Post-Animal Signal is an international open call for moving image, sound, and hybrid media works exploring animality, non-human perception, ecological imaginaries, technological creatures, and emerging relationships between humans and non-human worlds. Selected works will be presented in a physical exhibition at Molend Space, Glasgow, Scotland.

Post-Animal Signal

Signals, Creatures, Ecologies, and Non-Human Imaginaries
Is the concept of the animal still stable?

As technology, ecology, mythology, sound, and moving images continually reshape our understanding of life, Post-Animal Signal explores how animals exist within language, memory, perception, and media.

Rather than focusing solely on animal representation, the exhibition asks how animals are seen and narrated, how humans and non-humans coexist, and whether fictional, digital, or algorithmic creatures might be considered forms of life.

We welcome works that explore emerging relationships between ecology, technology, sound, imagination, and non-human existence.

Themes of interest include urban wildlife, AI-generated creatures, post-nature, non-human perception, machine ecology, virtual pets, sonic biology, mythological beings, deep-sea species, networked life, animality in video games, bio-horror, collective intelligence, ecological collapse, and algorithmic reproduction.

The exhibition welcomes submissions across moving image, sound, and hybrid media practices, including experimental film, video art, animation, audiovisual work, sound art, pure sound work, hybrid media, CGI and AI-generated video, video essays, and expanded cinema documentation.

Works between 3 and 20 minutes are preferred, although longer works may be considered where appropriate.

Unlike many moving-image exhibitions, Post-Animal Signal places sound on equal footing with the visual.

We are particularly interested in works that engage with listening practices, sonic ecologies, non-human communication, acoustic environments, and sound as a form of perception.

Selected works will be presented at Molend Space, an independent exhibition space located in Glasgow city centre, Scotland.

The exhibition will run from 28–31 July, with the open call remaining open until 19 July.

Submission to this open call is completely free.

A participation fee of £50 is only payable if a work is selected and the artist confirms participation in the exhibition.

The participation package includes:

• Physical exhibition at Molend Space, Glasgow
• Artist interview published on Molend Art
• Inclusion in the Molend online magazine
• Critical review and artist commentary
• Promotion through the Molend Art website and social media channels
• Inclusion in the official exhibition archive
• Official invitation letter
• Exhibition certificate
   

Audience & Promotion

Molend Art promotes exhibitions through a combination of its own publishing platforms and external contemporary art networks.

Promotion for Post-Animal Signal will include exposure through:

• Molend Art website
• Molend Art Instagram 
• ArtRabbit
• WeChat Official Accounts
• Xiaohongshu (RED)
• UK and international contemporary art networks
• Selected open call and exhibition promotion platforms

Molend Art's Instagram community currently includes approximately 600 followers, with additional reach generated through artist sharing, partner networks, and exhibition promotion.

Across all promotional channels, we anticipate a combined reach of approximately 5,000–15,000 views and impressions during the open call and exhibition period.

The Molend online magazine and publishing activities currently reach an estimated audience of approximately 500–1,500 readers per publication, depending on distribution and project scope.

We anticipate approximately 100–300 visitors during the four-day exhibition period.

About Molend Art

Molend Art is an international contemporary art organisation based in Scotland, inspired by the Molendinar Burn — a symbol of flow, convergence, and cultural renewal.

We support and serve artists at all stages of their practice, sharing and amplifying voices from Scotland and around the world. Through exhibitions, research, publishing, artist interviews, and cross-cultural collaboration, we foster international dialogue and promote the ongoing development of contemporary art.

Post-Animal Signal is organised by the Molend Art curatorial team as part of an ongoing programme exploring contemporary relationships between technology, ecology, perception, sound, and non-human imaginaries.

Sales

Works included in Post-Animal Signal will be presented for exhibition purposes only.

Works will not be offered for sale as part of this exhibition, and Molend Art does not take a commission on artwork sales.