Organizer Information:
The Körber-Stiftung (Körber Foundation) runs the eCommemoration program, which has spent the last five years accompanying the transformation of remembrance culture in the digital media age. The Immersive History Lab Studio is designed to explore how contemporary media art can question certainties in remembrance culture and create new, pluralistic narratives about the past.
Title & Description:
Call for Applications: Immersive History Lab Studio.
“Back to the beginning? Let’s rethink memory and tell history differently.”
This program invites 7 "memory workers" to explore media art approaches for a participatory, debate-initiating, speculative, and open-ended culture of remembrance. The program investigates how digital contemporary arts can provoke a user-centered confrontation with history, moving beyond worn-out, top-down policies of commemoration to give a voice to often-overlooked communities.
Category:
Professional Development & Lab / Curatorial & Museum Studies.
(Aimed at museum professionals, curators, and researchers focusing on digital media art and history).
Eligibility:
- Who: Early-career museum professionals and "memory workers" (e.g., those completing a “Volontariat” at a museum or in the early stages of their career in the museum sector).
- Institutional Background: Applicants should be affiliated with a city, regional, ethnological, technical, or historical museum.
Program Benefits & Awards:
- Knowledge Exchange: An introduction to the eCommemoration program and practical knowledge exchange.
- Online Formats: Three online sessions with artists from the eCommemoration community and thematic input (between June and July 2026).
- Festival Participation: An exclusive side program at the eCommemoration Festival in September 2026, featuring meet-ups, exchanges, and discussions with residents, guests, and artists.
- Follow-up Workshop: A session dedicated to relating the joint findings specifically to your curatorial practice and institution.
- Financial Support: The program covers all travel and accommodation costs associated with the in-person events.
Application Fee:
Free.
Application Requirements:
Applicants must submit an email containing:
- A short CV.
- Answers to the following two questions:
- How does it become obvious in your institution that established practices of remembrance culture have reached their limits?
- What do you hope to gain from a greater openness to artistic practices in dealing with history and memory?
How to Apply?
Send your application (CV and answers to the questions) via email to ecommemoration@koerber-stiftung.de.
Key Dates:
- Application Deadline: May 1, 2026.
- Online Formats: June – July 2026.
- eCommemoration Festival (In-person): September 2026.
Location:
Hamburg, Germany / Online.
Contact Information:
Email: ecommemoration@koerber-stiftung.de (Bianca Itte, Student assistant eCommemoration)
Website: https://koerber-stiftung.de/en/projects/ecommemoration/immersive-history-lab-studio