Callisto ◆︎

The deeper you dive into one thing, the less time you have for what once felt important. Some people call it priorities. I'd say there's a right moment for everything, or a completely wrong one, when everything flips upside down. The past few days I've been deep in conversations with my wife about how my profession and path have shaped over the last dozen years. I came from commercial photography, a solid background, experience producing and managing big teams. Then I stepped into the art market, a solo journey where I kept gravitating toward experiments. Pretty successful ones, worth noting. Systems, reinterpreted. Art projects I never had resources for before. And a relentless hunger for innovation: in craft, approach, and process. From day one here, one mantra stuck with me: share and give back what you've received, if you want this ecosystem to grow. That's how the first attempts started, attempts that eventually led me to curation and uncovered something I never suspected in myself. My now-favorite superpower: gathering talented people around me, finding new angles and opportunities for them, sharpening the edges of talents I believe in. That's how The Frame Society was born - a community I proudly led for years. Talented artists whose lives I wanted to change. From a handful to a few dozen, then hundreds. Educational programs, dozens of exhibitions worldwide, countless collaborations: some brilliant, some not. Highs and lows. Mistakes that made us stronger, and mistakes that slowly wore us down. Market brutality, endless pressure to scale. Scale, by the way, isn't always the source of growth. Sometimes it's the opposite. But through all of it, I discovered something that reached beyond curation and teaching - building art residencies. And that changed me forever. Watching artists you've built something for discover new mediums in a single month, find new angles in their practice, genuinely change their lives. Creating programs for them. Building unique partnership networks. Making films about it. Curating exhibitions alongside them. That turned out to be priceless. But after a few launches, I realized the ambition runs deeper. All of this brought me to where I am now, step by step, naturally, as if it was always meant to happen - to the startup and vision I'm building. Many of you have already heard about Callisto. It started as an aggregator, opportunities for artists, grants, exhibitions, residencies, open calls. But what we're building now is an Artist Career OS. A vision meant to change tens, hundreds of thousands of careers. Not because I'm chasing scale, because I've seen what happens when artists finally get the infrastructure they deserve. I could drop the numbers here: retention, our model, the current pre-seed round, how strong the market fit is. But that deserves its own post. Ambitious? Yes. But I know the road. And every day, the right people join the team - the ones who'll make sure we get there.

◆ Callisto Weekly #2 Three this week worth your time: a museum tech grant with real funding behind it, a fully covered residency in rural China, and an international painting competition with a serious prize pool. ◇ Thread ↓

Less waiting. More doing.

(4/4) Malamegi Lab Art Contest Competition · Italy → €5,000 prize pool + exhibition in Milan ⏰ April 9 An annual open contest with no age restrictions, no career-stage requirements, and no geographic limits — genuinely open to all artists worldwide. The scope is broad: painting, sculpture, photography, video, digital, net art, and mixed media all qualify. Prize pool of €5,000 and an exhibition in Milan.

(3/4) Error 406: Netstalgia Not Acceptable Grant · Online → Grants €1,500 – €7,000 ⏰ May 4 A grant program for artists working critically with nostalgia for the early internet - not celebration, but interrogation of its aesthetics, politics, and unfulfilled promises. Net art, software, hardware, and collective platforms are all explicitly within scope. The jury includes Olia Lialina, Vladan Joler, and Peter Sunde, which signals exactly the kind of work they're after.

◆ Callisto Weekly #1 Four opportunities worth your attention this week - from grants for net art and digital critique to an open competition with zero barriers to entry. Deadlines are tight on a couple of these, so read carefully. ◇ Thread ↓

𝙿𝚘𝚜𝚝-𝚑𝚞𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚝𝚢 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚗𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚊 𝚐𝚘𝚊𝚕. 𝙸𝚝 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚊 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚜𝚎𝚚𝚞𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎

YOU MAY KNOW THEM In collaboration with @SuperRare, we are releasing a curated art showcase concluding our month-long art residency in the Balinese jungle. 🔹 28th November 2025 🔹 6 pm EST Set the date. 🧵⬇️

Just kicked off the lecture for @BaliArtRes on @are__you__human, the why, the how, the bones of the project First time showing it publicly ⚡️

There’s an invisible charm to sincerity: of words, actions, intentions. You rarely recognize it in the moment; it reveals itself much later, when the noise has settled and the truth of what was said or done begins to breathe on its own I’ve never been one for destiny, luck, or the whims of the universe. Yet the past year has tested me harder than any stretch in recent memory. After the high of last year’s residency came the fall - a quiet, heavy season that asked more questions than I could answer. But through it all, I stayed true to what I build and why I build it And now, a year later, I’m back in Bali, with a dozen extraordinary artists. Real people. Committed, wildly talented, tender, and sincere. Each day, even when I’m running on fumes by sunset, I feel profoundly alive. Because when you stand your ground, when you keep faith in your own compass, there comes a moment when everything aligns exactly as it was meant to Some say, that’s how we build I add: by artists, for artists

We’re honored to welcome the one and only Agung Patron of Bali Art Residency ✦ Chapter Two: @Ars0nic & @SgtPepeWorld, who believed in our vision and initiative! Their quote is in the media below, follow the thread for more → [🧵👇🏼]

Honored to announce @x_lansky as the first Tirta Patron of Bali Art Residency 2025! ✦ His words are featured in the media below, and all details on this patronage can be found in the thread [🧵⏬]

I’ve always felt that our actions are best spoken for not by ourselves, but by those we touch along the way. And here is my thesis on Art Residencies: What happens when you gather a dozen artists from different cultures and disciplines in one place? Sleepless nights, wild ideas, and a restless chase for the edges of imagination. But does it end there? Not at all. Residencies open something far greater. They become catalysts for the entire ecosystem of digital art. A space where not only new projects emerge, but also new connections, approaches, and cultural bridges They allow artists to step out of isolation and collectively search for new forms. But most importantly - residencies scale the culture itself. They take digital art out of its narrow niche and bring it onto the global stage. Here, digital art stops being just a technology and becomes a living phenomenon, where people, ideas, and entire worlds meet That is why building these spaces has become one of my most important goals. Because each residency is not just an event it is a step toward a future where digital art does not merely survive, but grows, enriches, and inspires more and more people Becoming a collaborator of the Art Residency means more than just supporting a single project it’s about shaping the cultural narrative of tomorrow

Gm, wonderful human beings! 10 days left to apply for Bali Art Residency 2025 - happening this November 🌴🌊 → 12 artists → 1 month in Balinese jungle → We cover your travel, stay & art supplies Space on Friday + submission form in thread (🧵↓) twitter.com/i/spaces/1BdxY…

Hi! I’m Polina Limyè — a cross-disciplinary artist, director, and visual thinking researcher. I work at the intersection of art, psychology, intuition & human perception. Speaker at OFFF, DDD Milan & consultant for creatives worldwide through my method, The Great Research.

...→ Survive Protocol Our collab w/ @n_replyanski for → The Memes by 6529 Wired into the network’s nerves, where dreams splinter into code & data blocks become the bones of belief. Art & protocol share same heartbeat Turn sound on! 👀 Full breakdown of this artwork → [🧵👇🏼]

✦ OPEN CALL ✦ Bali Art Residency 2025 🌴🎨 ✦ → 12 strangers → One month in the Balinese jungle What could go wrong? Where does creativity end, and chaos begin? We cover your travels, stay, art supplies In November, the journey begins! Submission form (🧵↓)

@n_replyanski Gm ⬛️

Gm with Ho Chi Minh (Saigon) ⚡️ Came with zero expectations and got hit with one of the most multifaceted, vibrant cities I’ve ever seen. From coral-pink cathedrals to modern art bars and 20 types of coffee per café