Science Gallery Monterrey invites artists, researchers, community activists and critical thinkers to submit existing, interdisciplinary artistic and research projects for our next exhibition centered around the theme of **CONSCIOUSNESS.** The exhibition will open in October 2025.

  
Science Gallery Monterrey is a space where artistic and scientific modes of thinking collide to push the boundaries of knowledge, catalyzing novel ideas that offer innovative perspectives and solutions to current challenges. 

  
One of the most intriguing paradoxes confronting researchers today is the nature of consciousness. While scientific knowledge is generated by the activity of the conscious mind, science is still unable to understand what consciousness is, how it works, where it exactly resides or how it comes into being. 

  
The answers to these fundamental questions about consciousness have become increasingly urgent in the last few years. This derives not only from the fact that emergent AI technologies aim to produce self-conscious digital learning systems, but also from recent discoveries that vertebrates and invertebrates, across a range of sizes and complexities, have varying forms and degrees of awareness.

  
**Potential subthemes**

* The mind-body duality vs. the AI-machine duality.
* Can science objectively describe the subjective?
* Could a droid enjoy the taste of an apple?
* Do plants experience forms of consciousness?
* The distinction between robot and human consciousness.
* What is it like to be a fruit fly?
* The use of scientific tools to study the nature of dreams.
* Are quantum events the building blocks of consciousness?
* Frankenstein’s creature or Hal: replicas of consciousness made of artificial neuronal organoids.

Projects selected through our open call will be funded up to MXN 150,000 (One hundred fifty thousand Mexican pesos). This budget includes all licensing and artist fees, as well as flights and hotel accommodation for the artist should they choose to attend, plus freight, insurance, and other related costs. **Please note that this is a maximum amount, not a target amount**. No funds will be allocated for production expenses, including materials, tools, or professional services. 

  
Please include in your proposal a rough breakdown of the projected costs for licensing your project to Science Gallery Monterrey for **eight** months. Science Gallery Monterrey will not permanently acquire any of the proposals selected through the open call.

  
**What is the exhibition space like?**

The exhibition will take place at Science Gallery Monterrey, located on the ground floor of the Expedition building. It is part of the Innovation District of Tecnológico de Monterrey, in Monterrey, Mexico. 

  
We operate in a 9x20-meter exhibition space with a 3.5-meter ceiling and exhibition area with doors that open onto a public space. Proposals should consider sharing the total space with six to eight other works. For this reason, **we will favor pieces with a footprint not larger than 20 square meters.**

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