02 May 2024, 6pm
Multimediaraum (Raum 102), 1st floor,
Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures, Expositur GCP (=PSK)
Georg-Coch-Platz 2, 1010 Wien
Video (52′) 2023
Konrad Becker/Felix Stalder, World-Information Institute/t0
Fake news, disinformation, psychological warfare. The modern conceptions of truth and reality are in disarray. Categorical systems that have organized Western culture over the last 200 years, are broken up and eroded. We are confronted with all kinds of new hybrids.
Digital communication forces us to look not only at technical protocols but also at protocols of the human mind and nervous system. Over the last 30 years, artists, researchers, and activists, brought together by the Institute of New Cultural Technologies in Vienna, have explored alternative histories of media and the emergent digital (un)consciousness.
Their perspectives, seemingly marginal during times of techno-utopianism, are now critical as we are traversing new zones of monsters.
With: Shahidul Allam (IN), SM Amadae (US), Ben Bagdikian(US), Franco “Bifo” Berardi (IT), Paulina Borsook (US), Ian Clark (UK), Loraine Daston (US), Kunda Dixit (NP),Ricardo Dominigues (US), Ulrike Felt (AT), Stephen Graham (UK),Mireille Hildebrandt (BE), Steve Kurtz (US), Bruno Latour (FR), Lydia Liu (US), Evelyn Lubbers (NL), Lata Mani (US), Subcommandante Marcos (MX), Katja Mayer (AT), Arun Metha (IN), Eben Moglen (US), Susanna Monso (ES), Marko Peljhan (SI), Sadie Plant (UK), Sheldon Rampton (US), Arundhati Roy (IN),Rudy Rucker (US), Saskia Sassen (NL), Shudhabarata Sengupta (IN), Michael Taussig (US), John Urry (UK), Francisco Webber (AT), Eyal Weizmann (IL), Peter Lamborn Wilson (US), Steve Wright (UK),Sönke Zehle (DE)
Produced by Konrad Becker/Felix Stalder 2023 World-Information Institute/t0 https://world-information.net
Postproduction: Georg Schütz
Audio Supervision: Uli Kühn
GFX: Ralf Tronstoner
Sound: Konrad Becker
Supported by BMKOES
We would like to thank the teams in Vienna for 30 years of dedicated enthusiasm. Without them hundreds of events and interventions in challenging conditions would not have been possible. This production is indebted to the many supporters as well as the spirited and well-informed crews of partner organizations in: Amsterdam, Bangalore, Belgrade, Brussels, Ljubljana, Munich, Paris
