Concept NULL Newsletter #51
👋 Welcome
Hey folks, and welcome to #51!
We hope you're all making the most of the bank holiday weekend 🌤️
For any TouchDesigner heads that haven’t picked up a ticket for the Ireland meetup yet, now’s the time - they’re moving quickly! Concept Null and Pauric Freeman are also putting together a beginners’ workshop in Dublin later this month - Perfect for anyone who wants to get involved but is at the start of their TouchDesigner learning journey. Details announce very soon.
We also want to remind people that the Multidisciplinary Arts Bursary Award - Round 2 is open now (fin₫ it later in the newsletter) which is one of the first awards available under the new Multidisciplinary Discipline. This discipline is thought to cater for the needs of New Media artists in Ireland which is yet to be seen but one thing is clear, the more projects handed in with an art and technology nature, the more this award will cater for those needs. So we advocate for any of you: Dust off that project you’ve shelfed for so long and apply!
Also on this note, we have a special Discord Monthly Meet Up coming up as the Head of Multidisciplinary Arts at the Arts Council, Aideen McCole has been so kind as to offer to jump on and answer any questions people might have. So if you have any questions or are interested to tune into what gets talked about, join us on the 3rd of June at 7pm GMT on the Digital Artist Ireland Discord, over on the Monday Meet Ups voice channel.
As always, feel free to reach out to us at conceptnullofficial@gmail.com ( :
Until next time!
🔦 Spotlight
TouchDesigner Event Dublin Summer 2025
Organiser/s: TouchDesigner
Location: Dublin
Date: 28-06-2025
We are very excited to announce our TouchDesigner Event Dublin Summer 2025, taking place at Flux on June 28th, 2025. This will be our first organized meetup in Dublin, and we're really looking forward to connecting in person with the local TouchDesigner community! What to expect? From Derivative, Greg Hermanovic and Isabelle Rousset will be there, with other team members potentially joining TBD. The event runs from 10am to 10pm, with masterclasses and community presentations during the day and a casual social gathering in the evening. The night will include an "Open Beamer" jam session—a dynamic, VJ-style setup where multiple participants project visuals to music from a DJ, often remixing each other's video feeds in real time.
🎪 Events
Staying With The Trouble
Organiser/s: IMMA
Location: Dublin
Date: 01-06-2025 → 21-09-2025
This group exhibition, Staying with the Trouble, is inspired by author and philosopher Donna Haraway’s seminal work of the same name. The exhibition features over 40 Irish and Ireland-based artists whose diverse practices explore urgent themes of our time. Artists featured include Farouk858, Kian Benson Bailes, George Bolster, Renèe Helèna Browne, Myrid Carten, Elizabeth Cope, Redd Ekks, Laura Ní Fhlaibhín, Andy Fitz, Laura Fitzgerald, Marie Foley, Paddy Graham, Aoibheann Greenan, Kerry Guinan, Austin Hearne, Michael Kane, Sam Keogh, Caoimhe Kilfeather, Atsushi Kaga, Diaa Lagan, Áine Mac Giolla Bhríde, Marielle MacLeman, Alan Magee, Christopher Mahon, Michelle Malone, Colin Martin, Maria McKinney, Bea McMahon, Thaís Muniz, Bridget O’Gorman, Venus Patel, Samir Mahmood, Alice Rekab, Eoghan Ryan, Jacqui Shelton, Sonia Shiel, Katie Watchorn, Luke van Gelderen, amongst others.
📖 Articles
Dreaming Beyond AI
Dreaming Beyond AI is an evolving digital space where artists, researchers, and activists rethink how we engage with artificial intelligence - through queer, feminist, and decolonial perspectives.
The project brings together critical writing, creative work, and collaborative experiments that push beyond the usual tech narratives. It’s a thoughtful, beautifully designed space for imagining more just and inclusive tech futures. Well worth a look!
📯 Open Calls
ddr: Queering the Airwaves
Deadline: 02-06-2025
Organiser/s: DDR
Location: Dublin
One more day to get your submissions in for this! Queering the Airwaves is back again! This year we are reflecting on Queer experiences in the Digital Age. From the days of chat rooms and forums, to our current era of hyperconnectivity, it is an important moment to reflect on our digital heritage but also envisage how Queer communities can fit into and shape future digital landscapes. QTA is an initiative by Dublin Digital Radio, that aims to platform LGBTQ+ voices, organisations and activists, exploring the culture of Queer communities and how they manifest both online and off. This call is for EVERYONE! We are seeking proposals from individuals and groups, regardless of experience for radio programming during the period leading up to Pride 2025. Dublin Digital Radio invites proposals of all natures - mixes to revolutionise the dance floor, explorations of Queer digital identities, broadcasts of digital manifestos for Queer futurism and anything and everything in between.
bow arts: Visions Open Call 2025
Deadline: 20-06-2025
Organiser/s: Bow arts
Location: London
Visions in the Nunnery is the Nunnery Gallery’s renowned showcase of moving image, digital and performance art. The biennial open call is an opportunity to be part of one of the most varied and exciting presentations of moving image in London. Visions offers an informed overview of the provocative and quick-changing mediums of moving image and performance, presenting works from across the world. For each Visions we run two to three programmes and invite lead artists, renowned for their innovation in the digital field, to head and inspire each one. The ideas of the lead artists support the selection process and set the tone for the wider exhibition. This year we are delighted to have Rosie Gibbens and Onyeka Igwe leading Visions 2025. Each will be exhibiting work as part of the show.
Bright Festival: Open Call for New Media Projects
Deadline: 15-06-2025
Organiser/s: Bright Fesitval
Location: Leipzig
Bright Festival is an international cultural project that promotes digital creativity through artistic exhibitions and educational programs, in collaboration with institutions, universities, companies, and artists worldwide. This call is open to Digital & interactive installations, Light & sound experiences, Immersive art show, AI-based installations, Virtual Reality, and Audio-visual performances. The festival is held at Kunstkraftwerk Leipzig; Originally a power plant, in 2016 this space was turned into the first venue in Germany entirely dedicated to digital and multimedia art installations. More info in the link below.
GENIUS LOCI FESTIVAL 2025
Deadline: 15-06-2025
Organiser/s: Genius Loci Weimar
Location: Weimar
This year's international competition for video mapping and façade projections starts in summer 2025. All information about the competition building, the timetable and the conditions can be found here: Until June 15, 2025, all interested artists can submit their conceptual ideas for this year’s location. Two conceptual proposals for the building/object will be awarded by the jury. A budget of €10,000 per awarded submission is available for realization (i.e., €10,000 for each of the two objects, totalling €20,000). The winning submissions will be presented in alternation on the building/object during the festival from September 5–7, 2025. At the festival one of the two submissions will be awarded another 5.000€. More info in the link below.
MSU Museum CoLab Studio: Singularity Open Call
Deadline: 04-07-2025
Organiser/s: MSU Museum CoLab Studio
Location: Michigan
The MSU Museum CoLab Studio invites bold and innovative proposals for our upcoming exhibition, Singularity. This exhibition and public programming series unravels the enigmatic and transformative concept of the technological singularity, a point in time which artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence, leading to rapid technological growth and unpredictable change in human civilization.
Call for Presentations, Artworks, and AI Short Films - SIT
Deadline: 01-07-2025
Organiser/s: Stevens Institute of Technology
Location: New Jersey
This open call seeks 20-minute talks, demo artworks, and AI-driven short films that explore the creative and critical dimensions of artificial intelligence. Selected works will be featured in both in-person and virtual sessions during the November 2025 symposium, with peer feedback and publication opportunities.
🏠 Residencies
S+T+ARTS AQUA MOTION – Open Call for Artistic Residencies
Deadline: 13-06-2025
Organiser/s: S+T+ARTS
Location: Europe
S+T+ARTS AQUA MOTION invites artists from all disciplines to apply for a unique interdisciplinary residency programme focused on the future of water in Europe. At a time when water scarcity, pollution, climate change, and biodiversity loss are reshaping societies and ecosystems, AQUA MOTION supports artistic experimentation that engages with these challenges through collaboration with scientists, technologists, local communities, and water experts. This Call for Artists seeks 25 artists to participate in a 9-month Residency, followed by a 4-month Scale-Up programme, hosted across four European regions: Portugal, Italy, Netherlands, Austria.
💰 Funding
Bursary Award Round 2 2025
Deadline: 19-06-2025
Organiser/s: Arts Council Ireland
Location: Ireland
The Bursary Award supports individual artists to develop their artistic practice. It focuses on providing artists with the time and resources they need to think, research, reflect, and deeply engage with their artistic practice.
Multidisciplinary Arts Bursary Award Round 2
Deadline: 19-06-2025
Organiser/s: Arts Council Ireland
Location: Ireland
The objective of the Multidisciplinary Arts Bursary Award is to support professional artists and arts practitioners at any stage in their career to develop their multidisciplinary practice – i.e. that which combines two or more artforms or creative practices equally. It focuses on providing artists with the time and resources they need to think, research, reflect, and deeply engage with their artistic practice.
That’s it for now! The newsletter gets sent out 1st and 15th of every month and we post open calls and events as they come in on our Instagram so be sure to follow us there.
Again, thank you for all of your support as we continue to grow our project with the help of a great community and, as we always say, we would love to hear your thoughts, projects, events or other open opportunities so drop us an email.
Chat soon, Concept NULL
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