Narcissist protocol
Submit proposals for an online collective exhibition investigating the entanglement between selfhood and algorithms, accepting works in photography, video, performance, sound art, generative art, AI-assisted work, installation, textile, painting, drawing, code-based practice, and mixed media.
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Get matched →- Deadline
- 6 days left
- Entry fee
- Free
- Award
- Potential participation in art sales revenue sharing for up to 5-10 selected artists with a 50/50 profit-sharing arrangement; selected artists may participate in gallery representation and interviews.
- Location
- Celeste Gallery, London, United Kingdom
About
Overview
The Narcissus Protocol is an online collective exhibition examining how social media platforms cultivate a 'digital Narcissus': an identity endlessly refined by likes, engagement metrics, and predictive feeds. Celeste Gallery invites artists, designers, and researchers to submit proposals investigating the entanglement between selfhood and the algorithms that mediate it.
Theme
Works engaging with algorithmic identity and the self as data, surveillance capitalism and the attention economy, deepfakes/avatars/synthetic selves, the aesthetics of engagement and addiction, mirrors/reflection/doubling as visual language, or resistance/refusal/opacity in digital space.
Media Welcome
All media and all approaches welcome, including photography, video, performance, sound art, generative art, AI-assisted work, installation, textile, painting, drawing, code-based practice, and mixed media.
Key Dates
- Submission deadline: 20 September 2026
- Successful applicants notified within five days of deadline
Submission Details
You can submit up to 5 pieces of work, from which the gallery will select 1 or 2. Pieces from the same series can be treated as a single entry, depending on the work itself.
Eligibility
Open call. All career stages and nationalities welcome.
Fee
£35 for selected work, covering gallery operating costs and media promotion expenses.
Exhibitor Benefits
- Participation in Celeste Gallery's KUNSTMATRIX online 3D exhibition accessible via Instagram, gallery website, and independent domain (reaching typically 2,000+ views)
- Exhibition promotion across ArtRabbit, London Mail News, Artjobs, Eventbrite, Instagram, and other media platforms
- Participation in gallery Instagram promotion (1,000+ followers with sales resource channels)
- Outstanding participants have opportunity to sign with gallery, participate in art sales revenue sharing, and develop related cultural and creative products (5-10 artists selected for 50/50 profit-sharing arrangement)
- Selected 1-2 artists will have opportunity to be interviewed by gallery
Organizer
Curated by Celeste Gallery (London), founded in South East London in 2020. All rights reserved.
- Award
- Potential participation in art sales revenue sharing for up to 5-10 selected artists with a 50/50 profit-sharing arrangement; selected artists may participate in gallery representation and interviews.
- Entry fee
- Free to enter
- Entries per artist
- Up to 5
- Sales commission
- Organizer retains 50% on sales
- Theme
- The Narcissus Protocol examines how social media platforms cultivate a 'digital Narcissus' — an identity endlessly refined by likes, engagement metrics, and predictive feeds — investigating algorithmic identity, surveillance capitalism, deepfakes, avatars, synthetic selves, and the aesthetics of engagement and addiction.
- Eligibility
- All career stages and nationalities welcome.
- Audience
- All career stages and nationalities welcome.
- Format
- Ship your work in
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