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?

Hito Steyerl: Factory of the Sun

The Mechanical Corps. On the Trail of Jules Verne

(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

When the World Wide Web was in its infancy ... The world’s first exhibition around “digital folklore” focuses on the early history of the WWW – and here especially on the aesthetics of the first GeoCities homepages made by enthusiatic amateurs.

„Jetzt helfe ich mir selbst“ (Now I Can Help Myself) - The 100 best Internet video tutorials

World of Matter – On the Global Ecologies of Raw Material

NEW INDUSTRIES FESTIVAL

From September 2013, to March 2014, the NEW INDUSTRIES FESTIVAL - initiated by Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV) - is taking place at the Dortmunder U and Dortmunder Unionviertel. Through various formats including exhibitions, installations, lectures, workshops, film screenings and performances, this four-month-long international festival explores the past, present and future of industry.

NEW INDUSTRIES FESTIVAL: Axel Braun – To the benefit of a society of tomorrow for which we build today

Axel Braun’s project Zugunsten einer Gesellschaft von morgen, für die wir heute schon bauen (To the benefit of the society of tomorrow for which we are building today) explores the history and architecture of the WestLB.

NEW INDUSTRIES FESTIVAL: Requiem for a Bank

NEW INDUSTRIES FESTIVAL: INDUSTRIAL (Research)