SOLO AI ’25 AWARD
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.
MEET 25’S EDITION JURY
Pita Arreola — Independent curator and co-founder of Off Site Project, a platform for emerging digital artists. Formerly Curator of Digital Art at the V&A (2021–2024), she co-edited Digital Art: 1960s–Now (2024).
IG: @pitarreola @offsiteproject1989
Ramon Amaro — Senior Researcher in Digital Culture at Nieuwe Instituut. With a background in engineering and sociology, his work explores Black Study, digital culture, psychosocial study, and the critique of computational reason.
IG: @sambarhino_ @minus1nieuweinstituut
Peter Bauman (Monk Antony) — Arts writer and researcher. Editor-in-chief at Le Random, a digital generative art institution that contextualizes and elevates generative art’s role in art history. He’s the creator of the Generative Art timeline.
IG: @monkantony @lerandomart_
Alex Estorick — London-based writer, curator, and Editor-in-Chief of Right Click Save, focused on critical and inclusive approaches to emerging technologies. A Visiting Research Fellow at Goldsmiths, he has written for Artforum, the Financial Times, and authored the first aesthetics of crypto art.
IG: @alexestorick @right_clicksave
Rachel Falconer — Head of Digital Arts Computing BSc and Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London. A curator, researcher, and writer, her work explores the critical intersections of contemporary art, feminist technoscience, emerging technologies, civic data infrastructures and networked culture.
IG: @dia_mond_rf @digital_arts_computing
Elena Carbajal — Curator and researcher focused on the intersections of contemporary art, emerging technologies, and cultural theory. She directs Onkaos, the digital art department of SOLO Contemporary, supporting artistic practices that engage with the cultural, aesthetic and cognitive shifts shaped by contemporary technological artifacts.
IG: @aval0vara @onkaos_
MEDIA PARTNER
For this year’s edition, we are delighted to announce our collaboration with Right Click Save as a media partner.
