In a society ruled by algorithms, data is always at play. The drive towards the quantification of everything means that we are all contributing to a state of permanent capture of life into data. As citizens, workers and players of the networks we (often involuntarily) double as sensors for bodies of global data collection, working for the potential extraction of value everywhere and increasing the productivity of everyday life.

Open Call for Works transmediale 2015

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Bringing technology into discourse with natural history, Martin Howse and Rosemary Lee will lead a guided walk through the Museum fur Naturkunde Berlin. Discussing themes such as mining, post-humanity, media geology, and ecology in relation to the collections of the museum, they invite new interpretations of the earth's materiality, the deep past, and humans' relation to it.  | 12 July 2014, 14:00-17:00, Museum für Naturkunde, Invalidenstraße 43, 10115 Berlin | Read full post.

On 4 May 2014, 15:00, the artist Pinar Yoldas will talk about current findings of scientific research on biofilms with microbiologist Regine Hengge against the background of her exhibition An Ecosystem of Excess.. Moderated by the art historian Ingeborg Reichle, they will discuss the future development of our marine ecosystems which are polluted by plastic garbarge. Read full post.