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01 May 2026 CFP: DHS Student Conference, 12-13 June 2026: EPHEMERAL ENCOUNTERS

  • What role does ephemera play in the practice of design history?
  • How can we approach the question of ephemerality when thinking about sustainability in the face of the climate crisis and political turmoil?
  • How can archives, museums, and historical repositories work to preserve spaces, objects, skills, memories, traditions, and cultures for the future?
  • What can design history do to preserve fleeting encounters? How do design historians negotiate the ephemerality of user experience?
  • As design historians, how do we come to terms with these uncertainties, do we simply attempt to preserve and share these histories, or do we attempt to find new methods of engaging with these histories that might help us face contemporary issues?

We welcome papers and other creative responses which fit with an online format, such as audio/ visual work or creative ways of presenting (in-conversation papers, interviews etc.), engaging with design history and the themes of ephemera, ephemerality and ephemeral encounters. Students and recent graduates from diverse backgrounds are all encouraged to present their work.

01 May 2026 Institute of Machine Unlearning - Love in the Times of Surveillance Capitalism

Many aspects of everyday life now pass through algorithmic infrastructures: mapping services, archives, apps, datasets, and platforms that continuously record and process information. While these systems are designed for data extraction and analysis, they sometimes unintentionally capture moments of our relationships.

This open call invites small traces of affection, care, grief, or memory that have become embedded in digital systems.

Send your tender moments, stories, fragments, screenshots, poems or images from the edge of the machine documenting moments where human relationships become entangled with algorithmic infrastructures. From apps and datasets to archives, platforms, or automated imagery.

The collected materials will be assembled into a collectively authored zine.

01 May 2026 CFP: 13th International Conference of the Hellenic Geographical Society - Geography Matters

27-28 November 2026. Athens, Greece

Modern Geography encompasses a broad spectrum of subjects, interacting with the natural, social, and human sciences, as well as with applied sciences and spatial planning. The 13th Conference of the Hellenic Geographical Society (HGS), titled Geography Matters, and co-organised with the Harokopio University of Athens, aims to highlight the richness and diversity of Geography, placing special emphasis on bridging different approaches and interconnecting scientific boundaries.

In an era of significant changes and uncertainty, major challenges - such as the climate crisis, humanitarian disasters and intensification of social inequalities, and geopolitical tensions and authoritarianism in governance - necessitate innovative, interdisciplinary and multiscalar inquiries.

01 May 2026 Antennae Journal #69 - Impossible Archives

This issue of Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, co-edited by Giovanni Aloi and Cristina Baldacci, invites submissions that think creatively about archives of all kinds, especially those entangled with nature, ecology, the more-than-human, and the visual cultures that surround them. In part inspired by Baldacci’s book Archivi Impossibili (2016), the issue is interested not only in archives that preserve, protect, and classify, but also in those that resist and challenge boundaries, hierarchies and order: archives that are fragmentary, speculative, excessive, illegible, ephemeral, sensorial, living, or deliberately “impossible”, since they undermine the idea of archives of modern origin. What happens when the archive is no longer a guarantee of truth but a contested field, one shaped by extraction, erasure, environmental transformation, and competing claims to belonging?

01 May 2026 Funding: Anna Polke Foundation Research Scholarships

Two scholarships of €5,000 each available.

The Anna Polke Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of two scholarships of €5,000 each. Supported research projects include those by scholars in the field of art history or related disciplines that reevaluate aspects of Sigmar Polke’s oeuvre from a relevant contemporary perspective.

01 May 2026 CFP: CLARA #14: Uncertainties

Clara is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal in architecture dedicated to topics, research methods, and tools specific to the field. Each issue comprises a main thematic section proposed by guest editors, and two additional sections: Archives, with articles based on the exploration of archival documents, and Position(s), with articles that take a stance on current developments or events in architecture.

Full call PDF: https://clararevue.ulb.be/CLARA/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/109

04 May 2026 Log 67

Summer 2026 Honorarium offered

Log 67 is an open issue on the state of the world today. All submissions are welcome; timely submissions on new architecture and current events are preferred.

Submit by Monday, May 4. Submissions should be between 250 and 4,000 words.

04 May 2026 Error 417 – Project funding (Error 406)

Error 417 Expectation Failed is looking for projects that reject the longing for a mythic “old internet” and confront the politics of net nostalgia head-on. The internet is broken, but was it ever whole? We invite artists, curators and collectives from around the world to propose projects that take a clear-eyed view of the past, while exploring how internet histories can open pathways toward more equitable futures. This open call asks: what protocols, networks, archives and shared conditions are needed to build the internet we actually want? Respond to netstalgia with error 406 not acceptable.

The funding program Error 406 Not Acceptable supports open processes and risky art projects through an annual open call. Each edition highlights a different urgent topic, setting the focus on a condition that is Not Acceptable.

The call for projects is aimed at artists worldwide, collectives, curators, arts initiatives, exhibition spaces, online platforms, and developers of software and hardware — basically anyone exploring the possibilities of contemporary, networked technologies as art and their significance for society.

04 May 2026 Experimental Fellowship 2026 - Experimental Foundation + Bauhaus Earth

The Experimental Fellowship with Bauhaus Earth supports emerging international practitioners and cross-disciplinary teams developing regenerative, circular, and climate-conscious solutions, aiming to contribute to a transformative shift in the building sector.

The Fellowship focuses on practice-based research, regenerative material practices, and turning experimentation into actionable, sustainable architecture solutions. Fellows work with the Experimental Foundation and Bauhaus Earth teams to develop prototypes, test materials, and contribute to wider systemic change in the built environment.

Fellows receive financial support, mentorship, technical guidance, and access to a global network of research and industry partners. Funding includes a monthly stipend plus project-related costs up to €30,000.

08 May 2026 STUDIO 404: ‘Touch Grass’ - Call for workshop facilitators

4 June 2026, 6pm–9pm, Hackney, London

STUDIO 404 (www.studio404.world) is a non-profit social enterprise founded by the teams behind Creative Debuts and Other Box. We create community-led cultural spaces and immersive programmes, exhibitions, and events that prioritise real-world connection.

We’re inviting artists, facilitators, and creative practitioners to host drop-in workshops as part of our next show: TOUCH GRASS.

TOUCH GRASS explores the creative energy of being outside. Shaped by public space, street culture, nature, and our “OFFLINE BY DESIGN” ethos, the event centres presence over performance, connection over consumption, and what becomes possible when we step away from the screen.

This is a large-scale, in-person cultural gathering bringing together artists, designers, brands, and communities to create, connect, and experience work in a shared physical space.

08 May 2026 Library Mothership call for emerging bookmakers - to exhibit at art book fairs

NB: Submission fee applies (£8)

This year, Library Mothership is opening a section of our table to highlight emerging bookmakers across four international book fairs in 2026. One submission, four book fairs.

Your book will be considered for:

  • Offprint London — 15–17 May, 180 Studios, 180 Strand, London
  • A Bigger Book Fair (Peckham 24) — 15-17 May, Copeland Gallery, London
  • Biblioteka Art Book Fair — 12–13 June, The Warburg Institute, London
  • I Never Read: Art Book Fair Basel — 14–20 June, Viaduktstrasse 33, Basel

Selected publications will appear at 2–4 of these fairs based on curatorial fit.

10 May 2026 Everyone is a Girl - theme: gloss / glossolalia

We’re looking for writing that thinks through the politics of the surface and the forms of excess that the internet both produces and fails to contain. That can come from anywhere, art history, film and moving image, music criticism, cultural anthropology, sociology, new media research, critical theory, curatorial practice. Essays, auto-theory, close readings, experimental writing, hybrids, and forms that don’t have a name yet.

Instagram post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DXOpNrujaXS/ Submission form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfrD2Vz80R5b7dqEDDL5kviB0PY3wATXrl8Gm4JRmABXxbzOw/viewform

10 May 2026 Funding: Imagination Practice Fund

~16 projects, up to £3000

The Imagination Practice Fund 2026 offers up to £3,000 in funding for practitioners using collective imagination to drive social change, making it a valuable opportunity for creatives, community leaders, and innovators seeking to challenge dominant narratives and build more equitable futures. Designed for individuals and groups working at the intersection of creativity, community, and systems change, this fund supports projects that use imagination as a tool for transformation.

10 May 2026 Anthropolitan magazine (UCL Dept. of Anthropology)

This year, we are inviting both written submissions and visual works that will be showcased in two streams:

Anthropolitan Print Magazine

We welcome submissions across all formats for the Anthropolitan print magazine: ethnographic essays, creative non-fiction, poetry, photography, illustration, and experimental work that defies easy categorisation. Work that sits between disciplines, genres, or registers is especially encouraged. Word count for articles should be limited to 1,500 words and should be accompanied by at least 1 visual element (in high resolution jpeg format).

Anthropolitan x The Creative Collective Picture Competition

All visual art submissions will be entered in a competition to select the cover image for this year’s Anthropolitan print. Shortlisted pictures will be showcased during the AnthroShow on June 9 2026, and selected submissions will also be exhibited in the department, framed and displayed in the coming academic year.

In this way, visual works will be able to shape the department’s visual identity and its evolving legacy. Visuals should be of good quality resolution ( 2339 x 3307 pixels per inch), ideally to be printed in A3 and A4 formats and submitted as jpeg files.

10 May 2026 CFP: Choosing the Past: The Manifestation of History in a Changing Public Sphere

Choosing the Past: The Manifestation of History in a Changing Public Sphere 10–12 June 2026 | Hybrid (online & in-person) | Charles University, Prague

This international and interdisciplinary conference invites PhD candidates and selected Master’s students to explore how historical narratives are constructed, negotiated, and debated in the contemporary public sphere. The event welcomes contributions from fields such as history, sociology, anthropology, political science, cultural studies, gender studies, and related disciplines.

Key topics include memory and visual culture, national identity, heritage and urban memory, disinformation, decolonisation of history, and the politics of belonging.

The conference will be held online & in-person on June 10-12, 2026. The event is organized by the Department of East European Studies and the Boris Nemtsov Academic Center, Faculty of Arts, and the Department of Historical Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague.

11 May 2026 CFP: Oral History Australia 2026 Biennial Conference - Human voices, modern technology: Oral history & authenticity

3-6 December 2026

We invite papers that consider how new applications, techniques and changes in technology are being used by practitioners in planning, recording, transcribing, archiving, and sharing oral histories. Papers might consider (but are not limited to):

  • ethical considerations
  • transcription technologies
  • challenges underpinning podcasting and videography
  • the long-term storage of interviews, and the
  • potential consequences of hosting projects online.

Alternatively, we are also looking for papers that reaffirm the values that have always been inherent to oral history as a methodology necessitating human interactivity and authentic storytelling, which recognise the importance of continuing to forge connections and safeguard oral histories for the future.

14 May 2026 CFP: The Grammar of Art, Kunstlicht Vol. 47, no 3/4

What does it mean to read art—not as image, but as language? And what if language itself is unstable, embodied, coded, or even resistant to being read at all?

For our next issue of Kunstlicht, we are looking for submissions that address the historical, situated, embodied, and fractured conditions of language in art, moving between theoretical and philosophical perspectives that situate particular linguistic and cultural ruptures, and artworks that test the limits of language as a tool.

15 May 2026 Funding: LRG (Landscape Research Group) Research Fund 2026

A total of £15,000 is available for the 2026 Research Fund. Applicants may request between £1,000 and £5,000.

The Research Fund supports innovative projects that deepen understanding of landscape and contribute to more equitable, sustainable relationships between people, place and environment.

This year, the Research Fund invites proposals that develop interdisciplinary, innovative, and methodologically advanced approaches to understanding landscape change across scales, ranging from planetary systems to intimate, lived environments, encompassing humans, non-humans, and more-than-human relations in more equitable ways.

15 May 2026 Docomomo US - Call for articles: Recreation & Play

Docomomo US invites submissions for a 2026 special edition focused on Recreation & Play – the mid-twentieth-century sites where communities gathered for leisure, movement, social life, and joy.

This edition will examine parks, plazas, skate spaces, swimming pools, playgrounds, amusement sites, and recreational landscapes built between 1949 and 1969, with particular attention to informal use, cultural practices, and histories of access, exclusion, and belonging. Contributions may address architectural, landscape, social, artistic, or cultural dimensions of recreation and play.

We welcome submissions from scholars, practitioners, preservationists, students, artists, and community members.

15 May 2026 CFP: Photography’s Material Conditions: Residue, Object(hood) and Practices in the Expanded Field

8th International Conference of Photography & Theory (ICPT2026) Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, 26-28 November, 2026

We invite proposals for 20-minute presentations from various disciplines, such as: photography, art history and theory, visual sociology, anthropology, museology, philosophy, ethnography, education, cultural studies, and visual and media studies. To propose a paper, please submit a 450-word abstract (including references) through our online submission system, no later than: May 15th, 2026

15 May 2026 CFP: Drawing from Territory - Research and practices in art, science and technology

International Conference 23rd - 25th November 2026 Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal

Abstracts accepted in EN, ES, PT

Drawing from territory is an international artistic and scientific conference held within the framework of the XXIV International Biennial of Art of Cerveira, with the support of research centres from the University of Porto: the Research Institute in Art, Design and Society (i2ADS), the Centre of Studies in Geography and Spatial Planning (CEGOT), and the Research Centre for Territory, Transports and Environment (CITTA).

Rooted in the border territory of Vila Nova de Cerveira, in northern Portugal, and Galicia, the initiative proposes a discussion of pressing territorial issues, with particular attention to border regions as spaces of negotiation, permeability, exchange, and tension.

Drawing from territory invites artists, scientists, professionals from STEM fields, as well as researchers from all areas of knowledge, to engage with Drawing as a broad and transversal discipline, capable of articulating research and praxis across different domains.

15 May 2026 CFP: Warburg, Malraux, Picasso: Album, Atlas, Archive

Aby Warburg, André Malraux and Pablo Picasso were fascinated in their lifetime by the persistence and metamorphoses of images and the inheritance of world art. Today, Malraux’s musée imaginaire or ‘museum without walls’ extends to the virtual universe of images. Throughout 2026 events are taking place internationally to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the death of André Malraux, the adventurer, writer and first French Minister of Culture. The Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study and the Courtauld Institute, University of London, together with the Musée national Picasso-Paris, are celebrating this occasion with a conference to be held on 4-5 December, 2026.

Warburg and Malraux expert Georges Didi-Huberman (EHESS, Paris) is a confirmed speaker.

Subjects might include:

  • Aby Warburg as precursor
  • Cultural restitution and the global ‘museum without walls’
  • Re-readings from the viewpoint of postcolonial theory
  • The global culture of image circulation
  • Focussed studies, such as Picasso’s exchanges with Malraux, commemorated in Malraux’s La tête d’obsidienne, 1974 (Picasso’s Mask, 1976)
  • Contemporary responses by artists such as Dennis Adams or Goshka Macuga

Papers should aim at 15-20 minutes for delivery, in English, with further time for questions.

Conference dates: 4-5 December 2026

Locations: The Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, and the Courtauld Institute, University of London.

15 May 2026 Lip Service Issue #6 - Vagina Museum (Zine)

What does it mean to read art—not as image, but as language? And what if language itself is unstable, embodied, coded, or even resistant to being read at all?

For our next issue of Kunstlicht, we are looking for submissions that address the historical, situated, embodied, and fractured conditions of language in art, moving between theoretical and philosophical perspectives that situate particular linguistic and cultural ruptures, and artworks that test the limits of language as a tool.

Spreading knowledge and raising awareness of the gynaecological anatomy and health

  • Giving confidence to people to talk about issues surrounding the gynaecological anatomy
  • Erasing the stigma around the body and gynaecological anatomy
  • Acting as a forum for feminism, women’s rights, the LGBT+ community and the intersex community
  • Challenging heteronormative and cisnormative behaviour
  • Promoting intersectional, feminist and trans-inclusive values

16 May 2026 Cavendish Arts Science Fellowship at Girton College, Cambridge, UK

The annual Cavendish Arts Science Fellowship is delivered in partnership with Girton College thanks to the vision and generous support of Una Ryan. The Fellowship supports the Cavendish Arts Science ethos of experimenting, decentring and re-imagining. It is designed for artists to develop thought-provoking ideas through engagement with physicists and those in other fields, and to experiment with new approaches to their practice that are transformative and push boundaries.

The one-year Fellowship will begin in October 2026 and end in October 2027. It includes a residency period in Cambridge, typically of at least six months up to one year. Exact dates of the residency period are flexible and will be agreed with the selected artist.

The Fellowship is financially supported:

  • A stipend of 10,000 GBP(£) will be paid to the successful candidate. This amount includes all taxes and is a contribution towards the artist’s living costs and expenses
  • Rent-free accommodation and meals will be provided at Girton College during the residency period in Cambridge
  • A production budget of 10,000 GBP(£) will be made available to support the development of new work
  • A travel budget of up to 3,000 GBP(£) depending on where the artist is based, will be available to support the cost of travel to/from Cambridge during the Fellowship

17 May 2026 futurejuice - call for writing proposals: Automation Bias

We invite critical, experimental, and hybrid responses to automation bias, across essays, fiction, interviews, and poetic forms.

Seeking work that moves beyond baseline AI critique to trace deeper links between technology, culture, identity, and older systems of control; and that explores automation as psychological, social, and behavioural, not just technical.

https://tally.so/r/2EbDPj

18 May 2026 CFP: Society for Visual Anthropology Visual Research Conference (VRC) 2026

November 16-18, 2026, St. Louis, MO, USA

The VRC provides an opportunity for professionals and students to dialogue about visually engaged works-in-progress in 40-minute presentation slots. Conventionally there are no specific themes to follow for general submissions, though we are most interested in new ideas and projects under development in the study of visual signification, visual communication, and visual forms of representation, and/or utilizing visual media (photo, film, web, polymedia, intermedia, multimodal media).

18 May 2026 Call for sessions, roundtables & papers: SAH (Society of Architectural Historians) Virtual Conference 2026

24–26 September, 2026 — Online conference via Zoom

The Society of Architectural Historians invites those interested in the history of the built environment to submit a session or paper proposal for its virtual conference—SAH Virtual 2026—that will be held from Thursday, September 24, to Saturday, September 26, 2026.

The purpose of SAH Virtual 2026 is to share and discuss research in architectural history and related disciplines that cover every period in the history of architecture and all aspects of the built environment. In addition to architectural historians, we seek submissions from allied and adjacent disciplines including (but not limited to) architecture, landscape, urban history, art history, design, archaeology, sociology, anthropology, geography, environmental studies, etc. The guiding principle for SAH Virtual 2026 is inter-disciplinary sharing and collaboration. We hope this will be an opportunity for people from any discipline who are interested in the history of the built environment to participate in a meaningful exchange of ideas.

18 May 2026 the modernist Issue 58 - PLASTIC

For our Autumn 2026 issue, we are taking on PLASTIC. Plastic permeates our lives today, largely as a legacy of its mind-blowing expansion in production and application throughout the twentieth century. We invite articles that respond to the ambiguities of twentieth-century ideas and attitudes towards PLASTIC - from the engineering, design and architectural ambitions enabled by innovative new uses; to failed attempts to harness it for purposes it could never fulfil. We are interested in how the promise of a utopian, shrink-wrapped future soured amid a growing environmental consciousness.

24 May 2026 Mozilla Festival - Call for Proposals

Recinte Fabra i Coats, Barcelona, Spain. 28–30 October

This year’s theme is Wilding—It is a provocation: what happens when we loosen rigid systems and create the conditions for communities and technologies to evolve collectively, naturally, intuitively?

Inspired by ecological practices of rewilding, where gardens and forests are left to regenerate through their own intelligence, this theme explores what it means to let our digital worlds grow wilder, more diverse, and more alive. It means community-owned mesh networks, federated platforms, open protocols, community archives and tools built on transparency, trust and mutual flourishing.

We are inviting you to take this theme and submit a proposal for a session or experience that shows how your work can help us all embrace Wilding—to restore balance, and cultivate infrastructures rooted in care, mutuality, and collective action.

We’re looking for submissions across 8 unique community tracks, from builders, technologists, artists and community organizers, all inspired by the theme: Wilding.

25 May 2026 Another Gaze Journal - Call for writing

https://www.anothergaze.com

Another Gaze, founded in 2016, is a journal of film and feminisms. Our aim is to publish writing that engages in thoughtful and rigorous ways with film culture, past and present. We have historically focused on feminist approaches to film criticism, and remain committed to that project while also broadening our scope to address wider questions of cinema and politics.

Once a printed journal, we now aim to publish three issues a year online. We feature longform essays and criticism, sometimes experimental in nature…

Another Gaze is particularly interested in:

  • Writing that takes the temperature of the current moment
  • Well-researched essays about a filmmaker (to be understood as anyone involved in the making of a film) or filmmaking collective
  • Essays on recent restorations that provide historical context
  • Commentary/critique on festivals/other parts of the industry apparatus
  • Longform book reviews

We are still unfunded. We work on pieces over the course of months and several drafts. Payment ranges from 150 – 400 GBP, depending on word count.

25 May 2026 CFP: Un/Stable: Lands, Anxieties, Dreams

Photography Research Group, University of Brighton Photoworks Festival

Photoworks and the Photography Research Group at the University of Brighton are co-organising a conference as part of the upcoming edition of Photoworks Festival.

The theme Un/Stable: Lands, Anxieties, Dreams will explore geographical, psychological and metaphysical flows and connections of life, culture, and the environment.

This call for papers invites responses to the fragile and current states of personal and collective geographies. Through photography practices and perspectives on photography, we seek to address anxieties and fractured realities, opening speculative spaces of care, resistance, and reimagining.

The conference will take place on Friday 2 October 2026 at the University of Brighton, School of Art and Media, City Campus, and aims to support development of new research locating photography within various fields of study.

These include ecological entanglements and cosmotechnics, geological and technological anxieties, looking at how histories, identities, futures and place are interconnected.

This area of research includes Art in the Age of Anxiety, (2021) edited by Omar Kholeif; Cosmotechnics: For a Renewed Concept of Technology in the Anthropocene, (2021) edited by Yuk Hui and Pieter Lemmens; Ways of Being, (2022) by James Bridle, and Returning to Benjamin: Art in the Age of AI by Victor Burgin (2025).

26 May 2026 CRASSH Summer Research Placement

Help us put together a history of how and why CRASSH was founded 25 years ago, its evolution, and how it has impacted research at Cambridge and beyond.

We are looking for a PhD student or a postdoc to lead this project, which will involve conducting informal interviews with a range of people who have interacted with CRASSH over the years, hunting down important information in School and University records, and drafting a narrative of around 1500-2000 words.

Training in historical methods and/or journalistic experience may be an advantage, but we will consider all applicants who can persuade us that they have excellent writing skills, an eye for detail, and the confidence to interview very senior figures in and beyond the University.

You will need to work independently but in consultation with the management team at CRASSH.

26 May 2026 The Toe Rag - October 2026 issue - FICTIONS

Theme: FICTIONS

The Toe Rag publishes formally ambitious non-fiction, fiction, poetry and artworks. The magazine is concerned with contemporary culture, particularly visual art, performance, politics, philosophy and literature. We favour work that is intellectually rigorous and stylistically controlled. We recommend reading past writing in the magazine before submitting.

We accept proposals of up to 300 words and full essays of up to 3,000 words. Proposals should clearly indicate structure, content and intended word count and must be accompanied by at least one writing sample, published or unpublished. For poetry, please do not send more than five poems. For fiction, we accept stories of up to 4,000 words. For arts and book reviews, please send an expression of interest with a writing sample.

31 May 2026 CFP: Emerging Tourism: Architecture and Planning Perspectives

BMS College of Architecture, Design and Planning Bengaluru, India Conference dates: 29-31 January 2026

BMS College of Architecture, Design and Planning invites you to the International Conference on Emerging Tourism: Architecture and Planning Perspectives (INCET 2027)

Tourism today goes beyond economics—shaping culture, ecology, infrastructure, and human experience. INCET 2027 brings together academia, practice, and policy to explore sustainable, inclusive, and design-led tourism futures.

31 May 2026 CFP: Vision and Veiling: Photographic Resilience and Sociopolitical Change

Photography Network Virtual Symposium, Nov 5–7, 2026

Photography practitioners, historians, and curators respond in a multitude of ways to political and cultural contexts that challenge their work. Moreover, in response to efforts to remove, omit, occlude, obscure, or manipulate, photographs often persist, transform, and recirculate, reformulating visual worlds. Photographs bear a complex relationship to political and social power; authorities might manipulate or remove photographs to further their goals, but forms of covering up, self-censorship, or self-fashioning might also function in the name of individual privacy, safety, or resistance. Furthermore, as the material capabilities and limitations of photography shift, new questions continually emerge about the role of photographic removal and photographic resilience in constricting cultural climates.

This symposium offers a platform for scholarship that investigates the adaptability of photography and photo history in the face of constraints, be them cultural, governmental, institutional, editorial, individual, or otherwise. What do historians, curators, and photographers do when limitations are placed on their work, and what do the limitations themselves reveal about photography? Relatedly, when is restriction, refusal, or withdrawal protective, strategic, or empowering? Finally, what, if anything, has changed about how the medium navigates social or cultural boundaries—what can we learn from how practitioners have done this in the past that might shed light on present-day questions? We welcome interdisciplinary approaches, and we especially encourage international scholars to submit.

31 May 2026 CFP: The agency of images in the cognitive ecology of artificial intelligence

ASRI Journal, special issue 31

This volume of ASRI Journal. Art and Society invites academics and visual artists, at any stage of their career, to contribute research and practices that explore the epistemic and ontological relationships and differences between the agency of AI-generated images and the agency of art images, as well as the role of artistic practice in critiquing and visualising the socio-technological conditions of visual culture in the age of GenAI.

Submission details (ES): https://revistaasri.com/about/submissions Submission details (EN): https://calenda.org/1346638

31 May 2026 Exhibition: GALLERY44 - The House Has a Body

Gallery44 is inviting submissions for an intimate autumn exhibition in London.

The House Has a Body considers domestic space not as a backdrop, but as something charged: a place where bodies, objects, surfaces and histories leave traces.

We are interested in practices exploring the body, memory, domestic space, objects, architecture, interiors, thresholds, textiles and material traces.

Artists working across painting, sculpture, installation, object-making, textile, photography and moving image are invited to send material.

Submission email in the Instagram post linked.