With the Web Residencies Call No. 22, !Mediengruppe Bitnik invites artists to create works that challenge extractive digital platforms and AI systems. For the tenth anniversary of the Web Residencies programme, Akademie Schloss Solitude look back at the first call in 2016, following up on its question on where to meet online when digital platforms are monopolised and weaponized – a problem we face now more than ever.
This edition will explore how to interrupt dominant technological logics – from ad-tech surveillance to prompt injection vulnerabilities – to imagine alternative structures and communication methods. The programme seeks proposals that hijack, glitch, and disrupt rather than comply with existing systems, drawing on strategies like Situationist ‘détournement’ to map routes through and around the grids we are trapped within.
Duration of Web Residencies is from 22 September to 22 October 2026, with an optional one-day online coding workshop on 17 September and the launch of the Web Residency projects in October/November 2026.
Artists of all disciplines may apply. There is no age limit. The submission is free of charge.
Six project proposals will be selected and rewarded with an online residency and a grant of 1,200 EUR.
