As of this legislative period, Anna Kassautzki is the deputy chair of the Committee on Digital Affairs of the Bundestag. In her first speech in the Bundestag, she addressed, amongst other topics, the inherent infrastructural deficits behind IT security vulnerabilities (such as the 0-day vulnerabilities in Log4j). We would very much like to learn from her what strategies she uses in order to improve the power structures and/or framework conditions of digital developments as well as how she understands the shift of power of digital political discourse.

Anna Kassautzki (member of the Bundestag, SPD)

The work of allapopp and Janne Kummer have set standards for years in terms of how the critical use of digital tools can function for the arts. Out of the many digital instruments, artificial intelligence is probably ascribed the greatest power amplification. Using the example of the project The House of Monstress Intelligenzia at HAU – Hebbel am Ufer, they will jointly consider how a queer feminist AI could function, appear and feel.

allapopp & Janne Kummer aka.alaska in collaboration with Luna Nane and Portrait Xo (artists)

The face: nothing is digitally manipulated more regularly, and yet it also serves as a login for more and more electronic devices. FaceApp is one of the most used apps in the world. Every day, Instagram produces hundreds of millions of digitally filtered facial images. The altered face is an enormous market and influences the life of countless human beings. There are tools that empower human beings to create and publish face filters themselves. These applications are closely related to the use of masks and mask masking; that is, they are actually quite close to the core competence of performing artists. In this workshop, participants who already have basic digital knowledge (and who have ideally already worked with graphic programs) will learn how to design, program and publish their own face filters.

Requirements for participation in the workshop are:

• laptop or computer with good internet connection
• headphones
• the possibility to install extra software (Spark AR) on your computer – after registration you will receive an e-mail with installation instructions

Hongwei Tang (Creative Coder, AR Art Director)

Jasmin Grimm, who has been able to provide new impetuses with the NEW NOW festival she curates and who has received a great deal of attention for that, will speak about her experiences with digital curation. Does she see a new curatorial practice emerging here? How do power relationships and processes shift in digital space? What roles do ownership questions play in the production of a digital festival? Jasmin Grimm will provide answers to these and other questions.

Jasmin Grimm (curator)

Susanne Chrudina has been successful in establishing a functional digital infrastructure for the realization of digital formats in the framework of the four national contests that she is responsible for. How has that been possible in an institution like the Berliner Festspiele? She will sketch out the goals she followed and how she was able to realize them in this keynote speech. She will also dare to take a look at the future of the digital accompaniment of festival formats with younger target groups.

Susanne Chrudina (Director of the National Contests at Berliner Festspiele)

You don’t want companies snooping around behind you on the internet? Do you want to be absolutely sure to avoid having artistic works exploited online in questionable contexts? Is your time extremely limited and you don’t have a clue where to begin with all of this? We think it is very important that we protect ourselves against commercial surveillance despite all of this - after all, you do have to start somewhere. In this workshop, we will provide a basic package with the most important tips that can be implemented almost in the blink of an eye. All of them are applicable for your home computer as well as your smartphone.

In English spoken language

Alistair Alexander (Ethical Sustainable Tech Practitioner), Cade Diehm (Designer, Writer and Researcher)

How does the role profile of directors in cultural institutions change when they shift to the digital? What happens with democratic structures and architectures when artistic production moves to the internet? What strategies have proved themselves to be usable over the last two years and what has failed magnificently? These and other questions will be illuminated by people who have also experienced and designed these processes behind the scenes.

With Christian Holtzhauer (director of the theater department, Nationaltheater Mannheim), Annette Kleffel (director of networking and cooperation at the Berlin Technology Foundation) and additional experts

To close out the event, we are offering intensive workshop sessions in which individual digital structures are examined in terms of their internal power structures. Together, we will closely investigate aspects of organizational development as well as the digital-forensic analysis of software and hardware using examples of the practical implementation of the GDPR as orientation. The participants who have registered will be contacted by us in advance in order to incorporate suitable experts as well as possible.

With Gloria Schulz (creative coder, artist), Julian Kamphausen (curator) and additional experts