Teaching Machine. Agitational Films by Harun Farocki and Hartmut Bitomsky from around 1970 (and Other Tasks of Harun Farocki Institut)
In the immediate aftermath of 1968,
Harun Farocki and
Hartmut Bitomsky, two young filmmakers and theorists who had recently been relegated from the German Film and Television school (dffb) in Berlin, embarked on a – short lived – experiment in programmed instruction via film. Their topics were political economy and the language of moving images, and they aimed at educating the future revolutionary subject. The talk will provide an introduction into this lesser known episode of Farocki´s and Bitomsky´s works, and occasionally touch on projects pursued at the Harun Farocki Institut, a platform for research, production and education founded in 2015 in Berlin.
Tom Holert is a writer, curator and artist. In 2015 he co-founded the Harun Farocki Institut in Berlin. From 1992 to 1996 he was editor of
Texte zur Kunst (Cologne), from 1996 to 1999 editor and publisher of
Spex (Cologne). Holert was a professor at the
Merz Academy Stuttgart and is an honorary professor at the
Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna. Alongside his writings on contemporary and late modernist art, Holert (co-) authored books on politics, war, mobility, glamour, and the governmentality of the present. Recent publications include:
Once we were artists: Marion von Osten (ed. With Maria Hlavajova, 2017);
Übergriffe. Zustände und Zuständigkeiten der Gegenwartskunst (2014).
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