IMPACT21 – Urgent Translations | Arne Vogelgesang: Let's play infowars!

The artist Arne Vogelgesang examines the aesthetics of radical propaganda and methods of political radicalization on the Internet and reveals how gamification, memes and viral fake news shape political discourse and increasingly intervene in social realities. 

IMPACT21 – Urgent Translations | Birgit Schneider: Zukunftsvorstellungen in Zeiten des Klimawandels zwischen Kollaps, Techno-Fix und Transformation

How can images foster social change in times of ecological crisis? To what extent can images become a driving force, convey knowledge and turn knowledge into action? Birgit Schneider analyzes the imagery of the climate crisis and its ascribed meaning and content.

IMPACT20 Lecture: Lars Blank ›You might want to ask what microbes can do for you and you for the microbes‹

IMPACT20 Talk with Lars Blank, Rosi Braidotti, Johannes Paul Raether & Sarah Johanna Theurer

IMPACT20 Lecture: Johannes Paul Raether ›aLifveForms in Presence, in between Appearances: Surrogates‹

IMPACT20 Lecture: Rosi Braidotti ›Posthuman Critical Thought‹

Ingrid LaFleur: Breathing in Blackness – Temporal Dimensions of Utopia

In her lecture ›Breathing in Blackness: Temporal Dimensions of Utopia‹ in the framework of IMPACT19, La Fleur investigated the notion of utopia within Afrofuturism in an attempt to examine how Black bodies can access, build and evolve their safe spaces.

IMPACT19 – Weaving Traces

Im Fokus von ›IMPACT19 – Weaving Traces‹ standen Positionen, die mit ihren sehr unterschiedlichen Praxen, Initiativen und Aktionen im politischen Raum, in ökologischen Zusammenhängen und im Körper, Eingriffe, Einschreibungen und Diskriminierungen freilegen.

Meet Silke Huysmans and Hannes Dereere / IMPACT 19 - Weaving Traces

Silke Huysmans and Hannes Dereere were part of IMPACT 19 - Weaving Traces. The transdisciplinary symposium invited positions which, through very different practices, initiatives and actions expose interventions and discrimination in the political sphere, in urban and island structures, in ecological contexts, as well as in the body.