I confirm that at the time of the residency (one-month between March and July 2026), I will be able to both undertake the trip and facilitate the stay in Germany.
Residency Period: one-month between March and July 2026
Concerning the aspects relevant for data protection when using the website www.zkm.de (hereinafter also referred to as »Website«), we
ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe
Stiftung des öffentlichen Rechts
Lorenzstraße 19 76135 Karlsruhe, Germany
Germany
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(hereinafter also referred to as »we« »us« or »ZKM«)
in our capacity as Data Controller would like to provide you the following information.
The processing of your personal data takes place exclusively in compliance with the legal provisions of data protection legislation of the European Union, in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (»GDPR«) and additionally the State Data Protection Act of Baden-Wuerttemberg (»LDSG BW«) as well as the Telecommunications Telemedia Data Protection Act (hereinafter referred to as »TTDSG«) and further legal provisions on data protection (hereinafter jointly referred to as »data protection laws«).
If you like to inspect the GDPR yourself, you can access it on the internet at: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/DE/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32016R0679. The BDSG can be found on the internet using the following link: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bdsg_2018/; the TTDSG can be found here: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/ttdsg/.
This Privacy Policy only applies to the website, accessible on the domain https://zkm.de/de, including all subdomains. Other online presences of ZKM are solely subject to the data protection information that are available there. This Privacy Policy also does not apply to presences of ZKM on platforms of third parties such as, in particular, social networks (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram), even if the website of ZKM contains links to such presences. The presences on these platforms are subject to the data protection information of the respective platform operator and any special data protection information provided there by ZKM.
Apart from that, our notices below do not refer to third-party websites of third parties to which our website contains links. As regards the terms used, e. g. »personal data« or the »processing« thereof, their definitions are in accordance with Art. 4 GDPR.
The subject matter of data protection is the protection of personal data. Personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (»data subject«). Consequently, all data allowing for your personal identification such as your name, your address, your telephone number or your email address pertain to your personal data. Moreover, information necessarily arising from the use of our website such as start, end and scope of use or your IP address is also part of personal data. Personal data is also collected if you provide it to us during the application process. Personal data is collected to the extent that you yourself enter information and content when registering in the application portal or upload it yourself in the form of documents. We only process your data if this is permitted by an applicable legal provision. We rely upon, inter alia, the following legal bases when processing your data:
When visiting our website, the following information on access can be stored:
When accessing our website, corresponding information can be stored on your end device or corresponding information that is already stored on your end device may be accessed. The storage of information on your end device or the access to information already stored on your end device takes place on the basis of Section 25 (2) TTDSG, as such information is mandatorily required so that we can provide the telemedia service expressly requested by you (in this case: our website).
Furthermore, we process such data on the basis of part (f) of Art. 6(1) GDPR for providing our website, for securing the technical operations as well as the security of our information technology systems. In this context, we seek to enable and maintain the use of your website and its technical functionality on a permanent basis. When accessing our website, such data will be automatically processed. You may not use our website without providing such information. We will not use such data to make conclusions as to your identity.
The data collected automatically will generally be erased after its purpose no longer applies, as long as no other legal basis applies on an exceptional basis. If the latter is the case, we shall erase the data immediately once the other legal basis no longer applies. We cannot comply with an objection on your part to the collection and storage of your server log data, as such data is mandatorily required for the smooth operation of our website.
On our website we offer you the opportunity to apply as a guest artist for the open call “Giga-Hertz Production Awards 2025” and „Giga-Hertz PopExperimental Award 2025“. Your application to us is, of course, on a fully voluntary basis. To be considered in our application process, however, your application must contain the following:
If you apply for the Open Call, the guest artists will be selected by a jury. We process the data you have sent us with your application in order to run the competition. Therefore it will be accessible to the jury.
In principle, only persons in the company who need your data for the proper performance of the application process have access to your data.
Presentation of the guest artists
Following the application process, we will publish the guest artists on our website zkm.de with the following information:
The processing of your personal data in this application process is carried out in particular on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 letter b GDPR and serves to carry out Giga-Hertz Production Awards 2025 and Giga-Hertz PopExperimental Production Award 2025 within the framework of the conditions of participation. Accordingly, the processing of data is permitted insofar as it is necessary in connection with the guest artist program and the presentation of works as well as the associated reporting.
We only use cookies that are necessary from a technical perspective to provide this website.
For the functioning of our website, we use necessary cookies for the storage of which we have a legitimate interest, as otherwise we would not be able to offer our website with certain basic functionalities (e.g. otherwise you would have to repeat the website settings upon every page change). An overview of the necessary cookies used is contained in this table:
Necessary cookies are stored and used on the basis of point (f) of Art. 6(1) GDPR. You can only disable the necessary cookies through your browser settings and/or browser add-ons. Further details are set out in the above paragraph. This may result in the restricted functionality of our website.
Information is saved on your end device or information already saved on your end device that may be related to the setting of cookies is only accessed if it is mandatory to save information on your end device or to access information already saved on your end device so that we can provide the telemedia service expressly desired by you (Section 25 (2) no. 2 TTDSG).
We will only forward your personal data to external recipients if this is necessary to settle or process your inquiry, you have provided us with your consent, or another form of legal permission applies.
In particular, the following can be external recipients.
Data processors: Those are service providers that we use for providing services, in the areas of technical infrastructure and maintenance of our website, for example. We carefully select and regularly audit such data processors to ensure that your privacy is maintained. Such service providers may use the data exclusively for the purposes stated by us and based on our instructions. We have the right, in observance of the legal requirements of Art. 28 GDPR, to use such data processors.
Public bodies: Those are authorities, public institutions and other bodies under public law, for example supervisory authorities, courts, state attorney offices or financial authorities. Personal data is only transferred to such public bodies for mandatory legally reasons. Point (c) of Art. 6(1) GDPR may be the legal basis of such a transfer.
Non-public bodies: Those are service providers and auxiliary agents to whom the data is transferred on the basis of a legal obligation or to safeguard legitimate interests, for example, tax consultants or auditors. The transfer then takes place on the basis of point (c) of point (f) of Art. 6(1) GDPR.
To the extent we transfer your data to third countries outside the EU and/or the EEA pursuant to the above statements, we ensure before such transfer that apart from legally permissible exceptional cases, the recipient either has an adequate level of data protection or you consent to such a data transfer. An adequate level of data protection may be, for example, ensured by a certification of the recipient under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, by entering into EU Standard Contractual Clauses, or where so-called Binding Corporate Rules (BCR) apply. Please contact us via the communication channels stated under Section 16), in order to obtain a copy of the specific guarantees concerning the transfer of your data to third countries.
We only store your personal data for the period required for fulfillment of the purposes or – in the event of a consent – as long as you do not withdraw your consent. In the event of an objection, we will no longer process your personal data, unless its further processing is permitted or mandatorily required in accordance with the relevant legal provisions (e.g. according to retention obligations under trade and tax legislation). We will also erase your personal data if we are obliged to do so for legal reasons.
Apart from the above, please read the details about the retention period of your personal data in the respective statements in the above sections.
As data subject affected by the data processing, you have the following numerous rights: In detail, these are:
In the case of questions on the processing of your personal data, on your rights as a data subject and any consent granted, our data protection officer is gladly at your disposal via the communication channels stated under Section 16). Please also contact our data protection officer directly if you wish to exercise your rights as a data subject. Of course, you can also contact the above data controllers for such purpose.
We have appointed a corporate data protection officer. You can contact them as follows:
Datenschutzbeauftragte des ZKM
c/o V-Formation GmbH
Stephanienstr. 18
76133 Karlsruhe
www.v-formation.de
Telephone: +49 (0) 721/17029034
Email: datenschutz@zkm.de
We take technical and organizational measures to safeguard your personal data against accidental and deliberate manipulation, loss, destruction and access by unauthorized persons. These security measures are adjusted in accordance with the state of the art in each case.
Your personal data transferred in the course of using our website is securely transferred by us using encryption technologies. In this context, we use the Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption protocol, broadly known under its previous name Secure Socket Layer (SSL).
We have imposed the obligation to maintain data secrecy upon our employees.
From time to time, it may become necessary to adjust the contents of this Privacy Policy. Therefore, we reserve the right to change it at any time. To the extent that your consent is required for a change, we will obtain it from you. We will also post the changed version of the Privacy Policy here. If you visit our website again, you should therefore read the Privacy Policy again.
Version: March 2025
Two Production Awards, each with a prize of €5,000, are available for composers, sound artists, and artist-researchers working in electronic and electroacoustic music.
Eligibility: Applicants (individuals or collectives) must submit one composition (maximum five years old, 20 to 40 mins duration) and a proposal for a not-yet-realized work lasting up to 20 minutes. Excerpts of the two prize-winning compositions will be performed by composers during the award ceremony. Find more information on participation conditions and general requirements below.
Theme: The proposal for the new work should address “Fellow Futures,” critically engaging with listening politics and amplifying voices that challenge linear, exclusionary narratives.
Production: The awarded project will be produced at ZKM I Hertzlab or SWR Experimentalstudio and will premiere at ZKM I KUBUS in 2026. Learn more about the production facilities at ZKM I Hertzlab and SWR Experimentalstudio here: Website-Link ZKM| Hertzlab Infrastructure, ZKM | Hertzlab , Website-Link SWR Experimentalstudio Infrastructure . The production residency lasts three weeks at the SWR Experimentalstudio and four weeks at ZKM I Hertzlab. The production award of €5,000 is intended to fully compensate for travel, accomodation, artist fees, material costs and performance costs. By applying to the open call, you confirm to be available for a residency and performance sometime between March and July 2026. The performance has to take place on July 17th or 18th 2026. If the project proposal includes an instrumental piece, the composition may involve up to three performing musicians. All instruments must be transportable by the musicians themselves. Performance fees for the musicians will be covered within the usual framework. Any deviations from this must be agreed upon separately. We want to represent the diversity in the field of electronic music as fully as possible. That's why we are looking forward to a high degree of heterogeneity among the applicants.
Futures are not distant endpoints but collective processes that emerge through relational encounters. Yet, many of these processes are politically silenced, with labor systematically invisibilized. In the histories of music and sound art, this has, amongst others, manifested in tonality as a colonializing force and the imperialist construction of the composer as a solitary "genius." Such narratives of isolated creation reflect broader patterns of extractive, linear progress that continue to shape dominant imaginaries of the future. In the context of the current polycrisis—marked by climate catastrophe, rising right-wing ideologies, and systemic inequalities—these narratives are once again revealed as insufficient and unsustainable. With the theme of Fellow Futures, we seek to attune ourselves to the agencies of marginalized voices and silenced resonances. Futures emerge as dynamic, co-constitutive vibrations that meet, interfere, and transform in their mutual becoming. The materiality of sound and the porousness of space offer a compelling model for this potential: they illustrate how connection-making happens not through isolated acts but through ongoing, situated interplay. Sound, with its ability to traverse boundaries and refuse containment, reminds us that identities, histories, and spaces are always-already being made and unmade through encounter. By embracing the entangled, resonant nature of existence, Fellow Futures invites a rethinking of how we imagine, inhabit, and shape our collective trajectories. In amplifying these resonant connections, we open a space for sonic research to contribute to a more just, relational understanding of the futures we create together. In a time when the urgency of transformative connection has never been greater, we listen for futures that emerge not from dominance, but from the ethical recognition of shared becoming.
General Requirements:
* Short biography in English (max. 1,000 characters, including spaces)
* Description of the submitted work in English (max. 1,500 characters, including spaces)
* Audio file (.mp3, .wav) or video file (1920×1080 px, h264 codec, 50 fps; .mov or .mp4) including technical details and, optionally, score and images. You can alternatively provide a link to a streaming platform that is open access and accessible until November 2025. Please be aware, if we can't open the additional link, we can't accept your application.
* Professional portrait photo (minimum 300 dpi, landscape, with free usage for press)
* Project synopsis in English for the planned work at ZKM | Hertzlab or SWR Experimentalstudio with detailed technical requirements (max. 1,500 characters, including spaces). If you have a preference with regards to the production facilities at ZKM I Hertzlab or SWR Experimentalstudio, please indicate this in your proposal for the new work.
Submission:
All files must be uploaded via the registration link to our cloud. Download links from file hosting services are not accepted. Only formally correct submissions will be submitted to the jury for evaluation.
All submitted works should be described by at least one of the following criteria: * Composition for live electronics * * Composition for a maximum of 3 instrumentalists and live electronics * * Fixed media composition * * Mixed music * * Audiovisual composition * * Transmedia composition * * Experimental sound performance * * Interdisciplinary performance (with relevant electronic music or sound component) * Please note that after uploading your files to the cloud, you will not receive a confirmation that your files have been submitted. You can edit your application until the deadline, including the files uploaded to the cloud.
Contact: For organizational inquiries, please contact gigahertz@zkm.de.
Website-Link Open Call – Giga-Hertz Prize 2025, ZKM | Hertzlab
Website-Link Privacy Policy for Applicants - Giga-Hertz Prize 2025, ZKM | Hertzlab.
Notice: Application Portal Fully Functional Again
Dear applicants, The technical issue with our application portal has been resolved. You can now upload your files and complete your Open Call submission.
Please note: the extended deadline remains July 15, 2025, 11:59 PM (CEST, Berlin time).
Thank you for your patience! – The Giga-Hertz Award Team