Competition for writers - AI and us

As part of the Futurological Congress – an interdisciplinary event format at the intersection of art and science – the South Tyrolean Authors’ Association (SAAV), the South Tyrolean Theatre Association (STV), and the research center Eurac Research invite authors to submit a full-length stage play that artistically and critically engages with artificial intelligence.

Submission deadline: 30 June 2026

We are looking for plays that address the opportunities and challenges of AI as well as its future impacts and developments. At the heart of this call are the following questions: How is artificial intelligence changing our lives – our work, our relationships, our thinking, our language? And, not least: How do we, as a society, want to help shape this transformation?

We seek plays that explore the topic of AI in multi-layered, critical, poetic, or humorous ways and that contribute to a broader societal dialogue. What we are looking for are original perspectives, strong dramatic voices, and stories that portray a future that has already begun.

About the Futurological Congress

The Futurological Congress is an interdisciplinary festival that explores how artificial intelligence is already shaping our daily lives and how it will transform our future. As an open space for exchange, the congress brings together science, art, politics, education, and business, and is deliberately aimed at the entire population of South Tyrol - multilingual, intergenerational, and across both urban and rural communities. By connecting science and art, it creates new, creative, and experiential ways of engaging with a technology that is fundamentally reshaping our “normality.”