Media and Digital Culture

Alternative Futures

The impact of digital media on civic engagement is a subject of debate. Alternative Futures aims to foster forward-looking discourse on digital platform design and governance, promoting collaboration between German and Indian civil society institutions and researchers for enhanced civic engagement.

Chain Unchained

Chain Unchained is a regional initiative that brings together practitioners and experts from India and Germany from the arts and creative and technological industries. The project intends to take a closer look at the issues surrounding web3 and NFTs in order to better understand the opportunities, possibilities and risks involved.

ReverseForward

ReverseForward was a GameLab that brought diverse people, skill sets, and perspectives together to discuss and critique the role of colonialism and its impact on contemporary societies. The key thematics of the lab were reimagining decolonial praxis in culture producers - both institutions and individuals, the role of play and narrative strategies, and social game design.

The role of media and journalism
Between the Lines

Discover the many facets of media and journalism in India which have changed and developed dramatically over the last 25 years, as a result of digitization, economic boom & the evolving needs of a new, urban-oriented middle class.

Picture Palace
A portrait of the versatile and exceptional actor Sandra Hüller

She has gained international recognition in recent years and is one of Germany’s most celebrated female actors. In just one year, she embodied three radically different characters on screen and is now nominated for an Oscar for her role in Anatomy of a Fall.

Robots and Popular Culture
A Whisper from My Ghost°

Through novels, films, and television series robots have been capturing public imagination through a variety of media. While many popular examples draw from the twentieth century, the current fascination with robots and machines has a longer history.

Oscars 2023
“All Quiet on the Western Front” – except at this year’s Oscars

A German picture picked up four gold statuettes at this year’s Academy Awards ceremony. And with that, Edward Berger’s “All Quiet on the Western Front” (Im Westen nichts Neues) has made film history.

LGBTQI+
“Queer Cinema belongs to the mainstream here”

Monika Treut is considered to be one of the pioneers of Queer Cinema. In this interview the film director and producer talks about positive developments in western societies, repressive trends and things that aren’t quite running as they should. 

Young German Cinema
Changing Germany’s image

A young generation of directors is taking German cinema in a new direction with intercultural perspectives, unusual narratives, and novel aesthetic approaches.

Inclusion through Technology
The Freedom of Virtual Worlds

Formats like virtual reality, the metaverse, or 3D animation can allow people with disabilities to walk, express themselves, or move. Uruguayan artist Fabián Barros experiments with virtual environments and talks about how technology can fuel inclusion.

Disinformation
Hunting Down Fake News

In the worst case, targeted disinformation can become a real and present threat to our democracy. A number of initiatives in Germany have responded by taking on the mission of fact checking information on the net. 

Home Office
The Hybrid Generation

It isn’t just the big international tech corporations who are holding heated discussions about staff returning to the office in summer 2022. Plenty of employees would like to remain at home in Germany too: what makes the home office so attractive?
 

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.

Humanoide Robots
“Tengai Assesses Everyone the Same Way”

How do you completely eliminate bias in recruiting situations? With robots - claims software developer Vanja Tufvesson. She has founded an NGO, which organizes Coding Camps for women-identifying people, and has worked on the development on the world’s first unbiased robot.

Aesthetics and Technology
How Pop Culture Determines the Look of the Future

Humanoid robots, whether compliant or anarchic, are products of our pop culture: Metropolis, Star Wars, Jane Fonda and Missy Elliot, all of them design the futurisms of new technology and their aesthetics. Nowadays, they predict the look of the future dialectically with robotics.
 

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