Emanatio Digitalis

Emanatio Digitalis / Communication Design, School of Culture and Design, University of Applied Sciences Berlin - Photo: Marcel Bückner

Emanatio Digitalis

Communication Design, School of Culture and Design, University of Applied Sciences Berlin (DE)

Emanatio Digitalis questions the conditions of closeness, identity, and agency in the age of algorithmic systems. At its core lies the ambivalence of digital innovations: while they create new spaces for participation and creativity, they simultaneously generate uncertainties, loss of control, and new forms of normalization. The presented projects demonstrate how neural interfaces, Artificial Intelligence, and immersive simulations shift our understanding of intimacy, autonomy, and urban life.
In the context of the festival motto PANIC yes/no, the exhibition becomes an experimental field for the possibilities and risks of radical change. What does it mean when digital technologies are not merely tools but co-creators of social processes? How do we respond when change is no longer predictable and uncertainty becomes a fundamental condition?
Emanatio Digitalis invites reflection on a stance located somewhere between fascination and unease. Artistic research here serves as a means to approach panic not as a paralyzing endpoint, but as a productive starting point for new perspectives and greater social responsibility.

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  • Communication Design, School of Culture and Design, University of Applied Sciences Berlin

    The Communication Design program at the University of Applied Sciences Berlin includes an extensive curriculum that ranges from traditional design disciplines to design with future and high technologies and is closely interwoven with Berlin's dynamic tech and media art landscape. The university offers degree programs in the fields of engineering, computer science, business and design and is located in one of the most important historical industrial areas in Europe, the so-called Elektropolis Berlin.

Credits

Curators: Andreas Ingerl & Marcel Bückner | Technical Director: Thomas Kemnitz

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