Challenging ideas of technology as smooth and seamless, transmediale festivals exhibition abandon all hope ye who enter here at Akademie der Künste explores the toxicity of computationally constructed damage in our everyday lives. Concluding the year-long festival entitled for refusal the exhibition brings together nine artists and collectives from 26 January to 18 February whose work examine how dysfunction and its instrumentalisation is central to the logics and operations of technology.
From mineral extraction, heat generating desires, anxiety-inducing doom scrolls, false technological promises, dark patterns and the persistence of colonial labels, the exhibition asks; what possibilities of refusal are there in confronting the broken realities of technology? Playing with Dante’s notion of the Inferno, the exhibition questions the organising principles of computation and the algorithmic values of classification, isolation, and reasoning.
Featuring work by Annex, Ibiye Camp, Cihad Caner, Tianzhuo Chen, Stine Deja, Constant Dullaart, Lo-Def Film Factory, Alaa Mansour, and The Underground Division.
☆Donation:
Guide
Specimen Garden
Cutting the Puppeteer´s Strings
For Data You Are, And To Data You Shall Return / 为数据所生，亦归数据而去
Disinformation - “Antithesis”
the end of work + USELESS Micro Commissions
Flowers in the Fire
THE UNFATHOMABLE UNDERSTANDING: MOSHGAN REZANIA & ROBERTA JEAN SMITH
Johnny Miller. Unequal Scenes & Saltworks
Cost of Sojourn: Survival and actions revealed in unspecific sites
London Design Festival 2023
Unsupervised, Refik Anadol
Paik’s Video Study - Nam June Paik Art Center
Future Shock
Fluxus New York and Elsewhere
Brea Weinreb - Between Men
Paik’s Video Study
Bernar Venet, 1961—2021 60 Years Of Sculpture, Painting & Performance
