OPEN CALL: Spark program for emerging artists, several festivals in Northern England, deadline 22.5.2026.

https://lightupthenorth.com/development/spark/

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It's hard to visit Hamburger Bahnhof and not to take a photo of their Dan Flavin piece (or a part of it, it's all around). Once again, I did not succeed.

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Artists studios are magical places, and I had a chance to visit Alexander Reichstein's. And his two storages! Reichstein is known in the light art circles of his installations with uv-lighted characters, made of wire - like drawings in 3D, but his materials are plenty more than just that. His works have been showed in many festivals and exhibitions, and I totally get why.

The last photo is by Tim Bird, from 2016 Lux Helsinki festival. There you can see one of Reichsteins artworks, They Were Here – and my MA Thesis work for the University of Arts curating programme Praxis, Images of Joy, projected on the cathedral façade in the back.

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OPEN CALL: SHINE Emerging Artist Programme
A variety of festivals in the Northern England. DL 11.5.2026.
https://lightupthenorth.com/development/shine-artist-call-out/

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The end of Lumiere Durham festival was a bummer to say the least, but photos are plenty and will carry the memories. Here's Emma Allen's Flutter from 2025.

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REPOST: OPEN CALL
Residency for emerging immersive video artists, including writers and sound designers. L'Hybride, Lille, France
Deadline 29.5.2026.
https://videomappingcenter.com/en/call-for-applications-immersive-video-mapping-creation-residencies/

#LHybride #residency #OpenCall #ImmersiveArt #videoart #videotaide #LightArt #valotaide #MediaArt #mediataide #ContemporaryArt #nykytaide #culture #kulttuuri #Art #taide #light #valo

Open Call: Canary Wharf: Winter Lights. London, UK. DL 13.5.2026.
https://canarywharf.com/winter-lights/

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Tornado.exe by Alice Chemama was one of the non-mainstream artworks seen at the ticketed courtyard of IAE Lille. In a ghost-in-a-machine tradition, a bug destroys a game, and possibly a life as well, in a most trippy and ironic tone. The artwork is also an example of illustrators gone mappers, which I think is a splendid thing!

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Another nice surprise in the Video Mapping Festival of Lille: Moulting by Capsule Collectif. Intestines-dwelling-in-mud -like formations are not the most usual imagery of mappings, so I could call this a fresh take. There were accidental moments of beauty in colours of dragonfly wings, but even they were somewhat mechanical and cruel. Loved it. A special shoutout for the music by Géraldine Kwik, defs not the regular boom-ba-boom, but an insightful approach to nature sounds going totally uncanny. Weird and wonderful!

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Even if I'm not too much into traditional power-mapping, the last seconds of mammasONica's Le doute de l’air made an impression on me. There certainly was a wow, but also something majestically sinister in the veil sucked into the abyss of the window. Yes, I'm into details like that.

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