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ARE 2025 - Open Call

INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR ARTISTIC RESEARCH WORK

The European University FilmEU strives to develop and reinforce the field of artistic research in European Higher Education (or HEI), emphasizing the exploration of diverse cultural narratives and traditions, encouraging novel approaches to blending disciplines like technology, science, and humanities with the arts, and addressing pressing social issues, fostering critical thinking, and promoting dialogue on political or ethical questions through artistic methods. FilmEU, currently brings together eight European HEIs. Each year FilmEU WIRE organises an Artistic Research Exhibition in conjunction with the FilmEU Summit. This exhibition is an important opportunity to share artistic research outcomes from FilmEU and beyond. It highlights and showcases the impact of these efforts on both the cultural industries and society. ARE connects FilmEU with the public and shows how its work benefits a wider audience.

ARE Sofia. 2-6 June 2025

Synthetic Rewilding, between Nature and the Machine

The 2025 edition of the Artistic Research Exhibition calls for a profound exploration of the interplay between organic and artificial realms, seeking a deeper understanding of co-creation, cycles, and reciprocity. Artists and researchers are invited to delve into the liminal spaces where ecosystems and algorithms intertwine, where the natural and the synthetic blur into new forms of expression, by provoking questions of ethical and aesthetic convergence, temporal and evolutionary perspectives, and the transformative role of technology in art and life. The Synthetic Rewilding: Between Nature and the Machine welcomes contributions that challenge conventions, expand horizons, and embrace the dynamic dialogue between humanity and its environment.

Who can submit

Postgraduate researchers of any nationality and academic level, who specialise in artistic research. Researchers need to be affiliated to an academic institution. Non-European institutions are accepted.

Notes

  • Applications from researchers external to FilmEU are most welcomed and greatly encouraged. Two artistic research works from researchers outside FilmEU will be selected, and one artistic research work from each of the FilmEU institutions will be selected to accompany the artistic research supported by the FilmEU_WIRE Student Pilot call and the FilmEU_WIRE Novus call. The total of artistic research works to be shown at ARE 2025 will be 12.
  • By submitting their work, all applicants grant full permission for their work to be exhibited in FilmEU ARE25, both in presence and online.

Guidelines for submission

  • Work must be audiovisual or media-based work resulting from an artistic research practice, or work resulting from a practice that is informed by artistic research
  • All artistic research works need to be documented in a downloadable video format (mp4). Please note that works will be displayed on a single or multiple screens, with minimal technical set up. Provide a description of requirements for display. 100 words max and a sketch or technical drawings.
  • Works need to be a maximum of 2 years old.
  • The work presented can be either finished work or preliminary work that can be presented as a finished artistic project on its own.
  • Works should be submitted to are@filmeu.eu with an accompanying abstract of no more than 350 words, excluding the title. This accompanying document can include images but should not exceed an A4 page and needs to include a link to the applicant´s CV.
  • Deadline for submission is 16th March 2025. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by 28th March 2025.
  • Further information on the 2023 edition: https://are.filmeu.eu

Selection Committee

Aleksandra Ianchenko - Tallinn University, Estonia

Elena Trencheva- NATFA, National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts, Bulgaria

Érica Faleiro Rodrigues - Lusófona University, Portugal

Lina Kaminskaitė-Jančorienė - LMTA, The Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre

Lies Van de Vijver - LUCA School of Arts, Belgium

Martina Mullaney - IADT, Ireland

Per Kristensen - VIA University College, Denmark

Žofia Ščuroková - VŠMU, Academy of Performing Arts, Slovakia

published 29 January 2025modified 29 January 2025