Collaborative Research Centre “Intervening Arts”
Whether people are online or not, there is no beyond the digital. It is always already within them. Bodies, infrastructures, and politics are essentially permeated by digital technologies. Attention is increasingly controlled and monetized by social media, lifestyles are also shaped by platform capitalism, and political discourse is undermined by algorithms – but what practices do artists and activists use, and what are the breaking points to intervene and challenge these developments?
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The Collaborative Research Center "Intervening Arts" at Freie Universität Berlin invites researchers, artists, and activists to discuss these questions at its 2025 annual conference.
The program combines lectures by Aria Dean, Joanna Moll, and Azadeh Ganjeh, discussions, a workshop, and the performance "NFTs: Non Fuckable Tokens" by Claudix Vanesix.
Programme
Friday, 9 May
- 18:00 – 18:30 Welcome and introduction with Sarah Reimann (HAU Hebbel am Ufer), Karin Gludovatz (Freie Universität Berlin), Simon Teune and Iryna Kovalenko (Organizing Team)
- 18:30 – 19:45 Aria Dean: “Labor, Art, and the Vernacular Aesthetic Online
- ”19:45 – 20:15 Reception
Saturday, 10 May 2024
- 09:30 – 10:00 Introduction by Florian Schlittgen and Naomi Boyce (Organizing Team)
- 10:00 – 11:00 Brigitte Weingart: “The (Micro-)Politics of Meme Culture”
- 11:00 – 11:15 Break
- 11:15 – 12:30 Roundtable: “Art Challenging Digital Repression” with Aram Bartholl, Jean Peters, and Şirin Fulya Erensoy
- 12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break and Workshops
- 14:00 – 15:15 Roundtable: “Desinformation (and) War” with Christian Borys, Pekka Kallioniemi, and Muriel Fischer
- 15:15 – 15:45 Break
- 15:45 – 16:45 Azadeh Ganjeh: “Not a Body for Burial”
- 16:45 – 17:00 Break
- 17:00 – 18:00 Joana Moll: “Follow the Body: Materiality and Resistance in the Age of Data Extraction”
- 18:00 – 19:00 Concluding Discussion
Additional information
Funded by: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). In co-operation with HAU Hebbel am Ufer.
Dates
May 2025
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