warehouse - Digital Residency 2017

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 II 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 of the Digital Residency. Applicants must not exceed the age of 30 years.

Format
All formats that allow an online distribution are accepted: e.g. websites, installations and software, applications, 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 short 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 web: www.warehouse.industries Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist vor Spambots geschützt! Zur Anzeige muss JavaScript eingeschaltet sein! warehouse is a project of super_filme e.V. and flatness. Sponsored by the German Federal Cultural Foundation and the Ministry of Culture.