Deadline: 20-Nov-2025
The Photographers’ Gallery and Goethe-Institut London invite proposals for two micro-commissions from artists or collectives based in the UK or Germany.
The programme focuses on exploring how cultural practices evolve within computational environments, how feedback loops influence artistic creation, and the implications of producing work for machine audiences.
It invites proposals addressing themes such as human-machine collaboration, machinic audiences, emotion detection, anthropomorphic intelligence, AI-driven creativity, data and computation processes, emerging AI aesthetics, and issues like AI psychosis, collective intelligence, and data colonialism.
Through this initiative, the organizers aim to explore how the next generation of photography is situated, what form it takes, and how its symbolism, data, and networks reconfigure the visible worlds being built around them.
Applicants are encouraged to propose projects that are feasible within the financial parameters and align with the programme’s thematic directions. Selected artists will be expected to provide a work schedule, technical requirements, and outcomes, along with participating in a public presentation and video interview.
The open call supports artists and collectives engaged in photography and visual practices, offering each selected proposal a fee of €1,500. The selected research and artworks will be presented on Unthinking Photography, a platform dedicated to exploring photography’s automated, networked life.
Eligibility is open to practitioners over the age of 18 based in the UK and Germany. Applicants may submit new works or adaptations of pre-existing projects, including human-machine collaborative creations. There are no educational prerequisites, and applications from individuals and groups demonstrating talent, originality, and innovation are encouraged.
The selection panel will review entries on 27 November, and the two chosen projects will be announced on 1 December 2025. The final works will be presented on Unthinking Photography in February 2026.
The deadline for submissions is Thursday, 20 November 2025.
For more information, visit The Photographers’ Gallery.
