Foyer Programme

18.12.2014

Foyer Programme

The foyer of HKW is transformed for this year’s festival in collaboration with raumlaborberlin into a living social space with a rich programme of theoretical and hands-on workshops, discussions and participatory projects. Artists, researchers and technology activists are invited with the audience to formulate constructive responses to the questions and dilemmas posed by the ‘capture all’ society.

The foyer of HKW is transformed for this year’s festival in collaboration with raumlaborberlin into a living social space with a rich programme of theoretical and hands-on workshops, discussions and participatory projects. Artists, researchers and technology activists are invited with the audience to formulate constructive responses to the questions and dilemmas posed by the ‘capture all’ society. Focusing on what still lies beyond today’s calculative logic and locating the emerging social and technological models that users and citizens can possibly turn to, this programme aims at introducing alternatives that can envision and effect change.

The hubs, the stage and the wireless access points that are set up in the foyer aim to host and discuss practices and initiatives that take a stance against the current datafication and commodification of everything. Within this framework, the international collective unMonastery will address topics related to sustainable livelihoods in times of recession while the speculative research lab Follow the Money will test economic counter-strategies. Well-known practitioners working on alternative network infrastructures will present ‘off-the-cloud’ spaces for autonomous communication and a group of prominent and emerging hackers, artists and researchers will discuss feminist methodologies in relation to the politics of networking technologies and their associated social practices. Recently launched web tools, plug-ins and platforms that expose and misuse the structures of the proprietary algorithmic systems will also be introduced to the audience while several wireless access points dispersed in the foyer will be available to be joined and explored at any time.

The projects, groups and collectives involved will set different thematic focuses, transforming the bleak outlook of CAPTURE ALL into a platform for knowledge building and informed future action. Methodologies, manifestos, autonomous infrastructures, community prototypes and toolkits, will point towards the significance of a different living paradigm and an emergent culture, based on systems and structures of co-living and co-working that can be possessed and controlled by all.

With unMonastery; Art Is Open Source; Aram Bartholl; City Fables Group; Florian Cramer, Miriam Rasch, Margreet Riphagen, Patricia de Vries; David Darts & Matthias Strubel; Sarah Grant; Adnan Hadzi & James Stevens; Walter Langelaar & Birgit Bachler; off.networks Group; Oliver Lerone Schultz & Athens Enclosures; Cornelia Sollfrank, Sophia Lycouris, Penny Travlou, Helen Varley Jamieson, Donna Metzlar, Reni Hoffmuller, Nancy Mauro-Flude, Peter Westenberg; Telekommunisten (Baruch Gottlieb, Dmytri Kleiner and Jonas Frankki); Henry Warwick; Michael Zeder, Teresa Dillon & Abigail Smith; Mushon Zer-Aviv & Daniel C.Howe.

From Thursday to Sunday, every evening from 19:00 to 20:30 we present artists talks and presentations on the Foyer Stage, in addition to the programme throughout the day.

 

 

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