Concept NULL Newsletter #61
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This is turning out to be one of the busiest digital art months this year. Buckle up, itâs goinâ to be a bumpy ride!
On the 15th of November, we will be presenting to you Concept Null 2025. We will have a meetup during the day in our usual style and an evening of performances in Dance Limerick. The full program and tickets are here.
We also have a super exciting collaboration with Synthesize_Her coming up: a week-long, sound system-building workshop for FLINTA participants during Irish Design Week (Nov 17th - 21st) 2025, apply here!
And as always, if you want to support this project, please share this newsletter! And if you want to submit something, email us at conceptnullofficial@gmail.com
đŠ Spotlight
Concept Null 2025
Organiser/s: Concept Null
Location: Limerick
Date: 15-11-2025
An all-day gathering of idea-sharing and experimental performances in sound, code, and visuals from cutting-edge artists across Ireland. Concept Null 2025 takes place on 15th November at Dance Limerick, St Johnâs Church, bringing together our usual open, casual meetup and an evening of live & experimental performances. The daytime session welcomes all for informal presentations of their projects and featuring special guest: [ ITâS A SURPIRSE ], followed by a ticketed (âŹ5) night event showcasing performing artists MĂcheĂĄl Ă CathĂĄin, [SPIT], SĂoda, and Pauric Freeman.
Emergent Sound System Workshop Series
Organiser/s: Synthesize_Her, Concept Null
Location: Univerity of Limerick
Date: 17-11-2025 â 21-11-2025
A workshop series for FLINTA participants in sound system building. Brought to you by Concept Null & Synthesize_Her for Irish Design Week. As part of Irish Design Week 2025, Synthesize_Her and Concept Null team up to bring you: Emergent Sound System - a collaborative workshop for FLINTA [Female, Lesbian, Intersex, Trans, Agender] people to design and fabricate a sound system using both analogue electronics and digital fabrication methods.
Beta Festival
Organiser/s: Beta Fest
Location: Dublin
Date: 07-11-2025 â 23-11-2025
What an exciting program! Beta is Irelandâs festival of art and technology, exploring the societal impact of emerging technologies via exhibitions, workshops, debates, and installations. It offers commissioning, residencies and mentorship opportunities, bridging creative practice and tech research. The festival aims to highlight ethical frameworks, equity in data and immersive practices while positioning Ireland as a node in the global networked world. Expect works and contributions from the likes of Enter.Black, Kat Austen, Benjamin Gaulon, the list goes on!
đȘ Events
A Town Unravelled - VR Experience
Organiser/s: Aiden Brady
Location: Newry, The Quays Shopping Centre
Date: 06-11-2025 â 15-11-2025
A Town Unravelled is an immersive art exhibition focusing on Newryâs loss of industry. Using Virtual Reality headsets, the project audiovisually explores how 20th century deindustrialisation in places like Newry has changed our society in ways still beyond our understanding. The exhibition opens in The Quays Shopping Centre, Newry, on the 6th November 2025.
Light Moves Festival
Organiser/s: Light Moves
Location: Dance Limerick, Limerick City
Date: 06-11-2025 â 08-11-2025
Light Moves presents vibrant experiences bridging dance, new media and screen-based practices that reward and stimulate audiences and artists.
Synthesize_Her >The Means of Production Tour
Organiser/s: Synthesize_Her
Location: Dundalk, Drogheda
Date: 01-11-2025 â 02-11-2025
The Means of Production is a (currently) mobile library of synths, music hardware, + texts for FLINTA* in Ireland. If you are interested in: sound//music * tech//hardware * soft lights//soft cushions * sharing networks * luvly people OR even if you feel intimated by//unsure of those things. YOU SHOULD VISIT AND SEE.
Source â (Drogheda 1st) Source â (Dundalk 2nd)
Strange lands still bear common ground - TULCA 2025
Organiser/s: TULCA
Location: Various locations
Date: 07-11-2025 â 23-11-2025
TULCA 2025 brings together Irish and international artists under the theme Strange lands still bear common ground. The festival expands across galleries and public sites in Galway, presenting exhibitions, performances and talks that explore belonging, displacement and interconnectedness in a time of cultural fragmentation and ecological uncertainty.
Articles đ
WRITING (DIRTY) NEW MEDIA / GLITCH COMPOSITION
A critical methodology for composition and digital practice, arguing that embracing error, breakdown, malfunction can generate meaningful creative and rhetorical opportunities. A valuable article that positions new-media art beyond polished or seamless design.
Critical Clickbait: Artist Interventions in Commercial Visual Culture
The article shows how commercial advertising shapes our identities, gender roles and how we see ourselves online. Woolley presents artworks that hijack billboards, social-media feeds and packaging to flip the script, using subversive visuals and glitchy humour to expose how consumer culture masquerades as self-expression.
đŻ Open Calls
TIDAL ArtS â Residency & Grants (EU TIDAL/ArtS Call)
Deadline: 15-11-2025
Organiser/s: TIDAL ArtS
Location: Portugal, Italy, Hungary and Finland
TIDAL ArtS funds multi-site residencies and large co-production grants (significant budgets per award) to support artists/collectives making work that connects communities with aquatic environments â suitable for artists working with data-visualisation, sound, immersive and environmental tech.
VIII International BAD Video Art Festival â Open Call
Deadline: 01-12-2025
Organiser/s: Experimental Cinema / BAD Video Art Festival
Location: Visual Container / Online
This festival focuses on experimental and âbadâ video art â an explicitly media-centric call for video, net art, AV pieces and glitch or process-based moving-image work. Itâs a direct fit for new-media artists working with video and generative/processed imagery.
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ec(h)otoning â Research-based Commission (TRES / Hipermedula listing)
Deadline: 15-12-2025
Organiser/s: TRES / SMUS RBA (Research-Based Art commission)
Location: Mexico City / Global
A fully funded, year-long research commission addressing urban sustainability via sound/sonic interventions and spatial methods â appropriate for artists working with sound, sensors, data sonification and site-specific media practice.
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R.A.R.O. Barcelona â Spring / Fall Residency Open Calls (R.A.R.O.)
Deadline: 15-12-2025
Organiser/s: R.A.R.O
Location: Barcelona
R.A.R.O. Barcelona is thrilled to announce our Spring 2026 Residency Open Call, hosted at our most inspiring Casa R.A.R.O. This is an exclusive chance for artists from all nationalities to advance their creative projects and research in the heart of Barcelona, with an opportunity to present their work in an Open Studio at the end of their residencies.
Etheral Mansion Gallery Open Call
Deadline: Ongoing
Organiser/s: Ethereal Mansion Gallery
Location: London
Ethereal Mansion are opening their doors curators, collectives, and independent spaces who wish to collaborate with Ethereal Maison this season and beyond.
Glitch Cult Festival Open Call
Deadline: 31-12-2025
Organiser/s: Glitch Cult Festival
Location: Zagreb, Croatia
Glitch Cult Festival invites artists to apply for the 2026 exhibition program. We welcome all forms of glitch-inspired work, including visual art, installations, video, experimental media, and hybrid formats. Submission is free of charge and open internationally.
đ Residencies
Organismo 2026 â Art in Applied Critical Ecologies
Deadline: 09-11-2025
Organiser/s: TBA21âAcademy, Museo Nacional ThyssenâBornemisza
Location: Spain + Global
A six-month hybrid research programme that brings artists, technologists and researchers into working cells to prototype ecological, infrastructural, and media-driven interventions across five case studies (eg. truth infrastructures, storage ecologies, climate imaginaries). Fully digital and media-artâfriendly in its approach, with online labs + short residencies and strong emphasis on research, technology and collective creation
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Jan van Eyck Academie â Residency 2027 (General Call)
Deadline: 04-12-2025
Organiser/s: Jan van Eyck
Location: Netherlands
Jan van Eyck offers 11-month residencies with a strong research focus; while broadly contemporary, they accept proposals across media including new-media, digital research and hybrid practices. The call is competitive and well-suited for artists seeking long-term research support.
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FSAS International Curator Residencies 2026
Deadline: 12-11-2025
Organiser/s: Fire Station Artistsâ Studios
Location: Dublin
The FSAS International Curator Residencies programme provides contemporary international curators with accommodation and a stipend to live, work and network in Dublin, for a duration of 3-4 weeks. Through this award, FSAS is looking to grow its international network and provide collaboration opportunities for artists and arts practitioners based in Ireland
âđ ïž Jobs
Lighting Tehnician - Visual Spectrum Studios
Deadline: 10-11-2025
Organiser/s: Visual Spectrum Studios
Location: Belfast
These roles are open to anyone aged between 16-65 salary is negotiable based on experience. Weâre open to applications from both people eager to learn and those with more experience
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Thatâs 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.
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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.
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