re:publica 17 - Arts & Culture

We are living in the middle of the post-digital age. The Internet is omnipresent – particularly in the arts and in culture. Digital art – from remixes and GIFs, to net-art to virtual reality and interactive text-based adventures –, creative activism and politico-cultural questions on decision-making are all things we want to discuss with you at re:publica 2017. What roles do museums and exhibition spaces play in today's world? What can libraries do to close the digital gap?

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Scraping Art - Mapping the Neuland

Scraping Art discusses the politics behind the live installation Air Water Stack and how to hack your way into video streaming. Marlene Ronstedt Ahmed Alsharif Web scraping is a technique to algorithmically scavenge websites for information, images and videos. The place where this data harvest is taking part is the stack, or the internet. The Stack has become a new site of power, a transnational layer of control. Internet infrastructures allow for new modes of control which act outside of the re...

May 10, 2017•25 min•Ep. 7

Einfach technisch - Heiteres Geräteraten mit dem Techniktagebuch

Auf Dachböden und in Kellern lagen die absonderlichsten Geräte und Werkzeuge. Wir machen daraus eine Show: Das heitere Geräteraten. Einem vierköpfigen Rateteam werden die merkwürdigsten und unerklärlichsten Gerätschaften vorgelegt und sie müssen erraten, um was es sich handelt. Volker König Kathrin Passig Thomas Renger Die Redaktion des Techniktagebuchs macht sich zum Obst: Ihr bringt die absonderlichsten Geräte und Werkzeuge mit, die Ihr auf dem Dachboden oder im Keller findet, und wir müssen e...

May 10, 2017•58 min•Ep. 6

Ein Taliban spielt Tagesschau - Die absurde Bildkultur Islamistischer Propaganda

Rühmten sich Islamistische Gruppen Anfang des Jahrtausends noch mit einem Bildverbot, so streamen sie mittlerweile Ihre Propaganda nahezu live in das Internt. Als Reaktion darauf hat sich das Bildverbot in das Westliche Lager verschoben und der Ruf nach Zensur wird immer lauter. Ich habe mich als Künstler in den letzten Jahren intensiv den Bildern dieser Propaganda auseinandergesetzt und möchte darlegen weshalb ein gesellschaftlicher Diskurs hier sehr wichtig ist und ausgesprochen befreiend sein...

May 10, 2017•32 min•Ep. 21

New Dimensions: Virtual Reality from Africa (en)

In this session award-winning film director Ng’endo Mukii will talk about her virtual reality film ‘Nairobi Berries’ and give us an insight into the filmmaking/VR scene in Africa. The session will be introduced by the European Film Market of the Berlinale, which hosts a platform for collaboration between the African and the international film industry. Ng'endo Mukii Jana Wolff Deborah Seifert Ng'endo Mukii is an award-winning film director, most well known for ‘Yellow Fever,' her documentary-ani...

May 10, 2017•29 min•Ep. 20

Conflict Zones, VR Documentary Storytelling and Confronting Censorship

How can VR be used to combat censorship in oppressive regimes and what are the challenges of VR documentary storytelling in the future Sam Wolson Director Sam Wolson will explore some of the challenges in VR documentary storytelling in this talk, drawing from firsthand experience shooting We Who Remain in a Sudanese war zone. How can VR be used to combat censorship and oppressive regimes? How do you create a narrative in a medium whose language is not yet established? How do you get VR films out...

May 10, 2017•30 min•Ep. 5

Kinshasas Robocops soon in Berlin? - Digital Africa (en)

Robocop is a robot regulating traffic in Kinshasa and part of the multi-platform project “Digital Africa”, which presents digital innovations from Africa. Elke Sasse Geraldine de Bastion Mugethi Gitau Berlin has more than 2000 traffic lights – but no Robocops: Robocops are 3-meter high robots, regulating traffic in Kinshasa. And hopefully one Robocop is soon coming to Berlin – as part of our project on digital innovations in Africa. “Digital Africa” is a multi-platform project about digital inno...

May 10, 2017•22 min•Ep. 24

TX/RX (Transmit/Receive) (en)

With live interventions as his basis, Julian will read signal domains - from WiFi to GSM and analog radio - as techno-political territories, opening up questions of ownership, mobility and control in a world where technical forms of activism and decentralised infrastructure are central to positive change. Projects made by him (and made with others) that relate to these tensions will also be introduced, presented within the frame of his practice as a Critical Engineer. Julian Oliver What can we, ...

May 10, 2017•53 min•Ep. 19

Strategies for Critical Internet Cultures in the Age of Trump

I will give a brief overview of recent projects of the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam, framed by strategic considerations where to take next concepts that I have been working, such as organized networks. How can we bring together the critique of platform capitalism with alternatives in social media? Is it enough to dream up subversive memes to beat the Trump regime, reverse Brexit and beat European right-wing populism? Geert Lovink We're overwhelmed by media events that unfold in rea...

May 10, 2017•32 min•Ep. 3

Keep VR Weird: Eine Geschichte der VR-Software (2013-2017)

Die VR-Szene explodiert vor Kreativität. Am deutlichsten wird das, wenn man sich die Entwicklung der VR-Inhalte von 2013 bis heute anschaut: Von Guillotine-Simulatoren, Riesenmensch-Fetisch-Spielchen und digitalen LSD-Trips ist alles dabei. So gut wie alle spannenden Ideen kommen dabei von Indie-Studios und einzelnen VR-Nerds – die großen Entwickler dagegen scheinen noch nicht verstanden zu haben, dass VR eben nicht die Realität nachbildet, sondern vor allem eine Traumerfüllungs-Maschine ist. Ja...

May 10, 2017•29 min•Ep. 4

When Kennedy Died: Breaking the News (en)

On November 22nd, John F. Kennedy's day of death, people almost collectively remember where they were when they heard about his assassination. Today, we are constantly reminded of atrocities happening all over the world: push notifications are front and center and the news constantly breaks. And still, because of the sheer amount of information, we tend to quickly forget and we just swipe the news away. But how do we manage to remember when another alert is just around the corner? In 2014 I star...

May 10, 2017•20 min•Ep. 22

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