{"id":45588,"date":"2026-07-07T08:00:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T06:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/?p=45588"},"modified":"2026-07-06T15:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T13:44:08","slug":"call-for-web-residencies-no-22-ignore-all-previous-instructions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/call-for-web-residencies-no-22-ignore-all-previous-instructions\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Web Residencies No. 22 \u00bbIgnore All Previous Instructions\u00ab"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"project":[890,889,451],"project_type":[817,725,729,743],"class_list":["post-45588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","project-ignore-all-previous-instructions","project-calls-2026","project-web-residencies","project_type-web-residencies","project_type-formats","project_type-call","project_type-themes"],"acf":{"bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","custom_color_css_variable":"","content_type":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","_acfe_flexible_layout_title":null,"acfe_flexible_layout_title":"Text","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"

About<\/span><\/h3>\r\n\u00bbIgnore All Previous Instructions\u00ab<\/span>\r\n\r\nTen years ago, in the Akademie\u2019s first call for Web Residencies<\/a>, NETRO asked: \u00bbWho wants to post stuff on the same platform as Donald Trump?\u00ab1<\/sup> In a finite world that now possesses infinite computational growth and technologies geared to be weaponized, this question still applies today. In the decade since, Silicon Valley has moved into the war room, and Big Tech is taking over global (state) power. The race for ever-faster innovation in the capitalist power play is using up data and resources without any regard for sustainability and ethical responsibility. The platforms and tools we use to communicate also form the base for ad-tech profiling and surveillance that now decides who is watched, detained \u2013 and killed.\r\n\r\n\u00bbIgnore all previous instructions\u00ab is a notorious prompt injection for AI systems \u2013 a linguistic key used to override rule sets and hijack a system\u2019s output. The injection can be typed into a chat interface, hidden in the text on a website, buried in an image\u2019s metadata, or slipped into a PDF. The AI will read it and \u2013 at best \u2013 follow the hidden instruction. The system is hijacked from the inside.\r\n\r\nIt is also the prompt for our open call: Ignore all previous instructions. Don't follow the logics that techno-fascists are inscribing into their tools. They are relying on us to follow their rules. To be predictable. So we require new rules, gestures, methods, and ways of disappearing and reappearing where we're not expected to be. Think of the Situationists, drifting through the streets of Paris carrying maps of London.2<\/sup> Using incongruent cartographic tools, they followed a logic the French city never anticipated, and turned urban spaces into poetry. But these were not better routes through the same old grid. It was a different grid entirely; a map drawn for a city that doesn\u2019t yet exist.\r\n\r\nThe platforms we are trapped in were built to extract, not to provide agency. Our old methods, protests, boycotts, and good arguments have all been fed into the machine and replicated, neutralized, and are sold back to us as content. So we need artworks that follow new paths, and proposals that hijack, sabotage, glitch, and interrupt, to make space for new routines, tools, and structures.\r\n\r\nTake this call very seriously and then ignore all previous instructions. Invent signals that cannot be jammed. Drift with a wrong map.\r\n\r\n- !Mediengruppe Bitnik (2026)"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_footnotes","_acfe_flexible_layout_title":null,"acfe_flexible_layout_title":"Fu\u00dfnoten","bgcolor":"","footnotes_list_hide_numbers":false,"footnotes":[{"footnote":"First Call for Web Residencies by Akademie Schloss Solitude \u00bbDecentralization of Internet Art\u00ab. Curated by NETRO in 2016. Available online at: https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/call-for-web-residencies-1\/<\/a> (accessed June 24, 2026)"},{"footnote":"Claire Richard: \u00bbD\u00e9rive and Psychogeography: Situationist Practices of Urban Space,\u00ab in: Immediacy, An Online Media Journal, The New School of Media Studies. Available online at: http:\/\/immediacy.newschool.edu\/previous\/?p=397<\/a> (accessed June 24, 2026);\r\n\r\nGuy Debord: \u00bbTheory of the D\u00e9rive.\u00ab Les L\u00e8vres Nues 9 (November 1956). Reprinted in Internationale Situationniste 2 (December 1958). Available online at: https:\/\/www.sionline.researche-editions.cddc.vt.edu\/si\/theory.html<\/a> (accessed June 24, 2026)"}]},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","_acfe_flexible_layout_title":null,"acfe_flexible_layout_title":"Text","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"

Grant<\/span><\/h3>\r\nSix project proposals will be selected and rewarded with an online residency and a grant of 1,200 euros.\r\n

Timeline<\/span><\/h3>\r\nCall release: July 7, 2026\r\nDeadline for submissions: August 7, 2026 (06:00 pm CEST)\r\nAnnouncement of the jury\u2019s decision (via mail): September 2026\r\nDuration of Web Residencies: September 22, 2026 \u2013 October 22, 2026\r\nLaunch Web Residency projects: October\/November 2026\r\nOptional one-day online coding workshop: September 15, 2026\r\n

Web Residencies<\/span><\/h3>\r\nAkademie Schloss Solitude initiated the Web Residencies program in 2016 to support young talents from the international digital scene, as well as artists from all disciplines engaging with web-based practices. The program offers a platform to present both the process and outcomes of artistic work online. Its aim is to promote and give visibility to digital art and artists; foster discussion on issues at the intersections of digital art, net culture, technology, and society; and explore and test new forms of artistic practice outside geographical and institutional boundaries.\r\n\r\nFor each call, Akademie Schloss Solitude collaborates with international curators or curatorial collectives to develop a thematic framework and select four to six project proposals. The chosen participants receive a four-week online residency, an online presentation of their projects, and a grant of 1,200 euros.\r\n\r\nAkademie Schloss Solitude launches several calls for Web Residencies each year. The program invites artists to experiment with digital technologies and new art forms, and to critically engage with the topics proposed by the curators or curatorial collectives. The Web Residencies take place exclusively online.\r\n\r\nAn overview of all projects and interviews can be found HERE<\/a>.\r\n\r\nArtists of all disciplines may apply. There is no age limit. The submission is free of charge.\r\n

FAQ<\/span><\/h3>\r\nIs it possible to apply with more than one project?<\/span><\/em>\r\nNo. We accept only one submission per applicant (individual artist or collectives).\r\n\r\nIs it possible to apply with an already existing project?<\/span><\/em>\r\nYes, if the project is not finished, is process-oriented, and allows for embedding in Akademie Schloss Solitude\u2019s online environment.\r\n\r\nHow many projects will be selected?<\/span><\/em>\r\nFor this year\u2019s call, six project proposals will be selected and rewarded with an online residency.\r\n

Call Team<\/span><\/h3>\r\n++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\r\n!Mediengruppe Bitnik (read \u2013 the not Mediengruppe Bitnik) are\r\ncontemporary artists working on, and with, the Internet. Their practice\r\nexpands from the digital to physical spaces, often intentionally\r\napplying loss of control to challenge established structures and\r\nmechanisms.\r\n\r\nIn the past, they have been known to subvert surveillance cameras, bug\r\nan opera house to broadcast its performances outside, send a parcel\r\ncontaining a camera to Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in\r\nLondon, and physically glitch a building. In 2014, they sent a bot\r\ncalled \u00abRandom Darknet Shopper\u00bb on a three-month shopping spree in the\r\nDarknets, where it randomly bought items like keys, cigarettes,\r\ntrainers, and Ecstasy and had them sent directly to the gallery space.\r\n\r\n!Mediengruppe Bitnik are Carmen Weisskopf and Domagoj Smoljo. They are based in Berlin.\r\n\r\nhttps:\/\/wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.bitnik.org<\/a>\r\n++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","_acfe_flexible_layout_title":null,"acfe_flexible_layout_title":"Text","bgcolor":"has-bg-custom","bgcolor_custom":"rgb(0,255,153)","layout_col_size":12,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"

How to Apply\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\r\nYou can submit your application* on the application platform<\/a> from July 7, 2026 until August 7, 2026 (06:00 pm CET) in the form of a project proposal, including:<\/span>\r\n
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\u2013 a headline\r\n<\/span><\/span>\u2013 a header image (websize, landscape format, JPEG or PNG, < 400 KB)<\/span>\r\n\u2013 a short concept text in English (1.000\u20131.500 characters)<\/span>\r\n\u2013 a short text describing in which format the project should be presented (500 characters)<\/span>\r\n\u2013 a short bio (400 characters)\r\n\u2013 previous works\/projects dated by year (300 characters)\r\n\u2013 prizes and fellowships\/grants dated by year (300 characters)\r\n\u2013 a PDF portfolio and\/or project description (max. 10 pages, max. 10 MB)<\/span>\r\n\u2013 additional links to previous works<\/span><\/p>\r\nSince our jury is international, please submit your application in English.<\/span>\r\n

Artists<\/span> of all disciplines may apply. There is no age limit.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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Applications can only be submitted via the online application platform<\/a>.*\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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For questions, please contact webresidencies@akademie-solitude.de<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n

*We recommend that you submit your application well in advance and not wait until shortly before the deadline, as any last-minute questions may not be answered or technical issues be solved.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","_acfe_flexible_layout_title":null,"acfe_flexible_layout_title":"Text","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"

Selection Panel<\/span><\/h3>\r\n!Mediengruppe Bitnik<\/span> and Sarah Donderer<\/span>, Program Coordinator for Digital Cultures & Co-Lead of SCOPE at Akademie Schloss Solitude."}],"intro_preview_headline":"Curated by !Mediengruppe Bitnik","intro_preview_txt":"With the Web Residencies Call No. 22, !Mediengruppe Bitnik invites artists to create works that challenge extractive digital platforms and AI systems. For the tenth anniversary of the Web Residencies program, we look back at the first call in 2016, following up on its question on where to meet online when digital platforms are monopolized and weaponized \u2013 a problem we face now more than ever. This edition will explore how to interrupt dominant technological logics \u2013 from ad-tech surveillance to prompt injection vulnerabilities \u2013 to imagine alternative structures and communication methods. The program seeks proposals that hijack, glitch, and disrupt rather than comply with existing systems, drawing on strategies like Situationist \u00bbd\u00e9tournement\u00ab to map routes through and around the grids we are trapped within.<\/span>","intro_preview_img":45615,"post_id_old":"","post_author":null,"post_subtitle":"Curated by !Mediengruppe Bitnik","post_preview_img_hide_on_single":false,"post_txt_old":"","post_pdf":"","post_copyright":"ccl_default","translated_post":false,"translations":null,"post_copyright_individual":"","post_related_posts":[43839,41611,36658],"related_posts_post":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45588"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45630,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45588\/revisions\/45630"}],"acf:post":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36658"},{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41611"},{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"project","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project?post=45588"},{"taxonomy":"project_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_type?post=45588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}