The perception of the body in art has been questioned and redefined over the centuries. First, it was narrated through what happened to it — in the Middle Ages, martyrs enduring pagan punishments. Later, attention turned to the inner life, to the oneiric, and with Romanticism we began representing emotions themselves, though still through reality. The avant-gardes shattered this balance, bending reality to new forms of expression. Today, technologies — and AI in particular — provide us with tools to push the representation of bodies and emotions even further.
We invite artists, performers, digital and multidisciplinary creatives to explore and interpret the body and the multiple bodies — physical and virtual — that we inhabit and traverse today.
This call focuses on five perspectives:
The body and its multiplicities: from the biological body to the digital one; from physical to virtual spaces; from material presences to AI-simulated ones.
Form and instrument of identity: the body as the place where we recognize ourselves and present ourselves, but also as a mutable interface, modified or generated by artificial systems.
Bodies and identities in online communication: avatars, profiles, photos, filters, deepfakes — how we represent and disguise ourselves in chats, dating, and AI-mediated relationships.
Relationship with one’s own body: tensions, challenges, and desires between the real and the ideal body, between who we are and who we wish to be in the hybrid physical-digital universe.
- Relationship with the other: encounters, attractions, and distances between physical and virtual bodies, between “real” and AI-simulated relationships.
Submission deadline: October 10, 2025
