Electronic Currents: Call for Video Art, Experimental Film, and Animation

ELECTRONIC CURRENTS
Call for VIDEO ART, EXPERIMENTAL FILM, AND ANIMATION

Gallery 130
The Department of Art & Art History
The University of Mississippi
Oxford, MS

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 15, 2025, 11:59pm PDT
SUBMISSION LINK: https://forms.gle/WPjB7EdMW8u6moD58
SUBMISSION COST: FREE!

Gallery 130 is excited to announce its first-ever call for video art, experimental film, and animation. Selected works will be presented in Gallery 130’s Main Gallery in the Electronic Currents exhibition in October 2025. The focus of the programming for this exhibition is single-channel fixed media. Other types of video installations and performances that incorporate electronic media will also be considered, although Gallery 130 cannot provide funding for travel and lodging at this time. Fixed media works will be presented in HD in the Main Gallery, and a presentation schedule will be devised after the conclusion of the call.
While the organizers for this event cannot offer cash prizes, awards will be designated for the strongest submissions by a jury of local artists and filmmakers including Chriss Alison Huff, F. C. Zuke, Dason Pettit, Juli Jackson, and Chance Deville.

This event will coincide with a solo exhibition of Ruiqi Zhang’s work in an adjacent gallery. The categories for submission are based on themes found in Zhang’s body of work. These categories include: TECHNO-MEMORY AND TECHNO-IDENTITY, NON-HUMAN SYSTEMS, MONUMENTS OF AMNESIA, WORLDBUILDING AND SPECULATIVE FICTION, and DIGITAL CAPITALISM AND SURVEILLANCE. There are also categories for STUDENT PROJECTS and projects related to THE SOUTH. A description of categories can be found below.

Ruiqi Zhang (b. Liaoyang, China) is a multimedia artist and educator who works with moving images, 3D assets, installations, and game engines to explore the complexity of emerging technology and computation as an alternative narrative container. His work highlights the ability of people today to read complex information and its impact on our daily lives while forming new modes of politics, aesthetics, and consciousness. Ruiqi’s work has been exhibited internationally at venues such as Times Art Museum (Chengdu, China), Imaginary Z Gallery (Hangzhou, China), Stove Works (Chattanooga, US), CICA Museum (Gimpo-si, Korea), The Anderson (Richmond, US), Towson University (Baltimore, US), Cardinal Space (Baltimore, US), and Thatalright Art Space (Taipei, Taiwan), among others.

There is no runtime limit on video submissions, although projects under 20 minutes are more likely to be accepted. Artists will be notified of acceptance in early October and will be asked to provide H.264 media files and other information for the exhibition. Electronic Currents will open on October 20 and run until October 31. Award winners will be announced toward the end of the exhibition. Local artists and those connected to Gallery 130 are eligible to enter their work, although those with connections to our jurors will not be eligible for awards.

For questions, please contact Bryce Heesacker at bsheesac@olemiss.edu.