Artificial Imagination — A growing archive of video works about creativity and artificial intelligence. An open call dedicated to video works exploring the relationship between human creativity and artificial intelligence.
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An Introduction. Artists, filmmakers and digital creators are invited to submit moving image works reflecting on how AI is transforming the production of images, ideas and narratives.
Selected works will be presented as part of a video installation during Prompt Festival in Brescia on June 19th, 2026.
View of the entrance, Brescia Old Castle.
Perched on Cidneo Hill, the Castello di Brescia is one of the largest fortified complexes in Italy and a defining landmark of the city. Its layered architecture reflects centuries of history, from medieval defensive walls to later Venetian fortifications. Overlooking the historic center, the castle today serves as a cultural space where the past and present meet — an ideal setting for artistic interventions, installations and collective experiences.
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About the Project. Artificial Imagination brings together artistic perspectives on the growing presence of artificial intelligence in creative processes.
Algorithms, generative tools and machine learning are reshaping visual culture and the way images are produced. Artists are responding through experimentation, critical reflection and new forms of storytelling.
The project gathers these visions into a collective video installation exploring the imaginaries and tensions emerging from the encounter between human creativity and artificial intelligence.
Brescia Castle, reimagined as an unstable electronic image. Starting from a historical black-and-white postcard depicting the Castello di Brescia on Cidneo Hill, the image has been transformed through generative processes that reinterpret the photograph through the visual language of early video art. Muted chromatic fields, scanline textures and signal-like distortions evoke the aesthetics of 1970s analog broadcast and experimental video. The fortress — a long-standing landmark overlooking the city — appears here as a fluctuating visual memory: part archive, part electronic apparition
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Area of interests. Submitted works may engage with themes such as:
• Artificial Creativity—
AI-assisted creative processes and human–machine collaboration.
• Algorithmic Culture—
Platforms, internet aesthetics, algorithms and meme culture.
• Language of AI
—The terminology and narratives used to describe artificial intelligence.
• Data / Systems / Power
—Datasets, infrastructures and the political or economic dimensions of AI.
• Speculative Futures
—Imagined futures shaped by artificial intelligence.
(These themes are indicative rather than restrictive.)
Black screen, orange text, a few lines of terminal output. “cat /etc/motd”. “physical machine”. “system serial number”. Faced with today’s generative AI systems — capable of producing endless images and narratives — the computer here simply states what it is. No hallucinations, no speculation: just a serial number.
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Open Call. We welcome video works that:
• Use AI tools in the creative process.
• Critically reflect on AI systems.
• Explore algorithmic culture and digital imagery.
• Speculate on future relationships between humans and machines.
We are particularly interested in works driven by experimentation, visual research or poetic reflection.
Marble sculpture with an unusual abundance of fingers. The form recalls classical statuary, yet the anatomy slowly drifts away from human proportion. Hands multiply, digits proliferate, and the body becomes an improbable accumulation of gestures. A familiar artifact of the age of generative images: when the machine tries to remember what a hand is, it often remembers too many.
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Format. Eligible works include:
• experimental films
• short visual essays
• generative or AI-assisted videos
• hybrid moving image projects
• shitposting but video
Suggested duration:
30 seconds – 5 minutes
Exhibition. Selected works will be presented in a video loop installation outdoor in the old Castle in Brescia (ITA), in the context of Prompt, the Festival about AI and creativity powered by Gummy Industries; bringing together different artistic perspectives on artificial intelligence and contemporary image-making.
Submission. To submit your work, please complete the submission form.
You will be asked to provide:
• author information
• title and link to the video
• a short description of the work and relation to AI
A frame from the famous “stargate” sequence in 2001: A Space Odyssey. A torrent of colors, cosmic tunnels and hallucinated landscapes. In 1968 this was a visionary special effect. Today an image generator might produce something similar in a few seconds — but Stanley Kubrick still did it with slit-scan photography, patience, and a great deal less computing power.
