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.

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

(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

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.

🎞 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

🫂✊ 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

See you tonight, 7pm at nGbK! ☝️
How to get there & find it:
https://ngbk.de/en/besuch/ngbk-alexanderplatz

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/

🖥🌐 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

✋ 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/

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

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

🛠 #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

🗓 1 MONTH to go until #DNL35!

SHADOWS OF ILLIBERALISM (June 13–15th 2025) will explore the roots of far-right politics and challenge its influence through art, activism & tech.

🎟 REGISTER now!
🐦 'Early bird' tickets for only 2 more days!
https://tickets.disruptionlab.org/shadows-of-illiberalism/

Hi all! Today is the last chance to get 🐦 'Early bird' tickets!https://tickets.disruptionlab.org/shadows-of-illiberalism/

Hi all! The full programme is now online! (http://dnlb.org/35)

We are very happy if some of you want to help by forwarding our graphics and posts in your networks. We also have flyers and posters in our office - write to outreach@disruptionlab.org if you want some, or to help in other ways!

Here is a folder with graphics for your enjoyment:
https://dnlb.org/35-gfx

Links to our socials here:
https://dnlb.org/socials

Cheers from the DNL team

Hi again! This sunday our collegue Lucas Hoffmann moderates this panel on topics close to our research project Investigating the Kill Cloud (http://thekill.cloud).

📅 Date: Sunday, May 25, 2025
🕕 Time: 6:00-8:00 PM
📍Location: bUm, Paul-Lincke-Ufer 21, 10999 Berlin

Registration required (free):
https://dnlb.org/bum-may25

Bringing in feminist and decolonial perspectives the panel will explore what it means to resist the automation of violence across the spectrum of military AI, from autonomous weapons to algorithmic decision-support systems.

🔹 Ishmael Bhila – Activist and scholar on decolonial technology studies, Paderborn University
🔹 Marwa Fatafta – Expert on digital rights and governance in the MENA region, Access Now
🔹Elvin Çetin (DFG-VK) & Jennifer Menninger (WILPF Germany) – Members of the Stop Killer Robots Campaign
🔹Moderation: Lucas Hoffmann, Disruption Network Lab e.V.