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We invite artists, creators, and social innovators, researchers and systems change leaders to submit proposals for artworks, workshops, and talks for an upcoming solarpunk exhibition and event series.

Opening night in North Beach in San Francisco is February 7th, 2025 5-10 pm, opening weekend is 12-7 pm (PT) pacific February 8th and February 9th 2025  The exhibition we plan to extend into February. 

Featured artists among others include:
Bobby Fishkin
Patrick Anderson, Patrick Anderson's Future State
BRAT [Jack Manning Bancroft, Founder of AIME] 
Stacey Sude
Daniel Friedman

Day Sanchez

Nikki Wall

Kristian Russell

Clare Hedin

Ryn Delpapa

Saskia Verraes

 
 
 
 
 
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This art and systems change showcase will features works that embody the spirit of solarpunk –– a movement that envisions a world where technology and nature harmoniously coexist, and where human ingenuity creates a brighter, more inclusive future for all. A solar punk future is one in which an interdisciplinary diversity act in radical collaboration, in which everyone can seek a perfect role for themselves, in which a neurodiversity of humanity can each have their unique talents expressed in right relationship to a role that aligns to their ikigai. A solar punk future is one in which each person should have every systemic nurture fractal that allows their optimal expression. The interdependence between people and natural ecosystems for the apex expression of humanity is a form of "I am because we are" ubuntu expression that unleashes cascading co-benefits that unlocks a bright future for all. 
A solar punk future would reflect the quote from Buckminster Fuller to "make the world work, for 100% of humanity, in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation, without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone". 
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As part of this art and systems change collective, you'll have the opportunity to:

  1. Exhibit your work alongside fellow solarpunk artists from around the globe

  2. Collaborate with like-minded creators to push the boundaries of solarpunk art and system change

  3. Contribute to a traveling pop-up gallery that will inspires audiences in San Francisco, California, in February 2025,  Leipzig, Germany TBD in 2025, and potentially other locations beyond. We aim to establish a print-on-demand of exhibition materials as sets so that a community could combine local positive deviance examples with global solar punk examples in community hosting solar punkification fractals locally. 

  4. Sell reproductions of solar punk art and print on demand objects based on solar punk art with sustainable materials to help build the solar punk movement by sharing your visual art in our online store, reaching an international audience of regenerative future advocates 

  5. Receive support on helping your artistic and systems change objectives become reality,

Sara Olsen

Brotha Peace

Brotha Mikhael

Steve De Angelo

Jeff Emmett

To help turn your systems change solar punk aspirations help the world to thrive in the future, we offer our solar punks in virtual residence on an as-available basis from support our global volunteers and leadership team. These  systemic nurture fractals including: 

 

  1. Design Science & Thinking Pro Bono Collective

  2. Synthetic Feasibility Studies Pro Bono Collective at CrowdDoing (via Regenerative Artificial Intelligence Lab). Our approach to synthetic feasibility studies is to use simulated dialogues among experts (created by Large Language Model) and AI readings of scientific articles to build stronger logic models (and related assumptions) to create a feasible systems change roadmap.

  3. Backcasting from a solar punk future leveraging wisdom traditions to evaluate design choices. This pro bono capability that is human and artificial intelligence in collaboration can help your social innovation /systems change draw insight and inference on ancient wisdom implications. These can be added as case studies to our associated course. 

  4. Pro Bono Speaker’s Bureau offers support by using artificial intelligence and human volunteers in collaboration with on the public relations challenge of getting you, as a solar punk/systems change leader, speaking opportunities on podcasts seeking guests. The goal is to have bots help to discover what history of questions podcasts hosts have had that demonstrate curiosity about subjects that overlap  your systems change strategic goals. 

  5. Right Relationship Singularity Collective  via the Regenerative Artificial Intelligence Lab at CrowdDoing has collaborated with AIME and Active Inference Institute on using artificial intelligence tools to help build a different kind of philanthropy backcontext. Imagine if each systems change leader and venture philanthropists had had many years to weave interdependence of each other’s systems change. What extraordinary function stacks between their respective systems change efforts would have been unlocked? We’ve had bots research just such a counter-factual of what if the systems change effort and that venture philanthropist had that time. We think this research and applied approach could in principle be leveraged to support solar punk systems change leaders too.  

  6. Pro Bono Coaching Collective support from multiple types of pro bon coaches, including among our volunteers coaches who specialize in these categories of support- 

    1. Life, Health and Wellness,

    2. Business, Agile/Project ManagementCommunicationsLeadershipIntuitive

    3. Career, Nutrition, Finance, Empowerment/Confidence, Executive, Mindfulness

    4. Academic, Wellbeing, Organizational Development, Story Telling, Strength Based

    5. Relationship, Behaviorial Health, Marketing/ BrandingPublic Speaking, Empowerment/Confidence

    6. Ikigai, Sustainability, Emotional Intelligence​​, Environmental, SomaticChange

    7. Empowerment/ Confidence, Creativity and Innovation, Change Management

  7. Present virtually to our systems change community of leaders and get perspective in parallax and propinquity

These collectives can provide you with expertise, and collaborative opportunities to enhance your artistic vision and its real-world impact.
Join us in painting a future where hope thrives, nature flourishes, and humanity prospers. 
Both human art and art created by collaboration between artificial intelligence and humans – co-created solar punk art is welcome. We welcome both art that is literally solar punk and art by solar punk systems change leaders that symbolically expresses what they are doing in their art.

Join us in painting a future where hope thrives, nature flourishes, and humanity prospers. 

Both human art and art created by collaboration between artificial intelligence and humans – co-created solar punk art is welcome. We welcome both art that is literally solar punk and art by solar punk systems change leaders that symbolically expresses what they are doing in their art.

 

To participate, fill in this form and/or please submit the following materials to bobby [at] reframeit.com with the subject line: SolarPunkification Exhibit:

  1. A portfolio of your solarpunk-inspired work

  2. A brief artist statement outlining your vision for a solarpunk future/ image for a catalogue or the show and/or next to the piece

  3. Your preferred participation option (sell, loan, and/or license your art)

  4. Submit audio files for QR codes either human or AI generated about the art you are submitting. For large files please share a link to download. 

  5. Submit high resolution images of the art for reproductions via print on demand and limited pre-prints of posters, prints, t-shirts etc. Identify what categories of printing approve and do not approveof your are you wish for or do not wish. The minimum requirement is just being included agreement to be represented in the digital catalogue and physical cataglogue. We assume that But most of the our solar punk artists will prefer have their images to be work print- on- demand to help spread the solar punk memes to more contexts. 

  • Original physical artwork and/or AI generated digital artwork

  • Art should reflect symbolically or metaphorically solar punk values

  • Only artists who work on systems change or systems change leaders who seek to express themselves artistically are eligible. Artists can be in collaboration with systems change leaders who collectively are working at hte intersection of art and systems change. 

  • Digital-only submissions for virtual gallery

  • Prints for physical display (artist retains original)

  • Digital print

  • Submissions are applications- until they are considered and confirmed please be patient. Submissions that don't make it in the first in person exhibition may be included in the second in Germany, or in subsequent Solar Punkfication exhibitions. 

  • Networking Events: Connecting artists, activists, and technology innovators

  • Submit a workshop proposal or talk proposal for the opening weekend schedule

FAQs

  • People at the exhibit will be encouraged to interact to draw eachother out about bright futures. This could include asking eachother what would be a more compassionate future that they have in mind, a more hopeful future, a more creative future, a more intuitive future, etc. for innumerable dimensions of potential apex or zenith.  

  • Art prints and products made via print on demand processes will be sold throughout the exhibition and online via www.solarpunkficiation.art. 

  • Artists who are accepted for the exhibition will be offered a contract with details of the commercial arrangements. A fraction of the sales will be shared with the organizations hosting this event as a fundraiser for them. A fraction of sales will be taken by the galleries that are generously providing us the space. 

  • Ongoing print on demand can be made available on the https://www.solarpunkification.art/ website for art in the gallery. 

  • Most artists who are including their art in the future exhibitions bundle will expect their art to be reprinted along with explanatory material if other locations choose to host a Solarpunkfication exhibition with our global material plus local systems change subpplementary context. 

  • Criteria for selection is art that represents systems change effectively systems change alluded to by art, and art that helps the world grok the systems change needed to get to a solar punk future. 

  • Please note that non-art logic models/systems change plans and projects from CrowdDoing will also be displayed at the Solar Punkification exhibition. 

  • Solar punk books can be included for sale at the gallery alongside artwork

  • We encourage you to share your vision and ideas, and while we cannot guarantee every submission will be included, we will review all entries with great care and enthusiasm.

 

A solar punk in parallax and propinquity. 

 

Bobby Fishkin

CrowdDoing

In partnership with:

AIME Mentoring,

the Garage in Leipzig,

Patrick Anderson’s Future State

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