Quoted from CDC blog at transmediale festival: Panels, Sessions, Film Screening – a preview of the program
Everything is visible, everyone is tracked. How will life, work and play change in world rules by algorithms? This year transmediale wrestles with the question under 
the motto “Capture all” from 28 January to 1 February. You can read about the contributions CDC researchers will be making here.
How much space remains in a programmed world for things that cannot be written in a code? Do we have to learn to play with algorithms? Prof. Dr. Mathias Fuchs, Head of the Gamification Lab in the Incubator research project Art and Civic Media, discusses these and other questions with researchers Ned Rossiter and Kristian Lukic on 29 January at 3:30 p.m. In the panel discussion “Calculated Play? Games as a metaphor, medium and method”, game players go up against the algorithm while panelists speculate about how it will end. Critical thoughts about gamification and the quantified-self movement are expressed by a panel that includes Gamification Lab employee Paolo Ruffino. The panel discussion “All Play and no Work: The Quantified Us“ at 3 p.m. on 30 January will also take up the wins and losses in an increasingly gamified world.
At 11 a.m. on 29 January, the researcher Oliver Lerone Schultz (CDC/Common Media Lab) presents the project “Glossary of Subsumption – Collective Edition”. A preliminary presentation entitled “Enclosed Athens Disclosed” will feature results of project work involving a “critical city tour” of Athens in November. The “Athens Enclosures” team will report on the multi-enclosed life of the fictitious laboratory avatar Andrea. Then work continues at 11 a.m. on 1 February in a workshop on the long-term project “Glossary of Subsumption” with the goals of documenting the new era of “integrative power” and “value extraction” in the post-medial age and creating collective ways of theorizing.
The Creative Commons documentary “Preempting Dissent”, based on the book of the same name by Greg Elmer and Andy Opel, will be shown at 8 p.m. on Friday. The film questions the spread of the so-called “Miami model” for monitoring public protests. The follow-up discussion will be directed by Oliver Lerone-Schultz. With his colleague Dr. Clemens Apprich, Oliver Lerone Schultz is also working on the ongoing transmedial project “The Post-Digital Review”, which brings together experts in digital art and culture, politics and research and curators. The session “The Post-Digital Review: Cultural Commons” at 4:30 p.m. on 1 February will take up the question of what contributions art and culture can make to new standards in the post-digital civil society. Dr. Nishant Shah, member of the Institute of Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media (ICAM), will launch the discussion with his presentation.