SPAM New Media Festival 2025

SPAM New Media Festival 2025

September 12th-14th, 2025 (Seattle, WA, US)

Open Call for Creative Work Submissions

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SPAM New Media Festival invites artists and practitioners working with digital, experimental and emerging artforms to submit work for the 2025 Festival.

We seek proposals for creative work to be presented at the Georgetown Steam Plant in Seattle.

Potential submissions include, but are not limited to, interactive and immersive works and installations, video and projection mapping, audio and music installations and live performances, artist talks, workshops, demonstrations, and screenings. While we ask that applicants take the venue’s unique qualities into account, submissions do not need to respond specifically to the site in theme or concept. 

We see the festival as a vessel/container for holding and germinating artist projects in different stages of recognition and development, and welcome contributions which entangle with, emerge from, or leak into these different nodes of engagement with digital art and culture. We are asking for artist contributions which will help us to expand our critical dialogue with new media art, digital culture and technology-driven work. 

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Proposals should include:

* Artist Statement (up to 300 words)

* Explanation of creative work, to be used for the selection process only (500-800 words) 

* Images which will help festival organizers to best understand and visualize your proposed creative work

* Technical requirements, including installation or any other needs specific to your work

* Relevant links to documentation of previous and/or proposed work

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Information

Virtual map of the venue: https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=GjGiXgM8oCa

More info: https://spamnewmediafestival.com/Call-Out

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Artist Compensation

SPAM New Media Festival functions as a grassroot community of art workers and depends on the in-kind donation of venues and other resources from our supporters. We are, therefore, unable to cover travel or transport expenses for participating artists. While compensating artists is an important value of the festival,  we are still working hard to fundraise for the 2025 festival, so do not yet know the scale of compensation we can offer artists this year. 

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Concept Map

We are asking for artist contributions which will help us to expand our critical dialogue with new media art, digital culture and technology-driven work from a map of the following starting points:

Afrofuturism

Animism, symbiosis and Black Herbalism

Art and Neuroscience

Bad Fortune, Ghosts and Illness

Camouflage and Transmission

Catastrophe and Infection

Citizen Science

Colonizing Positions of Space Exploration

Commerce

Cross Disciplinary Performance

Cultural Commercialization

CyberFeminism

Data and Textiles

Decay

Disembodiment and Objectification

Disillusionment

DIY Protest Tools

Drone

Electromagnetic Fields

Embodied Digital Amnesia

Embodied Knowledge and Research Lead Practice

Energy Visualization

Entropy

Feminist Sci-Fi

Gaming as a documentary space

Gaming Environments as Self Portraiture

Grief

Hegemonic Technologies

Heritage

How can we be in but not of the current of digital culture which grips humanity and which affects the world, wholly?

How can we operate in but not of institutions?

How does Black and queer imagination use technology to envision and create sustainable futures that honor Black life?

Interactivity and Immersion

Invisible Infrastructures

Love, Re-imagining and Secure Networks

Marginality

Media Archeology

Metamorphosis

Metaperceptual Art

Misogynist Fantasies in New Media

Non-human Memory

Ontology and Black Life

Oneself and the Other

Performance and Technology

Performance and Virtual Space

Perception and Technology

Photogrammetry and identity

Photogrammetry and the virtual archive

Queer Monstrosity

Queering Tech

Radio and Resistance

Rebellious Tech

Repurposing of obsolete electronic devices

Resilience and Reappropriation

Rhythm and Chaos

Robotics

Salvage

Slow Archive and Web Crawling

Sonic Installation

Sound Performance

Spectral Animation

Speculative Clocks

Speculative Fictions and Ideas on Futurism

Surveillance

Technology and Dance

Technology and Genocide

Technology and Magical Realism

Technology and Memory

Technology and Nature

Technology and Nostalgia

Technology and Post-colonial Practice

Technology and Social Defiance

Technologies of Healing and Liberation

Transcendence

Unlearning

Video Games and Civic Remembrance

Wearable Tech

What does it mean to be a body in a digital age?

What does it mean to be a digital body?

Worlding

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