FREE ENTRY / Src Material - CFP: The Almanac of Artificial Seasons (Book/Site)

Edited By Delta Ark/World Engines Lab & Ilan Manouachw/ the support of Src Material (Seattle) and Echo Chamber (Brussels)

What are the (synthetic, mental, etc) landscapes that emerge from the deregulation of climate, the acceleration of machine learning technologies and trend towards neo-feudalism?

The Almanac of Artificial Seasons is a collection exploring the unstable territories emerging at the intersection of these forces.

We invite theoretical articles, comics and documentations for artistic projects such as Unreal Engine environments, motion capture performances and interactive narratives, that delve into the shifting landscapes where climate transformation, ai technologies, network (and anti- network) politics and artistic practice converge.

To grasp the current changes in climate, acceleration of ML technologies and global trend towards neo-feudalism is to engage with a massive, nonlocal entity—one that is composed of thousands of disparate models, operates on incompatible scales, and is derived from diverse data collection practices and heterogeneous objects.…