All winners of web residencies from 2016 and 2017 are eligible for the 8,000-euro prize for net-based projects in the fields of art, technology, and design. The current call for web residencies is still open!
A time-traveling talk on the transformation of The Secret Corner, a weather-dependant artwork by Johannes Cladders, the first jury chairman of Akademie Schloss Solitude.
Media artist Eric Parren combined the navigational power of the VR gaze with a generative computational system that creates and develops patterns. A project for the web residencies by Solitude & ZKM
Net artist Sebastian Schmieg takes a closer look at digital labor and the arbitrary nature and strangeness of online freelance service marketplaces.
An interview with digital painter Jeffrey Alan Scudder, who writes his own drawing software, on his piece »Ten Minute Painting« created for the web residencies by Solitude & ZKM
Artist and composer Jim Rolland examines the relationship between image and sound through generative patterns based on algorithms. An interview for the web residencies by Solitude & ZKM
Net artist Nicolas Sassoon fixates the fading memories of Vancouver’s temporary art and music spaces in nostalgic animations experimenting with digital moiré effects.
What role do patterns play in Net Art? Can we change patterns just by staring at them? And do patterns create beauty? A talk with curator Claudia Maté.
Digital artist Sebastian Schmieg created a speculative Prezi on digital labor and the amalgamation of humans and software narrated by a cloud worker.
With a background in digital culture and intellectual property law, Martin Zeilinger explores questions of »authorship« and »creating,« concerning algorithm-generated artworks.
In »Logging Solitude,« a hybrid-form project, Deniz Johns and Martin Zeilinger approach the castle’s lost Baroque garden architecture in a speculative rediscovery.
From Silicon Valley of the 1990s to social robots of the future: A talk with Fei Liu, 50% user-experience designer, 50% practicing artist based in New York.
»In absentia« is a work by digital artist Taietzel Ticalos from Romania, who addresses digital existence through gifs and animations.
Solitude juror Nishant Shah reflects on the story of the web and how art may have the capacity for a more human-centered story-telling.
Taietzel Ticalos’ works straddle the line between humor and serious questions addressing digital existence through gifs and animations. A view into the screen window of her digital studio
»In historical perspective of art, copy is something completely senseless…« A sophisticated and humorous »Story on Copy« with Mondrian and Duchamp by curator Jelena Vesić
The secomd joint call for Web Residencies in 2017 by Solitude and ZKM invites you to challenge the multiplicity and tensions of patterns and chaos
How can a computer game help to recognize and deconstruct strategies used to manipulate public opinion? Artist & researcher Marloes de Valk gives some answers
From »cherry pic data« to »play the anti-progress card«: 10 strategies to manipulate public opinion. Collected in an essay by Marloes de Valk
With Adam Harvey's project »SkyLift« users can have their smartphones pretend to be in another location. Learn how to build your own device!
Artist and technologist Hang Do Thi Duc wants to enable other users to track themselves. What does Facebook know about me? A project for the web residencies by Solitude & ZKM
Selling Google trackers found within a North Korean site on Ebay, artist and researcher Joana Moll discovered something strange. A project for the web residencies by Solitude & ZKM
New media researcher Martin Zeilinger created a twitter bot that draws on a database of every digitally-available theoretical text he is reading during his residency at Solitude.
A multilayered insight into the different development-stages of artist Simone Rueß' work towards a visual and performative connection of the terms biography and space.
The artistic directors of Solitude, Jean-Baptiste Joly, and ZKM, Peter Weibel, in conversation about net-based practices and the need for remote residencies.