mur.at and the Collective Intelligence Affiliation (CIA) are searching for numerous artists or collectives to take part in a 5-day inventive residency and worklab in Graz, Austria. All year long, mur.at has been accumulating intelligence from artists, collectives, and passersby in Graz and past. The chosen artists will collectively collaborate with CIA and the mur.at workforce to work with this collected materials and develop an inventive investigation which will take the type of data-mining artwork, a documentary on intelligence, a web artwork provocation, new software program—or one thing solely surprising.
The shape is open. The one situation is that it should emerge throughout the thematic body of collective intelligence. Because the annual theme is KI – Kollektive Intelligenz (Collective Intelligence), we suggest that the construction of the five-day worklab – based mostly on the thought of an open Barcamp to the mur.at neighborhood – to be collectively outlined by the invited contributors.
Who we’re
CIA is a department of the CMKK neighborhood — an initiative based mostly in Graz centered on laptop music and sound artwork. CIA facilitates CIAPs – Collective Intelligence Entry Factors – interactive digital portals put in at occasions to attach simultaneous gatherings throughout distant areas. CIAPs additionally present area for digital collective meet ups, brainstorming and suggestions classes, and documentation. Every CIAP is a reside audiovisual node permitting public enter, nameless interplay, and collective presence throughout borders.
The interface – a digital canvas facilitated by a bodily set up – is developed by TAAT.reside.agora and actively incorporates contributions from artists and audiences. In 2025, CIA collaborates with mur.at for a full yr of occasions, experiments, and interventions centered on collective intelligence. Since 1999, mur.at has been constructing a bodily and digital infrastructure, together with a neighborhood comprised by artists and cultural staff from numerous sectors, dedicated to creating and selling web tradition, sound artwork, software program artwork, and media artwork. mur.at prioritizes Free/Libre & Open-Supply Software program (F/LOSS) and helps unrestricted data circulate and clear data switch. It gives the technological spine for a large community of artists and initiatives, each in Austria and internationally.
Who we’re searching for
Inventive builders, activists, writers, and artists working in community artwork, sound artwork, media artwork, digital artwork, or associated practices— anybody contributing to the event of network-based inventive communities and fascinated by partaking with the subject of collective intelligence.
Worklab/Barcamp Guiding Questions
These questions will body the method and collaborative investigation through the worklab:
- What types of intelligence emerge when authorship is subtle, nameless, or collectively overwritten?
- How can we design digital areas that foster collective motion as a substitute of pas-sive participation?
- Can a distributed artwork observe maintain political weight with out central management or secure construction?
- Is it attainable to generate collective intelligence with out consensus?
- Might an art work behave like a virus; a disrupting power spreading optimistic af-fect and/or feelings, solidarity?
- What will we relate, owe to others in a shared digital area the place our presence is partial, invisible, or asynchronous?
These questions are a place to begin of the discussions and might be modified utterly if the contributors discover it essential.
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Extra data and particulars: https://mur.at/submit/opencall-2025/
