This is a call to emerging artists and makers who want to explore the potentials of human-machine co-evolution in a creative cosmos. We are searching for up to three participants and one fellow to join in a collaborative venture aiming to nurture and express their artistic visions. Ideal applicants may find themselves pondering questions like:
- Where does human creativity come from?
- How can artists inform the way machines are made from aesthetic and moral sensibilities?
- How might technological innovation be directed toward the flourishing of human and nonhuman life forms?
- What kind of creation results when we aim to integrate our human subjectivity with the evolutionary powers of the universe?
- How might the re-integration of nature and consciousness inform our artistic approach?
- How might a more cosmologically-informed artistic lens transform the way we design and relate to increasingly intelligent machines?
- What happens when a cyborg drinks ayahuasca?
This six-week rent-free residency is an evolutionary experiment at the intersection of art and technology seeking to explore questions at the wild and wired frontiers of human consciousness. Special guests will visit the residents during their stay to offer inspirational talks and workshops.
This opportunity is emerging out of a partnership between Ananta, Building 180 (a San Francsico-based arts management and consulting agency) and the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness graduate program at California Institute of Integral Studies (a university striving to embody spirit, intellect, and wisdom in service to individuals, communities, and the earth).
The residency culminates in a final celebratory showcase of our artists’ work at the main campus of CIIS in San Francisco.