Netz Werke

re:publica Campus Neukölln, Berlin, Germany
Curator: re:publica Campus, synthesis gallery
Artists: Margarete Jahrmann and Stefan Glasauer, Piet Schmidt, UDK study programme 'Communication in Social and Economic Contexts', Nadine Kolodziey, Jens Isensee, Birk Schmithuesen, Rebecca Meyer and Lisa Michelle Ottaku, Patrick Senwicki, Hsiao Li-Chi, Stefan Reiss, Jens Isensee, Ulrich Formann, Hannah Neckel, Jens Isensee, Marc Lee, Kilian Hanappi, Clusterduck, China Academy of Art Hangzhou and the Tama Art University Tokyo and the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Juli Hart, Ulrich Formann
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Screenshot COVID-19

Netz Werke – An Exhibition on Life on the Net
From 6 September to 4 October, 2020, we will be presenting the interactive exhibition "Netz Werke" at re:publica Campus in Berlin-Neukölln (Ziegrastraße 1, 12057 Berlin).

Here nothing is as it seems. Cardboard boxes are rattling, a robotic arm holds a mirror in front of your face, a video camera sends silent messages and a lot of things that at first seem analogue and motionless to you will open up another digital world instead.

re:publica Campus is a month-long festival addressing the digital society’s most important issues, with as many different interested parties as possible, and a free digital fair open to anyone. The festival highlights the social, cultural, and technical changes brought by digitization, addresses current topics and challenges, and thus makes complex subjects tangible for everyone.

For the occasion, synthesis gallery is pleased to present Marc Lee’s live streaming (Corona) TV Bot. In Lee’s most recent work in response to the coronavirus pandemic, the latest Twitter and YouTube posts tagged with #COVID-19 and #Coronavirus are mediated in a wild continuous (24/7) feed TV show. This feed features content – images, videos, and tweets – from traditional broadcast sources as well as social media content from private individuals flickering across the screen in real time.

While, as users of social networks, we typically only ever see variants of our own opinions mirrored back to us on social media, TV Bot (an ongoing project by the artist since 2004) is intended to confront us with views beyond the bounds of these echo-chambers, due to it universally picking up all searched for hashtag posts on a non-critical basis. TV Bot is a flexible platform in which the viewer can replace the current key words with different key words as they wish to create their own online art TV show, according to their own preferences and share it with others.

Exhibited Artwork

New Media Art Reflects the Coronavirus Pandemic, 24/7 Online

Interactive Net-Based Installation

Corona TV Bot The Corona TV Bot thematises and reflects the Coronavirus Pandemic through social media contributions. On hashtags like Coronavirus and COVID-19, the latest Twitter and YouTube news are interwoven into a wild TV show, 24/7 online. Images, tweets and videos flicker across the screen in real time in this net art project. Time-based resources that combine both worldwide professional more …

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