How political is the Bauhaus?

In the anniversary year of Bauhaus, HKW takes up key questions raised by Bauhaus—from civil education to housing questions and internationalization. What can institutions that are today confronted with attacks from the right learn from the history of Bauhaus?

transmediale 2019

What role do emotions and empathy play in digital culture? In keynotes, performances, short film screenings, and workshops, the festival investigates how affect becomes mobilized as a political force today. With contributions by Louis Henderson, Mykola Ridnyi, Shaka McGlotten, Jackie Wang, Ben Anderson and Rebecca Coleman, and many more.

What can be used to counter right-wing usurpation? What should be done with analogue music in the digital present? What does life consist of and where does digital capitalism lead? What is the most important alphabet of our time? And how long is an echo? In times of increased pressure, in 2019 HKW remains a place for present-day research, for creatively dealing with the issues of contemporary societies, and spelling out alternative utopias.

Hubert Fichte in New York

How could a universal Afro-diasporic art look like? In the web journal, the curator of the exhibition Journeys with the initiated, Yesomi Umolu, and author and curator Serubiri Moses discuss Fichte’s search for a poetic and political revolution within the African diaspora in New York. (Photo: Malcolm X, New York, USA, 1980 © bpk / S. Fischer Stiftung / Leonore Mau)

Technosphere Magazine: Machine Listening

The advent of synthetic listening might profoundly disturb the sense we have of our own aurality. The new issue of Technosphere Magazine focuses on computer audition tools which are modeled after human listening. If machines listen differently, how might we characterize such listenings? What might computer audition tell us about our own human forms of listening?

100 Years of Now Journal

The journal explores ideas generated during the course of the transdisciplinary project 100 Years of Now (2015-2019) in greater depth. Artists, scientists, and observers will throw new light on global political conflicts, supposed side scenes of history, and on the planetary entanglement of technological, human, and natural forces.

bauhaus imaginista Journal

The online scientific publishing platform bauhaus-imaginista.org is home to details of the research processes and results of bauhaus imaginista.

Technosphere Magazine

Research pieces, essays, artistic and experimental approaches to the technosphere: Which are its organizing principles? How is it inscribed into individuals and how does it shape entire societies?

Hubert Fichte: Love and Ethnology

The international exhibition project Hubert Fichte: Love and Ethnology is being accompanied by the web journal projectfichte.org. It offers insights into the writing of Hubert Fichte (1935 –1986) in German, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Wolof and English. The writer and ethnologist is considered a poetic and documentarian realist precursor for new disciplines in Germany such as Queer Studies and Postcolonial Studies.

Anthropocene-Curriculum.org

As a collaborative experiment the Anthropocene Curriculum explores the novel epistemic, aesthetic, and educational challenges of the age of humankind. Its online platform Anthropocene-Curriculum.org gives voice to an evolving worldwide network of researchers, artists, and local communities, while inviting engagement and participation in transforming our common knowledge baselines.

Afro-Sonic Mapping

What musical patterns have been preserved in the sounds of the African Diaspora, thus defying time and forced migration? Satch Hoyt follows their traces in today’s metropolises Luanda, Kinshasa, Salvador de Bahia, and Lisbon. He documents his research in an English-language blog.