The World Without Us. Narratives on the age of non-human actors

In „The World Without Us“ humans will be replaced by machines, Artificial Intelligences will be optimized by other AIs and algorithms will be programmed by self-learning algorithms. The artists in this exhibition explore the possibility of an ecology after man.

Dan Perjovschi: The Hard/er Drawing

Hito Steyerl: Factory of the Sun

Whistleblowers & Vigilantes. Figures of Digital Resistance

The exhibition explores ‘Internet Vigilantism‘, which means that online activists take the law in their hands. What links hacktivists, whistleblowers and (Internet) vigilantes and which differing legal conceptions and strategies of self-legitimisation do they use to justify their work?

(Artifical Intelligence) Digitale Demenz

Can computers think? Do machines have intelligence, maybe even feelings? What happens when algorithms make decisions on our behalf? The exhibition “(Artificial Intelligence) Digitale Demenz” explores the relationship between contemporary art and artificial intelligence.

Digital Folklore

The Mechanical Corps. On the Trail of Jules Verne

BER-DTM-HNL – Fasten your seatbelts!

The exhibition of the HMKV in the framework of the Next Level Conference presents characteristic examples for the development of flight simulation beginning in the 1980s. This selection will be augmented by a variety of different artistic positions that address the ideas of simulation, play, and flight.

Evil Clowns

‘Dangerous clowns are standing by the side of the road’, sang the Düsseldorf band Der Plan as early as 1979. The international exhibition Evil Clowns at Hartware MedienKunstVerein explores this ambivalent character.

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World of Matter – On the Global Ecologies of Raw Material