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Digital Future of Indigenous Languages
 Digital Discourses 2025

With the rapid pace of change in the digital world, Indigenous Languages are at risk of becoming extinct in the near future. How does the current digital landscape shape the future of these languages?

Projects

Gaming © Goethe-Institut Indonesien

Dossier
 Gaming

Games are part of life. People play in order to understand themselves and their environment. Since then, there is computer, it is of course used to play. It gives a new aesthetics and new forms of the game that have evolved.
Retas Budaya © Dominic Julian / Retas Budaya

Project
 Retas Budaya

The Festival connects GLAM institutions (galleries, libraries, archives, museums) to creative minds and tech enthusiasts and results in collaborations and innovations from open cultural data.
Wahyu Setyoningsih Photo: Wahyu Setyoningsih

Project
 Open Data

We’re exploring new ways to build a culture of open data in southeast asia

Artificial Intelligence

Visual artwork created using generative AI technology on the Stable Diffusion XL platform (https://www.stablediffusionai.ai/) with the prompt "Shifting Landscape of the Creative Visual Industry in Indonesia." Generated on Monday, 11 September 2023. © Ingki Rinaldi for Goethe-Institut Indonesia

Artificial Intelligence
The Shifting Landscape of the Creative Visual Industry in Indonesia

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology is making its mark on Indonesia's creative and visual arts industry. Its innovative capabilities are undeniably appealing to users. However, the technology also raises controversies and challenges, particularly regarding its impact on jobs and professional roles.
Whether it is being used for searches or automated content moderation: Artificial intelligence is only as useful as its underlying datasets. Photo (detail): © Adobe

Bias and Error
 When AI is biased

Over the past decade, we have come to spend much of our lives in the digital sphere – a sphere that is increasingly controlled by just a handful of corporations. These companies, unavoidable for most, exert a considerable amount of control over what we can see and say, as well as the types of tools available to us.

Images and Bias
 What Do Normal People Look Like?

What is normal? And what constitutes a normal face? Our brains are constantly analyzing and classifying every face we encounter, and we as people are not alone in this. A whole field of science and technology analyzes these sub-attentive cognitive processes and breaks them down into statistical normalities. Through machine learning, facial recognition is even being used to categorize and predict human behavior.
 
Psychologist Pavla Koucká Photo: © privat

AI and Psychology
 “The Fact That We Gain a Little Does Not Justify the Fact That We Lose a Lot”

Artificial intelligence is like a mother who arranges everything for us, – says psychologist Pavla Koucká. If we are not careful, we will end up like spoiled children – dependent and unable to develop real relationships. How can we make meaningful use of artificial intelligence while continuing to develop as humans?
Older woman with folded hands sitting opposite a robot Photo (detail): picture alliance / BSIP | BSIP

Social Robotics
 Learning How to Live With Robots

When machines become “social” interaction partners, we need to revisit our understanding of sociality. This is a conversation with the philosopher, Johanna Seibt, Aarhus University, who works in the new research area of “robophilosophy”​and launched the biennial conference, which in 2020 took place online from 18 to 21 August.
Could an algorithm write music to rival Bach? The performance “Gödel Escher Bach” at the Barbican Performing Arts Centre in London. Photo (detail): © private

Artificial Intelligence
 The Machine that Unleashes Our Creativity

British mathematician Marcus du Sautoy is convinced that artificial intelligence (AI) can be as creative as humans and might even attain a state of consciousness in future: a discussion on the current creative limitations of AI, its ability to surprise us, and how AI changes the way our species is looking at its own creativity.
Artificial intelligence is by no means as fair or neutral as it may seem. Photo (detail): © Adobe

Artificial Intelligence
 Awful AI

In our modern world, nothing can escape the digital revolution. The way we commute, communicate and consume is controlled by code, and that code is growing increasingly intelligent. But artificial intelligence is by no means as fair or neutral as it may seem.
 

Digital Economy

There are entire exhibitions and galleries dedicated to NFT art, like this one at the Superchief Gallery NFT in New York 2021. Photo (detail): Jens Kalaene © picture alliance / dpa / dpa-Zentralbild

Non-Fungible Tokens
 A Revolution in the Digital Art Market

A blockchain technology is making waves in the art scene. For the first time, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are making it possible to trade digital art just like paintings, sculptures or photographs – and charge equally high prices. We look at what non-fungible tokens are all about and how they can bring in so much money. 

Digital Culture

Illustration: A person with a book in hand points to a picture © Goethe-Institut e. V./Illustration: Tobias Schrank

Word! The Language Column
 The Heart’s Language: Art and Literature

Join ChatGPT in uncovering how the language of art and literature bridges cultures, sparking creativity and connecting hearts worldwide.
An interactive game station in “Roads not Taken”, a special exhibition at the German Historical Museum in Berlin: about thirty different German museums have joined forces in the “museum4punkt0” project to pursue digital approaches to cultural education. Photo (detail): © museum4punkt0/David von Becker

Cultural heritage
 German Museums Go Virtual

In the past, whenever cultural heritage was destroyed by natural disasters or wars, that destruction was irremediable. But it doesn’t have to be that way anymore: here’s how digital technologies can preserve cultural heritage for posterity.

Digital Rights

Meredith Whittaker, the president of Signal Foundation, opens the conference with her keynote speech. © Goethe-Institut Indonesia

Re:publica 2023 in Berlin
 On the Affordances of Technology

Alfredo Putrawidjoyo and Perdana Karim, both researchers from the Center for Digital Society Yogyakarta, speak about their experiences while attending the digital culture conference "re:publica 2023" in Berlin.
Raising Conversations on Online Gender-based Violence © Annisa Adjam

Tech Tales Film Screening
 Raising Conversations on Online Gender-based Violence

As part of the collaboration with EngageMedia for the film screening and discussion, Tech Tales: Digital Rights in Asia-Pacific, which runs 3–4 August 2023, we interview one of the filmmakers, Anissa Adjam.
A small, autonomously driving electric bus at the city railway station. There are a few people waiting at the bus stop. Photo (detail): Rupert Oberhäuser © picture alliance / Rupert Oberhäuser

Self-driving cars
 A Question of Individual Cases?

Who is responsible in an accident involving a self-driving car? A research centre at the University of Würzburg deals with precisely such techno-legal questions.
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