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International Exhibition Call for Artists

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Posted by: Texas A&M University
Deadline: Fri, May 1st, 2026

Aberrant Creativity

Artist + AI Creative Collaboration

The Institute for Applied Creativity at the College of Performance, Visualization & Fine Arts (PVFA), Texas A&M University, announces a call for work for the second iteration of Aberrant Creativity, a juried, international art exhibition. As AI-generated imagery becomes increasingly pervasive, creatives are approaching genAI with a mixture of curiosity, caution, and critical intent. The question is no longer whether to engage with machine learning systems or not, but how to do so on one’s own terms, creatively and reflectively. We are no longer just spectators of the shadows on Plato’s cave wall—we are now engaged in a conversation with the very mechanism that creates them. 

The Aberrant Creativity exhibition offers a space for such engagement: not simply rejecting or submitting to this new paradigm but inquiring and conversing with it. Drawing on Deleuze’s concept of the machine as a site of becoming and experimentation, we see this as an opening for collaboration, subversion, speculation, and play. Artists are invited to explore how AI might act as medium, provocateur, or foil, testing boundaries while maintaining creative agency with work at the margins of artistic practice and shared authorship with the machine, raising unsettled questions of agency, intention, and the evolving nature of creativity and form. 

This exhibition will explore a future (and the present) in which human thought, emotion, and imagination become the creative wellspring for machine intelligence. Inspired by J.C.R. Licklider’s vision of Man–Computer Symbiosis, we invite artists to consider machines not as independent creators, but as creators shaped by human presence—responding to us, reflecting us, and even dreaming about us. We invite artists to demonstrate the potential of creative collaboration with AI. Show us how your partnership with generative systems can reveal new forms, emotions, and ways of seeing. Submit works that embody this synergy and challenge our understanding of authorship and creativity.

Eligibility

This call for artwork is open worldwide to artists using artificial intelligence in their creative workflows. Submissions must feature original works created in collaboration with AI or works that explore the relationship between human and AI in the creative process. This can include, but is not limited to, works that incorporate AI algorithms, machine learning, and other forms of technology as integral components in the creative process.  

We will accept works in the following categories: 

Print work 2D and 3D digital works  Time-based works  Installations (Interactive and non-interactive)  Virtual / Augmented / Mixed reality works  360 Videos  Game-based works  Generative art  Sculpture  Traditional flat workflatwork 

There will be two submission categories for the purposes of jurying and awards:  

Professional artists  College-level students 

All works must be original and not violate any copyright laws. 

Prizes / Awards 
Best in Show – $800 
Creative Process – $500 
Best of Student Category – $300 

Timeline:
Application Open: Feb 20th 
Application Deadline: May 1, 2026   
Acceptance Notification: Early June 
Artwork must be delivered by: August 1st, 2026   
Exhibition: August 25 – October 17, 2026 

Location: 
Art Center of Brazos Valley, College Station, Texas USA 

Online Exhibition

Alongside the physical exhibition, there will be a virtual twin hosted online. The virtual exhibition will be live one week after the physical exhibition has opened. The link will be made public and shared at the time of the installation. 

About IAC 

The Institute for Applied Creativity is a forum for collaboration among domains and disciplines intent on creating a radiant future. We champion combinations of experimental, rational, intuitive and analytical methods to realize tangible accomplishments. The inherent creativity of individuals, the deep knowledge within disciplinary practice and research and the rapid pace of transformation in society collectively contribute to an institute that exercises iterative, regenerative and nimble practices. 

About College of Performance, Visualization & Fine Arts 

With a technology-infused foundation, the College of Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts was created to bring together visual arts, performing arts, interactive media, visual computing and humanities. It’s for those who love to explore new ways of seeing the world and who understand the magic that can happen when beauty and technology merge. Leading the way are faculty and staff with significant experience working at the intersection of theory and practice across the arts, sciences and technology. This is home for actors, animators, musicians, dancers, composers, choreographers, painters, game designers, ethnomusicologists, art historians, costume designers, virtual production specialists and more.

About Art Center of Brazos Valley 

The Arts Center of Brazos Valley, a non-profit organization chartered in 1970 by a group of visionary local arts patrons, was established to lead local arts advocacy and cultivate a vibrant arts community. Over 50 years later, the Arts Center now serves the 5,000 square mile Brazos Valley region. Since 2008, it has provided over $4,000,000 in direct funding support to arts organizations throughout the area. 

Governed by a board of community leaders, the Arts Center faithfully serves as the leading advocate for arts and culture in Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Leon, Madison, Robertson, and Washington counties. It provides innovative and impactful artistic opportunities for both residents and visitors of the region. 

Contact Information: artfestival@tamu.edu 

For more information, please visit https://iacpresents.org/aberrant-creativity/

Submit your artwork for consideration
Please fill in the forms with details about your work https://forms.gle/JDqrAy4zZqF4r5TB6

 

Posted on Wed, March 18th, 2026
Expires on Fri, May 1st, 2026

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