Concept NULL Newsletter #62
👋 Welcome
Hey!
Concept Null 2025 will be in full-swing today at Dance Limerick, starting at 12PM with presentations from artists and practitioners working at the intersection of Art & Technology in our usual open-projector format; with performances from an insane lineup of artists beginning at 7PM until 11PM.
So, if you are in Limerick City today, please don’t be afraid to come along to chat and enjoy some amazing A/V performances. We are super grateful to have the opportunity to host this event, and work with everyone involved.
The full program and tickets are here.
Looking forward to seeing you all there <3
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
🔦 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 John’s 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: [ IT’S A SURPIRSE ], followed by a ticketed (€5) night event showcasing performing artists Mícheál Ó Catháin, [SPIT], Síoda, and Pauric Freeman.
TouchDesigner Meetup Dublin Novemeber @ TOG Hackerspace
Organiser/s: TOG
Location: Dublin
Date: 19-11-2025
Join us for the second in our series of monthly meetups for anyone interested in TouchDesigner, from complete beginners to experienced creators. Whether you’d like to learn the basics, share your projects, or connect with others using the software, this meetup offers a welcoming and supportive space to do so. Each session runs for around two hours in a relaxed, hands-on setting. With multiple rooms available at Tóg Hackerspace, we can host beginner and advanced activities simultaneously, ensuring everyone gets the most out of the evening. Expect an informal, community-driven environment where the format adapts to participants. You’re welcome to bring a laptop to follow along, showcase your work, or simply join the discussion. The event is a great opportunity to meet other creative technologists and artists, and to continue building the growing TouchDesigner community in Ireland.
ASSETS by Alan Butler
Organiser/s: Green On Red Gallery
Location: Dublin
Date: 07-11-2025 → 12-12-2025
ASSETS is Alan Butler’s second solo exhibition at Green On Red Gallery, since his debut here in 2017. In the 8 years since, his work has been the subject of over one hundred exhibitions at galleries, museums and festivals worldwide. His work is known for delving into the mechanics of digital technologies and image production. In recent years both concepts and media have focused heavily and with nuance on connecting physical materials and hand-made production processes to digital cloud technologies, ecology and simulated worlds.
🎪 Events
Beta Festival
Organiser/s: Beta Festival
Location: Dublin
Date: 07-11-2025 → 23-11-2025
What an exciting program! Beta is Ireland’s 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!
Caroline Mac Cathmhaoil—Aer Milam
Organiser/s: Pallas Projects
Location: Dublin
Date: 07-11-2025 → 22-11-2025
Pallas Projects are pleased to present Caroline Mac Cathmhaoil—Aer Milam, the final exhibition of the 2025 Artist-Initiated Projects programme. In Aer Milam, Caroline’s sculptural and video works link dream and death practices, commercial flying and queer feminist electronics in an act of technocratic resistance.
Synthesize_Her >The Means of Production Tour
Organiser/s: Synthesize_Her
Location: Dundalk, Drogheda
Date: 01-11-2025 → 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 ↗ (Drogheda 1st) Source ↗ (Dundalk 2nd)
Strange lands still bear common ground - TULCA 2025
Organiser/s: TULCA
Location: Various locations
Date: 07-11-2025 → 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 📖
Dithering—Damar
This is a visual article by Damar on the processes behind Dithering. It covers how to use shaders in ThreeJS to produce such effects! This is only part one, so stayed tuned for more!
Shader Basics—Bobacupcake
A beautiful interactive website (garden) for exploring the basics of Shaders. This page in particular goes over the basics of shaders, breaking different methods down into digestible bites. In addition to this, Bobacupcake has many other tutorials on their website covering more advanced topics—a great resource for anyone looking to dip their toes into the world of graphics programming.
📯 Open Calls
TIDAL ArtS — 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 — suitable for artists working with data-visualisation, sound, immersive and environmental tech.
VIII International BAD Video Art Festival — Open Call
Deadline: 01-12-2025
Organiser/s: Experimental Cinema / BAD Video Art Festival
Location: Visual Container / Online
This festival focuses on experimental and “bad” video art — an explicitly media-centric call for video, net art, AV pieces and glitch or process-based moving-image work. It’s a direct fit for new-media artists working with video and generative/processed imagery.
ec(h)otoning — 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 — appropriate for artists working with sound, sensors, data sonification and site-specific media practice.
R.A.R.O. Barcelona — 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.
🏠 Residencies
Microdosing A.I.
Deadline: 01-12-2025
Organiser/s: V2_
Location: Online
No big tech. No data centers. No power sockets. Microdosing A.I. is an online production opportunity for artists and designers facilitated by V2_ Lab (NL) and Marginal (RO). We’re looking for 10 inspiring projects engaging with low-tech AI: systems that think, sense, or act without power sockets, big tech, or data centers. Apply anytime between 1 and 30 November — the call stays open until we’re full.
Jan van Eyck Academie — 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.
FSAS International Curator Residencies 2026
Deadline: 12-11-2025
Organiser/s: Fire Station Artists’ 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
🛠️ Workshops
Crash Course 2025: Internet x Society
Deadline: 11-11-2025→20-11-2025
Organiser/s: V2_
Location: Online
Are you unfamiliar with the field of media art but interested in how media technologies impact society? Are you a student or young professional working in art, design, dance, theater, music, or engineering who’s curious about how these fields cross? Then this Crash Course is for you. Crash Course is co-hosted by Alex Falk & Kendal Beynon.
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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