GUI/GOOEY 2.O
exploring digital representations of the biological world
International Open Call for Artworks in Any Media
Online + In-Person Exhibitions Opening Fall 2024
Final Submission Deadline: July 31, 2024
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Plexus Projects is accepting submissions of artworks for “GUI/GOOEY 2.O”, the second installment in a series of online and in-person exhibitions exploring digital representations of the biological world. The exhibitions interrogate intersections of computational paradigms and organic forms and transgress the boundaries that distinguish them.
GUI/GOOEY IS SIMULTANEOUSLY…
– digital, computational, software, interfaces, menus, icons, cursors, tools, user settings, skeuomorphism, progress bars, crashes, glitches, memory, blockchain, crypto, ai, ones, zeros, bits, bytes
– biological, corporeal, fleshy, visceral, wet, oozing, slimy, dripping, viscous, sticky, syrupy, mucilaginous, glutinous, tacky, gummy, embodiment, materiality, tactility, seduction, repulsion, bits, bites
ELIGIBILITY
Artworks in any media will be considered for the online exhibition including static and time-based work as well as documentation of artworks such as (but not limited to) installations, sculptures, and performances. Single-channel screen-based artworks will be considered for the in-person exhibitions with short works or excerpts of long works being given priority.
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
- Artwork: up to 5 images AND/OR up to 5 embed links (url’s for any kind of embeddable media such as Vimeo, YouTube, Sketchfab, etc.). For web art, submit screenshots as images and include the URL’s in your Artwork Details to be linked from the online exhibition page.
- Artwork Details: Title, Date, Media, Short Description
- Submission Fee. (Please note that your submission fee receipt is your submission confirmation.)
OPEN CALL TIMELINE
Submissions Open: August 2023
First Submission Review: March 2024
Second Submission Review: June 30, 2024
Submissions Close: July 31, 2024
Notification to Artists: by September 22, 2024
Online and In-Person Exhibitions open: Fall 2024
*All submissions are given full consideration regardless of submission review date.
ABOUT THE CURATOR
Laura Splan is New York City-based artist exploring intersections of Science, Technology, and Culture with everything from hand-made textiles to computer generated-animations. Her Metafrictions project traversing genetic landscapers was recently previewed by the New Museum’s NEW INC+EY Metaverse Lab at Onassis ONX. A Guided Sublimation, her recent immersive planetarium exhibition will be adapted for an upcoming performance screening at MoMA in 2024. And a commission of her work will be presented in Future Tense: Art, Complexity, and Uncertainty at Beall Center for Art+Technology for Getty PST: Art + Science Initiative in Fall 2024. She founded Plexus Projects in 2017 as an intersectional space within her Brooklyn studio to facilitate affinities and connections among artists.
PREVIOUS GUI/GOOEY EXHIBITIONS
GUI/GOOEY 2.O will open in Fall of 2024. The first GUI/GOOEY exhibition in the ongoing series premiered in 2023 and included artists: Abraham Homer US; Alt23 MT; Andrea Mikyska DE; Anni Garza-Lau, Yunuen Vladimir, Hugo Escalpelo, Lilianha Dominguez MX; Brian Zegeer US; Cezar Mocan PT; Derzu Campos MX; Dexter Callender III US; Diana Scarborough UK; Dylan Rundle US; Elaine Whittaker CA; Electric Skin TR/FR/US/ES; Ellen Bjerborn SE; Finn Dugan US; James Bascara US; Jeff Thompson US; Josh Urban CA; Katina Bitsicas, Rachel Strickland US; Keaton Fox US; Kimberlee Koym-Murteira US; Lolo Ostia US; Lizz Thabet US; Mark Ramos, Ziyang Wu US/CN; Morgan Green, Andrew Bearnot US; Nina Sumarac CY; Reid Arowood US; Ryan Woodring US; Sarah Buckius US; Yousif Alzayed, Ben Glass, Yimei Zhu US.
