For the nineteenth call for web residencies, Akademie Schloss Solitude’s Digital Solitude programme is collaborating closely with Liquid Architecture. The Naarm (Melbourne)–based art organisation Liquid Architecture supports radical interdisciplinary experimentations offering a platform for artists working with sound – from our everyday data-driven world to the dissonant, beat-driven resonant sounds that defy definition.
The residency ‘Algorithmic Poetry’ looks at how sound may poetically speak with algorithms and networks. In form and concept, it attunes to critique, poetic proliferation, mutation, decay, adaptation, and the subversion of algorithms. How, for example, can various sonic ways of knowing infiltrate and mutate platform capitalist predictions and assumptions? With a strong focus on experimentation, artists whose practice uses sound, in its many platforms, as artistic and critical material are invited to partake in this online residency.
In favour of supporting the constantly changing nature of digital online work, and promoting experimental approaches, the organisers do not prescribe the format in which applicants choose to present their work. Yet, the Digital Solitude programme provides a web space for each web resident and hosts and distributes their web-based projects within a given frame. In addition, the programme works with a web designer/UX designer and programmer who can assist in implementing the project. In addition to presenting and sharing projects online, the programme is currently working on offline formats related to the call. This could be a listening session, a panel, an exhibition, or a curated programme in fall 2023, to be defined more precisely with the web residents’ working group. Applicants are encouraged to consider the accessibility of the users, who may range in age, race, gender, economic class, and ability.
The Web Residency starts on 1 June 2023 with residency projects launching late July 2023. Four project proposals will be selected and rewarded with an online residency and a grant of 1200 euros.
