Happy to announce the 6 residents 🪰 of our open call »Ignore All Previous Instructions« @ Akademie Schloss Solitude 🪰 (Web Residencies N°22)! 🪰

So many brilliant projects and proposals came in 🪰 from around the world, and it was hard to say no 🪰 to so many of them. But we're thrilled about the six we selected! 🪰🪰

⊘ automatonomy.net (@agajdosi) ⟶ »What You See Is Not What They Get«: 🪰 an open-source method that scrambles website text for AI scrapers 🪰 while keeping it visually legible to humans through a custom font 🪰

⦸ Lucia Rebolino ⟶ »www: vanity veils violence«: counter-maps the colonial, economic & environmental realities hidden 🪰 behind desirable country-code domains like .ai, .io & .tv 🪰🪰

✕ Herdimas Anggara ⟶ »RASUK, Poisoning My Own SEO«: 🪰 builds websites from misspellings of the artist's name to confuse search engines 🪰 & destabilize AI-generated identity 🪰

☒ Tara Kelton ⟶ »Work Party«: uses delivery apps to organize brief gatherings 🪰 where gig workers & customers share food, tea & conversation 🪰 within the platform's own constraints 🪰

⊗ Précieux Kinmagbo ⟶ »Terms & Conditions«: an interactive encounter with the Lukasa memory board, 🪰 where extraction attempts meet Mbudye protocols 🪰 of counter-questioning, riddling & partial disclosure 🪰

⛒ Olivier Jonvaux ⟶ »A Fly Like Thee«: 🪰 an open-source plugin that detects AI crawlers 🪰 & makes their invisible visits visible 🪰 as flies accumulating on the webpage 🪰🪰🪰

Full jury statement, 🪰 and much more importantly, more about the works and the residents: 🪰 https://www.akademie-solitude.de/en/web-residencies-ignore-all-previous-instructions/ 🪰