On Codes, Images and Realities
The invited expert contributors to Urgent Translations examine influential visual media processes and dynamic cultural techniques and how these effect on climate politics, future concepts and political radicalization. What kind of translations and research methods should be considered? Can other options for action be devised from artistic working methods? Which competencies need to be bundled?
IMPACT21 sees itself as an interface for exchanging ideas about effective possible forms of intervention in the face of global challenges.
The medial visualization of the climate catastrophe is one of the research subjects of Prof. Dr. Birgit Schneider, Professor of Cultures of Knowledge and Media Environments at the University of Potsdam. The artist Arne Vogelgesang examines the aesthetics of radical propaganda and methods of political radicalization on the Internet and reveals how gamification, memes, and viral fake news shape political discourse and increasingly intervene in social realities.
As part of the JUNCTIONS21 research programme, 20 artists working in transdisciplinary teams have been exploring the interactions between activism, digitality, and ecology. First research drafts will be presented in an exhibition and opened up for discussion in talks. The artists are working together in seven teams: Bruno Alves de Almeida and Juan Pablo Pacheco Bejarano, Carmel Barnea Brezner Jonas, Clarissa Aidar, Jere Ikongio and Dario Srbic, Eliana Otta, Imayna Caceres, Nuno Cassola and Vasilikí Sifostratoudaki, Lucy Ilado, Stefania Smolkina and Riyadhus Shalihin, Rosa Whiteley and Sina Hensel, Wisrah Villefort and Sarah Johanna Theurer, Zahra Malkani and Shahana Rajani.
A project within the framework of the Alliance of International Production Houses supported by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.