Open Call | Synthetic Realities: Authenticity in the Age of AI Imagery
Open Call: Synthetic Realities: Authenticity in the Age of AI Imagery
Collaborator: Prompt Forum
Sponsor: Kaiber
Jury team: Ronen Becker, Clint Enns, Pablo Radice, Ivona Tau, Yichen Zhou
Winners: Chen Zirui, Anna Condo, Uglyy Fruuit, icysaw, Jess Mac, Maciej Miliszkiewicz, Niklas Poweleit, Isabelita Virtual, Mind Wank, Lilan Yang
Galerie Met is thrilled to collaborate with Prompt Forum on the AI photography exhibition Synthetic Realities: Authenticity in the Age of AI Imagery, taking place at our gallery in Berlin from May 24 to June 07, 2025.
The rise of AI-generated imagery forces us to reconsider what authenticity means in a world where the synthetic and the real seamlessly blend. Traditionally tied to an artist’s presence, the verifiability of a captured moment, or originality, authenticity now faces new questions: Who—or what—is the author of an AI-generated image? Does authenticity lie in intent, process, or result? If an AI-generated image moves us, provokes thought, or unveils hidden structures within our world, does it not achieve a kind of truth? The exhibition Synthetic Realities: Authenticity in the Age of AI Imagery invites artists to explore these tensions—whether by embracing AI’s uncanny visual narratives or interrogating its ethical and conceptual limits.
We are seeking image and video works that explore how artificial intelligence tools can reflect or distort our perception of reality. Selected works will be exhibited at Galerie Met, and our sponsor Kaiber will provide the chosen artists with 1,500 Kaiber credits and a three-month Pro subscription.
Jury Team:
Ronen Becker is an artist, data scientist, and the founder of Prompt Forum from Melbourne, Australia. Drawing on his documentary filmmaking background—where he came to appreciate the deceptive nature of images (even those capturing real events)—he is deeply interested in how AI aesthetics can challenge the conventions of film, visual storytelling, and the heuristics underpinning traditional photography. His films have been screened internationally, and his artwork has been featured in several publications and exhibitions.
Clint Enns is a visual artist, curator, and writer based in Tiohtià:ke / Montréal. “In terms of my AI text-to-image generation, I seek the “best.” Although by “best,” I probably mean the “worst,” the most peculiar, the most bizarre, the most disorienting, the most challenging to the mind. Images that depict the impossible and the unlikely, images that have never existed before and will hopefully never exist in reality. Bring on the promptum, the that-have-never-been and the that-never-will-be.”
Pablo Radice is a filmmaker, educator, and visual artist working across photography, AI, and new media. His work has been showcased and recognized at Berlinale Talents, the Werner Herzog Foundation, and major cultural institutions.
Ivona Tau is a new media artist and AI researcher exploring the intersection of artificial intelligence and human perception through generative models trained on her own photographic data. Her work challenges the boundaries of memory, aesthetics, and machine-made creativity, engaging with themes of identity, time, and technological mediation.
Yichen Zhou (b.1986) graduated from Parsons School of Design in New York with a degree in Photography and Related Media. Currently based in Beijing and online, her performance-based work explores the dynamic between individual and collective memory and tries to figure out where she stands as an individual in the society. She co-founded the non-profit art organization MiA Collective Art, wearing dual hats as a curator and artist, orchestrating exhibitions and art-related initiatives.
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