The Problem with AI - Call for Submissions

How do you see AI as a problem? In this issue of Photosynthesis Magazine, we use collage to determine what the real issue is with AI. Do you believe it is the data centers? The water consumption? The artwork stealing? Something else entirely? Depiction through collage can be abstract or literal. We are accepting physical or digital collage only (cut paper, zine aesthetics, Xerox distortion, archival disruption, assemblage scanned flat, etc.). The title is "The problem with AI", so we will not be accepting any AI-generated content. No paintings, no photography alone, no illustration alone. Collage must be the primary method and conceptual anchor. Eligibility & Inclusivity: We especially encourage submissions from artists who are multiply marginalised, chronically ill, disabled, trans, intersex, undocumented, incarcerated or formerly incarcerated, low-income, and otherwise systemically excluded. Benefits: • Artists will receive a digital copy of the published work. • Credit lines and descriptions of the artwork will accompany images in the issue. • We will provide promotion via Photosynthesis Magazine's growing social media (~350 followers). About Photosynthesis Magazine: Collage is on the rise as an art form and it is being explored in new and intriguing ways every day. As a new and independent magazine, we are here to highlight talented and thought-provoking artists that are not afraid to push the boundaries of what is socially acceptable. We look for art that is beautiful, painful, emotion-filled, gory, devastating, aesthetic, clever, and political. Above all, it is crucial that the message behind the work is significant and purposeful.