- Friday, November 29, 2024, h 18.15-20.30
- Studio 1, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Marianneplatz 2, Berlin (and streaming)
The keynote "Investigating the Kill Cloud" brings together the fellows of the Disruption Network Institute, who have spent the last year delving into the future of war to critically assess and question the further integration of artificial intelligence into warfare.
They will now present the results of their research for the first time.
Find out more and get your ticket now: https://dnlb.org/34k.
- Studio 1, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Marianneplatz 2, Berlin (and streaming)
The keynote "Investigating the Kill Cloud" brings together the fellows of the Disruption Network Institute, who have spent the last year delving into the future of war to critically assess and question the further integration of artificial intelligence into warfare.
They will now present the results of their research for the first time.
Find out more and get your ticket now: https://dnlb.org/34k.
- Saturday, November 30, 2024, h 14.15-16:45
- Studio 1, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Marianneplatz 2, Berlin (and streaming)
The panel ‘Disarming the Kill Cloud’ examines military AI-driven human-machine assemblages. It seeks ways to destabilise the military AI hype.
The panel is part of an ongoing dialogue of scholars who last met in May 2024 at the ‘Imaginations of Autonomy‘ conference at Paderborn University.
Find out more and get your ticket now: https://dnlb.org/34p1.
- Studio 1, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Marianneplatz 2, Berlin (and streaming)
The panel ‘Disarming the Kill Cloud’ examines military AI-driven human-machine assemblages. It seeks ways to destabilise the military AI hype.
The panel is part of an ongoing dialogue of scholars who last met in May 2024 at the ‘Imaginations of Autonomy‘ conference at Paderborn University.
Find out more and get your ticket now: https://dnlb.org/34p1.
- Friday, November 29, 2024, h 16.25
- Studio 1, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Marianneplatz 2, Berlin (and streaming)
"Whistleblowing in Data-Centric Warfare" is a conversation between Jesselyn Radack (Head of the Whistleblower and Source Protection Program WHISPeR at ExposeFacts, US) and Thomas Drake (Whistleblower, former Senior Executive at the National Security Agency, US) that discusses
They will introduce the conference "Investigating the Kill Cloud", discussing the challenges of whistleblowing in wartime and the need to bring together a variety of experts in the debate on AI and the future of war.
Find out more and get your ticket now: https://dnlb.org/34i.
- Studio 1, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Marianneplatz 2, Berlin (and streaming)
"Whistleblowing in Data-Centric Warfare" is a conversation between Jesselyn Radack (Head of the Whistleblower and Source Protection Program WHISPeR at ExposeFacts, US) and Thomas Drake (Whistleblower, former Senior Executive at the National Security Agency, US) that discusses
They will introduce the conference "Investigating the Kill Cloud", discussing the challenges of whistleblowing in wartime and the need to bring together a variety of experts in the debate on AI and the future of war.
Find out more and get your ticket now: https://dnlb.org/34i.
- Saturday, November 30, 2024, h 17.15
- Studio 1, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Marianneplatz 2, Berlin (and streaming)
"Visualising Threat" with Shona Illingworth and Anthony Downey. We live in a contemporary global (dis)order defined by aerial forms of hyper-surveillance. In the shadow of physical and psychological threats, indefinite aerial surveillance, sustained bombardment, and the routine deployment of Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles (UCAV), entire populations now live under conditions of unrelenting anxiety. There is a lack of transparency when understanding the fatal interlocking of global surveillance technologies and automated targeting networks. Shona Illingworth and Anthony Downey will address these concerns through a discussion of their ongoing work on the Airspace Tribunal, an international people’s tribunal that was formed to consider the case for and against a proposed new human right to live without physical or psychological threat from above.
Find out more: https://dnlb.org/34c..
- Studio 1, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Marianneplatz 2, Berlin (and streaming)
"Visualising Threat" with Shona Illingworth and Anthony Downey. We live in a contemporary global (dis)order defined by aerial forms of hyper-surveillance. In the shadow of physical and psychological threats, indefinite aerial surveillance, sustained bombardment, and the routine deployment of Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles (UCAV), entire populations now live under conditions of unrelenting anxiety. There is a lack of transparency when understanding the fatal interlocking of global surveillance technologies and automated targeting networks. Shona Illingworth and Anthony Downey will address these concerns through a discussion of their ongoing work on the Airspace Tribunal, an international people’s tribunal that was formed to consider the case for and against a proposed new human right to live without physical or psychological threat from above.
Find out more: https://dnlb.org/34c..
- Sat, November 30, 2024, h 18:30
- Studio 1, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Marianneplatz 2, Berlin (and streaming)
"Automated Surveillance & Targeted Killing in Gaza" with Sophia Goodfriend, Khalil Dewan, Matt Mahmoudi. Moderated by Matthias Monroy
The discussion will reveal how advancements in AI are redefining the kill chain and expanding the roles of private actors in lethal operations beyond traditional battlefields. Key themes include the individualization and privatization of warfare, raising critical questions about accountability and the shifting parameters of who can be legitimately targeted in resistance.
Matt Mahmoudi will describe how Gaza has gone from being the world’s largest open-air prison to an open-air exposition for technologies of violence.
Sophia Goodfriend unpacks the genesis and impact of Israel’s AI-powered targeting in Gaza.
Khalil Dewan explores Israel's targeting practices through the perspectives of those subjected to targeted killings.
Find out more: https://dnlb.org/34p2.
- Studio 1, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Marianneplatz 2, Berlin (and streaming)
"Automated Surveillance & Targeted Killing in Gaza" with Sophia Goodfriend, Khalil Dewan, Matt Mahmoudi. Moderated by Matthias Monroy
The discussion will reveal how advancements in AI are redefining the kill chain and expanding the roles of private actors in lethal operations beyond traditional battlefields. Key themes include the individualization and privatization of warfare, raising critical questions about accountability and the shifting parameters of who can be legitimately targeted in resistance.
Matt Mahmoudi will describe how Gaza has gone from being the world’s largest open-air prison to an open-air exposition for technologies of violence.
Sophia Goodfriend unpacks the genesis and impact of Israel’s AI-powered targeting in Gaza.
Khalil Dewan explores Israel's targeting practices through the perspectives of those subjected to targeted killings.
Find out more: https://dnlb.org/34p2.
- Fri, November 29, 2024, h 17:00
- Studio 1, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Marianneplatz 2, Berlin (and streaming)
PERFORMANCE · "The User and the Beast" with Joana Moll
The performance explores how HTTP cookies (ad tech) surveil and capitalize on users and their data. This lecture performance delves into the increasingly imbalanced exchange of information between users and organizational networks. Through ongoing online interactions and the mechanization of gestures, users’ physical selves are subtly yet sharply compressed, while their presence in the virtual world expands. This shift significantly amplifies the power and influence of companies that exploit and profit from this dynamic.
Find out more: https://dnlb.org/34j.
- Studio 1, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Marianneplatz 2, Berlin (and streaming)
PERFORMANCE · "The User and the Beast" with Joana Moll
The performance explores how HTTP cookies (ad tech) surveil and capitalize on users and their data. This lecture performance delves into the increasingly imbalanced exchange of information between users and organizational networks. Through ongoing online interactions and the mechanization of gestures, users’ physical selves are subtly yet sharply compressed, while their presence in the virtual world expands. This shift significantly amplifies the power and influence of companies that exploit and profit from this dynamic.
Find out more: https://dnlb.org/34j.
Fri, 31.1.2025
⏰ 19.30h - 20.30h
(un)real data ☁️ – (🧊)real effects
Book presentation with !Mediengruppe Bitnik and Felix Stalder
📍ProQM ► Almstadtstraße 48-50, 10119 Berlin
🔗 https://pro-qm.de/event/unreal-data-real-effects
(un)real data ☁️ – (🧊)real effects explores the inherent ambiguity of data as an opportunity to not only describe the world but strategically intervene in it. Is it possible to create specific real-world outcomes by modifying our data streams? Can we intentionally produce data to interact with an algorithmic environment that is opaque, elusive and at the same time all-encompassing?
In this book, the authors and artists explore the production of unreal data as acts of resistance and opposition, and as attempts to carve out small and often temporary spaces of agency and autonomy when faced with systems that seem to leave little room for imagination and choice.
⏰ 19.30h - 20.30h
(un)real data ☁️ – (🧊)real effects
Book presentation with !Mediengruppe Bitnik and Felix Stalder
📍ProQM ► Almstadtstraße 48-50, 10119 Berlin
🔗 https://pro-qm.de/event/unreal-data-real-effects
(un)real data ☁️ – (🧊)real effects explores the inherent ambiguity of data as an opportunity to not only describe the world but strategically intervene in it. Is it possible to create specific real-world outcomes by modifying our data streams? Can we intentionally produce data to interact with an algorithmic environment that is opaque, elusive and at the same time all-encompassing?
In this book, the authors and artists explore the production of unreal data as acts of resistance and opposition, and as attempts to carve out small and often temporary spaces of agency and autonomy when faced with systems that seem to leave little room for imagination and choice.
Sat, 01.02.2025
⏰ 18:00h - 20:00
Total Screen Time: BERLIN BRAINROT
🔗https://www.panke.gallery/
📍panke.gallery ► Gerichtstr. 23, Hof 5, 13347 Berlin
Total Screen Time is a one night group exhibition on phones! All participating artists will bring a phone with their artwork on it, which will be mounted on the walls of the gallery. LET’S BRAINROT TOGETHER! 🧠 Curated by Aram Bartholl & Socrates Stamatatos
Artist lineup: !Mediengruppe Bitnik & Selena Savić & Gordan Savičić, Afroditi Panagiotakou, Aleksandra Domanović, Clusterduck, Constant Dullaart, Cory Arcangel, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Darha Hewitt, Dirk Paesmans, Esben Holk, Evan Roth, Igor Štromajer, Ingrid Hideki, Ipek Burçak, Jan Berger, Joan Heemskerk, Joana Moll, Joanna Bacas, Jonas Lund, Katerina Baxevani, Kathrin Hunze, Marsunev, Miltos Kontogiannis, Nadja Buttendorf, Nestor Siré, Niko Princen, Nora Al-Badri, Olaf Val, Ria Schönberger, Theo Trianfyllidis
⏰ 18:00h - 20:00
Total Screen Time: BERLIN BRAINROT
🔗https://www.panke.gallery/
📍panke.gallery ► Gerichtstr. 23, Hof 5, 13347 Berlin
Total Screen Time is a one night group exhibition on phones! All participating artists will bring a phone with their artwork on it, which will be mounted on the walls of the gallery. LET’S BRAINROT TOGETHER! 🧠 Curated by Aram Bartholl & Socrates Stamatatos
Artist lineup: !Mediengruppe Bitnik & Selena Savić & Gordan Savičić, Afroditi Panagiotakou, Aleksandra Domanović, Clusterduck, Constant Dullaart, Cory Arcangel, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Darha Hewitt, Dirk Paesmans, Esben Holk, Evan Roth, Igor Štromajer, Ingrid Hideki, Ipek Burçak, Jan Berger, Joan Heemskerk, Joana Moll, Joanna Bacas, Jonas Lund, Katerina Baxevani, Kathrin Hunze, Marsunev, Miltos Kontogiannis, Nadja Buttendorf, Nestor Siré, Niko Princen, Nora Al-Badri, Olaf Val, Ria Schönberger, Theo Trianfyllidis
(ɔ◔‿◔)ɔ ♥️ To replace the cancelled Vorspiel (ꐦ¬_¬), here is a community-sourced calendar for events by Berlin-based spaces and in1itiatives before and during Transmediale & CTM Festival: https://unofficial.vorspiel2025.xyz/pad/p/index.
📣 Announcement: Open position at the Disruption Network Lab, starting March 13 in Berlin.
📊Administration & Finance
March 13 – December 19, 2025
20h/week on a freelance honorary basis
The position may be extended depending on future funding. The deadline for applications is 20 February 2025.
✏️Send CV + motivation letter to: jobs@disruptionlab.org
📊Administration & Finance
March 13 – December 19, 2025
20h/week on a freelance honorary basis
The position may be extended depending on future funding. The deadline for applications is 20 February 2025.
✏️Send CV + motivation letter to: jobs@disruptionlab.org
Live now!
Tatiana Bazzichelli: Female Power and Military Whistleblowing
Livestream: https://youtube.com/live/GXsF50o3vSQ
As part of the event series ‘Digital Delights & Disturbances’ (DDD) hosted by the John Cabot University (JCU) Department of Communication and Media Studies, Tatiana Bazzichelli will be delivering a lecture at their Guarini Campus on Wednesday, March 5th at 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM (CET). She will discuss the impact of the work of Chelsea Manning, Lisa Ling and Reality Winner (among others) and relate it to the effects of truth-telling in often male-dominated fields such as the military. Their stories will be linked to other powerful activities by women in the arts, media and journalism who are working to denounce war crimes.
Tatiana Bazzichelli: Female Power and Military Whistleblowing
Livestream: https://youtube.com/live/GXsF50o3vSQ
As part of the event series ‘Digital Delights & Disturbances’ (DDD) hosted by the John Cabot University (JCU) Department of Communication and Media Studies, Tatiana Bazzichelli will be delivering a lecture at their Guarini Campus on Wednesday, March 5th at 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM (CET). She will discuss the impact of the work of Chelsea Manning, Lisa Ling and Reality Winner (among others) and relate it to the effects of truth-telling in often male-dominated fields such as the military. Their stories will be linked to other powerful activities by women in the arts, media and journalism who are working to denounce war crimes.
🎞 FILM SCREENING [Berlin Events]
⏰ 17:30-21:30, 8 March 2025
📍 Hermannstraße 86, 12051 Berlin-Neukölln (near U8 Leinestraße)
For International Women's Day, the Spore House will be hosting a public/free film screening and panel discussion about the 2017 documentary "Naila and the Uprising" (https://justvision.org/nailaandtheuprising) this Saturday evening. More info about the event here: https://spore-initiative.org/en/programming/participate/spore-hosts-naila-and-the-uprising-a-story-of-love-family-and-freedom
⏰ 17:30-21:30, 8 March 2025
📍 Hermannstraße 86, 12051 Berlin-Neukölln (near U8 Leinestraße)
For International Women's Day, the Spore House will be hosting a public/free film screening and panel discussion about the 2017 documentary "Naila and the Uprising" (https://justvision.org/nailaandtheuprising) this Saturday evening. More info about the event here: https://spore-initiative.org/en/programming/participate/spore-hosts-naila-and-the-uprising-a-story-of-love-family-and-freedom
🫂✊ MEETUP: ILLIBERAL REALITIES
⏰ 19:00-21:00, 3 April 2025
📍 nGbK, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 11/13, 10178 Berlin
We welcome you to join us on Thursday, 3. April for a community meetup, focused around the topic of “Illiberal Realities: Understanding Propaganda and the Orbánisation of Europe.” Our guests are Péter Adamik and Sára Szedlár from the Freie Ungarische Botschaft (Free Hungarian Embassy), a spontaneously organised group of Hungarian-European citizens living in Berlin, with a mission for the restoration of rule of law and the creation of a solidarity society in Hungary from abroad.
REGISTER BELOW - attendance is free!
https://www.disruptionlab.org/event/illiberal-realities
⏰ 19:00-21:00, 3 April 2025
📍 nGbK, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 11/13, 10178 Berlin
We welcome you to join us on Thursday, 3. April for a community meetup, focused around the topic of “Illiberal Realities: Understanding Propaganda and the Orbánisation of Europe.” Our guests are Péter Adamik and Sára Szedlár from the Freie Ungarische Botschaft (Free Hungarian Embassy), a spontaneously organised group of Hungarian-European citizens living in Berlin, with a mission for the restoration of rule of law and the creation of a solidarity society in Hungary from abroad.
REGISTER BELOW - attendance is free!
https://www.disruptionlab.org/event/illiberal-realities
Disruption Network Lab
Illiberal Realities: Understanding Propaganda and the Orbanisation of Europe — Disruption Network Lab
This event will focus on understanding how an illiberal democracy has successfully existed in the middle of the EU for the last fifteen years and how propaganda is an important tool within it.
See you tonight, 7pm at nGbK! ☝️
How to get there & find it:
https://ngbk.de/en/besuch/ngbk-alexanderplatz
How to get there & find it:
https://ngbk.de/en/besuch/ngbk-alexanderplatz
ngbk.de
nGbK am Alex
Die neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK) ist ein deutscher Kunstverein. Er wurde 1969 mit basisdemokratischer Struktur gegründet und ist einer der aktivsten und mitgliederstärksten Kunstvereine Deutschlands.
Relevant to the topic of our meetup tonight: Hungary has announced today that they will withdraw from the ICC. 😬
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2025/04/03/hungary-withdrawing-international-criminal-court-netanyahu-visit/82788752007/
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2025/04/03/hungary-withdrawing-international-criminal-court-netanyahu-visit/82788752007/
Reuters
Hungary says it is withdrawing from International Criminal Court as Israel's Netanyahu visits
Hungarian PM Viktor Orban invited Netanyahu to Budapest a day after the ICC issued an arrest warrant over allegations of war crimes in Gaza.
🖥🌐 AFTER NETWORKS
⏰ 14:30 – 16:30, 17 April 2025
📍 RWTH Aachen University – Super C, Templergraben 57, Aachen, 52062
On Thursday, Tatiana Bazzichelli will be speaking in a roundtable discussion at RWTH Aachen University as part of the workshop “After Networks: reframing scale, reimagining connections." In times when the ‘extinction internet’ notion has been claimed from a “platform-in-the-age-climate-collapse perspective” (Lovink, 2024), which other telecommunication infrastructures could be developed in this current configuration? How can a more nourishing sense of community be recreated beyond the social disintegration naturalized on social media?
https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/after-networks-reframing-scale-reimagining-connections/
Register to attend by email: events@khk.rwth-aachen.de
⏰ 14:30 – 16:30, 17 April 2025
📍 RWTH Aachen University – Super C, Templergraben 57, Aachen, 52062
On Thursday, Tatiana Bazzichelli will be speaking in a roundtable discussion at RWTH Aachen University as part of the workshop “After Networks: reframing scale, reimagining connections." In times when the ‘extinction internet’ notion has been claimed from a “platform-in-the-age-climate-collapse perspective” (Lovink, 2024), which other telecommunication infrastructures could be developed in this current configuration? How can a more nourishing sense of community be recreated beyond the social disintegration naturalized on social media?
https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/event/after-networks-reframing-scale-reimagining-connections/
Register to attend by email: events@khk.rwth-aachen.de
✋ NO. THE EXHIBITION
⏰ 17:00, 25 April 2025
📍 Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin
The title of the project sounds purposefully radical. “Нет”, the Russian word for ‘no’, is a symbol of disobedience, born out of ten years of resilience, stubbornness and the will to fight. Saying 'no' is a fundamental and inviolable human right that is denied to many people around the world today, including those in Russia. The mere word 'no' can lead to arrest or imprisonment in some countries. It can cost lives. The exhibition brings together the voices of those who, against all odds, continue to dare to say no.
The exhibition is curated by an international team of independent & critical journalists and artists who were forced to leave Russia in 2014 and co-founded Meduza, a Riga-based news outlet in Russian and English.
The exhibition will continue to run from 26 April through 6 July 2025.
https://kunstraumkreuzberg.de/no-the-exhibition-nein-die-ausstellung/
⏰ 17:00, 25 April 2025
📍 Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin
The title of the project sounds purposefully radical. “Нет”, the Russian word for ‘no’, is a symbol of disobedience, born out of ten years of resilience, stubbornness and the will to fight. Saying 'no' is a fundamental and inviolable human right that is denied to many people around the world today, including those in Russia. The mere word 'no' can lead to arrest or imprisonment in some countries. It can cost lives. The exhibition brings together the voices of those who, against all odds, continue to dare to say no.
The exhibition is curated by an international team of independent & critical journalists and artists who were forced to leave Russia in 2014 and co-founded Meduza, a Riga-based news outlet in Russian and English.
The exhibition will continue to run from 26 April through 6 July 2025.
https://kunstraumkreuzberg.de/no-the-exhibition-nein-die-ausstellung/
Early birds catch the worm 🐦🪱 especially in #Berlin!
Registrations 🎟 for our upcoming conference in June are now open, and a dozen speakers are already confirmed. #DNL35
Friday, June 13 (16:00–20:40)
Saturday, June 14 (15:50–20:30)
Sunday, June 15 (12:30–16:00)
Read more: https://dnlb.org/news92
Registrations 🎟 for our upcoming conference in June are now open, and a dozen speakers are already confirmed. #DNL35
Friday, June 13 (16:00–20:40)
Saturday, June 14 (15:50–20:30)
Sunday, June 15 (12:30–16:00)
Read more: https://dnlb.org/news92
BOOK LAUNCH 📖
⏰ 19:00, 28 April 2025 (tonight!)
📍 Mariannenplatz 2, Marielle-Franco-Platz, 10997 Berlin
Cornelia Sollfrank and Felix Stalder will speak at FIXTURES #4 about the contemporary in embodied data practices and its relation to the planetary. The occasion is the publication of their new book Contemporaneity in Embodied Data Practices, published in the series The Contemporary Condition by Sternberg Press.
The event will be held in English and German.
More info here: https://www.bbk-kulturwerk.de/en/news/fixtures-4-cornelia-sollfrank-and-felix-stalder-conversation-kevin-rittberger-embodied-data
⏰ 19:00, 28 April 2025 (tonight!)
📍 Mariannenplatz 2, Marielle-Franco-Platz, 10997 Berlin
Cornelia Sollfrank and Felix Stalder will speak at FIXTURES #4 about the contemporary in embodied data practices and its relation to the planetary. The occasion is the publication of their new book Contemporaneity in Embodied Data Practices, published in the series The Contemporary Condition by Sternberg Press.
The event will be held in English and German.
More info here: https://www.bbk-kulturwerk.de/en/news/fixtures-4-cornelia-sollfrank-and-felix-stalder-conversation-kevin-rittberger-embodied-data
🛠 #DNL35 WORKSHOP 🎨
Defending Civic Space
📍 13:00–16:00, 15 June 2025
Stadtwerkstatt (Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 11, 10178 Berlin)
Civic space is becoming increasingly restricted. This workshop will examine how #disinformation impacts protests, media freedom and #humanrights defenders.
REGISTER now! Limited to 25 participants. https://www.disruptionlab.org/shadows-of-illiberalism#workshop
Defending Civic Space
📍 13:00–16:00, 15 June 2025
Stadtwerkstatt (Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 11, 10178 Berlin)
Civic space is becoming increasingly restricted. This workshop will examine how #disinformation impacts protests, media freedom and #humanrights defenders.
REGISTER now! Limited to 25 participants. https://www.disruptionlab.org/shadows-of-illiberalism#workshop