ART, AI & ECOLOGYHORIZONS / ART, AI & ECOLOGY · 2026
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01 / THE AI INCUBATOR
HORIZONS invites audiovisual works exploring ecology, intergenerational memory and imagined futures. How and why you use AI are part of the work.
AI INCUBATOR / SUBMIT YOUR WORK
Send one video download link and two PDFs by email.
Deadline:
Venice / Madrid local time.北京时间：2026 年 11 月 11 日 06:59（UTC+8）
Provide a download link to your 3–5-minute video.
Standard screening format: 16:9, 1920 × 1080, MP4 / H.264, 30 fps, approximately 8–12 Mbps.
For the optional L-shaped screen, contact the team before preparing your work.
Complete every field marked Required in the template and submit a 1–2-page PDF.
Templates are in English. Submit your completed document as a PDF.
Include your AI process, sources, eco-reflection, creative contribution, collaborators, copyright confirmation, and whether sound is essential. Playback arrangements will be confirmed with the exhibition team.
PDF: download it and open it in a PDF editor that supports form fields. Fill the fields, save a copy, then reopen it to check that your answers are visible.
On your phone: the Word version is an alternative. Open it in Word, Pages or a compatible document app, replace the answer prompts, then use the app’s Export or Share menu to save a PDF. Send the completed PDF, not the Word file.
Download the English form, complete your details and permission choices, then return a signed PDF.
Sign and date the artist section only. Leave the organiser and curator signature fields blank.
Opens your email app. Attach both PDFs before sending.
horizonsartlab@gmail.comWe’ll confirm receipt of your submission by email. Every applicant will also receive their selection result by email.
Follow a thread, connect several, or propose a direction beyond these tracks.
How can we program, imagine, and co-create with artificial intelligence without losing our connection to the earth we inhabit?
HORIZONS invites creators, artivists, technologists, and researchers to explore AI as an ecomedia practice: a way to listen to the planet, expose the climate crisis, and imagine relationships between code, ecology, and human creativity.
Through intergenerational co-creation, the incubator questions the material, energy, and social footprint of generative models. How and why you use AI are part of the work.
Experienced creators and students making their first AI video are welcome.
Make computing’s physical footprint visible. Explore energy-aware technology, the pace of nature, and the minerals behind our digital worlds.
Listen beyond the human. Translate fungal signals, root pulses, lagoon tides, and animal migrations into new audiovisual encounters.
Bring collective heritage into dialogue with machine intelligence. Work with community archives, ancestral knowledge, and conversations between generations.
Move from ecoanxiety toward ecological possibility. Imagine rewilded cities, journeys from grief to renewal, and messages from a healed future.
Question technological promises through critical practice. Give ecosystems a voice, unpack greenwashing, and make environmental impacts visible.
AI INCUBATOR / GOOD TO KNOW
The call welcomes audiovisual creators, artivists, students, produsers, ecomedia and visual artists, AI developers, creative coders, ecologists, environmental humanists, scientists, interaction designers, sound artists, and digital storytellers. Hybrid, interdisciplinary, and intergenerational profiles are welcome.
Participation is free. No fees will be paid to artists for participation or screening. Any other cost arrangements must be agreed separately.
Yes. You retain all rights you hold in your contribution. The signed consent form grants Future Pass Creative Co., Ltd. a non-exclusive licence to screen the identified work at Ca’ Foscari Esposizioni from 18–22 November 2026. Additional uses are separate choices in the form. Submission does not transfer ownership, automatically apply an open licence, or authorize AI training. Review the full consent form for its terms.
Disclose which AI tools you used, what they generated or changed, and your own creative contribution. Identify collaborators and sources, and explain permissions or licences. The guidelines prohibit prompts imitating named living artists, trademarked characters, and voice or face replicas of real people without written permission. Read the full guidelines for music, archival materials, and disclosure requirements.
No. Selection depends on artistic quality, relevance, technical suitability, and rights clearance, and is subject to curatorial review.
02 / EXHIBITION · VENICE 2026
Wild Roots, Symbiotic Imaginaries
CO-CURATED BYVictoria Lu
Carolina Fernández-Castrillo
Ca’ Foscari Esposizioni
Dorsoduro 3246EXHIBITION THEMES
Memory · Generations · Living world · AI · Ecology
Works selected through curatorial review will be presented in HORIZONS: Beyond the Real – Wild Roots, Symbiotic Imaginaries, within the closing programme of Victoria Lu’s retrospective and academic research exhibition.
Developed with Prof. Dr. Carolina Fernández-Castrillo of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), in dialogue with artist and curator Victoria Lu and their teams.
Selection is subject to curatorial review. Participation does not guarantee exhibition.
03 / SYMPOSIUM · CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
19 November 2026 · Ca’ Dolfin, Venice · In person
We welcome researchers, professionals and postgraduate students in communication and media studies, environmental humanities, artistic research and related fields.
Proposal deadline
There is no fee to submit a proposal or present a contribution.
Submit a proposal horizonsartlab@gmail.comIntergenerational Epistemologies
for Collaborative Innovation
The symposium explores AI’s environmental impact and how ecomedia art, critical AI literacy and intergenerational collaboration can support responses to the climate crisis.
All day · In person
Ca’ Dolfin
Aula Magna Silvio Trentin
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
THE HORIZONS MANIFESTO
We explore AI with curiosity and critical care, attending to the people, data, materials and energy behind each work.
We bring generations and disciplines together, respect creative agency, and acknowledge our sources and collaborators. Through art, we explore more thoughtful relationships with the living world.
Bring your perspectiveCURATORS & TEAM
Artistic perspectives, academic research and collaborative production.
EXHIBITION CO-CURATOR
Curator, critic & educator
Victoria Lu’s work spans more than five decades across Asia, Europe and the United States. A 2026 exhibition at Ca’ Foscari Esposizioni explores her life and practice.
Victoria Lu at Ca’ Foscari
EXHIBITION CO-CURATOR
Full Professor · Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Carolina Fernández-Castrillo researches AI, digital communication and cyberculture. Her work connects media art, creative participation and environmental media literacy.
PROJECT LEAD & PRODUCER
潘蕾 · 项目总负责人
PhD Researcher at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M). Pearl leads project coordination and production for HORIZONS.
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ART DIRECTOR & VISUAL DESIGNER
Madrid-based creative, designer and illustrator. Borja leads the visual identity, art direction and graphic design of HORIZONS.
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