Weather is never just weather. It is an entanglement of politics, infrastructures, bodies, data, and time—an atmosphere shaped as much by sensors and satellites as by memory, ritual, and everyday survival.
Weather Weather Lang, an exhibition and programming series by Developh on technology & climate, invites projects from artists, technologists, & researchers to explore how technology mediates our climate grief, our environmental imagination, and our relationship to the elements. We are interested in works that trace how the weather is sensed, computed, narrated, mythologized, or misread—and how understanding the atmosphere means understanding the systems that construct it.
Call for artistic projects for an exhibition:
We are looking for short-term projects (new, in-progress, or finished, with desire to expand/re-present for digital) to develop over December 2025–March 2026, for exhibition & presentation around March/April 2026.
- Deadline: Please submit applications by December 15, 2025.
- Timeline: Projects will be developed over late December 2025–March 2026, for public exhibition & presentation around March/April 2026. We plan to do a digital-first exhibition, with a potential physical installation in Metro Manila pending.
- Projects accepted: Projects may be artistic, technical, research-driven, speculative, browser-based, or hybrid. New works, ongoing works, and adaptations of existing projects are all welcome.
- Terms: The projects proposed must have rights owned by you; by joining the cohort, you agree to us exhibiting and presenting the work for the duration of Weather Weather Lang, and using the work for promotion and documentation.
- Cohort: About ~3 projects will be accepted. Participants of all experience levels, including students or first-time artists, are welcome. Participants may work as a duo or with a larger group, though the stipend remains the same.
- Requirements: Work must be situated in a Philippine context; we are looking for artists based in or with close ties to the Philippines/the Filipino diaspora.
- Notification timeline: Projects will be reviewed on a rolling basis — we aim to deliver notifications by December 31, 2025.
Please see the notes below for themes that we're looking for.
Themes of interest:
1. Data, Sensing, Compression
How do tech, data, and sensing affect our perceptions and understanding of weather?
⤷ Advancements in meteorological tracking can help save lives through early warning systems, if disbursed properly. Advancements in satellite imagery help us understand large-scale patterns.but, data is not the only way to understand the weather, and has its limitations. What climate experiences cannot be contained by sensors or satellites? What ‘sensory gaps’ might exist, for example, what have we lost from folk/cultural knowledges about the weather?
2. Resource & Infrastructure
How do technological problems exacerbate climate issues? Our tools require vast amounts of data and land to work, and also are used as surveillance tools…
⤷ Surveillance: Who manages our climate tools? What is the potential in utilizing these for surveillance or warfare?
⤷ Infrastructural gaps: How might communities be left out by technological systems? When do our technologies fail to predict things properly?
⤷ Environmental implications: Ironically, what are the costs of data centers, satellite monitoring, and processing plants that power these weather prediction tools?
3. Systems & Accountability
How do we demand more of our governments and institutions in constructing adequate, socially-oriented climate responses?
⤷ Examine networks of corruption in infrastructure projects to relief and aid disbursement
⤷ Explore government data and transparency tools that turn our climate grief into action
⤷ Disseminate climate information through more accessible means
(We are looking towards products that unpack and demystify systems, rather than techno-solutionist approaches.)
4. Non-human bodies & senses
Can understanding non-human perspectives (like land, resource, and plant life) help us navigate the climate crisis?
⤷ Exploring alternate scales of time, like cyclical or geologic time; and how seasons mark rhythms of disaster
⤷ ‘More-than-human’ intelligences and senses; like understanding how natural systems and plants respond to weather
⤷ Highlight animist and generational forms of knowledge, like tracing how plant life might record climate knowledge, and what folk practices can do in the face of climate response and mitigation
What you get:
Developh offers funding, time, and technical + curatorial support for project development through January–March 2026, with projects included in a digital exhibition after March 2026..
1. Funding: Flat stipend of Php9,000/~150USD per selected project; hosting will be provided by Developh. (This funding comes from Developh ourselves, raised from workshops and drawn from personal funds with no external sponsors.)
2. Technical Support: Assistance from our team of designers/engineers to help realize specific components of your project (prototyping, back-end engineering, browser-based implementation, any brand/design support). We will also host, archive, and document your work. The work is fully yours.
3. Curatorial Support: Feedback and guidance from Developh curators on project strategy, scope, narrative, and presentation.
4. Exhibition: Opportunities to present your work through a 1.) culminating exhibition after March 2026 (online + physical pending resources), and 2.) a public presentation/artist talk.
Curators:
1. Arman Lorenzo B. serves as the curator of Developh.
His practice centers on conjuring immersive exhibitions that transform space through atmospherics, grounded in the belief that altering the environment directly reshapes how people encounter and interpret art.
Based in Quezon City, Philippines, his past shows include "Sublime, Subliminal" in partnership with Et Alt, and "Neither Here Nor There" under Terrarium. https://www.instagram.com/a.rman/
2. Chia Amisola is the Executive Director of Developh, an artist-run organization.
Chia Amisola is an artist of agencies and ambiences. Their practice centers the intimacies of infrastructures and the labor of tools, reimagining technology's relationship with ambience, agency, and apparitions as they operate across spaces domestic to divine.
https://everythingi.love/ About Developh
Developh is an arts & research institution nurturing critical and creative technologies, working towards a more archipelagic internet. As a community of practice, we gather, publish, research, and create to reclaim technology as a tool for liberation rather than oppression. Our activations concern the online, offline, and in-between. https://developh.org/, https://develo.ph/discord
We previously showed https://kakakompyutermoyan.com/, made for online presentation, celebrated at Space63 in Comuna, and invited for presentation at Art Fair Philippines and Tai Kwun.
