{"id":787,"date":"2025-04-15T14:28:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T14:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/?page_id=787"},"modified":"2025-07-09T01:53:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T22:53:56","slug":"open-call","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/goldenhornlightfestival.ciacef.org\/index.php\/open-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Call"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As part of the Golden Horn Light Festival 2025, we are inviting submissions from emerging artists (under 35 years old) working with experimental video, generative AI, 3D animation, CGI, and hybrid visual forms that explore new directions in moving image.<\/span><\/p>\n


\nSelected works will be showcased on the 360\u00b0 videowall at ArtIstanbul Feshane (resolution: 8928 \u00d7 1152 px), a large-scale panoramic screen within one of the Golden Horn\u2019s new cultural hubs. All selected artists will receive an artist fee for their participation.<\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/div>[vc_column_text css=””]Deadline:<\/strong> 15. July 2025<\/span>
\nFestival dates:<\/strong> September 18 – 28, 2025<\/span>
\nLocation:<\/strong> ArtIstanbul Feshane, Golden Horn, Istanbul<\/span>[\/vc_column_text]
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The Golden Horn Light Festival is a large-scale public art event that reimagines Istanbul\u2019s historic Golden Horn \u2014 once a vital harbor and strategic site of empire \u2014 as an active, shifting landscape entangled with history, ecology, and digital infrastructure.<\/span><\/p>\n


\nIn the age of the Anthropocene, humanity has become a geological force, altering coastlines, mining rare-earth minerals for technological progress, and accelerating ecological change. The festival invites artists to reflect on this entanglement: how environments shape us, and how we, in turn, shape them through technology, ambition, and disruption.<\/span><\/p>\n


\nWe are looking for video works that resonate with this layered context \u2014 whether through speculative aesthetics, poetic abstraction, generative systems, or experimental narratives.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The artworks will explore themes of sustainability, historical narratives, and digital innovation, incorporating elements that reflect the Golden Horn\u2019s myths, evolving landscape, and cultural memory. By merging light, architecture, and technology, the festival fosters a dialogue between past and present, redefining public engagement with contemporary art in Istanbul.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Applications open!<\/h3>\n

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Apply Here!<\/a><\/p>\n

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