Web Residencies 2017 – Cooperation of Akademie Schloss Solitude and ZKM

In 2017, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart and the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe will announce three calls for web residencies with different topics that will be designed by invited curators.

The »Web Residencies« program was initiated by Akademie Schloss Solitude in 2016 to support young talents from the international digital scene as well as artists of all disciplines who deal with web-based practices to present the process and results of their work online on the platform www.schloss-post.com . For each call three to four people or teams will be selected by the curators for a four-week »Web Residency,« which is rewarded with 500 USD.

With this new cooperation, Akademie Schloss Solitude as an artist residency – and »networkmachine« – and the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe as a museum and place of artistic research and development merge their expertise and practice to work jointly on the development of the program »Web Residencies«. Both houses consider online artist residencies as a contemporary format for the support of artists in a globalized art scene shaped by digitalization. The digital space will be utilized to attempt new ways within the artistic practice and communication of art beyond geographical and institutional borders. The program is thereby consciously open designed to be shaped also by the ideas, concepts, and methods of a scene that operates beyond the mainstream art establishment.