We only accept one submission per artist per year. If you submit 2 proposals we will only review the one which was submitted earlier.

Unfortunately not, we can only accept applications from individual artists.

Yes, at the time of submission, applicants must be 28 or under.

If you are studying but will have graduated by the time of the exhibition period, unfortunately you are not eligible to apply. Our focus is on providing support and guidance through the development programme to artists outside of an educational context, who may not have access to such resources

arebyte’s triennial programme for 2023 – 2026 delves into the interrelated themes of The Body, The Mind, and The Soul, delivering a comprehensive and critical examination of what it means to be human in the digital age. We scrutinize how technology affects not only our physical being but also shapes our mental and philosophical impressions.

In your Open call Proposal, we invite you to propose work for a solo exhibition that revolves around this theme.

For instance, you could interrogate the bodily aspect of the theme, including ideas like the interface between physicality and virtuality, or explore empathy and understanding of technology from a bodily and immersive perspective, or the body as a machine in embedded wearables or body modifications that extend our sensory perception.

You might investigate the mind through research areas like the expansion of our virtual self, the digitalisation of consciousness, narrative-building beyond sentience, physical and digital support systems or human and non-human entities.

Alternatively, you could focus on concepts surrounding the soul in the digital domain, contemplating ideas like ethereal essence beyond physicality, digital paths to immortality, memory preservation or animism.

You may want to combine various research elements across the body, mind and soul or explore other possible avenues relating to the theme. Please refer to our curatorial programme text for further information and references.

We define digital artists as practitioners who work with digital technologies, whose outcomes can manifest as websites, computer games, CGI, screen based and projection, AI, generative art, augmented reality, virtual reality, video, digital performance, on-chain experiments, 3D printing, motion capture, and numerous other innovative digital practices.

We define an emerging artist as someone who is in the early stage of their career, who has yet to receive a major exhibition and has not had extensive media coverage for their work.

Successful applicants will be notified within 10 days of the open call deadline. Unfortunately due to the high number of submissions, we will not be able to provide feedback to unsuccessful applications.

If you win hotel generation, you have the opportunity to realise your proposal for a solo exhibition at arebyte.