The Photographers’ Gallery | Flash Fictions Open Call: Alternative Networks
Imagin(in)g Networks is a programme exploring the existing and potential networks that use images to enable human and machine interactions. As part of this programme, the Flash Fictions Open Call aims to explore the potential of fiction in developing a wide range of responses to both real and imagined networks.
The Flash Fictions might address ideas such as:
- What is a standard network and what is an alternative network?
- What does an alternative look like and how good, useful, harmful, useless, interesting, boring or creative can it be?
- Are alternative networks needed now, were they needed in the past, will they be needed in the future or in any other parallel reality?
- How differently could images circulate through a network?
The Photographers’ Gallery will select and publish up to 15 Flash Fictions on Unthinking Photography, paying £150 to each of the selected submissions.
Each submission will include a combination of images and words in any of the following two options:
– Between 1 to 10 still images (or short GIF animations) and 6 to 600 words in any possible arrangement, i.e. 1 image and 6 words, 10 images and 600 words, 5 images and 300 words etc.
– One video of up to 20 seconds and 6 to 600 words in any possible arrangement, i.e. 1 video and 6 words, 1 video and 600 words, 1 video and 300 words etc.
The selection of the text will be in English; creative variations and transformations of the language will be accepted.
A minimum of 1 still image/animation/video or 6 words must be created using a human-machine collaborative project.
A minimum of 1 still image/video or 6 words must be created by a human submitter.
The collaborative human-machine project used to create automated image or texts and the name of its creator must be credited on the submission.
All submissions must creatively re-signify and mix the images and texts created in collaboration with the machine. Fully automated submissions will not be accepted.
Up to three submissions by each person or group will be accepted.
All submissions are free.
Application deadline: 31st January 2021.
Further info on The Photographers’ Gallery
18/1/2021