Frequently Asked Questions

Registration will be completed through an online form. The participation guidelines, instructions, and all the necessary fields to submit the project correctly will be available in that same form.

In the registration form itself. They will not be hidden, spread across different posts, or require you to search for additional information elsewhere.

Yes. Submitting a proposal means that you have read and accepted the conditions stated in the form.

The theme of creAtIva Vol.11 is MIND: Between Stimulus and Consciousness. The open call proposes exploring the mind as a creative, emotional, perceptive, bodily, social, and technological territory.

It means that every image is born before it becomes visible. Before an image, there may be an idea, a memory, a perception, an obsession, a fear, a desire, or an inner experience that has not yet taken visual form.

No. The open call is not looking for literal representations of the brain or predictable images about intelligence.

It is looking for projects capable of making visible what happens inside us, as well as what, from the outside, modifies our mental experience.

It can be, but it does not have to approach psychology from a clinical or academic perspective. The proposal may address the mind from an emotional, symbolic, perceptive, bodily, social, technological, or narrative point of view.

Not necessarily. Artificial intelligence can be used as a tool, a language, an interlocutor, an archive, or a system of interpretation, but the project does not have to be about technology.

Yes. The core of the proposal should be the idea and the way each artist transforms a mental process, a psychological experience, or a contemporary condition into a coherent visual proposal.

Projects may address, among other territories, memory, forgetting, dreams, the unconscious, imagination, identity, doubling, the transformation of the self, perception, the body, the environment, consciousness, hyperconnectivity, stimulus overload, digital spaces, algorithms, emotional fragility, or possible forms of care.

Yes. Memory, forgetting, and the reconstruction of the past are possible territories within the open call.

Yes. Dreams, the unconscious, and imagination are completely valid lines of work within the concept.

Yes. Identity, doubling, the transformation of the self, and the construction of identity within digital spaces are possible approaches to the project.

Yes. Perception, its alterations, stimulus overload, and perceptive saturation are part of the conceptual framework of the open call.

Yes. The relationship between mind, body, and environment is one of the possible territories of Vol.11.

Yes, as long as the project does not simply represent technology in a superficial way. What matters is observing how networks, interfaces, algorithms, and digital environments influence what we think, feel, and remember, or the way we construct our identity.

Not exclusively. Digital connection can be understood as an ecology of stimuli, relationships, images, and systems that affect the body, attention, perception, and mental health. But the project can go far beyond the internet or screens.

Yes. The mind is presented as an intimate space, but also as one shaped by culture, society, relationships, memory, digital environments, and the systems that condition the way we think, feel, and relate to one another.

It can be critical, experimental, poetic, emotional, narrative, visual, or conceptual. What matters is that it dialogues with the concept of MIND in a clear and coherent way.

It is not necessary to explain each image literally. What matters is that the project has a recognizable idea and that the images build a visual proposal that is coherent with that idea.

Proposals will be especially valued for their ability to dialogue critically, experimentally, or reflectively with the concept MIND: Between Stimulus and Consciousness, as well as for their capacity to build their own visual and conceptual identity.

What happens inside us before an image appears? What do you have in mind?

A visual project that transforms a mental process, a psychological experience, a perception, a memory, an emotion, a contemporary tension, or a condition linked to the way we think and feel into a coherent artistic proposal.

The images must be gathered into a single PDF file.

A maximum of ten images must be submitted.

The PDF must have ten pages.

One single image per page.

No. Each page must contain only one image.

No, unless the collage or composition is a single work presented as such. A page must not be used to group several independent images.

No independent cover page should be added. The ten pages are intended for the ten project images.

No. The PDF must contain only the images.

No. The PDF must not include texts, titles, descriptions, CVs, logos, or additional information.

All written information must be entered directly into the corresponding fields of the registration form.

The document must be prepared in A4 size, with free orientation: portrait or landscape.

The images may be vertical, horizontal, square, circular, panoramic, or have any other proportion.

No. The images must preserve the proportion that corresponds to the work.

The image must be placed on a white background. The areas of the page not occupied by the image must remain white.

No. The background of all pages must be white whenever the image does not fill the entire space.

10 MB.

No. The file cannot exceed 10 MB. If it does, the form will not allow you to upload it.

Because the PDF will be used exclusively during the first phase of registration and selection. Its purpose is to allow the jury to view and assess the project quickly, clearly, and efficiently.

No. At this first stage, they must have enough quality for the work to be properly viewed and assessed, but it is not necessary to include the original files or print-resolution images.

The file must remain under 10 MB, but the images must still be clear enough to view. They must not appear excessively pixelated, blurred, or distorted.

No. This PDF corresponds only to the registration and selection phase.

Selected participants will later receive the instructions to submit the original images in high resolution and with the technical conditions required for publication.

No. The original files will only be requested from selected artists.

No. At this stage, only the requested PDF should be submitted.

No. The entire visual proposal must be gathered into a single PDF file.

• Project title.
• Short subtitle phrase.
• Project description.
• Nickname or artistic name of the author.
• Real name of the author.

No. All textual information must be entered only in the form.

No. The information must be written in the fields provided for that purpose. The PDF is reserved exclusively for the images.

No. The form will indicate the maximum number of characters allowed.

The limit will be indicated directly in the corresponding field of the form.

Yes. The real name will be necessary to properly manage the registration and, where applicable, the selection and editorial participation process.

It will not be published during the registration phase and will not be made public automatically.

If the project is selected, the artist will be asked whether they want their real name to be published or whether they prefer to use only their nickname or artistic name.

The nickname may be the public name used for the project, but the real name must be provided privately in the form.

Yes. In the event of selection, the artist’s chosen name or public identity for the publication will be confirmed.

No. The private data necessary to manage the registration will not be published.

No. The jury will only have access to the project information and nickname.

• That the PDF is in A4 size.
• That it contains ten pages.
• That there is only one image per page.
• That it does not include texts or additional pages.
• That the background is white whenever the image does not fill the entire page.
• That the file does not exceed 10 MB.
• That the images can be viewed correctly.
• That all mandatory fields in the form have been completed.
• That the description respects the indicated limits.

A correctly completed form and a single ten-page PDF, in A4 size, with one image per page, a white background, and a maximum file size of 10 MB. All textual information must be written exclusively in the form.