Submissions are currently closed.
Submissions are currently closed.
We invite artists, designers, researchers, community practitioners, technologists, and interdisciplinary collectives to submit an Expression of Interest for the VFCD Living Festival Exhibition. Proposals should respond to one of these four subthemes:
Focus: Bio-media, responsive systems, posthuman aesthetics, environmental sensing.
Explores creativity as a responsive and living system through bio-media, generative processes, ecological computation, sensory technologies, and machine-organic entanglements. Works in this track investigate perception, emergence, and the blurred boundaries between natural, digital, and synthetic life, positioning artistic practice as a form of environmental and existential sensing.
Focus: Social participation, creative communities, collective practices, cultural networks
Focuses on creativity as a social ecology shaped through participation, collaboration, and cultural exchange. This track highlights community-based practices, relational aesthetics, grassroots creativity, and socially engaged art that foster collective imagination, belonging, and shared agency, emphasizing festivals as living infrastructures sustained through human interaction and co-creation.
Focus: Place, mapping, mobility, urbanism, cartography, landscape relations
Examines how creativity emerges through relationships with land, territory, movement, and urban conditions. Through mapping, spatial storytelling, locative media, fieldwork, and ecological observation, this track explores how environments shape cultural imagination and how artistic inquiry can reveal hidden narratives, flows, and entanglements across cities, deltas, and landscapes.
Focus: Memory, documentation, heritage, digital preservation, speculative futures
Investigates archives as active and evolving cultural systems rather than static repositories. This track explores memory-making through digital preservation, speculative documentation, reenactment, remixing, reimagining and expanded archival practices, considering how creative communities continually reinterpret histories while generating new futures through media, storytelling, and collective remembrance.
An exhibition exploring the idea of the Living Festival as a form of creativity that lives, breathes, communicates and engages with others. Positioned not as a fixed narrative but as an evolving, responsive entity.
Project description — max 500 words, structured using the NTRO research statement format (see below)
Visual documentation — images, video links or portfolio
Dimensions and technical requirements — installation needs and spatial considerations
Artist or collective biography — max 150 words
Links to previous work — if applicable
All submissions must include the following materials. Proposals are reviewed through a double peer-review process by the VN Creative Work Review Panel.
The submission platform, Microsoft CMT service, was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.
(Submissions are currently closed.)
We invite studios, galleries, creative businesses, collectives, organisations and individual practitioners to host events for Track 3.G: Living Laboratories. We are seeking participatory, process‑driven activities that open working environments and community sites to small groups for sharing, experimentation, prototyping, co‑creation and live inquiry. Proposals may be studio visits, urban walks, site visits, exhibitions, panel conversations, workshops, demonstrations, screenings, performances, open conversations or other formats that foreground creative discussion, practice and invite active participation.
Living Laboratories position industry and practice as active contributors to the festival ecology. Host events should offer direct insight into working processes, materials, methods and modes of production, and create opportunities for exchange between practitioners, audiences and emerging creatives. Hosts may operate from their own studio or propose a community‑based activation; both are encouraged. Hosting events will be promoted on VFCD channels as well as documented for the digital and/or physical archive.
Curatorial focus
Proposals should respond to one or more of the following priorities:
An exhibition exploring the idea of the Living Festival as a form of creativity that lives, breathes, communicates and engages with others. Positioned not as a fixed narrative but as an evolving, responsive entity.
Proposal description — max 300 words, structured using the NTRO research statement format (see below)
Format of participation — workshop, performance, screening, studio visit, etc.
Visual or media documentation — portfolio, images, video links
Technical and spatial requirements
Short biography or organisation profile — max 150 words
Availability during festival dates
All submissions must include the following materials. Proposals are reviewed through a double peer-review process by the VN Creative Work Review Panel.
The submission platform, Microsoft CMT service, was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.