OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

All I Ever Want Is Just to Fall Into Your Human Hands

A juried exhibition featuring works about, inspired by, or made with, artificial intelligence. All media is eligible.

Tempus Projects invites artists to submit work for a juried group exhibition that critically engages artificial intelligence and the human condition. Titled All I Ever Want Is Just to Fall Into Your Human Hands, the exhibition reflects on a cultural moment in which AI is both omnipresent and deeply contested.

This is not exclusively an exhibition of AI-generated work. We are especially interested in work about AI—art that questions its influence, addresses its aesthetics, wrestles with its ethics, or examines the social and cultural impacts of machine intelligence on our inner lives and shared realities.

What We’re Looking For

We are especially interested in work about AI—art that questions its influence, challenges its aesthetics, wrestles with its ethics, or examines the cultural, emotional, or social impacts of machine intelligence on human experience.

We welcome submissions that:

  • Investigate AI as a cultural force

  • Reflect on issues such as surveillance, labor, authorship, and identity

  • Utilize AI as a medium or tool

  • Explore algorithmic systems, machine vision, or digital mythologies

  • Include narratives or forms inspired by or influenced by AI technologies and discourse

  • Reveal transparency in process when AI tools are used

  • Take speculative, poetic, humorous, or critical approaches to contemporary AI culture

  • Optionally incorporate holiday themes, if relevant to the tone and concept of the exhibition

Important Dates

  • Submission deadline: September 29, 2025, at 11:59 PM

  • Notification of acceptance: October 17, 2025

  • Accepted works delivered by: 5:00 PM on November 14, 2025

  • Exhibition dates: December 11, 2025 – January 29, 2026

  • Opening reception & Holiday Party:
    Friday, December 12, 2025 (6pm members / 7pm public)

Eligibility & Media

  • Open to artists at any stage of their career

  • All media is eligible

  • Collaborative and interdisciplinary submissions are welcome

How to Apply

· Submissions must be sent via email to submissions@tempus-projects.com

· 3 Works Maximum (2 images per work)

· Use the subject line: “Human Hands : Your Name"

· Include image list with title, medium, size, price, and year in the body of the email.

· Provide a brief artist biography. (-also in the body of the email)

· Include your contact information, including name, phone number, address, and link to website (if you have one) (in the body of the email).

· Provide a brief statement (max 300 words) addressing the exhibition theme and a short artist biography. If artificial intelligence was used in the making of the artwork(s), how was it used?-Which software(s) or models were used? (also in the body of the email.)

· Include a screenshot of the application fee payment of $20 through the network for good.


About Tempus Projects

Tempus Projects is a nonprofit visual arts space based in Tampa, Florida. Since 2009, Tempus has supported the careers of emerging and established artists through exhibitions, residencies, screenings, performances, and special projects. The organization is known for curating thoughtful, challenging, and community-responsive programming.

Tempus Projects is located inside Kress Contemporary, a multidisciplinary arts complex in the historic Kress building in Ybor City. Kress Contemporary offers over 25,000 square feet of studios, galleries, project rooms, and event space. It serves as a hub for experimental, collaborative, and community-engaged cultural production in Tampa’s urban core.

We are living through a pivotal moment in art and technology. Artists are uniquely positioned to decode, challenge, and reimagine the systems shaping our collective future.

Submit your work and contribute to the growing dialogue around AI in All I Ever Want Is to Fall Into Your Human Hands.


JURORS

Christopher Jones is the Stanton B. and Nancy W. Kaplan Curator of Photography and Media Arts at The Ringling Museum of Art and holds a faculty position at Florida State University. His 2022 exhibition Metadata: Rethinking Photography in the 21st Century, and accompanying catalog, explored artists approaching photography as an expanded practice in the era of AI and surveillance. Other recent curatorial projects include Territories: Photography, Space, and Power (2017); Hank Willis Thomas: Branded/Unbranded (2017); Approaching the Border (2018); Coco Fusco: Twilight (2018); Manuel Álvarez Bravo: Specters and Parables (2019); Working Conditions (2023); and Jess T. Dugan: I Want You to Know My Story (2024). His most recent publication, “Phantom Evidence: Spirit Photography from the Nineteenth Century to the Present,” appears in the 2024 exhibition catalogue Conjuring the Spirit: Art, Magic, and Mediums (Peabody Essex Museum). Prior to his role at The Ringling, Jones was Assistant Curator of Prints and Photographs at the University of New Mexico Art Museum. He holds an M.A. in Art History from the University of New Mexico and has taught widely on art history, curatorial studies, and the history of photography.

Joanna Robotham joined the staff of the Tampa Museum of Art as the Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art in 2016. She previously held the Neubauer Family Foundation Assistant Curator position at the Jewish Museum in New York City, where she worked for more than 10 years. Currently, Joanna is working on the December 2025 survey exhibition of Japanese-American ceramicist Jun Kaneko in conjunction with the acquisition of one of the artist’s monumental Dango sculptures. Recently, she organized the solo exhibitions Suchitra Mattai: Bodies and Souls (2024) and Pepe Mar: Myth and Magic (2023). In addition to her curatorial work, Joanna serves on the boards of the Tampa Art Alliance and the Haitian Art Society. She received her M.A. in Curatorial Studies from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and earned a B.A. in Art History and Political Science from the University of Washington.

Adda Farcus is a genderqueer activist, artist, curator, feminist, organizer, poet, quasi-linguist, teacher, and writer. Farcus received their MFA in visual art from the University of Illinois at Chicago and they participate in the Climate Psychological Alliance. They are an Assistant Professor of Instruction and Studio Foundations Coordinator at the University of South Florida, and co-director of the curatorial project Lease Agreement.