When sexuality and sensuality become algorithmic, do we abandon hope for the human?
We seek artists for a group exhibition exploring the unstable parameters defining the boundary between physical and digital desire. This show examines the evolving state of our collective libido - from examinations of the hypnotized Gooners, to journeys into parasocial partnerships with chatbots. We invite work that interrogates how pleasure, agency, and fulfillment exist today.
Central to I AM AN ADULT ___ YOU WILL BE REWARDED is the tension between contrasting modes of longing: the celebrated, compulsive masculine act of “gooning” versus the shamed feminine condition of “yearning.” We interrogate the products of this systemic ordering, and seek the methods by which they are hijacked and rewritten.
We are interested in work that engages with:
- the denial or deferral of completion
- the performance of agency within algorithmic systems
- prompt-writing as a form of control or seduction
- parasocial and synthetic intimacy
We welcome submissions in all forms, including but not limited to painting, sculpture, photography, video and digital media.
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