Loose Threads – Towards a Technodiversity Event

Extensive Program to the Exhibition Fabric of Dreams – Towards a Technodiversity

Program: 17:00–24:00
Exhibition tour with artists and curators

Panel with:
Kristoffer Gansing
Tung-Hui Hu
Luiza Prado de O. Martins
Moderation: Clemens Apprich & Elisabeth Falkensteiner

Live Performance:
Beyond My Skin
A project by Flavia Mazzanti

Live-Set by
Obaro Ejimiwe (Ghostpoet)

DJ-Set by
isocialbutterflyy

Discussion:
The side program entitled Loose Threads weaves together different and diverse understanding of technology. The panel discussion looks at the reductive history of technology and its mode of representation.

Kristoffer Gansing has been the artistic director of the transmediale festival since 2012. His transdisciplinary work and post-digital perspective aims to situate and transform cultural practices, and he is particularly interested in moving beyond representational forms.
Author, former network engineer and scholar of digital media Tung-Hui Hu will give insights into his new project about digital infrastructure in the global South. In his book A Prehistory of the Cloud he investigates ideologies behind digital technology and offers a set of new tools for rethinking the contemporary digital environment.

Luiza Prado de O. Martins’s artistic exploration is examining plant-human relations, reproduction and herbal medicine and questions of reproductive rights from a feminist and anti-colonial lens. In her installation within the exhibition she is investigating the commodification of a high-valued but extinct plant and the insertion into early monetary systems, as a capitalist technology.

Live Performance:
Beyond My Skin
A project by Flavia Mazzanti
Produced by Immerea
Performers: Olivia Hild, Imani Rameses
Sound: Brootworth
Beyond My Skin is an interactive installation here presented in the form of a live performance that explores themes of identity and digital inclusion. The project creates a phygital space where two performers can experience a new form of self-awareness and representation outside of traditional binary and societal portrayals (avatars). Translated movements generate hybrid digital bodies through interactions, creating a new collective consciousness of where our bodies begin and end. The performers explore the hybrid relationship between bodies and their digital representation in real-time, investigating something as physical as the feeling of “touch” and its meaning in the digital realm. Is it possible to be physically apart but touch each other digitally? And how would this affect our physical bodies?

Live Sound Performance:
Dr. Obaro Ejimiwe (Ghostpoet)
Dr. Obaro Ejimiwe is a visual artist and musician whose work examines themes around African spiritualism, colonisation, masculinity, identity and black joy.

DJ-Set:
isocialbutterflyy (POSSY/she/her)
isocialbutterflyy, artist, costume designer and dj, based in Vienna founded POSSY in 2017 due to a lack of FLINTA* visibility in Hamburgs Club culture. In her work, she is investigating on interdisciplinary and unknown images in sound, film and theatre.
Musicwise, spherical surfaces get mixed with housy and breaking beats and influences from diverse genres, such as pop, jungle, rnb and trance.

Event in cooperation with the department of Media Theory.