{"id":44346,"date":"2026-01-28T14:59:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T13:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/?post_type=news&#038;p=44346"},"modified":"2026-02-25T17:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T16:36:14","slug":"the-six-projects-of-the-21th-web-residencies-polymorphic-futures-have-now-been-announced","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/news\/the-six-projects-of-the-21th-web-residencies-polymorphic-futures-have-now-been-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"The six projects of the 21th Web Residencies \u00bbPolymorphic Futures\u00ab have now been announced!"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"template":"","news_type":[664],"class_list":["post-44346","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news_type-news-en"],"acf":{"bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","custom_color_css_variable":"","content_type":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","_acfe_flexible_layout_title":null,"bgcolor":"has-bg-custom","bgcolor_custom":"rgb(255,255,255)","layout_col_size":12,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"<span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: Maison Neue;\">The Web Residencies Call No. 21, curated by Barbara Cueto invited artists to explore how blockchains can become engines of collective imagination and social transformation for \u00bbPolymorphic Futures.\u00ab Six projects were selected to creatively experiment with the social, aesthetic, and political potentials of blockchain as a medium for world-building. These range from speculative white papers to interactive experiments and living archives, engaging with more-than-human entities as well as diverse communities.<\/span>\r\n\r\nIn selecting a group of six international projects from 94 submissions, the jury was impressed with the various creative responses and artistic approaches to the call for \u00bbPoliymorphic Futures\u00ab. The projects propose to view blockchain as a tool for radical imagination. Their shared visions reimagine the technology as a guardian of ecology, a vessel for oral histories and ancestral traditions, and a blueprint for the alternative governance required for post-capitalist futures.\r\n\r\nRead the jury\u2019s full statement on the selection process <a href=\"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/web-residencies-polymorphic-futures\/\">here.<\/a>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","_acfe_flexible_layout_title":null,"bgcolor":"has-bg-yellow","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":12,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"<span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: Maison Neue;\">The selected Web Residents and their projects are:<\/span>\r\n\r\nbeatnyk, Delhi &amp; Chennai\/India <em>\u2013 <\/em><em>Mapping Dissonance<\/em>\r\n\r\nLaura Fong Prosper, Panama &amp; Berlin\/Germany <em>\u2013\u00a0 A River for Life: The Ri\u0301o Cobre Archive<\/em>\r\n\r\nRok Kranjc, Ljubljana\/Slovenia <em>\u2013 Game-Changers: The Game\u2019s Crypto Commons Layer<\/em>\r\n\r\nJoshua Kroon, Buea\/Cameroon <em>\u2013 The Songkeeper's Ledger: A Blockchain for Cultural Consent<\/em>\r\n\r\nLam Lai, Hong Kong\/China &amp; The Hague\/Netherlands <em>\u2013 ACT 0: Fill the Cargo for the Red Planet<\/em>\r\n\r\nPavan Vadgama, Berlin\/Germany &amp; New York\/USA <em>\u2013 CattleDAO: Ledgering Urban Care for Fringe Hooves<\/em>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","_acfe_flexible_layout_title":null,"bgcolor":"has-bg-custom","bgcolor_custom":"rgb(255,255,255)","layout_col_size":12,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/fellowship\/special-fellowships\/web-residencies\/\">Web Residencies<\/a> by Akademie Schloss Solitude were initiated in 2016 to support talents from the international digital art scene. For the 21st call, Akademie Schloss Solitude\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/programs-projects\/digital-cultures\/\">Digital Cultures<\/a> program collaborated closely with the curator, writer, and researcher Barbara Cueto."},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_cta","_acfe_flexible_layout_title":null,"bgcolor":"has-bg-blue","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":10,"cta_link":{"type":"url","value":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/postproject\/web-residencies\/calls-2025\/polymorphic-futures\/","title":"","target":false},"cta_txt":"Web Residencies N\u00b021 \u00bbPolymorphic Futures\u00ab","cta_button_txt":"MORE INFORMATION"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/44346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_type?post=44346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}