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From a queer feminist wiki platform to a critical atlas of the Internet to speculative design that explores the future of the concept of family: The Eternal Network exhibition at HKW questions technological and social networks in the light of contemporary urgencies. With works by, among many others, Johanna Bruckner, Luiza Prado de O. Martins, GUO Cheng, Louise Drulhe and Bahar Noorizadeh

Jan 30

transmediale: Streaming Life

How have online video cultures changed over time? Screenings and lectures illuminate the dark sides of social media and mobile communication and investigate how artificial intelligence will influence human behavior – and vice versa. One highlight is the Berlin premier of Shengze Zhu’s feature-length film Present.Perfect.: Using 800 hours of livestreams, she draws a collective portrait from a selfie perspective.

Submissions open until Jan 31, 2020

Internationaler Literaturpreis 2020

What forms does contemporary storytelling take on? The Internationaler Literaturpreis is dedicated to this question now for the twelfth time. Publishing houses can now apply with up to three books first translated into German.

Mar 19

Carrier Bag Fiction

Are heroic acts by individuals needed for great stories? The first edition of the 2020 Alphabet Readings gathers authors and artists around the essay The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction by the sci-fi author Ursula K. Le Guin. Can the collector’s narrative viewpoint replace that of the classical heroic story?

Apr 2–Jun 6, 2020

Aby Warburg: Bilderatlas Mnemosyne

From the ancient world to the Renaissance until contemporary culture: Aby Warburg’s Bilderatlas Mnemosyne traces visual themes across entire eras. His approach pushed the boundaries of disciplines and is still an inspiration for today’s visually and digitally dominated world. An exhibition almost completely reproduces the last documented version of his unfinished magnum opus of 1929 with the original images.

May 7–18

Celebrate Now – 20 Years Rimini Protokoll

The author-director collective Rimini Protokoll is celebrating its birthday party with lots of guests and everyday experts. At the Berlin premiere of the theatrical installation win > < win they also offer a look into a future in which jellyfish have survived humans as the winners in global warming.

From the Mediathek

Datafication of Science

Who defines the meaning of images? What are the political implications of pattern recognition and machine learning? As part of The New Alphabet, Kate Crawford and Trevor Paglen discussed the power of images and how they are being processed by AI systems.

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New Alphabet School

How does language influence thought? How can we develop other forms of learning and acting? From the politics of translation to practices of weaving: Speakers and workshop participants from the New Alphabet School share their questions, observations and studies on solidary practices of knowledge production on the blog.

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Anthropocene-Curriculum.org

The research platform Anthropocene Curriculum explores novel epistemic, aesthetic and educational challenges of the age of humankind. Currently the digital platform also serves as a research tool, discussion forum and public portal for the transdisciplinary research project Mississippi. An Anthropocene River.

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Schools of Tomorrow

Ed. by Silvia Fehrmann
How can schools become places where alternative designs of the future are created? The volume Schools of Tomorrow examines how experimental practices of the past can be applied to today’s learning and provides access to the latest educational theory approaches. With contributions by Gert Biesta, Catherine Burke, John and Evelyn Dewey, Keri Facer and Luis Armando Gandin, among other.

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Love and Ethnology

Ed. by Diedrich Diederichsen, Anselm Franke and Haus der Kulturen der Welt
From „Baroque“ to „Vodou“ to „The Gayification of the World “: The publication brings together essays, artistic text contributions and a glossary that explains Hubert Fichte's theoretical vocabulary. These are supplemented by statements from the project stations in Salvador da Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago de Chile, Dakar, New York and Lisbon, as well as extensive photo series depicting the artistic works from the exhibition at HKW.

transmediale 2020 End to End

The Berlin Declaration of The Many

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The Eternal Network

The Eternal Network

Streaming Life

transmediale 2020 End to End: The Eternal Network

transmediale: Streaming Life

Internationaler Literaturpreis 2020

Carrier Bag Fiction

Aby Warburg: Bilderatlas Mnemosyne

Celebrate Now – 20 Years Rimini Protokoll

Datafication of Science

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