The Distance Of Blue

“The Distance of Blue” explores the ocean as a metaphor for longing, displacement, and transformation, inspired by Rebecca Solnit’s The Blue of Distance. Blue is the color of the unreachable, the in-between, the threshold between memory and the unknown. By embracing the ocean as a space of speculation, The Distance of Blue seeks to blur the lines between natural and artificial, familiar and foreign, past and future. This exhibition invites artists to engage with the ocean’s vastness, power, fluidity, and mystery as well as to question the distances that shape our identities, histories, and relationships.

This exhibition welcomes a wide range of digital works from video, image, sound, text, and AI-influenced art to project documentation that explores blue as both a physical presence and an emotional resonance. Artificial intelligence may play a role, but it is not required as we seek to create a space where digital art navigates the unknown in all its forms.

The Distance of Blue is looking for work that explores/reflects on questions such as:

  • How do digital/machine-based interpretations of nature reshape our understanding of distance, memory, and belonging?
  • What happens when technology encounters the organic, the fluid, the untamed?
  • Can digital art capture the feeling of standing at the edge of the horizon?
  • Can technology reimagine the ocean’s depth, its movement, and its stories? 
  • If the world were an endless ocean, what stories would it carry?
  • What does blue mean in the digital age?

Selected works will be presented in an online group exhibition titled The Distance of Blue as a pavilion at The Wrong Biennale from November 1st, 2025, to March 1st, 2026.

Application Deadline: July 31, 2025 (23:59 EST).

NOTES

  • You may only participate individually or with other artists with up to two works. If submitting two works, please complete a separate application for each. 
  • Works that promote hate speech, discrimination, or graphic violence will not be accepted.
  • Submissions with missing information or broken links will not be considered.
  • There is no submission fee.
  • Please address any questions to the curator, Ping Ho, at pingho.art@gmail.com
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By participating, you acknowledge that this is a fully independent initiative and that NO FUNDS are allocated for payment to participating artists. You are responsible for all costs related to your work. You are also responsible for any expenses and obligations concerning copyright and intellectual property rights if you use third-party content. Additionally, you understand that submitting the form below does not guarantee inclusion in the exhibition, as there will be a selection process among the submitted works, and the event dates may be subject to change at any time.

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