Call for Web Residencies by Solitude and ZKM Curated by Daphne Dragona

»Engineering Care«

The latest call for Web Residencies by Solitude and ZKM aims to look into the possibilities and limitations, gains and losses of automated care: How do contemporary technologies of care relate to the generalized crisis of care in the world today? What new wishes, services, and products are generated through them? To what extent can they restore the social bonds that fell apart in the period of financial capitalism? Can they assist in rethinking and reformulating the politics and ethics of care? What if care itself is understood as a living technology? Which practices and methodologies emerge in this case, and how can they be helpful?

Challenging the common narratives about artificial empathy and the robotic imaginary, the call welcomes projects that address care’s economization and instrumentalization, or shed light on forms of radical, collective, and critical care. These might be tools, networks, and infrastructures for human, more-than-human, or machinic worlds, as well as initiatives, formations, and assemblages that aim to maintain, repair, or build relations and bonds.  

»Engineering Care« invites artists, designers, technologists, and activists to submit proposals for new or ongoing works that capture how we will live and work with machines, and how relationships and dependencies might change.