Truth is hardly making it under an information ecosystem defined by speed, exploitation, opacity and inequality. But journalism is not in danger, it is just happening somewhere else. Eyal Weizman founded Forensic Architecture to test a methodology for analyzing the occupation of Gaza as a crime scene, using buildings as witnesses, satellite data as evidence and models and artificial intelligence as tools for the testing and verification of new hypotheses. This exercise of counter-forensics has been replicated and improved over the years to provide new evidence against official narratives in international human rights courts. It also prompted a new genre of journalistic procedurals and a community of practice that, under the moniker Investigative Commons, seeks to confront the disinformation machine of “counter-factual” neo-fascist groups by socializing the development and deployment of “counter-forensic” evidence. Initiated by Forensic Architecture, FORENSIS and the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), Investigative Commons includes documentary superstar Laura Poitras/Praxis Films, Bellingcat, Mnemonic and HKW, among others.
Month: February 2021
CTM & TM: for refusal 2021 Highlights
The Research Networking Day (RND) is an exchange platform for students and researchers from different graduate and postgraduate programmes traversing the fields of audio, arts, media, design, and related theoretical disciplines. This RND edition will take place in collaboration with Leuphana University, the German Association for Music Business and Music Culture Research (GMM), and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Sisters With Transistors
Morphine x Beirut
Rethinking Music Ecosystems
CTM Cyberia
Studio & CTM Present: CQ5
Arts Formation
MusicMakers Hacklab: Off the Fovea
Apotome
Club Matryoshka
Refuse To Be Human !Mediengruppe Bitnik 
!Mediengruppe Bitnik, Refuse To Be Human, 2021 !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Courtesy of the artists / OPEN BerlinEver wanted to surf the web as a bot? Ever wondered what a bot gets to see online that you don’t? In their latest work, !Mediengruppe Bitnik allows you to become a Yandex bot to find out. The number one search engine in Russia, Yandex uses web crawlers that extensively scrape the web for content for their search engines. Only what the bots see is indexed, for discovery later by users searching on Yandex. Refuse to be Human allows you to install a web extension that changes your browser’s user agent to match that of the Yandex bot, giving you access to what is referred to as the ‘grey web’ – a layer of content only visible to bots, and access to websites and archives usually paywalled. Download the browser extension here Firefox Chrome Produced in collaboration with transmediale and Open.Berlin .!Mediengruppe Bitnik (read – the not Mediengruppe Bitnik) are contemporary artists working on, and with, the Internet. Their practice expands from the digital to physical space, often intentionally applying loss of control to challenge established structures and mechanisms. !Mediengruppe Bitnik’s works formulate fundamental questions concerning contemporary issues. In the past they have been known to subvert surveillance cameras, bug an opera house and broadcast its performances outside, send a parcel containing a camera to Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, and physically glitch a building. Their works have been shown internationally, most recently in exhibitions at CAC Shanghai, LOAF Kyoto, Annka Kultys Gallery London, House of Electronic Arts Basel, Aksioma Ljubljana, Kunsthaus Zurich, FACT Liverpool, Onassis Cultural Center Athens, Public Access Gallery Chicago, Nam June Paik Art Center South Korea, Shanghai Minsheng 21st Century Museum, The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts Moscow, Beijing Contemporary Art Biennial and the Tehran Roaming Biennial.
For Refusal
Marshall McLuhan Lecture 2021
TM & CTM recordings
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