Post-Regeneration Art Sustainability Action Plan Call for Submissions

1. Theme Explanation

"Post-Regeneration" is not the opposite of sustainability, but a more honest position. It acknowledges the fundamental contradiction between the structure of technology art and new media art and energy consumption, electronic waste, and computational intensity—GPU computing, high-definition streaming, AI generation, large-scale interactive installations, these are all realities of carbon emissions.

Facing this contradiction, is net-zero as a discursive framework sufficient? "Post-Regeneration" does not avoid this question but invites artists to create from the very center of the contradiction: not using art to decorate sustainability, but using art to probe the boundaries, limitations, and possibilities of sustainability.

This plan calls for new works created in the form of technology art or new media that can respond to the following core questions:

Q1. Can the energy consumption of technological creation become the material of the work itself?
Q2. After "regeneration," what remains? Discarded hardware, outdated software, forgotten data—how to rethink them?
Q3. Sustainability as an aesthetic: is it a weapon of critique or the rhetoric of capital?
Q4. How can art become a form of action without pretending to "solve problems"?


2. Submission Eligibility and Conditions

Eligibility

Target: Open to artists and art teams aged 20–45 from all over Taiwan.
Medium: Technology art, new media art-related creations, including but not limited to interactive installations, video, AI generation, sound, sensor applications, net art, etc.
Work: Must be an original, unpublished new work. Submissions can be at the conceptual stage; a finished product is not required.
Submission Documents

Required: Conceptual proposal (format不限, suggested A4 2–5 pages)
Required: Preliminary visual or schematic of the work (sketches, reference images are acceptable)
Required: Applicant's resume or portfolio link
Optional: Preliminary carbon footprint or energy use assessment (priority given to those with ideas)


Submission Method

Please prepare the materials and email them to anyandall.design@gmail.com, with the subject line "Post-Regeneration Submission_Work Title."


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For details, please see: https://www.kingcarart.org.tw/projects-detail/203