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Crisis of fictitious digital capital? Berlin Biennale review, pt. 1

In the current Berlin Biennale there is a section inside a business school in a former GDR government building, because that’s what this Biennale is about, putting art and cyberspace and the economy and the city’s history in touch. In this section of the show the artist Simon Denny has put fair booths of cryptocurrencies,…

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Towards a New Art Writing

…The conflicts of the image economy are currently pacified by myths of the potentials of artistic autonomy and the dangers of financial speculation with art… The hypergraphics of Systaime blur the distinction between money and image in a hyperreality of the market-circulation as digital network and digital network as art world. Currently on view in…

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Berlin Tonight! May 6th 2016 in About Blank “Love Techno Hate Germany”

Its been a while since our last post for Love Techno Hate Germany which is regularly takes place in About Blank😉 Am 6.Mai heißt es wieder “love techno – hate germany” auf 2 Floors im ://about blank mit: Rudolph Beuys (Beatrausch) Elliver (Quality Time Booking // Bachstelzen) Isa Wolff Iaac (://about blank // stromperlen) F…

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Alright on the WrongGrid

“Human emotion or it didn’t happen” (NewHive) The Wrong Biennale is a biennale taking place online. Websites are the pavillons. But the spatial and temporal concept of a biennale does not fit the digital realm. Even if exactly this contradiction is what is played out here, I am still unconvinced. Does the vast space of…

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Storytelling as the most ancient technology – M. Darusha Wehm’s Keynote on the Cyborg Fair Düsseldorf 2015

„Humans have always used technology and one of the most ancient tools we use is storytelling. Science and fiction are a conversation and science fiction in particular lets us try out new futures before we build them. Stories teach us

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