Festival Direction & Program Direction

NODE Forum for Digital Arts 2015 Wrapped in Code - the Future of the informed Body

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Task: Festival Direction & Program. The 4th edition of our Frankfurt based biannual design and technology festival was dedicated to the negotiation of the human body throughout current technological developments and how this is being expressed in our present projects; utopias; and fictions.


Design is focussed on the creation of intelligent surroundings which free us from the necessity of physical effort. Critical tasks such as health and mental care are being undertaken by robots while wars are being fought by remotely controlled drones. Roles formerly performed by human beings have undergone a process of disembodiment. We have reached a critical point and have to wonder if this process has started to run independently from actual human needs and nature. And in fact, we find spheres in which the human body slowly reclaims the attention it deserves.

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The festival addressed the relation of flesh and consciousness in the interdependent evolution of humankind and technology. We discussed the processes of embodiment; the integral role of the body in perception and interaction; as location of implicit knowledge; and as a tool we constantly try to extend and optimize. NODE15 invited artists and projects that investigate how these processes shape our perception and consciousness; how they alter communication and interaction with humans or machines.

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Excerp of exhibiting artists

Aram Bartholl, Antoni Rayzhekov & Katharina Köller, BeAnotherLab, Carolin Liebl & Nikolas Schmid-Pfähler, Chris Sugrue, Depart, Georg Scherlin & Amir Bastan, Golan Levin, Gregor Woschitz, Herwig Turk, IOCOSE, Jeremy Bailey, Jörg Brinkmann, Lauren McCarthy & Kyle McDonald, Lisa Bergmann, PanGenerator, Schnellebuntebilder & Kling Klang Klong, Simon Renaud & Véronique Pêcheux, Stefan Tiefengraber, Susanna Hertrich, Woeishi Lean & Quadrature, Davide Quayola ... and many more.

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Symposium

The Invisible Interface and the Future of Politics and Power with Kyle McDonald, Anna Biselli, Matthieu Cherubini.

Wearables, Prosthetics and the Future of Fashion with Verena Kuni, Zack Freedman, Hannah Perner-Wilson, Janine Häberle

Virtual Realities & the Future of Interaction Design with Mirco Becker, Mark Farid, Pedro Lopes, Mark Lukas

Repetitive Beats, Repetitive Conditionals & the Future of Dance and Music Making with Peter Kirn, Robert Henke, Gregor Schwellenbach, Sam Aaron

See all lectures on our Vimeo page

Festival Direction
David Brüll

Creative Direction
David Brüll

Curation & Program
David Brüll, Jeanne Charlotte Vogt, Alexandra Waligorski, Sebastian Oschatz, Joreg, Rosi Grillmair See details here




Interviews and Documentation

We took a lot of interviews and documentation material. Here is only a compilation of them. Find the complete list here.