CON-TEMPORARY Art Observatorium accepts artists submissions to participate in the next two group exhibitions "TransHumance" and "Escapism."

"TransHumance" - Thematic group exhibitionLocation: CON-TEMPORARY Art Observatorium - Lavagna, ItalyAccepted artworks: bi-dimensional, wall installed, including video art, small sculpturesPeriod: three weeks, t.b.a. (late 2022 or early 2023)Theme:Wearable high-tech, augmented reality, cybernetic prostheses, microchip implants, are the first steps of the transhumanism that herds human beings like cattle toward an alleged human-machine singularity. Does the human being desires to be free from the natural body’s caducity? What is the meaning of preserving the individual’s intellect in cyberspace? Which perspectives would immortality offer? Wouldn’t be more desirable to train our natural body and our innate potentialities relying on the resources and rebirth capability offered by nature?Tags:transhuman, immortality, singularity, microchip, electronic, cyber, cyberpunk, android, gynoid, robot, fembot, sex doll, technology, machine, computing, virtual, augmented, reality, illusion, dysmorphophobia, drug, plastic surgery, wearable, prostheses, upgrade, ubermensch, superhero, body building, modding, pod, smartphone, etc.

"Escapism" - Thematic group exhibitionLocation: CON-TEMPORARY Art Observatorium - Lavagna, ItalyAccepted artworks: bi-dimensional, wall installed, including video art, small sculpturesPeriod: three weeks, t.b.a. (late 2022 or early 2023)Theme:An exhibition relating to the reasons and to the psychic and emotional condition of the individual who, in good or bad, tries to escape a society that is bog-standard, oppressing, too complicated and demanding. Ambition, fantasy, dream, spirituality, faith and idealism counterposed to the burden of homogenisation, pragmatism and materialism.Tags:escape, reality, dream, psyche, nightmare, oppression, society, utopia, dystopia, overton's window, platonic cave, enlightenment, education, imagination, rebellion, alternative, way of life, extravagance, self-determination, philosophy, religion, nonconformism, eccentricity, dandyism, etc.

Please send your proposal to [email protected] including some details on your expression (links, web-site or attach statement, cv, portfolio, etc.)The proposals will be carefully examined and the artists compatible with the curatorial intents will be contacted. Ask for details.

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