HASH Award 2020 | »Sympoetic Desires«

Talks and short presentations on the calls »Ghosted 2018«, »Planetary Glitch,« and »Refiguring the Feminist Future« 

Akademie Schloss Solitude and ZKM | Center for Art and Media will award the international production prize HASH, on February 21, 2020.

On February 21, 2020, the international production prize HASH for net-based projects in the fields of art, technology, and design will be awarded for the second time at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. The prize, endowed with8,000 euros, was founded by Akademie Schloss Solitude and ZKM and is sponsored by the Stiftung Landesbank Baden-Württemberg. 

Based on the hash value from information technology, which is unique for each file and is used as a test value for datatransfer, the HASH stands for an outstanding project. The prize will be awarded to one of the artists from the English-language online support program Web Residencies for the years 2018/2019.

Conceived by invited curators, the Web Residencies’ open calls addressed questions such as: What can we learn from machines and how much do we depend on them in our lives and at work? How do new care technologies relate to the crisis in caring for the elderly and sick? With which technical innovations, hacks, or open-source strategies can we counter the causes and effects of climate change? What are today's scientific or technological colonialisms? How coulddigital infrastructures that promote opinion-forming and political debate look? What role do mobile phones, actioncams, toy drones and social media live streaming play in war, terrorism, hunting, and other forms of subjective violence and their representation?

More than 1,200 artists, coders, designers, and scientists have submitted project proposals for the six thematic calls for 2018/2019. Twenty-five of these ideas were awarded with Web Residencies in which poetic, playful, as well as critical, political, or utopian works were realized. 

On February 21, the curators and artists will come together at ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe to present the programs’ themes and questions to an interested public in talks, presentations, and performances.

Video Documentary:
ZKM | Videostudio

Camera: Peter Müller, Christina Zartmann
Editing: Peter Müller
Sound Recording: Philipp Kaminski