TWO DISCIPLINES BETWEEN PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

HYBRID FUTURES. SPECULATIONS ABOUT ART AND SCIENCE

The Hybrid Plattform and Futurium invite you to their joint event series Hybrid Futures. This is where artists will be linking up with scientists to develop – using scenarios from different eras – a speculative vision of the future shape of their respective disciplines.

12Dec2019

Futurium

Further information:

  • Duration:1 hour and 30 minutes

The series of events will be held in English (with German translation) and will kick off with a conversation between Hito Steyerl, whose video art deals critically with the effects of digitalisation, and two experts for artificial intelligence, Mike Tyka and Jules LaPlace.

Before the event, visitors can take part in a free guided tour of the Futurium exhibition, which focuses on multidisciplinary visions for shaping the future.

THE GUESTS FOR THE EVENING

  • Hito Steyerl, video artist, filmmaker, author and professor for experimental film and video at the Berlin University of the Arts
  • Mike Tyka, artist and computer scientist
  • Jules LaPlace, web developer and programmer
  • Shelly Kupferberg, chairwoman

A cooperative event with the Hybrid Plattform, a project platform of the Berlin University of the Arts and Technische Universität Berlin that is part of Campus Charlottenburg.

INFORMATION

  • Venue: Forum
  • Admission is free of charge
  • Event language: English with simultaneous translation
  • Graphic recording

ACCESSIBILITY

  • Futurium is a wheelchair-accessible venue.
  • The event is aimed at interested participants of all ages.
  • An induction loop system is available.
  • We’ll keep seats free for those of you who wish to sit close to the stage because of your visual impairment.
  • Spaces without seats will be available for wheelchair users.
  • A guided tour of Futurium is scheduled for 19:00. Registration here.

If there are any other access-related needs on your part, please let us know and we’ll try to find a solution: info@futurium.de.

Photos will be taken during the event. If you do not wish to have your pictures published, please let us know in advance.