What Is This: The World’s First Biennial Contest for Ethical Art and AI
It’s the first biennial movement uniting artists from every country, every discipline, every generation.
Accepted mediums: painting, sculpture, video, installation, performance, digital art, anywhere AI touches the creative process, ethically.
Awards: More than $50,000 in prizes, including Microsoft credits, global recognition, and cash funding, to commission an AI artwork with an ethical focus.
Your creation will travel the world, in an international journey across Paris, Santiago, Punta del Este, Mexico City, New York, Basel, Buenos Aires, and beyond
Timeline: How It Works
Launch: 07,
January 2026
Winners announcement: August 2026, exact day to be confirm
Open Call period: January 2026 –
May 2026
Submission Deadline: 31 May 2026 at 23:59 UTC
Finalists announcement:
July 2026, exact day to be confirm.
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Production period
(for First Prize Winner):
August 2026 – November 2026.
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Exhibition Tour: January 2027.
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The Jury: Icons Who Wrote the History of Modern Art
Frances Morris
Former Director, Tate Modern (2016–2023).
Barbara London
Founder of MoMA’s video art collection (NYC).
Surya Mattu
Director of Digital Witness Lab at CITP, Princeton University.
Laura Bardier
Executive Director of the James Howell Foundation (NYC) and Director of ESTE ARTE International Contemporary Art Fair.
Luisa Pereira
Adjunct Professor of Interactive Telecommunications Art at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.
Mapping the World’s Imagination
For the first time in history, we will see the world through the eyes of artists.
Every artwork submitted to the THEODORA Award becomes part of a groundbreaking experiment: the first Global Map of Creativity.
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Each submission leaves a digital fingerprint of imagination, building a collective map of how humanity envisions the future.
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This living Map reveals what beauty, hope, and progress mean across cultures.
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Powered by collective intelligence, it transforms thousands of individual artworks into a shared vision of our time.
“A map of humanity’s imagination.”
A Global Experiment in Authorship, AI & Culture
(July 2026)
All submissions are stored on Microsoft Azure Cloud, ensuring transparency and privacy.
This Award is also global research in authorship and attribution that will be run in 2026:
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Stage 1: Data Collection.
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Stage 2: The Copyright Collective Fingerprint Technology: A Global Experiment in Authorship, AI & Culture
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Stage 3: The World’s First Global Map Art Powered by Collective Intelligence.
Join our journey
The THEODORA Award by Este Arte is for everybody. We invite artist, visionaries, brands, and cultural leaders to submit your work, and to stand with us as sponsors or ambassadors.
As an Ambassador
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Represent the award in your country or community.
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Help promote ethics in AI and art globally.
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Join exclusive talks, panels, and cultural events.
As a Sponsor
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Global visibility across 10+ markets.
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Naming rights for prizes.
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Access to 300+ cultural institutions and collectors.
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Presence in international media and gala ceremonies.
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What the World is Saying
The THEODORA Award by Este Arte is for everybody. We invite artist, visionaries, brands, and cultural leaders to submit your work, and to stand with us as sponsors or ambassadors.
A Collaboration
Beyond Borders
Together, they lead the first global movement where art and AI unite ethically to imagine the future.
Creativity and technology united:
ethically, globally, limitless.