Nothing seems more difficult than the medial communication of reality. All communication is based on a particular view of the world, a pooling and contextualization of knowledge. Beyond that, it must also follow the transmitting technologies’ own laws, on top of everything else. | With works from Laurie Anderson, Gary Kibbins, Jesse McLean, Andy Weir, Mochu, Tonje Alice Madsen, Karimah Ashadu.

Like book printing, film has not evolved very much technically: Film today is shot on 35 mm just like in the 19th century. | With works from Germaine Dulac, Dwinnel Grant, Morgan Fisher, Shai Heredia, Shumona Goel, Michel Klöfkorn, Eleonore de Montesquiou, Sun Xun, David OReilly.

Karl Marx saw “complete alienation,” the “dehumanization” of people, in the credit system. Capital does not appraise goods or labor to approximate creditworthiness, but humans themselves. Today, algorithms carry out economic categorization of individuals. | With works from Petar Ljubojev, Jesse Drew, Barbara Musil, Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas, Eva Jiricka, Katharina Fiegl, Ralph Kistler, Andrew Norman Wilson. 

Religions are networks that connect people across extreme temporal and spatial distance through a complex system of tradition, text, architecture, ritual, music and image. | With works from Muntean & Rosenblum, Ho Tzu Nyen, Eija-Liisa Ahtila 

BWPWAP, archives were the world’s central reservoirs of knowledge. This program spans the film medium as archive to films about libraries, museums and academies. | With works from Oskar Fischinger, Adrian Brunel, Alain Resnais, Klaus vom Bruch, Elizabeth Price, Christoph Girardet. Mehr lesen.