PRODUCTION OPEN CALL

SOLO AI AWARD, organized by SOLO, invites global artists and creators to investigate the convergences between contemporary creative practices and artificial intelligence. This international call, focusing on digital art and new media, will award the sum of 10,000 euros for the production of an artistic project to be presented at one of its venues in Madrid, Spain.

SOLO AI '25 AWARD invites artistic and speculative explorations of the foundational models, semantic embeddings and multimodal architectures of generative AI, focusing on the ontological shifts and the reshaping our epistemological landscape.

In the face of discourses that polarize the human and the machine as opposing entities, we recognize that AI systems act not only as tools or autonomous agents, but as relational infrastructures that recalibrate how we process, interpret and produce reality. AI’s multimodal frameworks—spanning text, image, sound, and spatial data—dissolve the partitions between discrete modes of experience, fostering hybrid epistemologies.

How do generative models destabilize traditional categories of meaning-making? What new aesthetic grammars emerge when human intuition intersects with machine stochasticity?

SOLO AI '25 AWARD prioritizes projects that:

– Expose the Frictions: Investigate the gaps between machine 'understanding' and embodied knowledge.

– Speculate on Interfaces: Reimagine human-AI interaction beyond chatbots and prompts, proposing novel frameworks for collaborative ideation, dissent, or ambiguity.

– Map Unseen Logics: Visualize the latent geometries of neural networks, translating weight matrices, attention mechanisms, and gradient flows into sensorial or conceptual forms.

For the third edition of the award, we welcome production proposals across all media—digital/physical installations, algorithmic performances, speculative datasets, theoretical essays, and experimental software—, critically engaging with AI. The selected project will be presented in one of the SOLO exhibition spaces in Madrid at the end of 2025.

The SOLO AI '25 AWARD is part of the AI annual programme presented by Onkaos, which aims to create a global conversation about the implications of artificial intelligence and artistic practices. An international jury and additional programming will be announced in the following weeks.

Deadline: 10 June 23:59 h CET