re:publica 17 - Arts & Culture

May 10 2017 50

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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

May 10 2017 25 mins

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 realm of nati

Einfach technisch - Heiteres Geräteraten mit dem Techniktagebuch

May 10 2017 57 mins

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 erraten, was es ist. Der Moderator kennt die Antwort und gibt dem Rateteam nach und nach jeweils drei Tipps, die aber nicht zwingend hilfreich sind. Natürlich

Ein Taliban spielt Tagesschau - Die absurde Bildkultur Islamistischer Propaganda

May 10 2017 31 mins

Simon Menner Mitte 2014 veröffentlichte eine den Taliban nahestehende Gruppe eine Reihe von Videos, die in einem nachgebauten Fernsehstudio gedreht wurden – inklusive Nachrichtensprecher und Greenscreen. Vermutlich sollte so dem Ruf „Tod dem Westen“ mehr Nachdruck verliehen werden. Wie kann man es sich erklären, dass eine solche Gruppe den visuellen Codes genau der Medien f

New Dimensions: Virtual Reality from Africa (en)

May 10 2017 28 mins

Ng'endo Mukii, Jana Wolff, Deborah Seifert Ng'endo Mukii is an award-winning film director, most well known for ‘Yellow Fever,' her documentary-animation exploring Western influences on African women's ideals of beauty. Her work focuses on relationships, the separation between perception and reality, and the use of moving image to represent unspoken truths. In ‘Nairobi Berries�

Conflict Zones, VR Documentary Storytelling and Confronting Censorship

May 10 2017 29 mins

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 to the world? We W

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

May 10 2017 22 mins

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 innovations including a documenta

TX/RX (Transmit/Receive) (en)

May 10 2017 53 mins

Julian Oliver What can we, as civilians, do with radio? What can and can't we listen to, and why? What are our rights of broadcast? If the air we breathe is considered public, why not that which passes through it? Doubling as both intervention and lecture, Julian will lead the audience through an unbridled, hands-on exploration of radio infrastructure on which we depend, from GSM t

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

May 10 2017 28 mins

Jan-Keno Janssen Die Session stellt die interessantesten, absurdesten, sinnlosesten und kreativsten Virtual-Reality-Inhalte vor; in chronologischer Reihenfolge von 2013 bis heute. Software-Videoloops liefern nicht nur Einblick in die weirde Welt der VR, sondern zeigen auch anschaulich, wie riesig die Entwicklungsschritte sind – und wie viel sich in lediglich vier Jahren veränder

Strategies for Critical Internet Cultures in the Age of Trump

May 10 2017 32 mins

Geert Lovink We're overwhelmed by media events that unfold in real-time. Is this spectacle a smoke screen for more drastic, longterm measure? What's our own plan? The politically correct strategies of 'civil society' are all well-meant and related to important issues but seem to move towards a parallel universe, unable to response to the cynical meme design that is rapidly taking o

When Kennedy Died: Breaking the News (en)

May 10 2017 19 mins

Khesrau Behroz Thus far, I have created around 100 square-shaped collages. They show on the left side a screenshot of the push notification, and on the right side a picture of the place I was in when I heard about the news: on the street, in the restroom, in bed, sometimes even playing a game on the very phone on which I received the message. Walking these same places again in my e