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ARTIVISM: The Art of Subverting Power
How can art and activism be combined to tackle burning social issues, surveillance, unethical corporations and corrupt governments?
23–25.6 2023 | Conference | ARTIVISM
Studio 1 · Kunstquartier Bethanien · Mariannenplatz 2 · 10997 Berlin
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Since 2014 the Disruption Network Lab has hosted more than 350 speakers from 55 countries to expose systems of power and injustice, as part of Berlins independent scene of critical art and digital culture of networking, sharing and creation of new knowledge around the burning issues of our contemporary digital society.
ARTIVISM: The Art of Subverting Power
The programme of talks, workshops and artistic productions presents distributed techniques and methods of provoking social and political justice using digital technologies for artistic interventions, social awareness, and political criticism. How can artists fight back against algorithmic and bureaucratic violence directed at minorities? How can propaganda and misinformation be subverted and turned against the misinformers? How can art and legal action fight the fossil fuel lobby? And how do fiercely independent artists survive? Curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli (Artistic Director, Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE).
The Yes Men have been pranking corporations and institutions for decades to expose greed, hypocracy and injustices - from Exxon, Dow Chemical, Shell and the WTO, to this years Adidas Sweatshop fashion show at the Berlin Fashion week.
Manu Luksch follows the case of imprisoned Emirati blogger, poet and engineer Ahmed Mansoor through filmmaking, academic publications, posters, translation of Mansoor's poetry, a graffiti campaign, gallery installations and testimony at a parliamentary seminar in the UK.
WeiterSo! is a young activist collective dedicated to ending political cowardice through subversive campaigning and civil disobedience. Their action zukunft-gasfrei.de is currently focused on getting municipal energy suppliers to end their membership of gas lobby groups.
Yasmine Boudiaf interrogates the impact of new technologies on cultural life using anti-colonial approaches, finding ways of using AI for good, while questioning whether ethical AI policy making is at all possible
Conference Speakers: Full programme · Biographies
Manu Luksch (Artist, Filmmaker, Researcher, AT/UK), Lauri Love (Computer Scientist, UK), Mike Bonanno & Jeff Walburn / The Yes Men (Artists & Activists, US), Cornelia Sollfrank (Artist, DE), Derek Curry & Jennifer Gradecki (Artists, US), Yasmine Boudiaf (Artist, DZ/UK), Tobaron Waxman (Artist & Curator, CA/US), Superazione Collective & Dada Boom Collective (IT), Guido Segni (Artist & Hacktivist, IT), Klara Hobza (Visual Artist, CZ/DE), Steal This Poster (Subvertising Collective IT/UK), Michelle Tylicki (Artist & Activist, PL/US/UK), WeiterSo! Collective (Activist Art Collective, DE), Moderated by Natalia Ivanova Mount (Curator & Activist, BGR/US/DE), Noura Tafeche (Artist & Scholar, IT), Magdalena Tyzlik-Carver (Associate Professor, Aarhus University, PL/UK/DK), Tatiana Bazzichelli (Artistic Director, Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE).
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