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