In March 2025, the Museum for Communication Berlin will launch the Digital Sins series of events. Four excursions into the purgatory of social media. Visitors embark on an interactive course through the museum and the NEWS exhibition to explore the complex world of social media between longing and sin - and to discover new perspectives.
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KEY VISUAL DIGITAL SINS
The Digital Sins series of events invites you to extraordinary excursions and adventures in a playful way. Guests embark on an interactive journey - from epic heroic stories to gripping western duels to therapy sessions for fairytale princesses.
Each evening is accompanied by well-known experts from science, media, acting and music. Together with the "tour guide" Bernhard Glocksin and the Selbstgebaute Musik collective, a unique experience is created that playfully dissolves genre boundaries.
The Selbstgebaute Musik collective explores experimental performance formats, installation-based soundscapes and interactive musical concepts. Her work has already been presented in renowned institutions such as the Berlin Philharmonie, Documenta 15 and the Hamburger Bahnhof.
The idea for the series came from Bernhard Glocksin and Sabrina Rosetto (both Neuköllner Oper). Sabrina Rosetto is also responsible for the script and interior design.
Dates of the event series
- # 1 PRIDE/NARCISSISM, Tuesday, March 4th and Wednesday, March 5th, 2025
- # 2 ANGER & SLOTHING, May 20th and 21st, 2025
- # 3 ENVY & GREED, July 15th and 16th, 2025
- # 4 LUST & GLUTTARDY, November 18th and 19th, 2025
# 1 PRIDE/NARCISSISM
The first edition of the series deals with the topics of pride and narcissism. Pride has long been considered the most serious of all deadly sins and is closely linked to narcissism - a trait that is now deliberately staged, reinforced and commercialized by algorithms, social media metrics, beauty filters and other digital mechanisms.
Narcissism is an extremely lucrative business model for social media platforms. LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman put it aptly: "Social networks are most successful when they trigger one of the seven deadly sins."
But this pull can be escaped - with determination and a good dose of adventurous spirit! The audience embarks on a true hero's journey, defying digital purgatory, freeing scientists and, together with Dr. Freud, an angel of humility and a partisan group of resistant users, confronting the attention economy. With music, humor and creative impulses, alternative ways out of digital hell are shown - because autonomy and creativity are also possible on the Internet.
With:
- Dr. Catharina Katzer (Institute for Cyberpsychology and Media Ethics Cologne)
- Prof. Dr. Simon Hegelich (School of Political Science / TU Munich)
- Dr. Julia Baum, Zsuzsa Komaromy, MSc. (Institute of Psychology, HU Berlin)
- Lisa Mader and Kamil Ahmad (acting)
- Luiza Labouriau (violin) & the Self-made Music collective
- Moderation: Bernhard Glocksin (Neuköllner Oper)
(TALK IN GERMAN)
