OPEN CALL – SFSIA 2026 | Berlin > June 29 – July 4
“In the Fog of the Digital: AI and Neural-Digital Entanglement in Cognitive Capitalism”
PRIORITY DEADLINE: April 2
FACULTY Highlight ——> RUTH ANDERWALD + LEONHARD GROND have conducted artistic research on dizziness for over fifteen years.
@anderwaldgrond led the research projects Dizziness – A Resource (2014–2017) and Navigating Dizziness Together (2020–2024). From 2021 to 2024, they served as professors in the PhD in Art programme and were guest professors at ARC mdw in 2025. Since 1999, they have worked as an artist duo, exhibiting at renowned institutions including Tate Modern (London), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Whitechapel Gallery (London), Himalayas Art Museum (Shanghai), and Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin). Together with Katrin Bucher Trantow, they co-curated exhibitions on dizziness at CCA Ujazdowski Castle (Warsaw) and Kunsthaus Graz. They also co-curated the exhibition and event cycle Iliggocene – The Age of Dizziness (2026) with Sergio Edelsztein, presented at KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Videoart at Midnight (VAM), the Berlin Museum of Medical History at Charité, in Berlin, and Belvedere 21 in Vienna. Their publications include the edited volumes Dizziness – A Resource (2019, Sternberg Press/MIT Press) and The Arts of Resistance (2025, Verlag für Moderne Kunst), as well as the artist novel and essay Der Abgrund braucht (2026), co-authored with A. Kim and L. Grond. Additionally, they produced the podcast series On Certain Groundlessness (2024) with Sergio Edelsztein, featuring contributions by Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha, Tim Etchells, Trevor Paglen, Ben Spatz, among others. The series has reached audiences in over fifty countries.
Faculty include Nora Al-Badri, Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond, Kader Attia, David W. Bates, Grégory Chatonsky, Sergio Edelsztein, Claire Fontaine, Agnieszka Kurant, Liz Magic Laser, Yuk Hui, Anna Longo, David Joselit, Warren Neidich (founder/director), Matteo Pasquinelli, Martha Schwendener, and Antonio Somaini.
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