MIND

Every image begins in a place we cannot see. An idea, a memory, a perception, an obsession, a fear, a desire. The mind interprets what happens, reconstructs the past, imagines futures and transforms reality before we can represent it.

creAtIva Vol.11 proposes exploring the mind as a creative, emotional, perceptual, bodily, social and technological territory. An intimate space that is, at the same time, shaped by culture, society, relationships, memory, digital environments and the systems that condition the way we think, feel and relate to one another.

We are not looking for literal representations of the brain or predictable images of intelligence. We are looking for projects capable of making visible what happens within us and what, from the outside, modifies our mental experience.

The call may address, among other territories

• Memory, forgetting and the reconstruction of the past.
• Dreams, the unconscious and imagination.
• Identity, doubling and the transformation of the self.
• Perception and its alterations.
• The relationship between mind, body and environment.
• Human consciousness in relation to artificial intelligence.
• Hyperconnectivity and its effects on our rhythms of life.
• Stimulus overload and perceptual saturation.
• The construction of identity within digital spaces.
• The influence of networks, interfaces and algorithms on what we think, feel and remember.
• Fragility, emotional regulation, recovery and possible forms of care.

In this context, digital connection can be understood as an ecology: a network of stimuli, relationships, images and systems that directly affects the body, attention, perception and mental health. This is not only about the internet or screens, but about observing how these structures participate in the construction of our identity, alter our rhythms and transform the ways we relate to others and to ourselves.

Artificial intelligence may be used as a tool, language, interlocutor, archive or system of interpretation. However, the project does not necessarily have to address technology. The focus must be the idea and the way each artist turns a mental process, a psychological experience or a contemporary condition into a coherent visual proposal.

What happens inside us before an image appears? What’s on your MIND? Define your own mental territory. Make visible what normally remains hidden.

Each registered participant must provide 10 images in total, in any orientation and aspect ratio, in a single A4 PDF in portrait or landscape orientation, containing all the images. Maximum 10 pages. Each page must contain one image and a white background if the image does not fill the entire space. There must be no text or additional information, only the image. Have questions? Visit the FAQs.

Information to complete in the form

• Project title.
• A phrase to serve as a subtitle.
• Introductory text for the project.
• The author’s nickname or artistic name.
• The author’s real name.
• Proof of payment of the registration fee (€12).
• PDF containing your 10 images.

More specific information about the submission of materials is available in the registration form.

creAtIva Vol.11 will feature a total of 30 selected artists. Proposals will be evaluated by a jury of professionals connected to the artistic, curatorial, visual and creative fields. Each jury member will award an overall score from 1 to 10 to every project submitted.

Evaluation criteria

• Concept and relationship to the theme — the proposal’s ability to engage critically, experimentally or reflectively with MIND: Between Stimulus and Consciousness.
• Creativity and originality — visual and conceptual innovation and the ability to build an identity of its own.
• Art direction and narrative — aesthetic coherence, visual strength and the project’s ability to connect its narrative with its images.

Each participant’s final score will be the total sum of the evaluations issued by the jury.

Jury

• Marta Velázquez · @marta_velazquez_m — Cultural manager, digital art curator and AI expert; Production and Communications Director, ArtFutura · @artfuturafestival
• Sara Torres · @saratorressifon — Director of PAC, Contemporary Art Platform · @plataforma_pac
• Nina Khaldi · @nina.khaldi.boccacci — Founder and director of Eterna AI Agency · @eterna_ai_agency
• Wiktor VR · @wiktor.vr — Visual artist, AI curator, cultural promoter, founder and director of creAtIva · @creativaaiartbook
• Daviana Carolina · @davianacarolin — Director of NOW FEST and El Jardi Digital · @eljardidigital · @eljardisonor · @brotandbit
• Luis di Lascio · @luisdilascio — Professor at BROTHER Barcelona School of Creatives; Creative Director, AI Specialist, CCP Magnific and CCP Dreamina
• Andy Gordon · @thebionicawards — Co-Founder, BIONIC Awards · bionicawards.com

• Registration fee: €12.
• Only one registration per person is allowed. The form allows more than one response to facilitate using a personal or professional email outside Google, but duplicate authorship will be reviewed.
• The registration fee is not refundable under any circumstances.
• Official registration must be completed through the application form and payment through the separate secure payment link.

• Digital PDF download of the previous Vol.10 ADS book.
• Publication of one image in the Pocket Edition of Vol.11.
• Free access to NOW FEST in Tarragona on November 27–28, 2026.

Pocket Edition format

• 6 × 9 inches.
• Paperback.
• Matte cover.

The Pocket Edition is a smaller-format editorial complement to the official book, created to expand the presence of every registered participant within a printed publication.

• The 30 selected artists must pay a €99 participation fee to formalise their presence in the publication and access the creAtIva ecosystem.
• The amount must be paid in a single payment.
• The payment link and method will be provided only to selected artists.
• Artists must have an active Instagram profile so a joint private chat can be created for notices, updates and project progress.

Benefits for the 30 selected artists

• An 8-page editorial feature in Vol.11.
• Publication of 10 images from their work.
• An expanded curatorial text with voice narration thanks to VoicePowered AI.
• An expanded individual article on PAC — Contemporary Art Platform.
• Their video in Augmented Reality thanks to ARTIVIVE. Only selected artists will receive the process; no video is needed at this stage.
• Three months of promotion linked to the launch of Vol.11.
• Presence in the gallery on the creAtIva website.
• Free credits on yes& and Artivive.
• A free PDF of the Vol.11 book and its Pocket Edition.
• ARTEX/CODAME will act as a Curatorial Bridge, adding artist profiles to the creAtIva section with the opportunity to sell printed work.
• Access to the yes& STAR CREATORS program, with exclusive campaigns and private pilot tests.

• Registration opens: September 16, 2026.
• Registration closes: October 6, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. in the Spain time zone.
• Publication of results: second half of October.

• IIIIL
• frmwrk
• AI/CC — Artificial Intelligence Creative Community
• Shaike
• PAC — Contemporary Art Platform

yes&

yes& is an artificial intelligence social network and creative community based on remixing, where each work can become the starting point for another. It allows users to discover, reuse and transform prompts, styles, characters, effects and other creative elements while maintaining attribution. It is designed for creators who want to share their processes, collaborate and evolve ideas through new interpretations.

• 1,000 free credits for each selected artist.
• Access to exclusive content, campaigns and testing through the STAR CREATORS program.

Artivive

Artivive creates digital augmented-reality layers that activate physical artworks through video, image, animation, sound, effects and 3D elements. It is designed for artists, museums and exhibitions that want to expand a work’s visual experience through the Artivive app.

• Free Pro Plus account for 2 months for 29 selected artists.
• Free Pro Plus account for 1 year for the proposal receiving the highest jury score.
• The specific video process will be communicated in due course only to selected artists. Your work will be seen in Augmented Reality!

VoicePowered.ai

VoicePowered.ai generates audio narratives using natural-sounding synthetic voices. In creAtIva, this is integrated through a QR code readers can scan to hear narration associated with the editorial content.

• Permanent official creAtIva stand at IA Hub, Barcelona.
• Presence of Vol.11 in 15 public libraries of the Barcelona Provincial Council.
• creAtIva Annual Group Exhibition with works linked to Volumes 9, 10 and 11 at a cultural centre belonging to a Spanish institution in Asturias, to be announced during the month · October 28–November 8, 2026.
• FNAC Asturias: printed PopUp exhibition and small format in its Forum · estimated January/February 2027.
• Digital-format exhibition at NOW FEST Tarragona · November 27–29, 2026.
• More events are in development and others may arise. At creAtIva, we know when things begin, but not when they end ;-)

Once the official creAtIva call has ended, a second specific call will open for profiles belonging to AI/CC, IIIIL and frmwrk that are not among the 30 selected for creAtIva Vol.11. The registration fee will be managed by the partner communities. These communities will select 10 projects from all registered participants, with two pages dedicated to each project in the Vol.11 book.

• Matte hardcover.
• 8.25 × 11 inches.
• Full colour.
• Premium printing.

Eight editorial pages per selected artist

• 1 transition page.
• 1 page for the curatorial text and artist presentation.
• 6 editorial development pages for the visual and conceptual development of the project through images and texts provided by the selected artist. The process will be communicated only to selected artists.

• Participation implies full acceptance of these guidelines.
• creAtIva reserves the right to adapt content to the editorial format and social media, including possible image adjustments or cropping for different distribution formats.
• The call is international.
• More specific information about formats, materials, submissions, texts and technical requirements will be available in the registration form.

Personal data supplied through the registration form will be used exclusively to manage the call, communicate with participants, verify payments, complete editorial selection and develop Vol.11.

Data will not be disclosed to third parties except where necessary for proper project management, legal compliance or communication related to selected participation.

The participant’s real name will not be published without express authorisation. The artistic name, nickname or public identification supplied by the participant will be used to publish and disseminate the project.

Participants declare that they legitimately hold the rights to submitted works and guarantee that they do not infringe third-party rights. Copyright remains the artists’ property at all times.

Participants declare that submitted works were generated, modified or developed using tools whose use does not infringe legal conditions, licences or platform terms. The participant is responsible for any claim arising from images, models, styles, datasets, trademarks, characters, sounds, videos, graphic files or other third-party materials.

By registering, participants authorise use for

• Editorial, promotional, cultural and exhibition purposes.
• Communication related to the project.
• Image cropping where required for distribution formats.

This authorisation is

• Non-exclusive.
• International.
• Without time limitation within the scope of creAtIva’s activities.

creAtIva undertakes to always credit authorship. Participants expressly authorise publication of part of their work on social media in collaboration format and participation in creAtIva’s usual activities.

If third-party rights are involved, the participant alone is responsible for holding the relevant licences or permissions. creAtIva does not commercialise artists’ works except through sale of the book via authorised channels. For possible third-party sales outside the editorial context, creAtIva will notify the authors and nothing may proceed without prior consent.

Participants authorise creAtIva to share and disseminate selected works and associated promotional materials with collaborators, media outlets, cultural institutions, exhibition spaces, digital platforms and partner organisations exclusively for cultural, curatorial, exhibition, editorial, promotional and communication purposes.

These uses may include

• Public screenings and physical or digital exhibitions.
• Publications in partner media outlets and dissemination on social media.
• Institutional presentations and dossiers linked to Vol.11 or creAtIva as a whole.
• Augmented reality actions, audio narratives, presentations or exhibitions associated with collaborators.

This authorisation never transfers intellectual property rights or permits independent commercial exploitation by third parties without the artist’s express consent. creAtIva will ensure that collaborating organisations maintain appropriate attribution for works used.