Exhibition

alien matter

Fri, Feb 3–Sun, Mar 5, 2017
Thu, Feb 2, 2017
7 pm
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Fri, Feb 3, 2017
11 am–7 pm
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Sat, Feb 4, 2017
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Sun, Feb 5, 2017
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Mon, Feb 6, 2017
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Wed, Feb 8, 2017
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Thu, Feb 9, 2017
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Fri, Feb 10, 2017
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Sat, Feb 11, 2017
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Sun, Feb 12, 2017
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Mon, Feb 13, 2017
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Wed, Feb 15, 2017
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Thu, Feb 16, 2017
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Fri, Feb 17, 2017
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Sat, Feb 18, 2017
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Sun, Feb 19, 2017
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Mon, Feb 20, 2017
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Wed, Feb 22, 2017
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Thu, Feb 23, 2017
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Fri, Feb 24, 2017
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Sat, Feb 25, 2017
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Sun, Feb 26, 2017
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Mon, Feb 27, 2017
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Wed, Mar 1, 2017
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Thu, Mar 2, 2017
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Fri, Mar 3, 2017
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Sat, Mar 4, 2017
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Sun, Mar 5, 2017
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„Fremdartige Materie“ – Artwork by The Laboratory of Manuel Bürger

“Alien matter” refers to man-made, and at the same time, radically different, potentially intelligent matter. It is the outcome of a naturalization of technological artifacts. Environments shaped by technology result in new relationships between man and machine. Technical objects, previously defined merely as objects of utility, have become autonomous agents. Their capacity to learn and network throws into question the previously clear and dominant division between active subject and passive object.

30 exhibiting artists from Berlin and around the world present works about shifts within such power structures, raising questions about the state of our current environment and whether it has already passed the tipping point, becoming “alien matter”. Content-wise, the works cluster around four thematic focal points: Artificial intelligence, plastics, infrastructure, and the Internet of Things—subcategories that are deemed to merge into the nascent great machine and thereby, to speak with Günther Anders, are future obsolete.

transmediale is a project by Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH in collaboration with Haus der Kulturen der Welt. It has been funded as a cultural institution of excellence by Kulturstiftung des Bundes since 2004. The special exhibition alien matter is curated by Inke Arns and is funded by LOTTO-Stiftung Berlin.