TechnoMirage: Open Call for Artists, Panelists & Performers (NYC + Virtual)

What lies beneath the gleam of AI?

TechnoMirage invites artists, designers, technologists, performers, and worldbuilders to confront the illusion of neutral progress projected by machine intelligence—and reimagine what else AI could become. We’re especially interested in practices that resist extractive systems, expose optimization myths, reclaim ghosted authorship, and disturb machinic hallucinations of control and neutrality.

Co-presented by Underground Art and Design and Liminal, this multi-format event series spans both NYC and international audiences, offering diverse entry points into critical dialogue and imaginative practice around AI:

• Virtual Exhibition "Ghost in the Feedback Loop" (on New Art City)
• In-person NYC Panel, Workshop, and Performance
• Global Online Panel (co-hosted with Parsons School of Design)
• Publication featuring artist interviews, artifacts, and panel highlights

We’re looking for work that challenges extractive systems, optimization myths, ghosted authorship, machinic hallucinations, and algorithmic erasures.

Open Call Categories:

– Virtual exhibition artists

– Panelists (NYC + Online)

– Live performance artists

→ All selected contributors receive full promotional support; some roles come with stipends or ticket revenue share. For more information about the event, including detailed program descriptions, participation benefits, timeline, and organizers, please visit: https://www.uaad.art/technomirage

Deadline: August 8, 2025 at 11:59 PM EDT

Let’s glitch the system and prototype new futures together.

Feel free to reach out at [email protected] if you have questions or want to collaborate.

We are currently inviting applications for:

· Exhibition artists (for the virtual show and artist interview)

· Panelists (for both NYC and global online sessions)

· Live performance artists

We 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

Click the Apply button to access the application form on our website, where 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.

08/08/2025