In the framework of the project Magical Hackerism or The Elasticity of Resilience, SAVVY Contemporary and Akademie Schloss Solitude’s Digital programme offers four web residencies to practitioners and communities within the tropical belt, exploring situated knowledges, forming local DIT (Do It Together) community networks, and/or connecting intertropically on a planetary level.
During the six-week online residency (1 November – 15 December 2022), the organisers will offer support to setup a local community network using a Raspberry Pi, where your situated knowledge exploration can be hosted. When connected to the Wi-Fi network provided by the Rhizome, visitors can visit a web relational garden (a more than linear web space) that will contain your research, content, and resources to be shared. Your rhizome will become part of a InterTropical P2P network communicating through the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) protocol. Through the network, it is possible to visit other relational gardens elsewhere and communicate with other practitioners.
Futura Trōpica Netroots is an InterTropical network of grassroots local networks connecting communities and networks of support in Bogotá/Colombia, Kinshasa/DR Congo, and Bengaluru/India. In 2022, Martinique, Kampala/Uganda and Manila/Philippines have joined the constellation.
About the residency:
- Web residencies are carried out exclusively online, and the works are presented online.
- For this call, the Netting Research Group selects four project proposals, whose creators are rewarded with a six-week production residency and a 1200 EUR grant.
- Artists of all disciplines as well as former Solitude fellows may apply. There is no age limit.
- If you are selected as a web resident, you will be required to make public the content of your proposal on the Akademie Schloss Solitude website and the Futura Trōpica Netroots. Your result may, of course, diverge from your proposal.
