Web Residencies by Akademie Schloss Solitude

No 19: Algorithmic Poetry
Curated by Digital Solitude and Liquid Architecture

For the nineteenth call for web residencies, Akademie Schloss Solitude’s Digital Solitude program is collaborating closely with Liquid Architecture. The Naarm (Melbourne)–based art organization Liquid Architecture supports radical interdisciplinary experimentations offering a platform for artists working with sound – from our everyday data-driven world to the dissonant, beat-driven resonant sounds that defy definition. The residency »Algorithmic Poetry.« looks at how sound may poetically speak with algorithms and networks. In form and concept, we are attuned to critique, poetic proliferation, mutation, decay, adaptation, and the subversion of algorithms.

Web residents: Bola Chinelo, Fileona Dkhar, BF/kirby fary, Sherese Francis, Hannan Jones & Shamica Ruddock, and Moritz Nahold & Kenneth Constance Loe

No 18: Magical Hackerism or The Elasticity of Resilience
Curated by Research Netting Group, Akademie Schloss Solitude in cooperation with SAVVY Contemporary

»Magical Hackerism or The Elasticity of Resilience« offered four web residencies to practitioners and communities within the tropical belt, exploring situated knowledges, forming local DIT (Do It Together) community networks, and/or connecting intertropically on a planetary level.

Web residents: Adaptive Relations Working Group (Mica Cabildo & JM Quiblat), Chidumaga Uzoma Orji, Jô Osbórnia & Jota Ramos, Islam Shabana & Luiz Zanotello

No 17: Undesired by the Market: Resting!
Curated by dgtl fmsn

»Undesired by the Market: Resting!« invited artists to experience, explore and enjoy taking a restful break in a utopian space of possibility from an intersectional and queer feminist perspective. Because the radical break – whether in the form of creative freedom in the context of a virtual artist residency or a self-chosen sabbatical – is, above all, one thing: a space of possibility.

Mia Imani Harrison, Thùy Trang Nguyễn & akiko soyja, Okwei Odili, and Lorin Sookool

No 16: Solidarity is a verb
Curated by Anca Rujoiu, Akademie Schloss Solitude in Cooperation with ARC Bucharest with ARC Bucharest

»Solidarity is a verb« invited artists and collectives, to foreground the relational quality of solidarity, its ability to articulate politics and construct collective agency as a necessity of now. With »Solidarity is a verb« we encouraged practitioners to imagine ways of negotiating distance and proximity, and shaping a continuous production of relation grounded on common differences.

Web residents: Castle of Crossed Destinies (Aouefa Amoussouvi, Sasha Engelmann, and Olivia Berkowicz), Distributed Cognition Cooperative (Sasha Shestakova & Anna Engelhardt), Simona Dumitriu & Ramona Dima, Simina Neagu, Elia Nurvista, and More of Us (Teesa Bahana, Carolina Campuzano, Lauren von Gogh, Veronique Poverello, Syafiatudina, and Erik Tlaseca, Rogelio Vazquez)

No 15: Mutations
Curated by Mutations Research Group

The »Mutations« web residency invited artists and collectives to working on the heterogenous theme of mutations – biological, sociopolitical, technological – in relation to the global digital divide. The call supported artists, programmers, hacktivists, researchers, and other practitioners that offer mutations to the aesthetic and political underpinning of digital and internet-based art.

Web residents: Aparto cifi, Mac Andre Arboleda, Juan Pablo García Sossa, Giorgi Rodionov, and Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga & Kurt Olmstead

No 14: Post-Doom
Curated by Johanna Hedva

Moving away from all-encompassing dystopian future scenarios, »Post-Doom« called for us to rethink beginnings and experiences that reveal the longing for a whole, unmediated potential of our present and future.

Web residents: Uma Breakdown, Shirin Fahimi, Peter Polack, and Danae Tapia

No 13: Muntu Maxims
Curated by Violet Natume

»Muntu Maxims«, we intend to bring together different areas of spirituality from cultures all over the world, and to highlight selected examples online.

Web residents: Lark Alder, Marie-Eve Levasseur, Zahra Malkani, and Nkhensani Mkhari

No 12: Engineering Care
Curated by Daphne Dragona

»Engineering Care« investigated automated care’s possibilities and limitations, gains and losses. The call invited artists, designers, technologists, and activists to submit proposals for new or ongoing works that capture how we will live and work with machines, and how relationships and dependencies might change.

Web residents: Johanna Bruckner, Hanna Husberg, Agata Marzecova, Pedro Oliveira, and Caroline Sinders

No 11: Rigged Systems
Curated by Jonas Lund

»Rigged Systems« asked for projects that aim to subvert the power structures in contemporary network systems and that wish to reclaim a sense of agency within the systems where it feels like there is none left. Proposals that playfully rethink the political power balance, imagine new ways of circumventing censorship, or build alternative networks to corporate-owned infrastructures are among the four selected submissions for the web residencies.

Web residents: DISNOVATION.ORG, Sam Lavigne, Xiaowei Wang, and Gary Zhexi Zhang & Agnes Cameron

No 10: Violent Consumer Media
Curated by Dani Ploeger

»Violent Consumer Media« seeked to explore how consumer technologies and user-generated online content affect both the representation and performance of violence. »Violent Consumer Media« invited artists, designers, technologists, and activists to engage with the role of mobile phones, action cameras, toy drones and other digital gadgets in warfare, terrorism, hunting, and other forms of subjective violence.

Web residents: Leonardo Aranda, Ronnie Karfiol, Kosta Tonev, and Miyö Van Stenis

No 09: Ghosted 2018
Curated by Tegan Bristow

Where are the transformational archives of the South; bringing ghosted cultures to the fore? Where are the break-up letters for the Western digital world? »Ghosted (2018)« invited artists, hackers, visual and audio makers, subaltern archivists and southern healers for creative and artistic practices on non-Western explorations of cultural capital.

Web residents: Juan Covelli, Dananayi Muwanigwa, Léa Porré, and Sahej Rahal

No 08: Planetary Glitch
Curated by Mary Maggic

Against the background of climate change, rising sea-levels and the chemical alteration and industrialization of the planet, this call asked for new open–source strategies for undoing the trap of this planetary shift. »Planetary Glitch« invited artists, designers, (bio)hackers, technologists, storytellers, writers, healers and shape-shifters to hand in pleasure tutorials, witchcraft and alchemy, collective coping mechanisms, online networks of care, information emancipation, training exercises, and other formats.

Web residents: Jennifer Katanyoutanant, Tiare Ribeaux, Bassem Saad, Miriam Simun, and Natasha Tontey

No 07: Refiguring the Feminist Future
Curated by Morehshin Allahyari

This was a call for »the female future«. The feminism that is more than women; it is a philosophy of non-male, non-cis, non-white, non-western. »Refiguring the Feminist Future« invited artists, activists, poets, writers, feminists, and dreamers for challenging existing histories and speculative futures through storytelling and counter narrative imagining using web as their platform.

Web residents: Tesia Kosmalski, Umber Majeed, Rasheedah Phillips, and Luiza Prado

No 06: An AI Summer
Curated by Nora O Murchú

»An AI Summer« invited artists from all disciplines to address AI as a topic or employ AI methods in the creation of their work.

Web residents: Nora Al-Badri & Jan Nikolai Nelles, Elaine Hoey & Alan Butler, Lauren McCarthy, and Sascha Pohflepp & Chris Woebken

No 05: Fractal Horses
Curated by Claudia Maté

»Fractal Horses« invited artists of all disciplines to challenge the complexity and tensions of patterns and chaos.

Web residents: Eric Parren, Jean-Michel Rolland, Nicolas Sassoon, and Jeffrey Allan Scudder

No 04: Blowing the Whistle, Questioning Evidence
Curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli

»Blowing the Whistle, Questioning Evidence« invited artists, hackers, technologic experts, computer scientists and activists who have been working actively on the topic of truth-telling, leaking, and counter-surveillance, with the aim of exposing misconducts and wrongdoings to participate.

Web residents: Julia Bonk, Hang Do Thi Duc, Adam Harvey, Joana Moll, and Marloes de Valk

No 03: SUPRAINFINIT: L'Avenir Redux
Curated by Apparatus 22

»SUPRAINFINIT: L'Avenir Redux« welcomed ideas, fantasies, and manifestoes for rituals, dreams, exchanges, objects, energies, knowledge and new words for »other futures.«

Web residents: Haseeb Ahmed, Polly Gregson, Paul Simon Richards, and Megan Snowe

No 02: Re-entering the Ultimate Display
Curated by Mario Doulis

»Re-entering the Ultimate Display« invited (digital) artists and scientists to revisit cyberspace and share their virtual reality wonderlands, dream sculptures, and marketplaces for lost memories.

Web residents: Brud, Manuel Minch, and Jeremy Rotsztain

No 01: Decentralization of Internet Art
Curated by NETRO

»Who wants to post stuff on the same platform as Donald Trump?« For the first call for Web Residencies in February 2016, the curators and jurors NETRO were looking for web installations, web performances, or web sculptures which deal with the topic »Decentralization of Internet Art.«

Web residents: Travis Hallenbeck, Institue for New Feeling, and Dina Karadžić & Vedran Gligo