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research based MA in cooperation between @udkberlin and @tu_berlin at the intersection of art, technology, science and theory- part of @new__practice

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Meet the universities exhibiting at the University of Arts Linz as part of the Ars Electronica Campus Exhibition 2026!

Under the theme NEGOTIATING HUMANITY, this year’s Campus Partners bring together diverse perspectives, practices and approaches from around the world. Discover the participating universities and the projects they will present at this year’s Ars Electronica Festival!

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RECAP RUNDGANG – TAGE DER OFFENEN TÜR 2026

Das war der Rundgang 2026!

Danke an alle Studierenden, Lehrenden und Mitarbeitenden der UdK Berlin, die den Rundgang möglich gemacht haben, und alle Berliner*innen und Gäste, die dabei waren.

Wir verabschieden uns in die Sommerpause und freuen uns, euch im nächsten Semester wiederzusehen.

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That was the Rundgang – Open Days 2026!

Thank you to all our wonderful students, faculty, and staff at the UdK Berlin who made this year’s Rundgang possible, and thank you to all Berliners and guests who attended.

Have a fantastic summer-break. We’ll be back at the beginning of the Wintersemester 2026/27!

Konzept: Anna Etteldorf, Mia Kugelmann, Madeleine Brunnmeier
Vorschaubild + Videoproduktion Reel: Madeleine Brunnmeier @madeleinebrunnmeier

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Happy to finally share snippets of our master thesis.
With my fav. work buddy @frtz.zrn.

Supervised by:
Prof. Albert Lang
Prof. Dr. Marc Pfaff
Dr. Peter Polack

Investigative Models:

On 17 October 2023, an explosion at al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza-Palestine killed hundreds of people. In the days, weeks, months and years that followed, the incident became the subject of more than ten separate investigations by states, media organisations, human rights groups, and independent OSINT researchers. These inquiries drew on largely overlapping open-source material, yet arrived at very different and, in some cases, mutually incompatible conclusions about the cause of the blast and damage.
What makes this divergence remarkable is not the disagreement itself but the conditions under which it occurs. Many organisations involved in the investigation shared similar intentions, professional backgrounds,
and normative commitments to human rights and evidentiary rigour. Yet despite this shared horizon, their analyses of the al-Ahli Hospital explosion produced not convergence but divergence: a proliferation of competing
“truths,” each internally coherent, evidence-based, and often methodologically sophisticated.
This thesis begins with the assumption that contemporary visual investigations cannot be evaluated solely by classical notions of objectivity, neutrality, or factual correctness. The problem is not simply whether an investigation is right or wrong, but whether it constructs the epistemic conditions under which truth claims can become reliable, comparable, and contestable.

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'I Don’t Know How Many Souls I Have'

A video game confronting death is the oldest gesture in art, in the newest medium.

In 'Lascaux, or the Birth of Art' (1955), Georges Bataille argues that art emerges at the moment humans become conscious of death. Cave paintings, made near burial sites, are for him the trace of a being who knows it will die and responds with play, transgression, and the sacred.

For close to a year, Federico Zurani, Edoardo Bracchi, Leon Eckard and I have been building a videogame about the thresholds we inhabit through loss.

This work is the centrepiece of a transmedia installation I have been developing since my arrival in Berlin.

You play a soul with no memory, wandering the world of the dead, searching for a teacher already gone. As you move, you try to piece your memories back together, meeting the beings that inhabit this world along the way.

The landscapes were built from research journeys through sacred territories marked by conflict in Myanmar and the Indian Himalayas.

Please join us, and come play!

UdK Medienhaus Aula (1st floor) · 17–19 July, Rundgang 2026
Grunewaldstraße 2-5, Kleistpark, Berlin

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@_leon_eckard_

Interactive single-player videogame by António F. Duarte and Federico Zurani, in collaboration with Edoardo Bracchi. Sound design by Leon Eckard.

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The full ‘Souls’ transmedia installation will be on view on the 22nd July, at my Meisterschüler exam – 11h30-onwards at UdK Medienhaus Galerie.

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What does it mean to "copy" when there is no original — only endless feedback loops between data, imagination, and machine-generated forms?

As the final programme update of Reclaiming Data, we have had Abyssial Mimesis by @j.iawenw.ang.

The project draws from Gotthard Günther's polycontexturality and Vilem Flusser's theory of technical images, exploring the ways in which digital tools shape our perception of the world. Mimesis (Greek for "imitation") traditionally refers to art's ability to mirror reality. Here, it is reimagined: Al does not imitate nature but mimics the act of creation itself, generating speculative entities from collective data-cultural, digital, and biological. Like the deep sea—a realm resistant to human observation-these forms reflect not reality, but the hidden patterns and biases of the systems that create them.

Performance: Abyssial Mimesis by Jiawen Wang
7pm - 13 June 2026
9 Flutgraben e.V. @flutgrabenberlin
Am Flutgraben 3
12435 Berlin
Exhibition
' 12-21 June 2026
Opening: Friday, 12 June, 5pm

For the full programme, check the link in bio.

Reclaiming Data is a collaboration by @dockdigitalberlin, @new_practice, @designandcomputation and @ecommemoration / Körber-Stiftung. Supported by @technologiestiftung and @centerforliterature .

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Reclaiming Data - Art and Memory in the Age of Digital Archives

Symposium: June 12-13, 2026 @flutgrabenberlin
Exhibition: June 12-21, 2026 @flutgrabenberlin

We are more than excited to announce the first details of our collaborative project: Reclaiming Data. The symposium and exhibition explored how Al-driven archives and platform infrastructures are reshaping collective memory because - how we archive today is how we will remember tomorrow.

Over two days (June 12-13), we brought together artists, researchers, activists, and cultural institutions to examine data sets as contemporary memory infrastructures. The program combined synthetic historiography, reverse archaeology, and artistic-activist strategies of reappropriation by conceptualizing counter-archives and experimenting with alternative forms of memory-making.

We are particularly happy that Reclaiming Data has been integrated into the curriculum of the Master's program Design & Computation and that students are actively involved through their studio work.

A collaboration between @dock_digital_berlin, @new_practice, @designandcomputation and @ecommemoration (Körber-Stiftung), supported by the @technologiestiftung and @centerforliterature.
Curated and organized by @jonnybixbongers.
Graphic design @yunkuo_

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Recap of the exhibition Reclaiming Data at Flutgraben, Berlin, Germany. The exhibition is on display until June 21.

The exhibition Reclaiming Data - Art and Memory in the Age of Digital Archives brings together artistic positions that work with digital archives, datasets, Al systems, colonial collections, synthetic reconstruction, and contested forms of memory.

With works by @albadri.nora, @juan_covelli, @krft.id, @rayne.yes & @arturcipriani, @nout.py, and @minneatairu, the exhibition asks how images, histories, and cultural traces are stored, reactivated, overwritten, or made visible again through contemporary technologies.

Rather than treating archives as neutral repositories, the exhibition approaches them as political and aesthetic terrains where questions of access, absence, ownership, extraction, and historical imagination become urgent.

Exhibition
12-21 June 2026
Opening: Friday, 12 June, 17:00
@flutgrabenberlin
Am Flutgraben 3
12435 Berlin

The exhibition is part of the Reclaiming Data symposium, taking place on 12-13 June 2026 with keynote, screening, panels, skill sharing sessions, and performance.

For the full programme, check the link in bio.
Reclaiming Data is a collaboration by @dock_digital_berlin, @new_practice,
@designandcomputation and @ecommemoration / @koerberstiftung. Supported by @technologiestiftung and @centerforliterature.
Curated and organized by @jonnybixbongers.
Graphic design by @yunkuo_

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Program Update #7: Non-linear Archive — Roundtable with @vinzenzaubry  
Now to another program highlight of our symposium: we are very happy to close the symposium with @vinzenzaubry and a workshop of a slightly different kind — an experiment in collective archival practice.

From the beginning of Reclaiming Data, we will introduce @field.tool as a shared documentation tool: a non-hierarchical archiving environment through which speakers, students, researchers, artists, institutions, and visitors can co-author an archive of these two days.
Photos, notes, quotes, links, references, artworks, books, and spontaneous associations can be added throughout the symposium — tagged inline and flowing into one common knowledge base. Instead of being curated from above, the documentation grows organically into an interactive graph of relations, traces, and shared observations.

On the second day, we come together for a roundtable with Vincenz Aubry to reflect on what unfolded and to discuss what non-linear, co-authored archiving could mean for future forms of documentation, research, and collective memory.  No registration needed.

🗓 13 June 2026
16:30 - 18:00  📍 Flutgraben e.V. @flutgrabenberlin  Am Flutgraben 3 12435 Berlin

Exhibition 🗓 12–21 June 2026 Opening: Friday, 12 June, 17:00

For the full programme, check the link in bio.

Reclaiming Data is a collaboration by @dock_digital_berlin , @new__practice , @designandcomputation and @ecommemoration / Körber-Stiftung. Supported by @technologiestiftung and @centerforliterature .

Curated and organized by @jonnybixbongers . Graphic design by @yunkuo__

#ReclaimingData #DigitalArchives #CulturalMemory #CollectiveArchives ArchivalPractice

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Program Update #5: Panel 2 — On Commons, Community Archives & Institutional Practice

What role can cultural institutions play in shaping more open, accountable, and community-oriented forms of digital memory?

Panel 2 of Reclaiming Data focuses on the institutional dimension of digital archives: how collections are stored, accessed, structured, and made visible — and how museums, libraries, cultural platforms, and civic initiatives can respond to the political and technological conditions of today’s data infrastructures.

Together with Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss from @hkw_berlin , Clemens Neudecker from @stabiberlin Staatsbibliothek Berlin, and @li_na_lai_sim from @trust.support, we will discuss how critical perspectives on digital archives can be translated into concrete institutional practice, public infrastructures, and new alliances.
The panel asks how institutions can move beyond preservation alone — toward forms of archiving that support access, accountability, commons, and collective memory.
 Moderated by @annakraher

🗓 13 June 2026 🕝 14:30–16:00 📍 Flutgraben e.V. Am Flutgraben 3 12435 Berlin

Exhibition 🗓 12–21 June 2026 Opening: Friday, 12 June, 17:00

For the full programme, check the link in bio.

Reclaiming Data is a collaboration by @dock_digital_berlin @new__practice @designandcomputation , and @ecommemoration . Supported by @technologiestiftung Berlin and @centerforliterature
 Curated by @jonnybixbongers
Design by @yunkuo.n
#ReclaimingData #DigitalArchives #CommunityArchives Commons CulturalMemory

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Program Update #4: Panel 1 — On Reverse Archaeology and Synthetic Historiography

How can artistic practices intervene in the digital infrastructures through which the past is stored, reconstructed, and reimagined?
Panel 1 of Reclaiming Data brings together @albadri.nora @juan_covelli , and @krft.id — three artistic positions working with archives, datasets, colonial collections, synthetic reconstruction, and the unstable boundary between historical evidence and algorithmic imagination.
Together, the panel asks what happens when missing fragments are generated, when cultural memory becomes data, and when artistic practice turns toward forms of reverse archaeology, speculative reconstruction, and critical reappropriation.

Panel 1: Reverse Archaeology and Synthetic Historicity with Nora Al-Badri, Juan Covelli, and Egor Kraft
🗓 13 June 2026 🕛 12:00–13:30 📍 Flutgraben e.V. Am Flutgraben 3 12435 Berlin

Exhibition 🗓 12–21 June 2026 Opening: Friday, 12 June, 17:00

For the full programme, check the link in bio.

Reclaiming Data is a collaboration by @dock_digital_berlin , @new__practice/ @designandcomputation and @ecommemoration . Supported by @technologiestiftung Berlin and @centerforliterature Burg Hülshoff – Center for Literature. 
Curated by @jonnybixbongers

Design by @yunkuo__
#ReclaimingData #DigitalArchives #GenerativeAI #MediaArt

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Program Update #3: Skill Sharing Sessions + New Venue 
A short update: Due to the safety closure of the TU main building, Reclaiming Data has found a new venue: the symposium and exhibition will now take place at @flutgrabenberlin .

We’re very happy to introduce the three Skill Sharing Sessions accompanying the symposium — small-group, hands-on encounters with the technologies that increasingly shape what we remember. Each session is led by an artist whose practice opens AI, archives, and platform infrastructures to critical and creative scrutiny. 
→ Unreal Data — Real Effects with @mediengruppe_bitnik  A critical and performative session on digital rating practices, online reviews, and how platforms shape our perception of place.
→ AI Sound and Cultural Memory with @allapopp  A hands-on insight into an artistic AI workflow, based on Virtual Tatar Choir and the use of personal and archival recordings of rural Tatar singing.
→ Memory Machines with @mvzmuehlen  A session introducing Will the Revolution Not Be AI Scripted?, an interactive installation working with AI-mediated voices of resistance, archival gaps, and critical fabulation.
The three sessions run in parallel — please choose one when you register. 
🗓 13 June 2026 🕙 10:00–11:30 📍 Flutgraben e.V. Am Flutgraben 3 12435 Berlin
Limited to 15 participants per session. Free admission, registration via Körberstiftung.de and eventbrite, the link is in the bio. 💻 Please bring your own laptop for the Bitnik session.
 Exhibition @flutgrabenberlin  🗓 12–21 June 2026 Opening: Friday, 12 June, 17:00
 For the full programme, check the link in bio.
Reclaiming Data is a collaboration by @dock_digital_berlin , @new__practice, @designandcomputation , and @ecommemoration. Supported by @technologiestiftung Berlin and @centerforliterature – Center for Literature. Curated by @jonnybixbongers .
Design by @yunkuo__
#ReclaimingData #SkillSharing #AIandSociety #DigitalArchives CulturalMemory GenerativeAI DataPolitics Flutgraben BerlinArt

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Program Update #2: Screening + Aftertalk

We are very happy to introduce the next event within the Reclaiming Data series, and it is a great pleasure to present „Afterlives“ by @alsolikelife .

The film is one of Kevin B. Lee’s powerful desktop documentaries, which premiered at @doclisboa.iff last year and was nominated in the New Visions section 2025. The film engages with the historical traces of extremist propaganda and with the efforts of those who confront its violent effects. It asks how we might respond to the violence embedded in such media and how these images remain entangled with structures of power, from colonial legacies to the digital present.

We are also very honored that Prof. Orit Halpern will join Kevin B. Lee for a conversation following the screening. Together, they will open up the film’s questions toward the contemporary data landscape, synthetic image cultures, and the politics of memory today.

Screening: Afterlives by Kevin B. Lee
🗓 12 June 2026
🕢 19:30–21:00

Talk with @alsolikelife and @orithalpern
🕘 21:00–22:00

📍 Alter Lesesaal / New Practice
TU Berlin Main Building
Straße des 17. Juni 135
10623 Berlin

For the full programme, check the links in bio.

Reclaiming Data is a collaboration by @dock_digital_berlin , @new__practice, @designandcomputation and @ecommemoration -Supported by @technologiestiftung , @centerforliterature .
Curated by @jonnybixbongers .

Design by @yunkuo__

#ReclaimingData #DigitalArchives #MediaTheory #VisualCulture TUBerlin BerlinEvents

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