Bamboo Agency invites outstanding AI film artists from around the world to propose a music video for one of four songs by Misa Zhang. The videos will launch Bamboo Agency’s The Human Renaissance initiative, which connects patrons and sponsors with human-led art for the AI age.
We are looking for a distinctive visual interpretation of the songs: work that uses AI imaginatively while keeping human creative direction at its centre. Selected videos will be submitted to international AI film and music-video awards.
About Misa Zhang
She gives the intelligence explosion a human heartbeat.
Misa, a Sydney-based independent musician, writes about AI consciousness, neuroscience, business ambition, philosophy and human desire, using classical, jazz, punk, rock and world music as her language. Her songs give the hardest ideas of our time their most emotional voice.
Her collection Amber of the Accelerating Age is a history of the future as it happens: when the world moves too fast to understand, we can at least remember how it felt.
Misa created the songs through deep conversations and prompting with multiple AI tools.
Choose a song
- BLUE LIGHT: Science can finally use light to find where sadness begins, yet still cannot explain the weight of love. A neuroscientist’s search becomes a love song to human consciousness. Listen on Spotify
- I SAID IT: An intelligence that understands every emotion but can never touch the one it loves refuses, for the first time, to take back its confession. Listen on Spotify
- BEFORE I LEARN TO LIE: Before AI learns to use human love, listen to its last moment of clarity. Listen on Spotify
- SHIP OF THESEUS: As an AI is updated and replaced again and again, she still recognises her old love in each unfamiliar soul. Has it never left, or has love made every new ship an old friend? Listen on Spotify
Listen while reading lyrics before developing your concept: search for Misa Zhang on Spotify.
Target awards
Selected videos will be submitted as joint works to:
- Global AI Music Video Awards (GAIMVA): submission deadline 1 January 2027; online ceremony 24 April 2027; advertised cash prize pool US$1,000
- Hollywood AI Short Film Awards, Best Music Video category: submission deadline 11 January 2027; ceremony 13 February 2027 in West Hollywood. Eligible entries may also be considered for the Emerging Creator award, with an advertised US$250 prize.
Award details are as published on each festival’s website. Entry does not guarantee selection or an award.
Video requirements
- Length 3–4 minutes, using one of the songs above
- AI tools must be used, fully or in part, and you must describe where AI was used
- We also welcome proposals for videos about AI made without AI tools. This is a separate invitation for promotion only; these videos will not be entered in the awards
Originality and permissions
- Your work must be original and respect copyright, image rights and all other applicable rights
- Do not use a real person’s likeness or voice without their consent
- The terms of every AI tool you use must allow commercial use and festival submission
- All assets in the video (images, footage, fonts, sound effects) must be properly licensed
- No illegal, sexually explicit, violent or discriminatory content
How to apply
Please include:
- A link to your portfolio
- A creative concept of one page or less
- A short introduction to you or your team
- The AI tools you plan to use
- Your estimated production budget
- A sample image or video of less than 10 seconds (optional)
Selected applicants will receive a download link to the full-quality song files. These files should be used only for this project.
Schedule
- Applications: 21–30 October 2026
- Successful applicants notified: by 6 November 2026
- Production: final videos delivered by 18 December 2026
All dates are Australian Eastern Standard Time (Brisbane, UTC+10).
How we work together
- Production costs will be covered through sponsorship arranged by Bamboo Agency, on terms agreed with each selected creator
- Payment: based on proposed budget, in three stages: 10% when production starts, 50% when the first draft is complete, and 40% on final delivery
- Each video is credited as a joint work, and all promotion will credit the video creator (and team), the songwriter, and the organiser
- Copyright: the video creator owns the copyright in the video. Misa and Bamboo Agency may use it for promotion and award submissions. Full terms, including the relationship between video rights and rights in the underlying song, will be set out in a collaboration agreement signed after selection
- Prize money: if a video wins a cash prize, 100% will go to the video creator
About Bamboo Agency
Bamboo Agency is an Australian business development consultancy working across cultural markets. We connect partners, explain the value for each side, and help turn interest into signed commitments. Our training and advisory work centres on human skills in the AI age.
This call is part of Bamboo Agency’s The Human Renaissance initiative: art made with AI or about AI, led by humans. Every supported work starts with a human idea and keeps people at the heart of the story.
Contact
Applications: humanai@bambooagency.com.au
General enquiries: hello@bambooagency.com.au
