Schloss Post

Architecture & Design

If Not Political, It Is Not Design

by Kaiwan Mehta

Architecture is on the threshold of change, but it risks being reduced to the decorative arts. – An essay by Solitude's main juror, theorist and critic, Kaiwan Mehta

Studio Solitude

Knitting and Knotting Love in the Network

with Shaka McGlotten (they/he)

Stroll through anthropologist Shaka McGlotten’s work through a conversation around three artifacts cautiously dug out of a collection of their research.

Lorgennale Stuttgart

Stuttgart Seen From Peoples Homes

by Jasmina Al-Qaisi

This is the personal story of an unabridged enjoyable experience I had as an invitee at the lorgenale festival in Stuttgart, seen from within.

Obituary: Musaab Sadeq Khadeel Al-Tuwaijari

by Maxi Obexer

On Drawing

Swimming As Dance

by Ana Mendes

Dancers often ask »When do we stop dancing – when we leave the studio or when we sleep?« So, when do we stop drawing? And what are the imprints onto the body? Thoughts by Ana Mendes on the practice of artist Kanako Hayashi.

Lorgennale Festival Stuttgart

Home Is the Most Important Thing in People’s Lives

Interview by Rasha Hilwi

This interview by cultural journalist Rasha Hilwi with Jean-Lorin Sterian is about the idea of the festival and the importance of »home-based« art practices.

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.

Voices from Around the Globe

Ghana/London, UK, 22.11.2016

Poetry

Wailing Wall

by János Áfra

This is yet another piece by János Áfra published on Schlosspost. The poem is about Daniel Firmans »Lea«

Birth-Knowledge-Generator

Hierarchies of Otherly Knowledge

by Jasmin Schädler, Inga Marie Ruxton & by Christoph Knoth

The most important aspect is to give birth related knowledge a new context and a new sensuality. It is a way to tackle the medical knowledge and to create continuously new encounters between the described oppositions.

Digital Workers as Software Extensions

I Will Say Whatever You Want In Front of a Pizza

by Sebastian Schmieg

Digital artist Sebastian Schmieg created a speculative Prezi on digital labor and the amalgamation of humans and software narrated by a cloud worker.

Digital Labour

I Will Say Whatever You Want…

by Sebastian Schmieg

Digital artist Sebastian Schmieg created a speculative Prezi on digital labor and the amalgamation of humans and software narrated by a cloud worker.

Web Residency No.1 by Solitude & ZKM

Algorithms Allowed

by Joana Moll

»Algorithms Allowed« investigates US tracking and online services embedded in websites representing US embargoed countries and exposes the ambiguous relationship between code and power in the age of algorithmic governance.

Web Residency No.1 by Solitude & ZKM

Me And My Facebook Data

by Hang Do Thi Duc

»Me And My Facebook Data« is a website by artist and technologist Hang Do Thi Duc that assists users to gain access to a view of their Facebook data and to develop a relation to their »Data Selves«.

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.

Sound

Hell is a place where we call each other darling

by Elmar Mellert

Jurisprudence/Law

Pattern Recognition

by Martin Zeilinger

With a background in digital culture and intellectual property law, Martin Zeilinger explores questions of »authorship« and »creating,« concerning algorithm-generated artworks.

Logging Solitude Project

Logging Solitude

by Deniz Johns and Martin Zeilinger

In »Logging Solitude,« a hybrid-form project, Deniz Johns and Martin Zeilinger approach the castle’s lost Baroque garden architecture in a speculative rediscovery.

Raycaster Residence

shirin anlen/Tel Aviv / New York

Extending Artworks in the Time of Auto Complete

Conan Lai/Montreal, Canada

MAgnetic VIdeo CAmera

Martin Volman/Buenos Aires, Argentina

Gaze-based Emergent Pattern Evolution

Eric Parren, Los Angeles/USA

Neural Art – Pollock pattern

Vincent Brinkmann/Cologne

Birth-Knowledge-Generator Web Project

Hierarchies of Otherly Knowledge

by Jasmin Schädler, Inga Marie Ruxton & by Christoph Knoth

DPRK7 F.C.

Federico Pozuelo/Italy