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Emerging and mid-career artists are invited to apply for a residency focusing on generative AI through the lens of cultural memory, to create a documented digital artwork.
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Get matched →The EU-funded project ARCHAIVE is calling for applications from emerging and mid-career artists who are critically engaged with generative AI through the lens of cultural memory for a residency in Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, or Spain in 2027. Six media art archives, held by five European partners and spanning the 1960s to today, provide the starting point. Artists will explore how generative AI can become a critical lens on the past, how it reads, completes, and distorts our shared heritage, and what can be made from those distortions. Every artist completes a documented digital artwork that can be shown in public and reused in the future. Low-energy production is a principle of the whole call, and artists are encouraged to choose methods and models with computational cost in mind. Residencies combine time to research, experiment, and reflect with curatorial support, technical mentoring, and access to archival material.
Each host offers curatorial support, at least 10 hours of technical mentoring per artist, and mediated access to archival materials under agreed conditions. Residencies are in person or hybrid, with hybrid residencies including on-site visits of at least three days. Where an artist cannot travel, the residency may take place remotely with one short visit to the host.
The project welcomes emerging and mid-career artists working across digital and analogue media, with an interest in critically engaging with archives and generative AI, who are nationals or residents in a Creative Europe country.
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