Issue 3/2021
Digital Ecology
Climate catastrophe and digitalization. Leaving aside the pandemic, which continues to shape all realms of life, these two issues are probably among the most pressing topics today. The recently published report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) demonstrates clearly – and scientifically – that there is no longer any way to avoid the climate emergency. The question is simply what can still be done effectively by whom to avert the worst-case scenario. For some time now there have been a wealth of artistic proposals on that front – in fact, it almost appears that the climate catastrophe has also irrevocably hit contemporary art over the past year. However thematic trends are often short-lived – or shaped by the periods in which they unfold, as a look at digitalization and its influence on the art scene rev... » read more
Net section
It is a Forest, not a Tree
The Werkleitz Festival 2021 Traced the Contours of the „New World (Dis)Order”
Sabine Maria Schmidt
„Can you imagine solidarity?“
In Barbara Kapusta’s oeuvre, leaking bodies and social surfaces are the protagonists of a future world inspired by techno-feminism and science fiction
Christa Benzer
Salvation and Hubris from the Server Room
The Exhibition Sensing Scale Explores the Influence of Planetary Networks on Our Lives
Jens Bülskämper
Cinema vs. Empire
About Vincent Meessen’s Film Juste un Mouvement (2021)
Jochen Becker
Trust Must be Beautiful, or My Fair Mining? Reflections on the Crypto Movement
Taguhi Torosyan und Stefanie Wuschitz
Digital Ecology
Ecological Uncodings
Decolonizing Digital Futures
Maja und Reuben Fowkes
Wastes of Time, Wastes of Life, Wastes of Energy, Wastes of Space: On the Digital and Ecological in Some Recent Art
Matthew Fuller und Olga Goriunova
How We Are Saving the World with Digital Technology
Artificial Intelligence as a Benevolent Dictator
Roberto Simanowski
Gaia, Cyborgs, and the Novacene
Trying to move closer to digital ecology with James Lovelock
Christian Höller
Selected Works
Image Gallery
Kameelah Janan Rasheed
Byron the Bulb – Death, Technology, and Transformation
Diedrich Diederichsen
Can Art Do the Work?
From Narratives to Protocols, from Habit to Ethics
Daphne Dragona
Eco-Aesthetic of Plant Surfaces
About the Video Essay Seed, Image, Ground and Digital Ecology
Jussi Parikka & Abelardo Gil-Fournier
Jungle Memory
Image Gallery
Andreas Greiner
Artscribe
Extractive Zones
Sønke Gau
Anri Sala
Ada Karlbauer
Stefan Panhans/Andrea Winkler – The Pow(d)er of I Am Klick Klick Klick Klick and a very very bad bad musical!
Celina Baljeet Basra
Kathi Hofer – Arbeiterinnen verlassen die Fabrik
Christina Töpfer
Gelitin
Christian Egger
Patricia Piccinini – Embracing the Future
Nina Prader
14. Baltic Triennial – The Endless Frontier
Kathrin Heinrich
Interieur. A Tribute to Erwin Hauer
Annette Südbeck
Overground Resistance
Ameli M. Klein
Alfredo Jaar – Das Rote Wien
Milena Dimitrova
Books
Isabell Lorey:
Demokratie im Präsens
Anna Bromley und Michael Fesca
Joseph Vogl:
Kapital und Ressentiment
Michael Hauffen
Elad Lapidot:
Anti-Anti-Semitismus
Peter Kunitzky
Gabu Heindl:
Stadtkonflikte
Friederike Landau