The Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden – a joint project of the TUD Dresden University of Technology and The Schaufler Foundation – is offering a six-month Artist in Residence at the interface of art and science for the year 2025, which is connected to the university’s Office for Academic Heritage, Scientific and Art Collections.
The Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden was initiated in 2019 with the aim of researching and communicating the complex relationship between humans, machines, technology, and the world from the perspectives of the social sciences, humanities, and art. The theme ‘Data↔Worlds. Sociotechnical and cultural syntheses of new realities’ is at the centre of the Lab’s second funding phase (2024–2027), meaning technical and cultural mediations of reality through data that significantly shape society and living environments.
The Lab’s residency programme offers dedicated and internationally active artists or artist groups from the fields of media art, conceptual art, performance, and more the opportunity to artistically explore the above-mentioned central theme. They have the chance to work together with a cooperative community of researchers in the context of the Schaufler Kolleg@TU Dresden and to draw on the resources of the University of Excellence and cooperation partners for artistic and creative productions.
Lectures, talks and workshops within the framework of the Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden as well as a guest seminar at the Dresden University of Fine Arts are part of the residency.
Support:
- Access to a competitive array of institutes and workshops for artistic research
- A stipend of 3,000 EUR (net) a month for 6 months (in the period between February and December 2025)
- A studio at TUD
- Production support of up to 10,000 EUR
- Solo exhibition at the Gallery of the Office for Academic Heritage of TUD in fall 2025 with an artist book by a respected fine arts publishing house (Sandstein Verlag, Dresden)
- Assistance finding accommodation
