1989 wurde das ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien mit der visionären Idee gegründet, die klassischen Künste ins digitale Zeitalter fortzuschreiben. Deshalb wird es gelegentlich auch als »digitales Bauhaus« bezeichnet. Mit seinen künstlerischen Produktionen, Ausstellungen, Veranstaltungen und Publikationen zeigt es, welche neuen Wege Kunst und Gesellschaft beschreiten können, wenn sie neue Medien ästhetisch erproben und kritisch diskutieren. /// The ZKM | Center for Art and Media was founded in 1989 with the visionary idea of continuing the classical arts into the digital age. This is why it is occasionally referred to as the »digital Bauhaus«. With its artistic productions, exhibitions, events and publications, it shows what new paths art and society can take when they aesthetically test and critically discuss new media.
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Blind Date With A Book: »Digital Imaginaries. African Positions Beyond the Binary«
Blind Date with a Book | Book presentation
The two-year, three-city exhibition and research project Digital Imaginaries brought together artists, makers, architects, and social scientists to examine digital futures on the African continent. This book presents resulting artistic and scholarly productions alongside additional works.
The contributions in this volume deal with diverse digital phenomena: From the continued impact of toxic histories and the conflict-ridden extraction of minerals critical to the digital economy to video games, experimental architecture, the reappropriation of smart city and innovation practices, the commoning of resources, attempts to digitize voter trust, calls for digital resistance and decolonial healing, the relationships between humans and technics, utopia and dystopia, and the limits of reason. The contributions articulate imaginaries and agendas capable of staving off the domination of market interests, state surveillance, and postcolonial hegemonies. Starting from positions on the African continent and in the African diaspora, the works collated here contribute to the global struggle for more diverse and inclusive digital futures.