TechnoMirage | Open Call for Exhibition Artists, Panelists, Performers

TechnoMirage
An Event Series on Creative AI Futures

Underground Art and Design (UAAD) and Liminal, a design futures agency, are co-presenting an Event Series on Creative AI X Speculative Futures that brings together a virtual exhibition, in-person community event, a global virtual panel, and a publication. The series explores AI’s paradoxical capacity to both liberate and extract, include and alienate, amid escalating global polarization and systemic harm.

As two platforms committed to cultivating speculative, participatory, and radical practices across digital and physical realms, together, we are assembling:

01.Ghost in the Feedback Loop—Virtual Exhibition on New Art City
Artworks exploring AI’s spectral paradoxes, agency, and misread identities.

In the feedback loops of machine learning, certain bodies, cultures, and ways of knowing are made visible, distorted, or erased. Like ghosts—excluded yet ever-present—they haunt the machine. They slip through algorithmic blind spots, bend systems’ logic, and disrupt with glitches and ruptures that unsettle computational control.But ghosts don’t just haunt—they rewire. They assert presence, reframe meaning, and speak in forms the system was never trained to understand. Through cracks in the loop, they reemerge as designers of new imaginaries for themselves and for the communities the system failed to see.

02.TechnoMirage IRL (NYC)—In-person Panel, Speculative Workshop, and Live Performance
A one-day gathering exploring AI as a tool for reclaiming narratives, prototyping liberatory futures, with live performance.

· Reclaim: A panel featuring artists and cultural practitioners resisting dominant AI narratives—surveillance, optimization, bias—and reclaiming AI to build stories of care, agency, and refusal.
· Reimagine: A speculative workshop (facilitated by Liminal) to collectively prototype alternatives to extractive machine futures through hands-on making and shared visioning.
· Rewire: A closing set of intimate audiovisual performances that disrupt machine logic through sound, movement, and glitch.

03.Virtual Panel (Global)—Co-hosted with Parsons School of Design
Cross-cultural dialogues with designers and artists on creative authorship, labor, and agency in AI-mediated futures.

04.TechnoMirage Publication—Digital + Print Archive
A living record featuring artworks, interviews, workshop outcomes, and panel highlights.

Following UAAD’s editorial formats (e.g. Alt-Alterity, Matrix of the Not-Yet), this publication will include featured works, artist interviews, panel takeaways, workshop strategies, and community contributions. Published digitally (with potential print editions), it will serve as a collective record of resistance, imagination, and worldbuilding.

Requirements

They are currently inviting applications for:

· Virtual Exhibition artists
· Panelists (in person in NYC, with stipends)
· Panelists (global online panel, with stipends)
· Live performance artists (with stipends)

They welcome a wide range of practices, including but not limited to:

· Generative art and design
· Code-based experiments
· Narrative fiction
· Poetry
· AI-assisted Photography and film
· Animation
· Interactive web pieces
· Sound art
· Game Design/ Virtual Environments / World-building
· Mixed/hybrid forms

Application Instructions

Click the Apply button to access the application form. You’ll be asked to provide basic information—your name, email, short bio, and a headshot—along with details about your submission, such as the title, description, and a cover image or other media files.

For more information about the event, including detailed program descriptions, participation benefits, timeline, and organizers, please visit: https://www.uaad.art/technomirage