Working with Agnosis is as simple as sending an email — you never have to log in to a dashboard. Here is everything you need to know.

Joining

Apply from the join page. Once enough members have vouched for you, you are welcomed in and can start sending work by email.

Sending artwork

• Attach your image (or several — see below) to an email.
• Put the title of the piece in the subject line — this becomes the artwork’s title exactly as you write it.
• Add a few words in the body if you like — or nothing at all.
• Send it to the submission address your community shared with you.

AI writes a description, alt text for accessibility, and tags around what you send. If your subject line already gives a title, it is kept exactly as you wrote it — AI never overwrites it, only fills in a suggestion when you leave it blank. You’ll then get an email with a preview to look over — you decide whether to publish it or discard it. Nobody else reviews or approves your work; it only goes live once you say so.

Sending a series or set of images

Working in a series, or want to show a piece from a few angles — a detail shot, an alternate view? Attach more than one image to the same email. They are published together as a single piece, shown as a gallery in the order you attached them, under the one title in your subject line.

Want to add more images to something you’ve already published? Send them again to the replace address with the exact same title in the subject line — the new images join the gallery alongside what is already there.

About AI — what it does, and what it never does

It is fair to wonder exactly what AI is allowed to touch. Here is the honest answer.

• It writes the presentation: a title suggestion (only used if you did not give one), a description, tags, and factual alt text — always grounded in what you actually sent, never invented.
• It may correct a technical photo problem — blur, poor lighting, heavy noise — but only when the photo needs it, and only enough to make the artwork easier to see.
• It does not alter the artwork itself. Colours, textures, composition, and every artistic choice you made are preserved exactly — this is a camera fix, not an artistic edit.
• A well-photographed piece is never touched at all.
• Want zero automatic correction, always? Use the photo-only lane below — your image is published pixel-for-pixel as you sent it.

There is also a “pure” workflow which does not touch the content at all, text and multimedia files you submit and only translates your artwork post into supported languages.

Your title, kept in your own words

Whatever you put in the subject line becomes your artwork’s title — exactly as written, in whatever language you wrote it in. If your community publishes in a different main language, the translated title is shown alongside yours, never in place of it.

Photographs — published untouched

If your photograph is the artwork, send it to the photo address (or put [Photo] at the start of the subject line). It is published exactly as you sent it, with no AI changes to the image — a deliberately dark, grainy, or low-fi photograph is your artistic choice, not a defect to fix.

This lane isn’t only for photographers. Whatever medium you work in — painting, sculpture, drawing, anything — you can send it the same way whenever you simply don’t want AI touching the photograph that represents your piece. It skips automatic correction no matter what the artwork itself is; a description, tags, and alt text are still written for you as usual.

Sound and video

Work in sound or video? Attach the file to your email the same way, sent to the same address you already use for images. AI writes a title suggestion, description, tags, and alt text for it just as it would for a photograph — for video, from a frame it pulls from the file automatically when it can, or from your message alone when it can’t.

The file itself is always published exactly as you sent it — audio and video are never edited, re-encoded, or otherwise altered by AI, only described. If a long or high-resolution file doesn’t arrive, your email provider or our email receiver may be capping attachment size before it ever reaches us; try a shorter clip or a more compressed export. For larger videos include a link to your preferred video platform.

Your biography

Email your artist statement to the biography address. The words you write are your statement — AI only tidies the formatting.

Events

Send an event announcement to the events address and include the date and place in your message. Both are shown on your event page.

Asking to be featured

Want a published piece highlighted on the shared main gallery? Email the promote address with that artwork’s exact title in the subject line — no message needed. It becomes your featured piece there — marked with a ✦ badge — until you feature another. This only affects the shared main gallery; your own subdomain gallery already shows all of your published work and isn’t affected by featuring.

Updating, removing, or leaving

Send a new version — or new images — to the replace address using the piece’s exact title to update it. Use the remove address to take a single piece down. You can also leave the community entirely at any time via the goodbye address and take everything you’ve published with you — no lock-in, ever.

Write in your own language

Write to us in whatever language you are comfortable with. Your words are published in the community’s main language and translated automatically, so your work reads naturally for everyone.

Your own space

Every admitted artist gets their own address on the web showing only their published work. Visit /my-submissions any time to check the status of everything you’ve sent — sign in there directly, with no dashboard to learn.

Limitations

Generating an artwork description with AI can produce content that doesn’t fully meet your expectations. For this reason, it helps to include a few descriptive details of your own when you send your work — the more you give AI to work with, the better the result.

The same applies to translation, in a different way. AI still isn’t capable of translation quality on par with a human — it’s getting closer, but gender and grammatical nuance are often where it falls short. This is why we indicate the artist’s or author’s native language on every translated page, giving visitors a way to check it against the native-language version — the one closest to what the artist actually expressed, or, for the pure address, their exact, unmodified words.