Eligibility

Artists and students of all disciplines as well as former or current Solitude fellows may apply. There is no age limit.

Number of Participants

Collectives and duos may apply as well as individual artists.

Deadline

November 14, 2020 23:00 UTC

Selection Results (Announcement Dates)

November 30, 2020 23:00 UTC

Duration

January 15, 2021 - February 12, 2021

Funding

• $750.00 stipend (one-time)

Housing

Home-Stay

Disciplines

Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, Cinematography, Collective, Digital Media, Drawing, Illustration, Immersive Experiences, Installation, Interdiscplinary Arts, Moving Image, Multimedia

Program Description

In 2016, Akademie Schloss Solitude launched the Web Residencies to encourage young talents of the international digital scene and artists from all disciplines dealing with web-based practices. ZKM was program partner from 2017–2019. For each call, the curator selects four project proposals whose creators receive a four-week residency and 750 euros. Artists are invited to experiment with digital technologies and new art forms, and reflect on the topics set by the curators. Web residencies are carried out exclusively online, and the works are presented online. For Akademie Schloss Solitude’s Call for Web Residencies No. 14, we invited artist and musician Johanna Hedva as curator. Moving away from all-encompassing dystopian future scenarios, »Post-Doom« explores how the perception of a lost present is inscribed in and reproduced in our everyday experiential spaces. As a seductive counterpart to this seemingly hopeless approaching terminal state (or standstill), Hedva calls for us to