Realities in Transition 2 – Unwritten Worlds continues its international residency programme with a second open call aimed at artists and creatives interested in exploring the possibilities of extended realities from a critical and collaborative perspective.
The programme 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)
#4. RELATIONAL REALITIES with BETA
Hosted by Beta (Dublin, Ireland), this residency explores technology through relationships — between human, artificial and more-than-human intelligence — asking how we might reimagine technological futures through decolonialism and interdependence between all forms of intelligence. Situated in Ireland’s ecological, cultural and infrastructural realities, artists are invited to critically prototype new relations of coexistence.
At a moment of overlapping ecological, political and technological crises, the residency asks what becomes possible when we understand technology through the relationships it creates and disrupts. Artists might explore relationships between human, artificial and more-than-human intelligence; the material and ecological infrastructures underpinning seemingly immaterial technologies, or how digital systems are reshaping ideas of agency, communication, care and coexistence.
The residency also invites artists to consider how decolonial practices might challenge dominant ideas of technological progress and our relationships to land, resources, culture and knowledge
As with the other residencies in the programme, three selected artists will collaborate with a creative technologist over a six-month hybrid residency, combining online sessions with an on-site stay at Beta in Ireland. Throughout the process, participants will benefit from the support of the Beta Festival team, the Realities in Transition 2 consortium and its partner organisations, as well as opportunities for knowledge exchange, creative technology support and access to specialised expertise. The residency will culminate in the premiere of the collaborative work at Beta Festival 2027.
Medium: XR, Interactive, Multi-user environments
PRACTICAL INFO
Place and time of the residency:
- March – August 2027
- With an in person period at Beta (IE): May – June 2027
Presentation of the final project:
- Test Lab: June 2027
- Showcase at Beta Festival: November 2027
