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Artsformation organises and participates in many events across Europe and online, to promote our activities and outcomes of our project. Our events include conferences, public presentations, open discussions, exhibitions, panels and much more.
Three years ago, with Artsformation, we embarked on an exploration to discern the intricate relationship between the arts and our unfolding digital society. Our mission was not just to observe, but to actively engage in understanding how the arts are intertwined with digital transformation. We believed that the arts could serve as a significant bridge, […]
The 36th edition of transmediale takes place at Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg, and across the city from 1 to 5 February. A model, a map, a fiction explores how scale reconfigures relations, politics, and affects. Alongside the festival, transmediale presents the free citywide exhibition Out of Scale distributed and embedded within the networks and infrastructures […]
Betahaus | Kreuzberg | Innospace Room | Rudi-Dutschke-Straße 23, 10969 Berlin, Germany The absence of real dialogue between the arts, communities and the policy making process is detrimental to both the arts, public policy and our society at large. The Art of Decolonising Digital Resistance is a live participatory action, where the audience is anticipated […]
What kind of shadow do you cast in the digital world? With six works of local and international artists, the exhibition Digital Shadows shows our entanglement with digital technologies, social media and algorithms.
This ‘buzzwalk’ invites you on a speculative walking tour through Oslo for audiating neighbourhoods and cities otherwise. What happens when the future of our cities is ‘smart’, automated, and mediated for reasons of safety and security? How can we build collective methods of trust under the ‘eyes’ and ‘ears’ of ‘smart’ cities? What is our […]
How is our relationship with our bodies affected by digital transformation? This question will be at the core of the participative workshop Odyssey in Utero by T.I.E (visual and performance artist), Allie Rozetta (visual artist), and Djimadjim (sound and kinesthetic artist).
A solar workshop, a walk and a meal experience! The Ledger of the Sun investigates the sun as a medium, technology, currency and agent of health and sustenance. We will exchange in the currency of energy and experience the gifts, growth, plenitudes and enigmas that are brought nearer to us by our nearest star.
Inspired by the work of Artists Placement Group, Jack Tan and members of the Board invite you to participate in a number of parallel roundtable discussions and share your thoughts on key ideas in art, culture and life in Liverpool.
Artists speak about their work adressing a public value driven internet Can you be an artist and an activist? The artists Roos Groothuizen, Dani Ploeger and Spideralex talk about their work and battle for a public values driven internet. How do they see their role as artists? What impact are they aiming for? Do they […]
Three dancers and a mentally unstable AI Dancer and choreographer Marina Orlova mainly makes movement-based performances and video dance works, also using voice and text. Her current long-term research brings together four domains: dance, neurodiversity/mental health, Artificial Intelligence, and geopolitics. Livestream This session will be streamed live. The player will appear here the moment the […]
To celebrate World Quantum Day (WQD), we are connecting an international network of academics, artists, and scientists! About this event How can art influence quantum, and how can quantum influence art? We are bringing together a network of academics, artists, and scientists from four institutions across the USA, Ireland, Portugal, and Denmark to explore this […]
From microcellular DNA to the proliferation of digital images, throughout all of time we have used science and technology to collect and share information about who we are. Discoveries have been made, patterns have been formed, and stories have been told, but always by those in power. But who decides who belongs, and who writes […]
In this summit, through public workshops and discussions, we will explore ways of thinking and acting actively on these matters of concern. The discussion will explore how one can learn from artistic practices in order to understand what it takes to demand participation in the decision-making and about which of those technologies we accept and […]
Summer Camp for refusal is a four-day programme bringing together a group of Berlin-based artists, philosophers, theorists, technologists, and critical engineers whose practice intersects with the festival theme of refusal. The camp is an informal setting, where participants will share concerns, exchange ideas, skills, and knowledge while exercising care and building relations with each other. Over the […]
We would like to invite you to our summer camp in August. The camp is a co-creation event, where we invite artists, art educators, museums, educational and cultural institutions, designers, tech professionals, researchers and practitioners to take part in building a new school of aesthetics and technology. WHY A SUMMER CAMP We want to create […]
This workshop will be led by Mirabelle Jones, Artsformation. Ryo Hanmura’s short story “Cardboard Box” will be told from the perspective of a cardboard box. In the box’s own words, it shares its painful journey from factory, to use, and finally to being discarded. Along the way, participants will find themselves empathising with the box’s […]
Proxy Visits offer an online social experience to explore our exhibition Rendering Refusal. Inspired and informed by Proxy Protests, the visits will take place via video call at each of the exhibition venues – Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien and Betonhalle, Silent Green. Each visitor will connect directly to a Proxy host and together you decide what route to take, which artworks […]
When Things Speak: Giving Voice to Objects Ryo Hanmura’s short story Cardboard Box is told from the perspective of a cardboard box. In the box’s own words, it shares its painful journey from factory, to use, and finally to being discarded. Along the way, we find ourselves empathizing with the box’s character, leading us to […]
Digital Alchemy & Science Fiction Workshop Series in cooperation with Artsformation, invites you to this online hackathon where we will create a forum for reflection on how we can be a part of expanding the narrative of science fiction and technology and who creates it. We will among other collectively redefine the Wikipedia page describing […]
Framework for Resilience is a three-part series of online conversations which bring together activists, artists, researchers and educators to think about the world we are creating, the world we are destroying, the systems which will fall, and those which should prevail. This online event is part of The Living Planet, FACT’s year-long season which focuses on the […]
This panel combines perspectives on Art, Society, & Technology. In particular, it focuses on artistic perspectives on algorithmic accountability. The panel starts with an overview of how the Arts play an essential role in intervening in critical social issues, such as labor politics, privacy, and education. The panel will then draw our attention to a […]
The Werkleitz Festival 2021 presents the new media art productions from the scholarship program of the European Media Art Platform (EMAP), which is initiated by Werkleitz and supported by Creative Europe. The exhibition for digital culture is accompanied by the international conference on digitality. It takes place in cooperation with the Federal Cultural Foundation and […]
The German Arts Council (Kulturstiftung des Bundes) is cooperation partner of the conference part of our proposed final exhibition in 2021 of EMAP (European Media Art Platform) and will be listed in the states report 2020 of the UNESCO as an innovative model project for culture.