 2026
Beyond the Real.
Wild Roots, Symbiotic Imaginaries
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Ca’ Foscari Esposizioni, Venice
Ask about visitingCO-CURATED BYVictoria Lu
Carolina Fernández-Castrillo
MemoryGenerationsLiving worldAIEcology
Selected incubator works will be presented in HORIZONS: Beyond the Real – Wild Roots, Symbiotic Imaginaries, within the closing programme of Victoria Lu’s retrospective and academic research exhibition.
Developed with Prof. Dr. Carolina Fernández-Castrillo of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), in dialogue with artist and curator Victoria Lu and their teams.
Selection is subject to curatorial review. Participation does not guarantee exhibition.
02 / AI SYMPOSIUM · VENICE 2026
Critical AI and
Ecomedia Art
Intergenerational Epistemologies
for Collaborative Innovation
WHEN
Free entrance
WHERE
Ca’ Dolfin
Aula Magna Silvio Trentin
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
ORGANISED BY
Venice Centre for Digital
and Public Humanities
IN COLLABORATION WITH
Department of Communication and Media Studies,
Carlos III University of Madrid
01 / FORMATOnline incubator
02 / PARTICIPATIONFree to take part
03 / LANGUAGESEnglish & Spanish
04 / SELECTED WORKSVenice, 18–22 Nov 2026
03 / THE AI INCUBATOR
The AI Incubator.
Create with purpose.
A free online programme for creators, researchers and students working with AI and ecology.
See how to applyHow can we program, imagine, and co-create with artificial intelligence without losing our connection to the earth we inhabit?
HORIZONS invites creators, artivists, technologists, and researchers to explore AI as an ecomedia practice: a way to listen to the planet, expose the climate crisis, and imagine relationships between code, ecology, and human creativity.
Through intergenerational co-creation, the incubator questions the material, energy, and social footprint of generative models. How and why you use AI are part of the work.
Experienced creators and students making their first AI video are welcome.
04 / LINES OF EXPLORATION
Five starting points.
Open possibilities.
Follow a thread, connect several, or propose a direction beyond these tracks.
01Materiality of CodeDigital extractivism → low-carbon intelligence
Make computing’s physical footprint visible. Explore energy-aware technology, the pace of nature, and the minerals behind our digital worlds.
- The Weight of a Prompt
- Code in Slow Motion
- Minerals and Memory
02More-than-Human SymbiosisAlgorithmic monoculture → bio-sensing translation
Listen beyond the human. Translate fungal signals, root pulses, lagoon tides, and animal migrations into new audiovisual encounters.
- Subterranean Whispers
- The Lagoon’s Memory
- Interspecies Lullabies
03Intergenerational Eco-LiteracyCultural erasure → ancestral memory archives
Bring collective heritage into dialogue with machine intelligence. Work with community archives, ancestral knowledge, and conversations between generations.
- Ecofeminist & Indigenous Lineages
- The Family Album of the Earth
- Conversations Across Time
04Regenerative ImaginariesClimate paralysis → predictive action
Move from ecoanxiety toward ecological possibility. Imagine rewilded cities, journeys from grief to renewal, and messages from a healed future.
- The Century of Rewilding
- From Grief to Bloom
- Letters from a Healed Future
05Critical AI LiteracyGreenwashing → tactical environmental justice
Question technological promises through critical practice. Give ecosystems a voice, unpack greenwashing, and make environmental impacts visible.
- Voices of the River
- Deconstructing the Mirage
- Counter-Maps of Light
05 / YOUR NEXT STEP
Bring your perspective.
Send us your work.
Applications are submitted by email.
Deadline: 10 November 2026.
Opens your email app. Attach both PDFs before sending.
horizonsartlab@gmail.comProject information & screening notes
One 1–2-page PDF listing your AI tools, copyright confirmation, eco-reflection, and display instructions. Identify your creative contribution, collaborators, and sources.
State whether the work includes sound and whether sound is essential. Playback arrangements will be confirmed with the exhibition team.
Signed exhibition consent form
Complete the artist and artwork details, choose your permissions and licence period, then sign and date the artist section. Leave organiser and curator signature fields blank. Return as a PDF.
Open the consent formBEFORE YOU SUBMIT
A little care.
A better submission.
0 of 4 checked · For your preparation only; this does not submit an application.
Full open call & technical guidelines PDF ↗GOOD TO KNOW
Shared questions.
Who can take part?
The call welcomes audiovisual creators, artivists, students, produsers, ecomedia and visual artists, AI developers, creative coders, ecologists, environmental humanists, scientists, interaction designers, sound artists, and digital storytellers. Hybrid, interdisciplinary, and intergenerational profiles are welcome.
Is there a fee? Will artists be paid?
Participation is free. No fees will be paid to artists for participation or screening. Any other cost arrangements must be agreed separately.
Do I keep the rights to my work?
Yes. You retain all rights you hold in your contribution. The signed consent form grants Future Pass Creative Co., Ltd. a non-exclusive licence to screen the identified work at Ca’ Foscari Esposizioni from 18–22 November 2026. Additional uses are separate choices in the form. Submission does not transfer ownership, automatically apply an open licence, or authorize AI training. Review the full consent form for its terms.
What should I know about AI and source materials?
Disclose which AI tools you used, what they generated or changed, and your own creative contribution. Identify collaborators and sources, and explain permissions or licences. The guidelines prohibit prompts imitating named living artists, trademarked characters, and voice or face replicas of real people without written permission. Read the full guidelines for music, archival materials, and disclosure requirements.
Does applying guarantee exhibition?
No. Selection depends on artistic quality, relevance, technical suitability, and rights clearance, and is subject to curatorial review.
CURATORS & TEAM
People behind
HORIZONS.
Artistic perspectives, academic research and collaborative production.
EXHIBITION CO-CURATOR
Victoria Lu
Curator, critic & educator
Victoria Lu’s work spans more than five decades across Asia, Europe and the United States. Her life and practice are explored in the 2026 research exhibition Metamorphosis: Beyond the Real – Searching for Victoria Lu at Ca’ Foscari Esposizioni.
Victoria Lu at Ca’ FoscariEXHIBITION CO-CURATOR
Carolina
Fernández-Castrillo
Associate Professor · Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Carolina Fernández-Castrillo works at the intersection of AI, digital communication and cyberculture. Her research and cultural practice connect media art, creative participation and environmental media literacy.
KEEP THE CONVERSATION GROWING
Different disciplines.
A shared horizon.
Questions about the exhibition, symposium, or open call? Get in touch with the HORIZONS team.
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