Scotland’s longest-standing artist-run gallery, established in 1983
Topics include: the inner workings of large language models, unintended consequences of AI, missing and invisible data, surveillance, mapping and power, environmental and cultural impacts of digital technologies, the role of storytelling in shaping how we understand both history and technology, and how AI influences the stories we tell about ourselves, our communities and our futures.
Note this is a call for participation in a collaborative project, in which the artists will be one person on a three-person team creating the relevant work (there will be 1-3 such groups, submission dependent). The three-person teams will be comprised of one artist, one philosopher, and one scientist.
Attendance at the following is required:
(1) the Lovelace-Hodgkin Symposium on 13th October 2026 at Glasgow University Union (tickets will be supplied);
(2) and potential subsequent day-exhibition at Transmission, on the 14th.
Timeline: application deadline Friday 2nd of October; outcome communicated to artists by 9th of October; Making the Invisible, Visible exhibition in Transmission from January to 18th to February 8th 2027; publication TBD.
Support available: Support available (dependent on number of artists selected and scope of work proposed): honorarium of minimum £500; material and fabrication costs covered up to £500 (though this may be negotiable in exceptional cases); access to the gallery space and use of wood workshop during making of work or related activities; publication costs associated with the exhibition fully covered by Transmission.
For one artist, there will be a Transmission residency possibility in conjunction with the Scottish Association of Marine Sciences, at Oban – dependent on the potential of the work.
Curation: the conceptual and visual content of the exhibition will be curated by John Donaldson, Kimia Witte, and The AI Commons Glasgow.
How to apply: submit a note of interest via the following link:
https://forms.gle/vMas5WsFz6BuEX5T9