Research and Exhibition Project
April - September 2021

Website: https://netzkunst.berlin/cc/

With: Tania Aedo, Alexander Amberger, Clemens Apprich, Christian Booß, BRUSDA (a.k.a Tsao Yidi), Ingrid Burrington, Annet Dekker / Gaia Tedone / Marialaura Ghidini, Helen DeWitt, Constant Dullaart, Wolfgang Ernst, Matthew Fuller, Helena Huber-Doudova, Francis Hunger, Lisa Jevbratt, Roland Kayn, Susanne König, Maroš Krivý, Katharina Loeber, David Maulen de los Reyes, Mongrel, Felix Maschewski / Anna-Verena Nosthoff, Oleksiy Radynski, Martina Raponi, Birgit Schneider, Andreas Siekmann, Oliver Sukrow, Martin Supper, Suzanne Treister, UBERMORGEN, Clemens Weise, Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, Anna Zett

Exhibition: Situating Cybernetics / Kybernetik Verorten
https://netzkunst.berlin/cc/e
30/04 - 09/05/2021
To visit the exhibition join our online tours everyday, 12.00, 15.00, 18.00h

or visit the online exhibition: https://cc.common.garden/

Location: Haus der Statistik, Haus A, Karl-Marx-Allee 1, 10178 Berlin & online

Exhibited works:
- Francis Hunger: Statistische Hypnagogie (2021); Cast Iron, Brass, Steel (2015)
- Lisa Jevbratt: 1:1 (2) (1999-2002)
- Roland Kayn: Cybernetic I (1966-68); Ektropie R.O.T. (1973-75); Simultan (1970-72)
- Mongrel (in collaboration with Matthew Fuller): Natural Selection (1997 -1999); Natural Heritage (1997 -1999)
- Oleksiy Radynski: Facade Color: Blue (2019)
- Andreas Siekmann: Faustpfand, Treuhand, and the Invisible Hand: Theatrum mundi oeconomicum - Stationen eines Marktmechanismus (2005-2008)
- Suzanne Treister: Hexen 2.0 (2009-2011)
- Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt: Wörter Serie (mid 1970s); Vergangen gegenwärtig zukünftig (1974); Hommage á Shannon (1972); Betonierung (mid 1970s); Untitled (Concrete Architecture) (late 1970s)
- Zentrum für Netzkunst, Research: Kybernet (2021); Kerblochkarten (2021)

Symposium: Between Techno-­Euphoria and Regimes of Surveillance / Zwischen Technikeuphorie und Überwachungsregime
https://netzkunst.berlin/cc/s
01/05 - 03/05/2021
online

• Day One: 1 May 2021
Input: Orte der sozialistischen Technikeuphorie / Places of socialist techno-euphoria

13:00 ‒ 14:00
Zentrum für Netzkunst: Introduction / Einführung (DE/EN)
14:00 ‒ 16:00
Susanne König: Statistik, Mathematik und Kommunismus. Bildprogramme am Haus der Statistik (DE)
16:00 ‒ 18:00
Oliver Sukrow: Putting Cybernetics in its Place: Kybertektur in der DDR im internationalen Vergleich (DE)

• Day Two: 2 May 2021
Kybernetik und Data / Cybernetics and Data

10:00 ‒ 12:00
Katharina Loeber: Kybernetik, Sozialismus und Postkolonialismus: Das Projekt Cybersyn (DE)
14:00 ‒ 16:00
Francis Hunger: Kybernetik war nicht alles — Die langen Ketten bürokratischer Praktiken im DDR Sozialismus (DE)
16:00 ‒ 18:00
Clemens Apprich: Collaborative Filtering — eine Idee früher Netzkulturen (DE)
18:00 ‒ 20:00
Anna-Verena Nosthoff und Felix Maschewski: Vom digitalen „Verschwinden“: Wearables und der kybernetische Kapitalismus (DE)
20:00 ‒ 21:30
Oleksiy Radynski: Is Data the New Gas? (EN)

• Day Three: 3 May 2021
Output: Calculating Canons

14:00 ‒ 16:00
Matthew Fuller: To Surveille is to Produce? On some Paradoxical Aspects of Computational and Other Surveillance Techniques (EN)
16:00 ‒ 18:00
Zentrum für Netzkunst: Netzkunst im Kontext der Netzwerkgesellschaft — Steuerung, Datenverarbeitung und Überwachung (DE)
18:00 ‒ 20:00
Annet Dekker, Gaia Tedone and Marialaura Ghidini: The Broken Timeline (EN)

Unconference: Embodied Cybernetics in Everyday Life (Mimetics, Empathy, and Hacking)
https://netzkunst.berlin/cc/u
21/05/2021 - 23/05/2021

Online

Taking up the cybernetic logic of self-regulating systems, the unconference is a collective, collaborative, interdisciplinary, and multi-perspectival summit that aims to produce embodied knowledge about statistics in their larger contexts and ties to everyday life. With experimental formats, we encourage dynamic exchange between bodies and things, ideas and places, practices and theories.

To participate in the unconference, please register by sending an email to 
paloma@netzkunst.berlin

Journal: Accuracy and Obsession / Akribie und Obsession
https://netzkunst.berlin/cc/j
10/05 - 01/07/2021

Cybernetic control is achieved through accuracy, meticulousness, and a constant striving for perfection. Social processes are broken down into manageable parts, measured, and evaluated in order to regulate them through targeted readjustment. The authors of the online journal examine concrete practices, technologies, and materials of cybernetic control. The essays will be published on the project website from May to July.

Duo Exhibition: Constant Dullaart & UBERMORGEN
https://netzkunst.berlin/cc/e?tags=date_2021_09_18
panke.gallery
18/09 - 03/10/2021

Concept and Curating: Tereza Havlíková, Paloma Oliveira, Anneliese Ostertag, Tabea Rossol, Sakrowski

Research, Graphic Concept, Design: Anna-Luise Lorenz
Programming: Jakub Fiala
Exhibition Architecture: Omer Polak, Cäcilia Verweyen
Symposium Assistance: Noemi Garay
Editing and Translation: Colin Lang
Sound Recording: Jürg Meister
Documentation: Hannah Rumstedt, Alexia Manzano Schlamp

Supported by Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin, Haus der Statistik, panke.gallery