The Wrong Biennale is back for its 2025-2026 edition, featuring a unique exhibition that will challenge your perceptions of reality and artificial intelligence: "Moons, Castles, Trees | AI Chronotopes".

Imagine the world's largest art biennale, but digital – a global phenomenon lauded by The New York Times as "the digital world's answer to Venice."

Since 2013, over 10,000 artists have showcased their work through more than 800 curated pavilions across every continent, solidifying the biennale's position as a landmark in the digital art landscape.

This year, I'm proud to curate one of the pavilions, drawing inspiration from the dream-like imagery of Nick Cave's "Cinnamon Horses": Horses dance beneath strawberry moons. They wander castle ruins. They are in turpentine trees.

These lines serve as a springboard into synthetic, imagined realities. We pose the provocative question: What happens when AI dances, strolls, is found?

We invite artists to explore these questions through still images. Whether a single photograph or a series of up to six, all image-making methods are welcome.

After having read about Cinnamon Horses, and perhaps listened to it, I suggest you read this short essay: Degas’ Obsession, and the Artificiality of Art.

Bakhtin described chronotopes as the point where "spatial and temporal indicators are fused into one carefully thought-out, concrete whole. Time, as it were, thickens, takes on flesh, becomes artistically visible; likewise, space becomes charged and responsive to the movements of time, plot, and history."

This concept is particularly relevant in an era of AI and synthetic media. While natural light and its ancient journey toward us represent a form of objective reality, artificial intelligence brings an "artificial" light to the world.

We are seeking up to 30 works, which will premiere on chronotopes.net, where it will remain online until 2030.

Depending on the material received, a physical exhibition may also be organized.

You can find the open call in French here:
Appel à candidatures internationales / Moons, Castles, Trees.

To mark its place in digital history, this open call has been permanently inscribed on the Bitcoin blockchain as ordinal #100,165,770. This ensures the call's existence far beyond typical digital hosting, creating an immutable and permanent archive.

The Wrong Biennale is back for its 2025-2026 edition, featuring a unique exhibition that will challenge your perceptions of reality and artificial intelligence: "Moons, Castles, Trees | AI Chronotopes".

Imagine the world's largest art biennale, but digital – a global phenomenon lauded by The New York Times as "the digital world's answer to Venice."

Since 2013, over 10,000 artists have showcased their work through more than 800 curated pavilions across every continent, solidifying the biennale's position as a landmark in the digital art landscape.

This year, I'm proud to curate one of the pavilions, drawing inspiration from the dream-like imagery of Nick Cave's "Cinnamon Horses": Horses dance beneath strawberry moons. They wander castle ruins. They are in turpentine trees.

These lines serve as a springboard into synthetic, imagined realities. We pose the provocative question: What happens when AI dances, strolls, is found?

We invite artists to explore these questions through still images. Whether a single photograph or a series of up to six, all image-making methods are welcome.

After having read about Cinnamon Horses, and perhaps listened to it, I suggest you read this short essay: Degas’ Obsession, and the Artificiality of Art.

Bakhtin described chronotopes as the point where "spatial and temporal indicators are fused into one carefully thought-out, concrete whole. Time, as it were, thickens, takes on flesh, becomes artistically visible; likewise, space becomes charged and responsive to the movements of time, plot, and history."

This concept is particularly relevant in an era of AI and synthetic media. While natural light and its ancient journey toward us represent a form of objective reality, artificial intelligence brings an "artificial" light to the world.

We are seeking up to 30 works, which will premiere on chronotopes.net, where it will remain online until 2030.

Depending on the material received, a physical exhibition may also be organized.

You can find the open call in French here:
Appel à candidatures internationales / Moons, Castles, Trees.

To mark its place in digital history, this open call has been permanently inscribed on the Bitcoin blockchain as ordinal #100,165,770. This ensures the call's existence far beyond typical digital hosting, creating an immutable and permanent archive.