The Evens Arts Prize 2023
The 2023 edition of the Evens Arts Prize is dedicated to exploring artistic practices that critically engage with AI and address its democratic challenges.
The Focus
The widespread use of AI applications, particularly in the form of text-to-image generators and large language models, has sparked intense scrutiny and debate. These discussions, fueled by both excitement about their potential and concerns about their biases, bring to the forefront crucial questions about human subjectivity, autonomy, and agency.
How can we better understand and address the major technological and cultural challenges of our time? What new imaginaries can we cultivate between humans and machines?
Technical systems are deeply intertwined with social systems, and the issues raised by these technologies have implications for our democratic principles. In response to these challenges, the 2023 edition of the Evens Arts Prize will focus on artistic practices that critically engage with AI from cultural, political, and ethical standpoints. The goal is to support artists who address the democratic dilemmas and opportunities arising from AI and the broader constellation of digital technologies and algorithmic politics.
We are seeking artistic projects that investigate the impact of algorithms and AI on our experiences, imaginaries, aspirations, and politics. They shed light on issues such as surveillance, privacy, manipulation, extractivism, digital governance, justice, care, and responsibility in the age of machine intelligence.
We value practices that explore alternative cosmologies and epistemologies, question human exceptionalism, and cultivate alliances between living beings and machines. Of particular interest are practices that experiment with AI to challenge prevailing systems of knowledge and power asymmetries, mobilize technologies towards emancipatory community outcomes, and envision democratic futures.
The selection process involves proposals from a group of nominators representing European cultural institutions, followed by the final selection made by an independent jury.
The 2023 edition of the Evens Arts Prize is dedicated to exploring artistic practices that critically engage with AI and address its democratic challenges.
The Focus
The widespread use of AI applications, particularly in the form of text-to-image generators and large language models, has sparked intense scrutiny and debate. These discussions, fueled by both excitement about their potential and concerns about their biases, bring to the forefront crucial questions about human subjectivity, autonomy, and agency.
How can we better understand and address the major technological and cultural challenges of our time? What new imaginaries can we cultivate between humans and machines?
Technical systems are deeply intertwined with social systems, and the issues raised by these technologies have implications for our democratic principles. In response to these challenges, the 2023 edition of the Evens Arts Prize will focus on artistic practices that critically engage with AI from cultural, political, and ethical standpoints. The goal is to support artists who address the democratic dilemmas and opportunities arising from AI and the broader constellation of digital technologies and algorithmic politics.
We are seeking artistic projects that investigate the impact of algorithms and AI on our experiences, imaginaries, aspirations, and politics. They shed light on issues such as surveillance, privacy, manipulation, extractivism, digital governance, justice, care, and responsibility in the age of machine intelligence.
We value practices that explore alternative cosmologies and epistemologies, question human exceptionalism, and cultivate alliances between living beings and machines. Of particular interest are practices that experiment with AI to challenge prevailing systems of knowledge and power asymmetries, mobilize technologies towards emancipatory community outcomes, and envision democratic futures.
The selection process involves proposals from a group of nominators representing European cultural institutions, followed by the final selection made by an independent jury.