<nettime-ann> warehouse open call#2 for digital residencies july 17

AN ETHNOGRAPHY ON STRATEGIES OG DIGITAL FRICTION

Reality is organized in discrete units. We are trapped in filter bubbles, surrounded by comfort and uniformity – “digital islands of isolation that are drifting further apart each day.” In other words, seamless surfaces are stacked on top of each other, engaging us in the cosy architecture of Gated Communities. Personalized interfaces endure into homophily – we are encircled with more of the same. Comfortable exclusions of the Other touch upon an easy space of segregation.

warehouse is a curatorial project researching into artistic and scientific strategies of digital friction. The aim is to research into a condition of homophily to provide solutions: warehouse configures ethnographic categories [pray], [soft-fiction], [entropy], [adobe], [home], [stranded]: a geometry to map a new normal; a topography for overcoming segregation. How may friction look like in times of total seamlessness? For 5 month warehouse will go on an ethnographic field trip by collecting, archiving and distributing scientific and artistic data around modes of digital resistance. We will seek models of friction, local utopias and distributive infiltrations.

CALL #2 FOR RESIDENCIES JULY 2017

Grant

warehouse announces three calls for a »Digital Residency«. For each call two persons or collectives will be selected for a four-week Digital Residency which is rewarded with 650 € to support the realization of a project during this time. In August there will be a free workshop taking place for all the participants. The Residents are asked to take part in the Jury for the next residency. Applicants must not exceed the age of 30 years.

Format

Only digital formats are accepted: websites, videos, software, presentation slides, videos, writing, social media projects (on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, etc.).

Jury

Inke Arns, director of Hartware MedienKunstVerein

Anna Fricke, curator for contemporary art at Museum Folkwang

Participants of the first residency.

Application

Submit your project proposal in the form of:

– a headline

– a concept in English (1000-1500 characters incl. spaces)

– a time table of the project

– a header image (high resolution, landscape format, i.e. 1500x1125px)

– a short bio in English (500 characters incl. spaces)

– a portfolio PDF (images, text, links, videos)

Timeline

Application period: 06.06. – 20.06.2017

Jury selection: 23.06.2017

Digital Residency: 01.07. – 01.08.2017 (4 weeks)

Contact

Please use our form to upload your application

web: www.warehouse.industries

[email protected]

warehouse is a project of super_filme e.V. and flatness. Sponsored by the German Federal Cultural Foundation and the Ministry of Culture.