Emergent Digital Media

events

  • Decoherence – The aesthetics and politics of quantum technologies

    Tommaso Callarco (physi­cist), Dietmar Dath (author), Eveliina Domnitch (artist) and Dmitry Gelfand (artist), Libby Heaney (artist), Elham Kashefi (physi­cist), Armin Linke (artist), Volker Möllenhoff (artist), Tomás Saraceno (artist), Carly Whitefield (cura­tor), Günseli Yalcinkaya (artist). Decoherence is the process where a quan­tum sys­tem los­es its super­po­si­tion, often due to inter­ac­tion with the sur­round­ing envi­ron­ment for instance…

  • Robotron, Comrade Sun and Artists & Agents – Exhibiting Media Art

    Robotron, Comrade Sun and Artists & Agents – Exhibiting Media Art

    Inke Arns, cura­tor Talk and Q+A The cura­tor Inke Arns is a cen­tral fig­ure for the exhi­bi­tion of media art in Germany. She com­bines media art with the con­cept of max­i­mum con­tem­po­rane­ity. She is direc­tor of the HMKV Hartware MedienKunstVerein, one of the few art asso­ci­a­tions in Germany to offer the know-how and infra­struc­ture to…

  • Diploma degrees 2026 of the class for Emergent Digital Media

    Opening Thu, Feb 05, 2026, 6pm Exhibition hours: Fri, Mon, Tue 2–8pm / Sat, Sun 12am–8pm Vincent Entekhabi: Closed Circle Installation (2x3x2m), 2‑channel video, 10′04″, loop Venue: Aula E.EG_15https://vincent.entekhabi.at The instal­la­tionClosed Circle by Vincent Entekhabi explores how forms of open­ness and decen­tral­iza­tion, often for­mu­lat­ed as promis­es of eco­nom­ic free­dom, can tran­si­tion into total­i­ty. It por­trays…

  • Algorithm, Image, Art

    Algorithm, Image, Art

    Tue, Dec 2, 2025, 16.30–18.00 at Emergent Digital Media class, AdBK, New Building, room E.O3.26 In this talk, Rosemary Lee will present the cen­tral themes of her research on the inte­gra­tion of machine learn­ing in artis­tic prac­tice, draw­ing from her book “Algorithm, Image, Art” (2024) as well as her own explo­rations in recent projects “A…

  • Baruch Gottlieb: Most Human Condition

    Baruch Gottlieb: Most Human Condition

    Oct 14, 2025, 7pm at AdBK Munich, room E.EG.0.28 Bringing togeth­er an array of ref­er­ences from eco-fem­i­nism to technophi­los­o­phy, from his­tor­i­cal mate­ri­al­ism to con­tem­po­rary art, I will affirm the imper­a­tive of inter­na­tion­al inter­sec­tion­al strug­gle and sol­i­dar­i­ty which has per­sist­ed through the his­to­ry of tech­no­log­i­cal and sci­en­tif­ic advance. Post-indus­tri­al soci­ety is real­ly most-indus-tri­al soci­ety, post-moder­ni­ty is…

  • Why do people hate mirror dwellers?

    Why do people hate mirror dwellers?

    Exhibition, July 26–31, 2025, Aula, AdBK Munich, Akademiestraße 2–4, 80799 Munich Dwelling (v.) is liv­ing in a spe­cif­ic place. In tech­nics, dwelling is the reg­u­lar­i­ty of paus­ing slight­ly with­in mechan­i­cal motion. This year’s con­tri­bu­tion of the Emergent Digital Media class to the annu­al AdBK Munich exhi­bi­tion refers to ‘mir­ror dwellers’, a term used in vir­tu­al…

  • Art in the Age of Average. The new AI-thoritarians.

    Art in the Age of Average. The new AI-thoritarians.

    ConferenceTue, June 3, 17.30–21 and Wed, June 4, 12–19 at AdBK Munich, Akademiestraße 2, Central Lecture Hall, free admis­sion With: Gregory Chatonsky, Simon Denny, Navine G. Dossos, !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Mat Dryhurst, Constant Dullaart, Antonio Somaini – Recording of the event in July/August on www.carrier-bag.net – There is a strange dis­con­nect in tech’s recent effects on…

  • Diploma Johannes Kiel

    Diploma Johannes Kiel

    AdBK München, room A.U1.12 (cel­lar)Opening: 6.2.2025 7 pmOpen: Fri, Mon, Tue 2 — 8 pm; Sat, Sun 12am — 8pmURL: https://virus.johanneskiel.de Viral Infection: Lysogenic Data Cycle Viral Infection, a web-con­nect­ed inter­ac­tive robot­ics instal­la­tion, exam­ines the repro­duc­tive behav­iour of dig­i­tal frag­ments on the verge of embod­i­ment. Johannes Kiel explores how tech­nol­o­gy and auto­mat­ed algo­rithms affect the…

  • Dronomation

    Dronomation

    Post-Civil Drones and Artificial ‚Intelligence‘ in War Zones December 3, 2024, on-line, 12.00–20.00 CET Video doc­u­men­ta­tion and texts are here: https://carrier-bag.net/focus/dronomation/ The one-day online con­fer­ence looks to present con­tem­po­rary cri­tiques of drone-tech­nolo­gies, their scop­ic regimes and increas­ing reliance on so-called AI sys­tems. Instead of fetishis­ing the pre­sumed auton­o­my of these weapons, this con­fer­ence looks at…

  • If AI was the answer what was the question, again?

    If AI was the answer what was the question, again?

    Conference on Tue, Nov 5, 09–18 at AdBK Munich, Akademiestraße 2, Main Building, Central Lecture Hall, free admis­sion With: Elisa Giardina Papa, Orit Halpern, Francis Hunger, Vladan Joler, & Evelyn Kreutzer, Kevin B. Lee, RYBN, Felix Stalder, Hito Steyerl Video record­ings and texts here: https://carrier-bag.net/focus/ai-answer-question/ The polit­i­cal econ­o­my of AI impacts on both its gen­er­a­tive…