What VISIT provides
VISIT supports up to three art projects per year.
The project outlines can be submitted by individual artists as well as by project groups. Interdisciplinary and participatory approaches are welcome. VISIT also welcomes projects that blur the boundaries between fields such as art, design and architecture.
The projects should be at the interface of art, science and ecology in the context of the theme "Human Machine". The "Human Maschine" scholarship has been in existence since 2019. The focus of the current call for proposals is on the artistic approach to questions of sustainability in the field of digital technologies, in particular artificial intelligence. The complex relationship between man and machine has been the subject of art and artistic practice since industrialisation. With digitalisation, but also with the climate emergency, the topic has become more explosive, especially in the field of artificial intelligence. Fundamental philosophical, economic, ecological and ethical concepts as well as ideas of our living environment are being called into question. With the Open Call "Human-Machine", VISIT promotes international artists of all artistic disciplines who deal with digital technologies and artificial intelligence in the broadest sense, who question in particular the Western history of progress as well as dualisms such as the "artificial" and the "natural"; who enable new patterns of thought, narratives and approaches to the world in the context of the topic and explore urgent aspects of the current situation of society and the planet.
Project schedules are negotiable. However, projects should generally be completed within roughly six months.
The budget allocated for each project is €20,000. This funding can be used for travel, materials, production, exhibitions and documentation.
All VISIT artists will receive access to the broad E.ON Stiftung network, which spans the fields of PR, technology, science and the international art scene.