Concept NULL Newsletter #52
👋 Welcome
Hello you all! Hopefully this newsletter finds you cleansed and calmed by the stormy weather and you have some inside time for yourself. Or some adventurous walks ☔
June is shaping up to be Irelands big TouchDesigner month with our big TouchDesigner Event Dublin Summer 2025 drawing ever close and on top of this, we also announced the TouchDesigner Fundamentals - Beginners Workshop Dublin with NCAD . Both events are close to selling out so if you want to come to either, make sure to grab one. Links are below. We look forward to seeing everyone there!
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🔦 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
€URODANC€
Organiser/s: Pallas Projects/Studios
Location: Dublin
Date: 19-06-2025 → 05-07-2025
€URODANC€* is a sensory dive into club culture as sanctuary, spectacle, and emotional terrain—tracing queer love, loss, and renewal through the pulse of Eurodance. Blending music, movement, and memory, it explores how dance floors hold intimacy, resistance, and connection. Ideal for artists exploring identity, sound, and nightlife aesthetics.
Music for Domes
Organiser/s: Armagh Observatory Planetarium
Location: Armagh
Date: 20-06-2025 → 22-06-2025
Hosta Projects artists Dawn Richardson, Jonathan Brennan & Chad Alexander debut *Music for Domes*, a 360° immersive film blending myth, memory, and cultural healing, premiering at Armagh Planetarium June 20–22. Featuring original music by RÒIS, this visionary work showcases the power of digital storytelling. Ideal for artists exploring film, sound, and immersive experiences.
🛠️ Workshops
TouchDesigner Fundamentals - Beginners Workshop Dublin
Deadline: 24-06-2025
Organiser/s: Concept Null, NCAD
Location: Grace Gifford building
This workshop is an introduction to TouchDesigner, a node-based visual programming software used for real-time visuals and interactive media. It’s designed for beginners and will cover the basics of the interface, parameters, and overall workflow, along with a look at common challenges new users often encounter.
Imagined Worlds: Creating Art in 3D Virtual Reality - Exploring Immersive Digital Painting
Deadline: 20-06-2025
Organiser/s: Digital Art Studio Belfast
Location: Belfast
This hands-on workshop introduces artists to VR painting with Google Tilt Brush/Open Brush, from setup to 3D creation. Participants move from 2D references into immersive sketching, exploring colour, form, and perspective. Ideal for artists curious about VR, digital painting, and integrating traditional and emerging creative workflows. This workshop is for XR Lab members. For details on how to participate, please email richard@digitalartsstudios.com.
Articles 📖
Creating Shaders for Resolume with Cursor AI
Jascha Süss
I haven't found much use for AI generative coding tools in the realm of real-time visuals but this was super handy. Mostly because open GL is something I have wanted to learn for so long but it is just so daunting. This helped me dip the toe in.
Surface-Stable Fractal Dithering Explained
runevision
Everyone is talking about dithered images recently, and we love it. This was a step up though, 3D dithering in real-time! The effect it gives is awesome and the explanation and the breakdown of the problem and how it was solved is also just beautiful.
📯 Open Calls
Freiheitsleuchten - 500 years of Peasant's War
Deadline: 30-06-2025
Organiser/s: Mühlhausen
Location: Germany
Artists are invited to transform Mühlhausen’s historic center into a luminous canvas for *Freiheitsleuchten*, part of the Thuringia State Exhibition. Through light art, projections, and sound, this immersive event reimagines the Peasants’ War of 1525, exploring themes of resistance and freedom—past and present. Open to artists and collectives.
Home Residency Opportunity
Deadline: 27-07-2025
Organiser/s: Digital Art Studio Belfast
Location: Belfast
Applications are now open for the DAS Home Residency (Aug–Nov 2025), offering artists across Ireland and the UK space, resources, and support to develop digital projects. With studio access, XR Lab participation, training, and showcase opportunities, it’s ideal for those pushing creative boundaries through technology and experimental practice.
Busan International Video Art Festival (BIVAF)
Deadline: 22-06-2025
Organiser/s: Busan International Video Art Festival (BIVAF)
Location: South Korea
Submissions are now open for the 19th Busan International Video Art Festival (June 9–22, 2025), featuring separate Korean and International Competition sections. One final prize winner will be selected from both. Ideal for video artists worldwide looking to showcase innovative work on a global platform.
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.
💰 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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