For this Web Residencies call, Akademie Schloss Solitude is collaborating with curator, writer, and researcher Barbara Cueto to curate a call on the transformative potential of blockchain technologies as tools for care, participation, and collective governance beyond markets.
‘Polymorphic Futures’ invites artists to explore how blockchains can become engines of collective imagination and social transformation. Moving beyond financial speculation, these polymorphic machines are able to shape new forms of belonging, governance, and care – infrastructures for generative rather than extractive futures.
This call looks for proposals that experiment with the social, aesthetic, and political potentials of blockchain as a medium for world-building, and imagine how tokens might signify solidarity, how DAOs (Decentralised Autonomous Organisations) might nurture communities, and how technology might serve emancipation over accumulation.
Six projects will be selected to take part in a four-week, exclusively online residency, starting on 12 February 2026.
The selected project proposals will be rewarded with an online residency and a grant of 1,200 EUR.
