Entangled Recurrents

Fake news, disinformation, psychological warfare. The modern conceptions of truth and reality are in disarray.Categorical systems that have organized Western culture over the last 200 years, are broken up and eroded. We are confronted with all kinds of new hybrids.Digital communication forces us to look not only at technical protocols but also at protocols of the human mind and nervous system. Over the last 30 years, artists, researchers, and activists, brought together by the Institute of New Cultural Technologies in Vienna, have explored alternative histories of media and the emergent digital (un)consciousness. Their perspectives, seemingly marginal during times of techno-utopianism, are now critical as we are traversing new zones of monsters.

Video by Konrad Becker & Felix Stalder / World Information Institute, 2023

Video (52′) with: Shahidul Allam (IN), SM Amadae (US), Ben Bagdikian(US), Franco “Bifo” Berardi (IT), Paulina Borsook (US), Ian Clark (UK), Loraine Daston (US), Kunda Dixit (NP),Ricardo Dominigues (US), Ulrike Felt (AT), Stephen Graham (UK),Mireille Hildebrandt (BE), Steve Kurtz (US), Bruno Latour (FR), Lydia Liu (US), Evelyn Lubbers (NL), Lata Mani (US), Subcommandante Marcos (MX), Katja Mayer (AT), Arun Metha (IN), Eben Moglen (US), Susanna Monso (ES), Marko Peljhan (SI), Sadie Plant (UK), Sheldon Rampton (US), Arundhati Roy (IN),Rudy Rucker (US), Saskia Sassen (NL), Shudhabarata Sengupta (IN), Michael Taussig (US), John Urry (UK), Francisco Webber (AT), Eyal Weizmann (IL), Peter Lamborn Wilson (US), Steve Wright (UK),Sönke Zehle (DE)

Screening moderated by Ushi Reiter