Clara Herrmann | Akademie Schloss Solitude: Schlosspost

Clara Herrmann

Stuttgart/Germany — Former Coordinator Digital Solitude program & Editor of Schlosspost

Clara Herrmann studied literature, law and arts administration in Konstanz, Berlin, London, and Frankfurt (Oder). Her focus lies on the digitization of cultural institutions and topics related to art, society, and the Internet. In 2014, she joined Akademie Schloss Solitude as a coordination fellow and was responsible for press and cooperations. 2015-2018, she developed and coordinated the Digital Solitude program with fellowships, the online program »Web Residencies«, and the institution’s digital platform Schlosspost.

Akademie Schloss Solitude Profile

Articles with and by Clara Herrmann:

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 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.«

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

Ancient Gods and Digital Power

with Juan Covelli

What if the magical powers of the 3D scanner and the Mesoamerican ancient god of rain came together to fight digital colonialism? An interview with artist and web resident Juan Covelli

Web Residencies by Solitude & ZKM

Dignity, Grace, and Wonder

with Dananayi Muwanigwa

Dananayi Muwanigwa, a self taught digital painter from Zimbabwe, creates strong Afrofuturistic paintings challenging Western notions of beauty.

Web Residencies by Solitude & ZKM

Your Perfect AI Artist Companion

with Alan Butler & Elaine Hoey

Welcome to Prospero! At the AI Production Residencies, we do all the hard work so you don't have too. We ensure your leisure time and guide you towards creative fulfilment.

Web Residencies by Solitude & ZKM

An AI Summer

with Nora O Murchú

Read a statement by the curator Nora O Murchú on the chosen projects and have a look at the different ideas ranging from chat bots to deep unlearning exercises.

Web Residencies by Solitude and ZKM

Net Art Award »Hash«

by Solitude & ZKM

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!

Web Residencies by Solitude and ZKM

Patterns Staring Back at You

with Eric Parren

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

Studio Solitude

Empty of Radical Emotions

with Dima Hourani

Artist Dima Hourani from Palestine investigates images, symbols, and icons, questioning the role they play in specific societies and exiled communities. A studio visit at Solitude

Studio Berlin

Pretend to Be a Bot, Rehumanize the Web

with Sebastian Schmieg

Net artist Sebastian Schmieg takes a closer look at digital labor and the arbitrary nature and strangeness of online freelance service marketplaces.

Web Residencies by Solitude & ZKM

Coding as Poetry

with Jim Rolland

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

Web Residencies by Solitude and ZKM

What Is Beauty in Net Art?

with Claudia Maté

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.

Studio Solitude

When the Gods Come to the Valley

with Imran Ali Khan

The stories that Indian researcher and artist Imran Ali Khan’s family told when he was young inspired him to later investigate oral traditions and ritual performances.

Studio Solitude

Cats, Bots & Dark Labour

with Curtis Roth

What makes attention valuable? Can bots be an audience? The answer might have something to do with cats. A talk with artist and architect Curtis Roth on his current project

Web Residencies by Solitude & ZKM

The Future of Living With Surveillance

with Adam Harvey

With Adam Harvey's project »SkyLift« users can have their smartphones pretend to be in another location. Learn how to build your own device!

Web Residencies by Solitude & ZKM

Get to Know Your Data Self

with Hang Do Thi Duc

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

Web Residencies by Solitude & ZKM

Tracking the Google Trackers

with Joana Moll

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

Talk

No Fixed Showroom

with Jean-Baptiste Joly & Peter Weibel

The artistic directors of Solitude, Jean-Baptiste Joly, and ZKM, Peter Weibel, in conversation about net-based practices and the need for remote residencies.

Interview

Argue Against the World of Idealized Systems

with Kostis Velonis

A talk with Greek artist Kostis Velonis about the stressful management of perfectionism, the complex German-Greek relation, the upcoming Documenta, and a repressed modernity.

Editor's Note #2

Meeting in the Ether. The Future of Residencies?

by Clara Herrmann

The first year and the last call for Schlosspost web residencies is coming to an end. Remains to ask ourselves: Is this the residency of the future?

Schlosspost

Editor’s Note

by Clara Herrmann

In November 2015, the institution Akademie Schloss Solitude became its own medium with the online-platform Schlosspost. Read an editor's note on the past ten highly productive months.

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