[Commlist] CFP – AI as Environment

CFP: AI as Environment – Infrastructure, Knowledge, Operation

The 9th Annual Artistic Research at Kristiania Symposium (ARAK27) & the 
2nd MishMash Conference

13–14 April 2027
Kristiania University of Applied Sciences, Oslo, Norway

Confirmed keynotes:
Tiziana Terranova · Kyle Stine · Orit Halpern · Spring 2027 Atelier 
Nord/MishMash Artist-in-Residence

Artificial intelligence is often treated as a single technology. AI as 
Environment proposes a different point of departure. It approaches 
artificial intelligence as a complex environment: a series of interwoven 
material, energetic and algorithmic systems that configure and 
co-determine cultural knowledge production and planetary life. Rather 
than asking only what AI does, or what artists and other practitioners 
can do with it, this perspective asks how AI reorganises the conditions 
under which perception, knowledge, cultural production and action take 
place.

The proposition draws on ecological and process-oriented approaches to 
media and technology, developed and applied in the AI Ecologies research 
group’s project Kunstens co-pilot: Kunst og KI i et prosessøkologisk 
perspektiv, funded by Kulturrådet (2026–2028). In the context of 
contemporary machine-learning systems, these relations are approached 
through three interconnected ecological registers: infrastructural, 
epistemic and operational ecologies.

AI as Environment invites contributions from artistic research and 
practice-based inquiry in visual arts, music and sound, performing arts, 
design, curatorial practice and arts education, as well as 
interdisciplinary research bringing artistic and creative practice into 
dialogue with AI and machine learning, human-computer interaction, media 
studies, Critical AI studies, environmental humanities, cultural studies 
and related fields. Communication and Media Studies scholars are 
explicitly welcome.

SUBMISSION

Abstract: maximum 300 words
Bio: maximum 100 words
Format: 15-minute paper, practice-based presentation, or a combination 
followed by discussion.
Participation: in person in Oslo
Deadline: 1 December 2026
Notification: 18 December 2026

Approximately 20–25 presentations will be selected for a curated programme.

There is no submission or presentation fee, and no payment is required 
from authors. Travel and accommodation costs are not covered.

Full call and submission form:
https://www.kristiania.no/en/news/2026/10/call-for-contributions-ai-as-environment/ 
<https://www.kristiania.no/en/news/2026/10/call-for-contributions-ai-as-environment/>

Contact:
(arak /at/ kristiania.no) <mailto:(arak /at/ kristiania.no)>


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