it’s our pleasure to welcome Stefanie Schröder to our subnetAIR program 2025!
As every year, a mixture of local and international artistic positions has been sought out. The selected project proposals and persons are characterised by ambitious objectives and thematic relevance.
The jury’s decision was to give one subnetAIR slot to Stefanie Schröder because „the jury is recognizing Schröders exploration of contemporary cultural and technological phenomena through performance and video art. Her project proposal explores the culture of rating, ranking, and generating AI training data, blending a critical analysis of modern labor systems with artistic interventions. By transforming the flâneur into the figure of the female mystery shopper and clickworker, she examines the precarious, often invisible labor embedded in the digital and urban landscape of Salzburg.“
Stefanie Schröder on her project:
I am particularly interested in the documentary potential of art – whether intentional or unintentional. Along the question of the function of texts and images, I collage fragmentary narrative reports that often originate from long-term observations. In doing so, I try to combine a documentary approach with strategies from conceptual and performance art. For many years, I have been dealing with the framework conditions of (my) artistic production and with precarious workcircumsatnces. So far, I have created the video loop „Ein Bild abgeben“, the two-channel video „40h, max 2 Monate“ and most recently the PowerPoint performance „Eine unsichere Bank“. This work deals with the culture of rating, ranking and awarding stars in the city and in virtual space and with the generation and artistic reuse of training data sets for AI.
In Salzburg, I would like to continue working on this project and try to bring the film out of the screening room and onto the street. Therefore, I plan to experiment with low-tech mobile recording devices and augmented reality apps and use them on routes given to me by clickworking apps through the city, which I will follow to check supermarkets, billboards, shopping malls, gas stations. In addition to my own recordings, I would like to interview other clickworkers (online) to create a sound layer from voiceovers.
Stefanie Schröder, born in Weimar, Germany, studied art education and art history at the University of Greifswald, as well as photography in Leipzig and Nizza, Italy. She has received various awards, including the Martha Hoepffner Preis für Schwarzweißfotografie (Sonderpreis) in 2011, the Bremer Videokunstförderpreis (2018), the Arbeitsstipendium des Kulturamts der Stadt Leipzig (2022) and the Aenne Biermann Preis für Gegenwartsfotografie (2023). Schröder, joint-operator of the .mpeg (moving pictures experimental garage) in Leipzig, now lives and works in Leipzig, Germany.
Picturecredit: Stefanie Schröder: „40h, max. 2 Monate“
subnetAIR26 will be calling this summer and deadlining on October 31st 2025.
subnetAIR Exhibitions:
2022 Medien.Kunst.Realitäten – Katalog
2018 possible bodies – Katalog
2015 Klanghypothesen – Katalog
subnetAIR 2016 -2022:
# Jana De Troyer – documentation
# Martina Fröschl – documentation
# Scarlett Yang
# Corrie Francis Parks (MediaART Stadt Salzburg) – documentation
# Chun Shao – documentation
# Katsuki Nogami – documentation
# Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka – documentation
# Nora Jacobs (MediaART Stadt Salzburg) – documentation
# Lukas Gwechenberger – documentation
# Stefan Tiefengraber – documentation
# Stefano Mori – documentation
# Simon Whetham – documentation
# Silvia Rosani and Tom Jacques – documentation
# Vera Sebert – documentation
# Michaela Schwentner – documentation
# Mac Krebernik – documentation
subnetAIR Ausstellung: possible bodies (2018) – Katalog
# Lale Rodgarkia-Dara – documentation
# Simon Faulhaber
# Georg Scherlin – documentation
# Iulia Radu
# Nicolò Cervello
# Robert B. Lisek – documentation
# Kanari Shirao – documentation
# Laura Splan documentation
#Antoni Raijekov – documentation
# Young Suk Lee – documentation
# Danny Bracken
# Lucie Strecker
2015subnetAIR Ausstellung: Klanghypothesen (2015) – Katalog
# Myriam Bleau
# Robert Praxmarer – documentation
# Nikolas Psaroudakis – documentation