Hotel Generation mentors the next generation of UK digital artists

The annual artist development programme selects each year a cohort young digital artists and pairs them with a mentor to receive curatorial guidance, as they work on an exhibition proposal for arebyte's exhibition space. T

he skills-focused programme culminates in a solo exhibition at arebyte Digital Art Centre for one of the participants, selected by a panel of leading experts from the new media art sector.

Hotel Generation aims to equip participants with the confidence to approach galleries, crafting clear exhibition proposals, managing timelines and budgets.

Theme - REBOOT: Recoding Reality

REBOOT: Recoding Reality reimagines more equitable futures in which people have agency over technology and care for their environments. Amid escalating social, political, economic and ecological crises, dystopian narratives dominate public imagination.

The programme asks: how can we organise more sustainable ways of living? What can we learn from alternative knowledge systems? How might individuals reclaim technological agency?

Through digital artists and thinkers developing decentralised tools, planetary ecological perspectives and cross-cultural approaches, REBOOT proposes new methodologies for navigating contemporary life. Rather than dwelling on collapse, it invites audiences to imagine viable alternatives and positions arebyte in Camden as an incubator for critical, future-facing digital art.

Mentors

Carrie Chan Contemporary Programme Curator, V&A Sam Mercer Curator of Digital, The Photographers’ Gallery
Hannah Redler-Hawes Curator & Director of Data as Culture, The Open Data Institute
Linda Rocco Writer & Curator (Arts & Technology)
n-Space, Somerset House Studios; and Research Tutor, Royal College of Art

Judges

Pita Arreola Head of Programmes, arebyte
Mila Askarova CEO & Founder, Gazelli Art House
Jazia Hammoudi Program Director, Onassis ONX, New York
Tadeo Lopez-Sendon Chief Executive, Abandon Normal Devices Festival
Maitreyi Maheshwari Head of Programme, FACT Liverpool


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