Web Residencies by Solitude & ZKM

The Battle Between the Drone and the Kite

Interview with Ronnie Karfiol

In our interview with the artist we talk about gamification as a means to represent violence and how the web residency project at first appears to be an orchestrated battlefield, but actually is an invitation is to take a critical look at this »maker« battlefield.

Web Residencies by Solitude & ZKM

An Investigation on the Representation of Violence, Necropolitics, Gore Capitalism and Drug Trafficking Culture in Mexico

Interview with Leonardo Aranda

In our interview with the artist we talk about the relationship between technology, theory and art in addressing the aesthetic, ethical, and political values of image circulation of violence in our consumer media.

Web Residencies by Solitude & ZKM

An Act of Resistance in Times of Security Systems, Information Manipulation and Control

Interview with Miyö van Stenis

How can art be used as a practical response and political statement from the exile? In the interview we talked with the artist about her Web Residency project »Vigipirate Quadcopter Drone« created for the Solitude & ZKM web residencies on the topic »Violent Consumer Media« curated by Dani Ploeger.

Web Residencies by Solitude & ZKM

The Paradox of the Information Age

Interview with Kosta Tonev

The artist Kosta Tonev deals with the role of media technologies in the representation of reality and the contradictions of modern consumer technologies. In our interview with the artist we talked about his work and the paradox of the information age.

1001 Drone Nights

Ronnie Karfiol / Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel

Gore Devaluating Tool

Leonardo Aranda / Mexico City, Mexico

NONPULSED TERRAIN

Alex Cruse / Oakland, CA, USA

The vision of all-encompassing machines

Kim Albrecht / Berlin, Germany

Acts imposed by force

Gabriel Zea / Bogotá, Colombia

Late Night in Sorrento

Kosta Tonev / Vienna, Austria

The Little Deaths of Gamers

Peter Sheehan / Pittsburgh, PA, USA

VIGIPIRATE QUADCOPTER DRONE

Miyö Van Stenis / Paris, France

Government appointment phalluses of Tinder

Tessa Kriegman / Brooklyn, NY, USA

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.

Open Call Web Residencies by Solitude & ZKM

Violent Consumer Media

Curated by Dani Ploeger

Examining the relationship between violent behavior and exposure to violent media, the latest call for the Web Residencies by Solitude & ZKM invites projects that address ‘subjective violence’.

Web Residencies by Solitude & ZKM

Bridging the Care Gap of Social Media Systems

Interview with Caroline Sinders

With extensive research on online harassment, the researcher and artist Caroline Sinders explores the lack of »care« within social media systems through her Care Bot project.

Web Residencies by Solitude & ZKM

In Recent Years, We Learnt a Lot of Technical Words (…)

Interview with Hanna Husberg and Agata Marzecova

Hanna Husberg and Agata Marzecova developed a simple website employing the aesthetics of the color code used to communicate the national Air Quality Index (AQI). Quotes by transcripts that recount experiences of living in the hazy Beijing air create sometimes contradictory perspectives on the phenomena.

Web Residencies by Solitude & ZKM

The Timbral Matter of Voice and the Right to Opacity

Interview with Pedro Oliveira

Pedro Oliveira created a »sound essay,« in which he examines accent recognition software in asylum procedures, and challenges narratives of care around it. It serves as an entry point to or a conversation piece on the instrumentalization of voices and accents, on bodies as the site for the production of »evidence.«

Web Residencies by Solitude & ZKM

ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE

by Zahra Malkani / Karachi, Pakistan

Web Residencies by Solitude & ZKM

CiTiZEN KiNO. Compatible Care In The Midst Of The 4th Industrial Graft

by Paolo Podrescu / Berlin, Germany

Web Residencies by Solitude & ZKM

Everyday Voices and Voids: Reclaiming and Transcoding our Data as Performance

by Afroditi Psarra & Audrey Desjardins / Seattle, WA, USA

Web Residencies by Solitude & ZKM

Bornless Immortality

by Omsk Social Club / Berlin, Germany

Web Residencies by Solitude & ZKM

Let Me Fix You

by Dasha Ilina / Paris, FR

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Web Residencies by Solitude & ZKM

Preterrelational Experiments: 001. Physari-Algo Interlocution

by Adriana Knouf / Boston, MA, USA

Web Residencies by Solitude & ZKM

Web Residents »Engineering Care«

Curated by Daphne Dragona

Challenging the common narratives about artificial empathy and the robotic imaginary, the latest call for the Web Residencies by Solitude & ZKM invited projects that address care’s economization and instrumentalization, or shed light on forms of radical, collective, and critical care.