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CIFRA, a curatorial media art platform, has launched an international Open Call for POWER ON/OFF, inviting artists working with moving image and screen-native formats to explore how power operates today — and how our position within it can change.
Power increasingly moves through algorithms and platforms, institutions and social norms, images and media, as well as the less visible systems behind everyday life. Artists often recognise these shifts before they have a name. Their responses can take the form of refusal, humour, distortion and sabotage, but also repair and solidarity.
POWER ON/OFF approaches power not as a simple opposition between having it and escaping it. Between control and agency lies a spectrum of positions: power can be resisted, redirected, shared or reclaimed. The Open Call asks artists to consider what becomes possible when that position shifts.
CIFRA is looking for works that engage with changing forms of power, reveal its hidden mechanisms or rethink the role of images in both oppression and empowerment. The call also focuses on artists developing new visual languages through resistance, refusal, sabotage, repair or solidarity.
About CIFRACIFRA is a curatorial media art platform that creates conditions for the continuous and contextualised presence of media art beyond the exhibition cycle. It connects artists, institutions, galleries, curators and audiences, providing a space where works can remain visible, accessible and embedded in professional and cultural contexts over time.
