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19/09/15 – 17/01/16
THE FUTURE
OF THE DIGITAL
IDENTITY
LATURBO AVEDON
“Selfie” was chosen as the English word of the year in 2013, and
today 25 million Germans admit to occasionally taking selfies.
A 2014 “Time” magazine survey found that Düsseldorf is the selfie
capital of Germany, and the city placed 136 in an international
comparison, well ahead of Berlin or Hamburg.
The digital revolution has influenced and changed photography
more than any previous development: “I think, therefore I am”
has become “I photograph, I document, therefore I am”. The
quest for identity has always been one of the major questions
driving humanity, one that has presented itself in myriad social,
political and cultural forms of expression. The question that
naturally follows, “Who do I want to be, or who should I be?”, is
part of the basic repertoire of culture, philosophy, economics,
theology and politics, alongside the collective version this
question: “Who are we?” – as a social group, as a nation,
as Europeans.
The exhibition project “Ego Update. The Future of Digital Identity”
explores how these questions have changed and developed
under the influence of digital media. How do digital and technological advances around the world affect human identity, and
what kind of society is likely to result? How are our notions
of identity and our desires shaped by digital communication, or
even created by it?
ALAIN BIEBER
CURATOR
The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication featuring essays that take an in-depth look at
the theme, by authors including Jerry Saltz, Douglas Coupland, Adam Levin, David Rubinstein, Brooke Wendt
and Karen Ann Donnachie.
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MARTIN PARR
AUTOPORTRAITS, 1991–2012 &
PHOTOBOOTH, 2015
ROBBIE COOPER
ALTER EGO, 2002–2007 &
IMMERSION, 2008
B. 1952 IN EPSOM,
LIVES IN LONDON AND BRISTOL
B. 1969 IN LONDON,
LIVES IN BANGKOK
British Magnum photographer Martin
Parr is regarded as a satirist of
contemporary life; his photographs
are scathingly critical, his inimitable
gaze deflating sub­jects both mundane
and grotesque. His pictures are
known for their bright colours, bizarre
motifs and unusual, con­densed
perspectives. When Parr travels, he
has his portrait taken in local photo
studios. He deliberately leaves the
staging and styling of the image up to
the respective photo­grapher. These
humorous self-portraits uncover a
global sociology of photographic
taste and display the almost infinite
possibilities of digital image editing.
Visitors to the exhibition will have the
opportunity to be photographed in
typical Parr style in the new Magnum
photobooth.
In his series Alter Ego, British photographer and video artist Robbie
Cooper portrays online gamers and
their avatars. Avatars are self-created
graphic characters that let users
operate in virtual worlds. The video
project Immersion assumes the point
of view of the computer screen to
show us the reactions on the
faces of gamers absorbed in play.
ROBBIECOOPER.ORG
MARTINPARR.COM
ROBBIE COOPER: ALTER EGO, 2010
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MARTIN PARR
MARTIN PARR: AUTOPORTRAIT, BENIDORM, SPAIN, 1997. © COLLECTION MARTIN PARR / MAGNUM PHOTOS
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AMALIA ULMAN
EXCELLENCES &
PERFECTIONS, 2014
B. 1989 IN BUENOS AIRES,
LIVES IN LONDON AND GIJÓN
Amalia Ulman’s artistic practice
consists in a mix of painting, sculpture, photography and net art. She
deals with female stereotypes, power,
social anxiety and self-expression in
the age of social media and Photoshop. Ulman used her own social
media profiles for an elaborately
detailed online performance: for four
months she told a fictional picture
story on Instagram, altering her
physical appearance and playing with
clichés. The piece quickly made her
an internet celebrity. Her virtual
performance calls into question the
authenticity of social media and our
addiction to self-optimization.
“Excellences & Perfections is a project
about our flesh as object, your body
as an investment. How do we market
this flesh? How do we price this
meat? How long will it stay fresh for?”
ANDREAS SCHMIDT: ANDY WARHOL
AUS FAKE FAKE ART, 2012
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ANDREAS SCHMIDT
FAKE FAKE ART, 2012 &
HUMAN RESOURCES I / II, 2014
B. 1967 IN WERNECK BEI
SCHWEINFURT,
LIVES IN BERLIN AND LONDON
Artist and photographer Andreas
Schmidt presents 19 pictures that
show famous artists such as Roy
Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and
Gerhard Richter standing next to their
works. But appearances are deceiving: the series Fake Fake Art doesn’t
actually show real scenes. Schmidt
has instead altered the original
photographs in the series Real Fake
Art by photographer Michael Wolf,
which shows world-renowned works
of art and their forgers. Also on view
in the exhibition are two of Schmidt’s
artist books: Human Resources I / II
contain screenshots of all of his
Facebook friends who have chosen
to portray themselves on their profile
and cover pages holding a camera.
AMALIAULMAN.EU
ANDREASSCHMIDT.CO.UK
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OLIVER SIEBER
CHARACTER THIEVES,
2005–2007
DIRK WITEK
A.K.A. MC FITTI
#SELFIEGOTT, 2015
B. 1966 IN DÜSSELDORF,
LIVES IN DÜSSELDORF
B. 1976 IN GIFHORN,
LIVES IN BERLIN
Oliver Sieber has devoted his series
Character Thieves to the Japanese
trend known as Cosplay (a portmanteau made up of “costume” and
“play”). Cosplayers dress up as their
favorite characters from mangas,
animes, computer games or movies,
also imitating their behavior. Sieber
photographed them over several
years as their alter egos, but in their
familiar en­vi­ron­ment – traveling to
Japan, the USA, Canada and
Germany.
MC Fitti could no doubt be described
as a “living selfie.” The German
feel-good rapper with his impressive
beard, mirrored sunglasses and
snapback cap constantly takes
photos, regularly incorporating his
distinctive countenance in wacky
collages or images. MC Fitti is
presenting his first museum artwork
here: a bronze bust with selfie arm
that first toured Germany’s summer
festivals before reaching its final
destination: a temple at the NRWForum Düsseldorf. This was also the
site of the concert performance
recorded in a video on view in the
installation.
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MCFITTI.DE
OLIVER SIEBER: HOWL, LEVERKUSEN, 2007,
FROM THE SERIES CHARACTER THIEVES
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DAFNA MAIMON
HUMAN COMMA BEING,
2015
B. 1982 IN FINLAND,
LIVES IN BERLIN
GUIDO SEGNI: THE MIDDLEFINGER RESPONSE, 2013
Dafna Maimon’s video and performance project Human Comma
Being is concerned with identity
constructions that challenge definitions of the self and the other. It
acknowledges that our bodies are
never complete, but haunted by
memories of living or technological
doppelgängers and missing limbs. For the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf,
the Finnish-Israeli artist has created a
narrative two channel video installation combining footage from
performances with fictional and
documentary video material. The
video work follows a complex story
line that relates the actual practice
of the artist’s mother, who has
created a Victorian alter ego for
herself living in the 1860s to the
practice of her fictional son, an artist
working with self-representation.
Both, in turn, are linked to the playful
creative manner in which the matriarchal bonobo primates structure the
way they live together. Throughout
the installation these narrative
strains and voices are connected,
reconfigured, and reconstructed
through a twisted psychoanalytic
reading.
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GUIDO SEGNI
THE MIDDLE FINGER
RESPONSE, 2013
B. 1988 IN ITALY,
LIVES IN ITALY
As a hacker, net and video artist,
Guido Segni (alias Clemente Pestelli,
Dedalus, Guy McMusker, Angela
Merelli, Anna Adamolo, Guy The Bore,
Umberto Stanca, Silvie Inb, Fosco
Loiti Celant, Guru Miri Goro, Leslie
Bleus, Luther Blissett) works at the
crossroads of art, pop, net culture,
data madness and multiple identities.
In many cultures, a raised middle
finger is viewed as an insulting
gesture. Segni stages it in this series:
he paid the digital proletariat –
so-called “crowdworkers” who do
digital grunt work on platforms like
Amazon Mechanical Turk that
computers are not yet able to do –
half a dollar to shoot a self-portrait of
themselves in their normal surroundings making this gesture.
GUIDOSEGNI.COM
DAFNAMAIMON.COM
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DAVID SLATER
MONKEY SELFIE, 2014
JONAS UNGER
AUTOPORTRAITS, 2010–HEUTE
B. 1968 IN COLEFORD,
LIVES IN CHEPSTOW
B. 1975 IN CUXHAVEN,
LIVES IN PARIS
The so-called Monkey Selfies created
by British wildlife photographer David
Slater made headlines worldwide
when they were first published in
2011, unleashing a copyright debate.
When Wikipedia included one of the
animal self-portraits in its English
article on primates, Slater objected.
But the online encyclopaedia refused
to take the image offline, citing
US copyright regulations. However,
the legal situation is different in the
UK, where photographers can claim
the right to images even if they
themselves did not press the shutter
button. The outcome of the case is
still open.
Back when selfies were not yet a popcultural mass phenomenon, photographer Jonas Unger invited celebrities to photo-shootings where he
handed out analog QuickSnap
cameras and asked them to take their
self-portrait. The entire series is
on display for the first time in the exhi­­bition, from supermodel Karolína
Kurková to national football coach
“Jogi” Löw.
JONASUNGER.COM
DJSPHOTOGRAPHY.CO.UK
JONAS UNGER: JOACHIM JOGI LÖW,
FROM THE SERIES AUTOPORTRAITS, 2010–HEUTE
COURTESY GALERIE DEROUILLON, PARIS
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KIM ASENDORF & NETRO
SELFIE TEMPLATE, 2015 &
TEH LIFE, 2015
EVAN ROTH
INTERNET CACHE
PORTRAIT, 2015 & SELF PORTRAIT,
AUGUST 14, 2015 &
IDEAS WORTH SPREDING, 2013
B. 1981 IN ACHIM,
LIVES IN BERLIN
B. 1978 IN OKEMOS,
LIVES IN PARIS
Kim Asendorf studied new media at
the Kunsthochschule Kassel and
is today a conceptual artist who works
with digital media, engaging with
Internet culture and technology.
In his spare time he is Creative Director at the Internet agency Netro,
which he runs together with the artist
Ole Fach and the photographer
Jana Lange. The trio produced a new
work expressly for the exhibition: Teh
Life is a virtual sitcom whose first
episode can be watched on the NRWForum Düsseldorf website. A further
work can be discovered in the restrooms: Asendorf’s Selfie Templates.
Each template consists of a mirror
selfie from which the artist cut out the
subject’s face.
Evan Roth, co-founder of the Graffiti
Research Lab and the Free Art &
Technology Lab, is a US artist and
hacker whose work examines the
relationship between subversive
usage and self-empowerment. By
misappropriating seemingly rigid
structures and applying the philosophies of the hacker community, Roth
transfers his projects to non-digital
systems. In the installation Ideas
Worth Spreading, visitors can hold
their own TED talk. And the Internet
Cache Portrait is a virtual self-portrait
of Roth, something like his digital
fingerprint.
EVAN-ROTH.COM
KIMASENDORF.COM
NETRO.CC
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KURT CAVIEZEL
THE USERS, 2011
B. 1964 IN CHUR,
LIVES IN ZURICH
Exhibitionism and surveillance: Kurt
Caviezel’s film set is the internet, his
camera the webcams operated by
others. For 15 years, the Swiss artist
has been searching the internet
for publicly accessible webcams that
record both public and private
spaces. He then collects individual
images before they are overwritten
again. He has already archived
more than three billion such scenes.
“The user does not exist, at least
not as an image,” Caviezel says. “This
is a paradox, because the term is omnipresent. As an individual, he shows
himself on the Internet using a
webcam. And he also lets his picture
be taken there. You have to see
through the medium in order to reach
them. The greater the spatial distance between user and photographer, the closer (in the sense of
authenticity) the photographer gets
to the user. The work thus ventures
onto new photographic territory.”
ONTHEROOFS: HONG KONG
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VITALIY RASKALOV &
VADIM MAKHOROV
A.K.A. ONTHEROOFS
HONG KONG, JAPAN, EUROPE,
USA, 2013–2015
B. 1993 IN KIEV,
LIVES IN HONG KONG
B. 1989 IN NOVOSIBIRSK,
LIVES IN NOVOSIBIRSK
Whether Cologne Cathedral, Shanghai Tower or the Pyramid of Cheops:
Ontheroofs have been working
together for five years, dedicated to
the theme of urban exploration,
meaning above all climbing the
world’s tallest buildings and taking
self-portraits there.
KURTCAVIEZEL.CH
ONTHEROOFS.COM
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ERIK KESSELS
MY FEET, 2015
CEDRIC KIEFER & JULIA LAUB
ONFORMATIVE
GOOGLE FACES, 2013
B. 1966 IN ROERMOND,
LIVES IN AMSTERDAM
B. 1982 IN HEIDELBERG
B. 1980 IN BAVARIA,
BOTH LIVE IN BERLIN
The Dutch artist, curator and founder
of the KesselsKramer agency turns
found photos into quirky picture
stories and installations. For My Feet,
Kessels collected thousands
of foot selfies on the Internet. We see
here feet on holiday beaches, feet
proudly displaying new shoes,
feet covered with blisters, and also
Kessel’s own feet. He used search
terms in several languages, or simply
entered “I’m bored”, and found
out that people all over the world like
to share pictures of their feet. His
wider interest is in the state of
photography in these days when
millions of images course through the
Web. For his installation 24 Hrs In
Photos, for example, he printed out
350,000 images that were posted
within a 24-hour-period to the Flickr
photo sharing platform.
The Berlin-based agency Onformative deals with what is known as
gene­rative design: generating images
using codes. The projects range from
artistic data visualizations to generative sculptures to expansive installations. The Google Faces were
generated by a facetracking algorithm, which used Google Maps
to discover a variety of faces in landscapes. The aim of the project (in
cooperation with Christian Loclair)
was to elicit machine-generated
pareidolia, a psychological phenomenon in which people see supposed
faces in things and patterns.
ONFORMATIVE.COM
KESSELSKRAMER.COM
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LATURBO AVEDON
UNTEXTURED SELF–PORTRAITS,
2015 & STREAM, 2015
ARVIDA BYSTRÖM
MOST COMMENTED. MARCH 2015
&
UNTITLED, 2013–2015
B. IN THE WWW,
LIVES IN THE WWW
B. 1993 IN STOCKHOLM,
LIVES IN LOS ANGELES
This artist wouldn’t exist without the
internet, because she exists only as a
female avatar. “My digital experiences
have formed my identity. Every time I
set up a new online account,
I go through a process of character
generation,” says Avedon. Her digital
sculptures, photographs and videos
ignore the lack of physicality and
instead emphasize the practice of
virtual authorship. Her latest self-portrait series quotes Jan Vermeer,
mimics the internet meme “Parked
Domain Girl,” and pays homage to her
idol, the professor and author of the
Cyborg Manifesto, Donna Haraway.
The works of the Swedish artist,
photographer, and blogger address
the themes of femininity, sex, gender
roles and the search for identity. In
Arvida Byström’s frequent photographic self-portraits, glitter, pastel
colors and the subversive moment
play an essential role. In a sculpture
produced especially for the exhibition, Byström takes a closer look at
her most commented-on Instagram
image.
ARVIDABYSTROM.SE
TURBOAVEDON.COM
ARVIDA BYSTRÖM: UNTITLED, 2013–2015
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EVAN BADEN
TECHNICALLY INTIMATE,
2008–2011
HEATHER DEWEY-HAGBORG
STRANGER VISIONS,
2010–2013
B. 1980 IN SAUDI ARABIA,
LIVES IN CHICAGO
B. 1982 IN PHILADELPHIA,
LIVES IN CHICAGO
An intimate moment, and the selfie in
a lascivious pose is quickly transmitted via smartphone to one’s partner,
and how frivolous is online sex before
the webcam really when everything
goes from one protected place to
another? But things really get titil­lating when this material is forwarded
to others or posted and shared
publicly on social networks. Baden
demonstrates with his photo series
that the feeling of privacy in the World
Wide Web is nothing but an illusion.
Our DNA carries our genetic information and defines who we are. The US
artist and bio-hacker Heather
Dewey-Hagborg uses found DNA , for
example from lost hairs, spat-out
chewing gum or discarded cigarette
butts, to create computer-generated,
post-photo-graphic 3D portraits.
Dewey-Hagborg delves here into
issues of genetic profiling, proposing
in a follow-up project to respond to
this threat by strategically blurring
DNA evidence. Her work poses
pressing political questions relating to
the application of forensic DNA
phenotyping and the reliability of its
physical results.
EVANBADEN.COM
DEWEYHAGBORG.COM
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EVAN BADEN
EVAN BADEN: EMILY FROM THE SERIES TECHNICALLY INTIMATE, 2008–2011
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ALISON JACKSON
ALISON JACKSON: C´EST L´AMOUR, 2013 © COURTESY OF ALISON JACKSON STUDIO
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AT TH E OPE N I NG
& CLOSI NG EVE NT:
ALISON JACKSON
CONFIDENTIAL, 2010–2015
FLORIAN KUHLMANN
THE ARTIST IS PRESENT,
2008–2015
B. 1970 IN SOUTHSEA,
LIVES IN LONDON
British photographer and video artist
Alison Jackson makes staged
pictures that explore the cult of
celebrity, giving us an imagined peek
behind the scenes at the private lives
of the rich and famous. The images
often have an aesthetic similiar to that
of sneaky paparazzi shots, but are
actually fictions elaborately
constructed in the studio. “My works,”
says the artist, “are about how we
think we know these people’s most
intimate secrets. But all we really
know about them are pictures and
stories that have been thought up and
carefully constructed: by agents, the
media or the celebrities themselves.”
B. 1978 IN HO-CHI-MINH-CITY,
LIVES IN DÜSSELDORF
In the fall of 2008, Florian Kuhlmann
presented the artist is present for the
first time as a metamodern remix of
concept art, video installation, net art
and live performance at Worringer
Platz in Düsseldorf. The setting is
conceivably simple: Kuhlmann sits in
front of his computer’s webcam and
transmits the video-signal via livestream in the otherwise completely
empty exhibition space. the artist is
present is first and foremost an ironic
commentary regarding the codices of
the global art system and the perception of an established image of the
artist. Simply because of that already,
the work pursues a dif­fer­ent
approach than the eponymous and
soppy performance by Marina
Abramovic
that caused a stir at the MoMa, New
York, two years later. Kuhlmann is
certainly interested in the figure of
the artist, however in this case only in
a secondary way. He is rather
fasci­nated by the question what
presence and absence mean in a
world that is in­creas­ingly facilitated
by media and technovisual means.
ALISONJACKSON.COM
FLORIANKUHLMANN.COM
THE-ARTIST-IS-PRESENT.NET
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STÉPHANE DEGOUTIN &
GWENOLA WAGON
WORLD BRAIN,
F, 2015, 70MIN
In this essay-like transmedia project,
the two French artists Gwenola
Wagon and Stéphane Degoutin set
out on a quest for the world brain.
The 70-minute film and interactive
website take the viewer along on a
dive down through the physical
depths of the internet. World Brain is
an attempt to investigate the utopias
and ideologies associated with the
emergence of a collective intelligence
and the hypothesis of a worldwide network. The film follows a group of researchers who are trying to survive in
the woods with the help of the
internet. Their goal is nothing less
than to create an alternative project
for the survival of humanity.
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FILM PROGRAM
12/10 – 25/10/2015
26/10 – 8/11/2015
JANEZ JANŠA
NICOLAS RITTER
MY NAME IS JANEZ JANŠA,
SLO, 2012, 68MIN
THE CLOUD,
D, 2014, 29MIN
In 2007 three Slovenian artists join
the conservative SDS Party. All three
officially change their names to Janez
Janša – the name of the controversial
Party president and former prime
minister. The actions of these multiple
Janez Janšas quickly cause confusion. The meaning of a name and the
pos­si­bi­li­ty of modifying one’s own
identity are questioned here in an
amusing and in­formative manner at
both the local and international levels.
Janez Janša (1970) is a conceptual
artist and director of the Aksioma
Institute for Con­tempor­ary Art in
Ljubljana.
The digitization of everyday life is
ir­re­ver­si­ble. What, then, can we do to
make life easier for digital natives and
to help digital immigrants assimilate?
The Arthur McLuhan Digital Webcampus offers a solution: finger fitness,
multitasking training and practical
real-life aids for the young internet
generation, and a gentle introduction
to the challenges of the in­for­mation
age for the less technologically
inclined. Frankfurt artist Nicolas
Ritter’s debut documents with
affectionate satire a training camp for
the digital society.
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FILM PROGRAM
9/11 – 22/11/2015
23/11 – 6/12/2015
STÉPHANE CARREL
DER BLICK ZURÜCK
NACH VORN.
FROM SELF-PORTRAIT
TO SELFIE, F, 2015
VIDEO ART FROM
THE ARCHIVES OF IMAI
The ARTE documentary traces the
history of the self-portrait. The photobooth, for example, which was invented over 100 years ago, is today experiencing a revival, in some cases
evenequippedwithnostalgicanalogtechnology. And then there is the selfie
boom, which not even the Pope can
resist. Is this trend a sign of unbridled
narcissism? Of people’s attempt to
claim a place in a society obsessed
with the cult of the celebrity? A new
fashion dictate or a creative means of
expression for “Generation Internet?”
The documentary addresses all of
these questions – and even offers
practical tips on how to make selfies
without embarrassing yourself in front
of your followers!
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Since the 1970s, video technology
has offered artists an ideal way to
showcase themselves, whether their
body, their actions or their own
identity. This screening assembles
artworks from the archives of the
media art foundation that fit in with
this theme. They investigate the
presence of the individual in front of
the camera and in the virtual space,
presenting video art as the memory
of these performative and media
experiments with and reflections on
the self.
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FILM PROGRAM
7/12 – 3/1/2016
4/1 – 17/1/2016
CHARLIE BROOKER
LYNN HERSHMAN LEESON
BLACK MIRROR:
WHITE CHRISTMAS,
UK, 2014, 75MIN, FSK 16
TEKNOLUST,
USA, 2002, 79MIN, FSK 16
Teknolust is one of US artist Lynn
Hershman Leeson’s most important
films – an absurd, amusing and highly
topical science fiction drama about
cyber identities, biogenetics, gender
con­structs and sexual self-determination in the internet age. The plot
revolves around the scientist Rosetta
Stone (Tilda Swinton), who illegally
makes three clones of herself. The
artificial beings differ only in the color
of their clothing and live in an isolated
cyberspace. Because their survival
depends on ab­sor­bing the male Y
chromosome, Ruby, the femme fatale
among the clones, regularly goes on
man hunts. Sexual con­tact with Ruby
renders her lovers im­po­tent as well as
causing an allergic reaction to a
computer virus she carries which can
be transmitted to humans. The
growing number of infected men
draws that attention of the FBI to the
machi­nations of the clone family,
leading to an investigation.
Black Mirror is an award-winning
British TV series that takes a satirical
look at our digital future. For each
episode, the author Charlie Brooker
creates new characters and a new
scenario and casts fresh actors. Each
time, a different reality unfolds,
showing us a not-too-distant future.
Social media, casting shows, smartphone hype, cybersex and cyborgs
– every episode is a parable on the
modern media era, viewed from a
frighteningly dystopian perspective.
White Christmas, the Christmas
special, featuring actor Jon Hamm,
tells of digital cloning, cyber-crime
and enhanced reality.
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FILM PROGRAM
PERFORMANCES
SCI E NCE + FICTION :
TH E CYBORG FAI R
19/9/2015
#SELFIEGOTT:
PERFORMANCE FEATURING
MC FITTI
6 – 8/11/2015
The world’s first Cyborg Fair will
bring together exhibitors from the
fields of science, art, media, body
modification, prosthetics and IT. In
addition, artists, philosophers,
scientists and hackers such as Tim
Cannon, M. Darusha Wehm, Anja
Bagus, Stefanie Rembold, Enno Park
and Ellfriede Nerdinger will present
their views on the future of humankind. The fair is organised by Cyborgs
e.V., the society for the promotion
and critical guidance of the fusion of
human and technology.
12/12/2015
HUMAN COMMA BEING: SELFIE
BALLET PERFORMANCE
FEATURING DAFNA MAIMON
GUIDED TOURS
A free tour in German is offered every
Friday at 8 pm. A free tour in English
is available on the last Friday of the
month, likewise at 8 PM.
Booking: +49 (0)211 – 89 266 84 or
[email protected].
CONFERENCE
15 – 17/1/2016
STREAMING EGOS: DIGITAL IDENTITIES IN EUROPE
Streaming Egos is a project of the Goethe Institute in south-west Europe, in cooperation with the Slow Media Institute Bonn and the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf.
Discourses and artistic forms of expression of digital identity in countries such as
Germany, France, Italy, Portugal and Spain will be encouraged, creatively developed,
examined and presented. National discourses become transnational ones here,
enabling a European perspective to be taken on individual and collective identities
and how they might unfold in future given the potentials of digital culture.
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Commercial Director: Elke Menikheim
Assistant: Nicola Funk
Reception Desk: Sabine Brenner,
Kornelia Linden
Building Systems: Waldemar Maciossek,
Rüdiger Stramm, Jörg Thur (F)
EXHIBITION:
Curator: Alain Bieber
Exhibition Design:
Louisa Georg & Sadrick Schmidt
Assistant: Nikolaj Tkatschenko
Publication: Sina Michalskaja,
Thomas Artur Spallek, Shahin Zarinbal
Production: Nicola Funk
Press: textpr+, Viviana Kleinert,
Christine Peters
Cooperation: coomedia,
Henning Schnittcher
Art Direction: KesselsKramer
Web: V2A.net, Lars Wöhning
Printing & Framing: Grieger
Skateboard Ramp: Donald Campbell, Tobias Springborn
(Pavel-Skates)
EXHIBITION PARTNERS:
EXHIBITION BOOKLET
Publisher: NRW-Forum Düsseldorf
Texts: Alain Bieber, Viviana Kleinert
Copyediting: Gian-Philip Andreas
Translation: Jennifer Taylor
Art Direction: KesselsKramer
Gestaltung: Thomas Artur Spallek
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