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"Image Interference" deals with documentary film in its function as a critical practice; documentary film has never been merely a sober representation of reality, but today it intervenes with new vehemence in socio-political discourses and opens up an independent, aesthetic space for reflection with moving images, sounds and language...

Organisation: Jakob Claus & Felix Hasebrink

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The lecture series explores current perspectives and interdisciplinary theories on visual power relations. In the winter semester 2023/24, Linda Hentschel, Lisa Deml and Anja Dreschke are invited to present and discuss their research and work on questions of visual language, gaze regimes and power relations in contemporary media contexts.

Organisation: Marie Sophie Beckmann, Jakob Claus, Friederike Nastold

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International workshop at the House of Media Art

25 - 27 May 2023, Haus für Medienkunst
Seeking to open and expand the rich repertoire of meanings of Gómez-Barris's concept-and focusing on its generative potential by slightly altering its terminology-the artistic and scholarly contributions of the workshop probe the transformative potentials of operating and perceiving from below, especially in times of political and ecological crisis: Can submerging be turned into an aesthetic strategy? What role do imaging media and technologies play in the visualisation of the submerged? To what extent are forms of representation or supposedly evident spatial, temporal, and historical orders called into question? How does it relate to the underground in its many geological-material and symbolic meanings? And what happens if we take seriously the processes of gathering and evolving inherent in the term submerging? In other words: What emerges in submersion?

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Concept and organisation: Marie Sophie Beckmann & Petra Löffler in collaboration with: Jakob Claus

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Part 2 - Workshop on the activation of colonial image collections

organised by Petra Löffler

14.04.2023

In the second workshop on the activation of colonial image collections, questions such as how the potentials and possibilities of media change (remediation) can be described in relation to the decolonisation of photographic collections will be addressed. What potential does remediation offer for the indexing and critical processing of photographic colonial archives? Can historical forms of knowledge production and their media formats (e.g. notebooks, reports, photographs, classifications, etc.) be critically scrutinised with the help of format changes? To what extent do strategies of digital curating and exhibiting lend themselves to this?

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Workshop on the activation of colonial image collections

organised by Petra Löffler

02.03.2023

The first workshop on the activation of colonial image collections will focus on questions of access: Which dimensions of access to photographic images as scientific objects can be negotiated on the basis of photographs taken during colonial ethnographic expeditions? Which forms of circulation (publication, archiving, digitisation) play a central role in this context and what possibilities does the digitisation of photographic collections offer with regard to the restitution and decolonisation of ethnographic collections and archives?

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