A look at how our online practices leave a trace and shape our rights. Drawing on the Charter of Digital Rights (2021), the exhibition explores seven key areas with humour and everyday examples. Framed within the Observatory of Digital Rights and curated by Fundación Telefónica and Domestic Data Streamers, the show encourages reflection and debate around the safe, responsible, critical, and creative use of technology.
We accept cookies as if they were freshly baked biscuits, without having the slightest idea of what ingredients they contain. We share photos of our children’s birthdays or family trips as if they were WhatsApp stickers, without knowing where they might end up. We use the same password for our bank account and our grocery app (spoiler: not a good idea). We check a website to see if it’s going to rain, only to give away our data like candy on Halloween.
The exhibition Today Is a Good Day to Discuss Digital Rights seeks to raise awareness about the rights and duties that citizens exercise and develop in the digital sphere. Moreover, the show invites us to keep debating and building a system of guarantees around the digital ecosystem — a kind of ethical guide that helps us understand what digital rights and duties are, what they imply, and the opportunities the technological environment offers citizens.
Framed within the initiative of the Observatory of Digital Rights and curated by Fundación Telefónicatogether with the artistic collective Domestic Data Streamers — which presents six installations —, the exhibition features works by contemporary artists such as United Visual Artists, Eva & Franco Mattes, Paolo Cirio, Noemí Iglesias Barrios, Theresa Reiwer, Hasan Elahi, and Aram Bartholl, among others. Their works challenge visitors, help them understand, and encourage reflection on our actions as digital beings. A much-needed exhibition, it fuels the debate around digital rights and duties, and calls for a safe, responsible, critical, and creative use of technology. Because today is a good day to discuss Digital Rights.
By occupying nearly a third of our waking hours, screens are profoundly reshaping the contours of our relationships with others. In response, numerous journalistic and academic discourses echo concerns about the digital migration of our social lives: the idea frequently arises that the socio-technical systems at work in this migration are making us more resistant to diversity.
Our intention is to nuance this concern by acknowledging a foundational aspect of the internet—its original design to facilitate the virtuous and unprecedented emergence of communities of specific interests, often far more specialized than what our traditional offline social circles can accommodate. This utopia inevitably carries a tension between, on the one hand, the benefits of more efficient and far-reaching sociability, and on the other, the widely discussed risks of a social life limited to alters who are most similar to ourselves.
Curated by Aurélie Clémente-Ruiz, director of the Musée de l’Homme in Paris, and Camille Roth, a researcher at CNRS in social sciences.
With: Nicolas Bailleul, Aram Bartholl, Léa Belloousovitch, Neïl Beloufa, Sophie Calle, Paola Ciarska, Laurent Grasso, Juliette Green, Ben Grosser, Özgür Kar, Béatrice Lartigue, Lauren Lee MacCarthy, Katherine Longly, Randa Maroufi, Magalie Mobetie, Martine Neddam, Philippe Parreno, Françoise Pétrovitch, Valentina Peri, Marilou Poncin, Jeanne Suspuglas
GOGBOT 2025
SCROLL PANIC REPEAT
18-21 september @ ENSCHEDE
festival for art music technology
Join us live-in-studio with season two of the Radio Spaetkauf x Europäische Akademie Berlin podcast collaboration. This year we focus on CULTURE. Each episode features fresh voices and perspectives representing a wide array of backgrounds, expertise and disciplines. Host Daniel Stern is joined by researchers, academics, independent artists, journalists and community leaders with unique insights into our evolving cultural interactions.
September 13th: Museums are more than just buildings that house objects. They are sites of memory, meaning, and power – spaces where stories are told, preserved, and sometimes contested. But who decides what’s worth keeping? And how do museums evolve in response to the cultures and technologies of their time?
As boundaries blur between archive and activism, exhibition and experience, we ask: What is a museum today? And what should it be? Together we explore the shifting roles of museums in shaping public understanding, identity, and imagination.
Guests include:
Michael Soltau – Synthesizer Museum Berlin
Aram Bartholl – Media and concept artist
Lilja-Ruben Vowe – PhD in cultural history, curator and inclusive mediator
Dr. Wenke Wegner – Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation
Host: Dan Stern
The festival brings artistic short films into public space – presented in a mobile, seemingly improvised exhibition object: a transport cart with pneumatic tires, stacked with various boxes, crates and bags, all secured with colorful tension straps. Through peepholes in these containers, passersby can watch the films on hidden tablets or smartphones. The route leads through five locations in the district (Goslaer Platz, Mierendorffplatz, Österreichpark, Schustehruspark, Lietzenseepark). At each stop, the “mini-museum” stays for about one hour. The project is accompanied throughout the day by the two artists and curators Marian Luft and Moritz Frei, who will be present to assist and engage with the audience.
Curated by Marian Luft & Moritz Frei
With:
Iván Argote, Sophia Süßmilch, Björn Melhus, Hansol Kim, Barış Çavuşoğlu, Lorna Mills, Andrew Birk, Peng Li
This exhibition brings together models by artists whose works have been realized in public spaces across the world. These small-scale forms are not mere sketches; they were once proposals, prototypes, and poetic blueprints — early traces now translated into permanent works in the city.
with: Yasmin Alt, Aram Barthol, Jessica Buhlman, Moritz Frei, Gfeller Hellsgard, Andrea Pichl, Alona Rodeh, Andrea Zaumseil, Joshua Zielinski
curated by: Jay Gard
This piece of carpet in front of my studio (classic berlin style) reminded me of a great loss. For 2nd City – Ars Electronica I planned a really big carpet covering whole Marienstrasse in Linz. Unfortunately city authorities didn’t allow us to realize this important element of 2nd City. Just imagine this carpet covering the street completely. Next time! 🙂
Chat documentation completed!
The Chat project is a mobile performance installation that can be played by two people at a time. Just like in World of Warcraft or Second Life, the two participants communicate with each other in the form of brief text messages input via keyboard. Immediately after they’ve been entered, the written communiqués appear in comic-strip-like dialogue balloons projected above the speaker’s head.
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Robin Harper blogged some pics of 2nd City – Ars Electronica on the Linden Labs blog. I would like to share two fotos showing here phoning from RL into SL in Peter Harlanders phone booth at 2nd City.
Thanks for your visit and talk at 2nd City – Ars Eletronica, Robin!
We had a lot of fun at 2nd City. Jan is a must have entertainer for SL related events. 🙂
Spontanious fight at 2nd City Ars Electronica on Monday 10.9.2007. Finally Yuichiro had an opponent.
Wow, Ars Electronica 2007 is over. I am finally back in Berlin working on upcoming stuff and Ars documentation. More movies and pics to come as soon as I sorted and edited all the material. I really had a good time at Ars. It was a lot of work and unfortunately I had very little time to talk to everybody, sorry. Next year I’ll be a plain visitor 🙂
Beside the hundreds of panels and lectures during Ars Electronica here all Second Life related talks:
Main Panel Sa. 7 pm at Kunstuniversität Linz / K2 (Audimax)
Everything you ever wanted to know about Second Life
about the impact of Second Life onto future developments of digital communities.
Paricipants:
Robin Harper (Vice-president of Lindenlab, Community Development, US),
Aram Bartoll (Artist, DE),
Drew Harry (Sociable Media Group, MIT Medialab, US),
Andreas Lange (Scientist, DE)
Eva & Franco Mattes (Artist, IT/US) a.k.a. 0100101110101101.ORG
Talks and guided tours in Second Life
at Second City Shop Marienstrasse 4:
Do. 6.9.07 – Architecture
2 pm “New Berlin” Jan Northoff & Tobias Neiseke”
4 pm Production of Architecture” Tor Lindstrand
Fr. 7.9.07 – Metaverse
2 pm “History of Metaverse” Andreas Lange
4 pm “World of Warcraft” Joichi Ito
Sa. 8.9.07 – Art
5 pm “Synthetic performances” Eva & Franco Mattes a.k.a. 0100101110101101.ORG
Su. 9.9.07 – Business
2 pm “Marketing in Second Life: A Sightseeing Tour” Peter Harlander
Mo. 10.9.07 – Culture
2 pm “Nekos, Furrys and more” Jürgen Höbarth
4 pm Orkan Telhan, Dietmar Offenhuber
Panel discussion at Mobiles Ö1 Atelier / Hauptplatz
Fr 7.9. 6 pm
“Public Space – Virtual Space”, How does digital media / virtual worlds affect public city space and architecture?
Mirjam Struppek (Urban Media Researcher, DE)
Tor Lindstrand (Production of Architecture, SE)
Jan Northoff (Co-founder of NewBerlin in Second Life, DE)
Aram Bartholl (Artist, DE)
su 9.9 15 pm
“Second Life as a Mirror of Society” What can we learn from social phenonemon in Metaverses for Society in Real Life?
Daphne Dragona (Independent New Media Arts Curator, GR)
UlrichGötz (Game Design Zurich University of Arts, DE)
Stephan Dösinger (Concept Architect, DE)
Aram Bartholl (Artist, DE)
Looking forward to see you at Roter Krebs during Ars. The most important place during the festival 😉
This is my new monotheistic note book sticker which doesn’t accept any other stickers next to it. 😉
I posted already serveral times about the Tree project. Finally this project will be produced by Ars Electronica 07 for 2nd City Marienstrasse. And it’s going to be not just one Second Life tree but a small forest 🙂 , 4-5 trees (less than in the image) will rezz on a empty space in Marienstrasse.
