esc medien kunst labor
WHO IS PLAYING WITH US?
Photo: esc medien kunst labor
Dates
28.9.–8.11.2024
Location
esc medien kunst labor, Graz
Part of
Partner Program
Production specifics
In collaboration with Immerea (Flavia Mazzanti and Manuel Bonell)
A cooperation with ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
A cooperation with ORF musikprotokoll 2024
Supported by EMAP European Media Art Platform
Supported by Ludovico, steirische Landesludothek
A cooperation in the context or steirischen herbst ’24
What is at stake? Who is playing along? The exhibition ranges from play as a creative engagement with the world, playing with reality to forms of propaganda and manipulation. It examines the aesthetic and the playful as the antithesis of instrumental reason.
While the universally valid, the factual, and the real are becoming increasingly difficult to grasp, the illusory and the imaginary are becoming more readily available—“reality” is dematerializing faced with the dominance of the virtual. Finally, artificial intelligence is creating new realities in a materially effective virtuality. These are not only politically, but also psychologically questionable.
Artists: Robin Baumgarten, Nina Botthof, Causa Creations, Adam Harvey, Doris Kuwert, Bernt Lintermann & Florian Hertweg, Johanna Pirker, Christof Ressi, Maria Smigielska & CompMonks
Retrospective
Retrospective