Art in Silico

 


Call for Artists! Submissions are open for the 2025 Computational Art Exhibition!

Deadline: Friday, March 28th at Midnight

This is your chance to present work that challenges, inspires, and redefines the narrative of art in the digital age. Whether you're crafting immersive experiences, programming fractals, or exploring how art can bridge the analog and digital world, we want to see how you connect the virtual to the visceral!

We welcome artworks across a variety of mediums, including (but not limited to):

  • Data visualizations
  • Digital/mixed media art
  • Interactive experiences
  • AI-Driven creations
  • Music

If you have an idea that may not fit into one of these categories and you would like to see if it is applicable, email silico-art-l@mtu.edu


Event Schedule

 


Submission Policies

Art in Silico is a not-for-profit exhibition and event series; therefore, it does not provide stipends to artists for submission, unless selected as one of the three winners by the jury or if you elect to have part of or all of the sale proceeds go to you. If you would like to ship your submission, you must handle shipping yourself and provide a return label in the event that your submission is not sold or if you opted to not have your submission for sale. All unsold submissions that are not picked up by the pickup deadline or submissions that were shipped without a return label will be donated to the MTU Library to be displayed there.

Art in Silico is a computational art exhibition and event series that examines the expressive world of creative computation and the confluence of technology and art, connecting circuit board to canvas.

As technology pervades our existence, forming new universes—metaverses—in which we can live, act, and perceive, the spaces between the conventional science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines and the creative arts have shrunk to the infinitesimal. Art in Silico celebrates the continuum of arts and STEM, seeking to hack your mind and STEAM your brain to experience a world in which data are compelling, evocative, provocative, ugly, beautiful, and appealing.

 

 The first two years of Art in Silico has raised over $2,400 in donations which was split between MTU Mush Fund (dedicated to student conferences, travel, and research), the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, and the Copper Country Community Arts Center to continue arts opportunities, cultural enrichment, and park development in the Keweenaw Peninsula. 

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