Interview

Landscapes of the Virtual World

with Daria Jelonek by Ana Mendes

Ana Mendes spoke with digital artist Daria Jelonek, who explores the connection between technology and nature. In her work, Jelonek investigates »how humans will live with the increasing amount of technology and the degradation of biophysical nature« and what nature actually is to us.

Web Residencies by Solitude & ZKM / Juror's note HASH Award 2020

Future Failure : Failed Futures

by Nishant Shah

In this manifesto, Nishant Shah juror of the Hash Award 2020 emphasizes the web-residencies that ambitiously, provocatively, and radically responded to the calls. In dealing with the imminent failure of future and the future of our unfolding failure they were strongest when they asked for a system reboot in order to liberate ourselves.

Web Residencies by Solitude and ZKM

HASH Award for Net-Based Projects

by Solitude & ZKM

On February 21, 2020, the international production prize HASH for net-based projects in the field of art, technology, and design will be awarded for the second time at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe.

Web Residencies by Solitude & ZKM

TECHNO-SEX BOTS: Molecular Sex, Synthetic Love and Quantum Bodies

Interview with Johanna Bruckner

In the interview with Sandra Oehy, Johanna Bruckner talks about her project Molecular Sex & Synthetic Love. A project that aims at queering normative world views of intimate relations and individual-driven forms of care.

In-depth reading

The Other Sculptor

by Sahej Rahal

Sahej Rahal’s works aim to construct new narratives – even new worlds. His latest work Juggernaut – a video game populated by AI-controlled objects – is an attempt to bring his Walker sculptures to life and experiment with the algorithms of the nonplayable characters.

Web Residencies by Solitude & ZKM

Demystify the Algorithmic Recommendation

Interview with Sam Lavigne

We spoke with Sam Lavigne about his proposal for »Rigged Systems« and why humor and language are important elements of his work.

Web Residencies by Solitude & ZKM

Shanzhai, Poetry and Bypassing Censorship

Interview with Xiaowei Wang

A poetic intervention of artificial intelligence algorithms and automated censorship of the Chinese Internet.

Web Residencies by Solitude & ZKM

Flora, Fauna and Folk Tales

Interview with Gary Zhexi Zhang & Agnes Cameron

In the village of Ein Qinyya, Palestine, a local mesh network functions as both an organic community intranet and a means of interacting with the environment. 

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Web Residencies by Solitude & ZKM

From Surveillance Capitalism to Glitch Capitalism

Interview with DISNOVATION.ORG

We spoke with DISNOVATION.ORG about their working processes and their thoughts on the role of copy culture, free access, and media piracy.

Web Residencies by Solitude & ZKM

The Future is a Cockroach

Interview with Natasha Tontey

Can we imagine a future in which humans won’t be the center anymore, but cockroaches play a major role in the ecosystem? This is exactly what the sci-fi-related project From Pest to Power proposes.

Web Residencies by Solitude & ZKM

The Dinner Table: Reconstructing Mukbang

Interview with Jennifer Katanyoutanant

In a world where people are lonelier than ever, Jennifer Katanyoutanant builds a website for the millions of mukbang fans to have online dinners with one another.

Web Residencies by Solitude & ZKM

Bioplastics Cookbook for Ritual Healing

Interview with Tiare Ribeaux

Tiare Ribeaux fabricates an alternative present/near future – creating bioplastics, sharing those recipes, for creating speculative environments, and healing the earth.

Web Residencies by Solitude & ZKM

Body Shifts in a Techno-Anthropocentric World

Interview with Miriam Simun

What if the cephalopod served as a model species for humans? Miriam Simun explores how we overcome using high technology for human enhancement by training the body.

Web Residencies by Solitude & ZKM

A Calamitous Node in a Planetary Chain

Interview with Bassem Saad

The project »All Cared for by Chains and Loops« by web resident Bassem Saad elaborates on the interrelation of Beirut’s garbage crisis and economies of waste and care.

Video

Law of Ruins (Alexander the Great)

by Léa Porré

An eight-minute-long video in which 3D animated giant fragments of Greek and Roman marble sculptures float through the virtual space.

Art & blockchain

Cryptoeconomics & Artistic Practice

by Laura Lotti

What can art do for blockchain to begin unveiling such facts that decentralized software architectures as blockchain do not necessarily decentralize power?

Web Residencies by Solitude & ZKM

The Story of a Moss Woman

with Tesia Kosmalski

The story of a woman who heals her painful skeletal disorder by traveling to a moss-covered, volcanic island. A project by Tesia Kosmalski for the web residencies by Solitude & ZKM

Web Residencies by Solitude & ZKM

Black Futurism & Technologies of Joy

with Rasheedah Phillips

How can positive futurity concepts and sustainable technologies of joy be developed that specifically benefit low-income, vulnerable, and marginalized Black communities?

Web Residencies by Solitude & ZKM

Radical Care in the Space of Excess

with Luiza Prado

The project »All Directions at Once« by Luiza Prado created for the web residencies by Solitude & ZKM, and part of the »Membrane Exhibition – Refracted Gazes,« explores how solidarity and resistance to colonial power could take shape.

Web Residencies by Solitude & ZKM

Green Light and Atomic Blast

with Umber Majeed

Artist Umber Majeed has created an animation and speculative fiction on the feminist historicization of Pakistan as the first »Muslim nuclear state.«

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Interview

Human ATM Meets Cherie Pie

with Taietzel Ticalos by Sabin Borș

By building a 3D goddess called Cherie Pie, digital artist Taietzel Ticalos investigates how technology and online sex work challenge our understanding of sexuality.

Web Residencies by Solitude & ZKM

Web Residents Refiguring
the Feminist Future

by Morehshin Allahyari

What does »the future is female« actually look like? Four artists will find out for the web residencies by Solitude & ZKM, curated by Morehshin Allahyari.

Essay

On Techno-Industrial Artist Residencies

by Ashley Scarlett

Artists have always played a key role in the realization and critical negotiation of new technological affordances. How has this process taken shape within artist residency contexts?

Web Residencies by Solitude & ZKM

Dreams of Hyperreal Oases

with Léa Porré

Artist Léa Porré is fascinated by deserts and oases. For the web residencies by Solitude & ZKM, she explores how the landscape became an icon, questioning the fetishized image by the West.

Web Residencies by Solitude & ZKM

The Formation of the Contemporary Myth

Interview with Sahej Rahal

Web resident, Indian artist Sahej Rahal claims that every day new myths are created. As a consequence, he builds the myths of the future, that truly resist a truth claim.