Realities in Transition 2 – Unwritten Worlds invites artists and creatives to participate in a residency programme dedicated to exploring eXtended Realities as spaces for imagination, connection, and transformation. We are looking for hybrid practices, undisciplined perspectives, and collaborative approaches capable of questioning the present and giving shape to worlds yet to be written.
This call marks the beginning of a collective process, conceived as an extended period of research, experimentation, and co-creation.
Over the course of 20 months, Realities in Transition 2 will support 5 rounds of international, collaborative residencies, each unfolding digitally and in-person over six months and consisting of successive phases of exploration, production, and testing. The residencies are hosted by international institutions and with focus on a specific topic and artistic medium:
#1 V2_ (Róterdam)
#2 MEET (Milán)
#3 L.E.V Festival (Gijón/Madrid)
#4 Beta Festival (Dublín)
#5 Chroniques (Marsella)
#1. THE RECIPROCAL TRAP WITH V2_
In the age of agentic AI, Extended Reality shifts from a space of immersion into a system of extraction. The first of these residencies, organised by V2_Lab in Rotterdam (Netherlands), invites artists and designers to co-create a shared artwork that explores the hidden loop between human labour and the machine world-building
Medium: Extended Realities (XR), AI systems, simulation, generative environments
PRACTICAL INFO
Place and time of the residency:
- Online: June-July 2026
- At V2_, Rotterdam (NL): August-September
- Online: Octuber-November
Presentation of the final proyect: February 2027 at V2_, Rotterdam
