Subject: CALL FOR ARTIST PROPOSALS: imagining technologies for complicated, unproductive, happy humans
Imagine that tomorrow you wake up on this planet and all social and communication technologies have disappeared... CALL FOR ARTISTS' PROPOSALS UN-PRODUCTIVE-SOLUTIONS <https://unproductivesolutions.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=081bfab8cd666cc04404f404a&id=5177317819&e=c3e6d393ca> *Imagine you wake up and all social and communication digital technologies have disappeared from the planet.* While you loved certain aspects of the digital world—i.e., existing in many places simultaneously—the post-pandemic world itches with dissatisfaction about bureaucracy and the burden of productivity, and is determined to build lives of meaning through connecting with others, patience, empathy, and ethics, and the right to be lazy, unproductive, creative, and complicated. Curators Modrak&Ghidini invite artists to submit proposals imagining a new spectrum of technologies. Works will be presented on the web-based curatorial project *UnProductiveSolutions*. *UnProductiveSolutions* will be presented online as a “company” invested in revolutionary, values-based, ethical technologies. Proposed technologies may be digital, digital & analog, or post-digital (an imagined mode of transmission). Proposed technologies may be plausible or fantastic, and should be sincere. Imagined technologies should be inherently critical of existing ones, but *UnProductiveSolutions* is not skeptical or meant to be read as parody. *SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL* We would like to read proposals by artists or art collectives that imagine new forms of technology. Proposals may be speculative or intended to be realized. We imagine receiving your thoughts and imaginings via a three-page pdf with several images, maximum 600 words, but if you have an alternative form of presentation, we’re open to this. Proposals should include a timeline for the production of work, beginning with December 5, 2021 as the notification of acceptance date. The project will be presented towards the end of 2022. Submit proposals to unproductivesoluti...@gmail.com by November 12, 2021, 11:59pm (ET) *WHAT THE OPPORTUNITY INCLUDES, IF ACCEPTED* — Five proposals will be accepted for artists to develop and complete the work. Artists will receive a $2,000 honorarium upon submission of the final work. As part of the program, we will arrange a studio visit with a specialist, such as a philosopher or astronomer, to further humanize and challenge the development of the work. Artists will receive the services of a videographer to create a marketing promotion for your technology. Artworks/ technologies will be displayed as a succession of featured "subsidiary companies" on the UnProductiveSolutions <https://unproductivesolutions.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=081bfab8cd666cc04404f404a&id=b54dee2c7f&e=c3e6d393ca> exhibition/website. — Five proposals will be accepted in their current state as proposals. These will receive a $100 honorarium and will be presented in their proposal form as "future projects" on the UnProductiveSolutions <https://unproductivesolutions.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=081bfab8cd666cc04404f404a&id=558c27f274&e=c3e6d393ca> exhibition/website. *THE SELECTION PROCESS* The Open Call will be reviewed by curator Marialaura Ghidini and artist/writer Rebekah Modrak, with a collaborative interest in disrupting the rhetoric of digital technologies, e-commerce, and the workings of online platforms. We have worked together as Modrak&Ghidini since 2015, starting with the project #exstrange <https://unproductivesolutions.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=081bfab8cd666cc04404f404a&id=3ce2246924&e=c3e6d393ca> <https://unproductivesolutions.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=081bfab8cd666cc04404f404a&id=b3121790f2&e=c3e6d393ca>(2017), an intervention into the online marketplace. Ghidini is a curator whose work explores the intersections between art, technology, and society. She is visiting researcher for the project curating.online <https://unproductivesolutions.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=081bfab8cd666cc04404f404a&id=456e288ba1&e=c3e6d393ca> at the Exhibition Research Lab (ERL), Liverpool John Moores University in Liverpool (UK). Modrak’s practice is at the intersections of art, activism, critical design, and creative resistance to consumer culture. 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