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SOFT ENCOUNTERS
@FLOATING UNIVERSITY
Soft Encounters presents the projects which were developed in the past year.
With topics ranging from land speculation to geological and human agents, plant taxonomy and perceiving with sensors, the exhibition will encompass a diverse collection of collaborative, transdisciplinary works from both artists and scientists.
Join us for evenings of workshops, group discussions, jam and listening sessions and drinks. Admission will be on a donation basis, with all proceeds going to PARALLAX to fund the exhibition and future projects.
PARALLAX LAB at FLOATING UNIVERSITY
14.- 17.10.2021
14th Oct Opening 16:00 - 21:00
15th Oct Conversations 16:00 - 21:00
16th Oct Listening Session & Jam Session 14:00 - 21:00
17th Oct Workshop & Presentation of works 16:00 - 21:00
Detailed program and timetable below.
We would like to invite you to Soft Encounters, a group presentation by PARALLAX taking place from the 14th to the 17th of October at Floating University.
PARALLAX is a Berlin-based, self-organised group that collectively discusses and develops creative projects combining art and science. Stimulating transdisciplinary collaboration through experimentation, presentations and individual feedback, PARALLAX stands for a community that exchanges skills, shares resources, and connects in a respectful and intimate atmosphere.
OPENING NIGHT
AT VORSPIEL CTM x TRANSMEDIALE
PARALLAX team at ACUD MACHT NEU
17.- 18.01.2020
Through live performances, screenings, DJ sets, and many other artistic interventions, this opening event gives a taste of what to expect for the Vorspiel 2020 program. Returning to Mitte’s longest running artist centre, ACUD, the opening will span the venues various spaces including the club, studio, theatre, gallery, and more.
As a prelude to CTM and transmediale festivals, Vorspiel regroups initiatives, collectives, and venues into a city-wide event series: two weeks of exhibitions, performances, interventions, and artist talks that explore artistic intersections of digital culture and society.
The program showcases this year’s participating venues.
Veteranenstraße 21, 10119 Berlin
Website: vorspiel.berlin
NOISE FLOOR
Moritz Zeißner + Martin Haug at ausland
21.02.2020
The search for new noise has set us on an unusual journey investigating where
new noise originates nowadays. Where can we find new oscillations, rhythms,
and sounds?
We are constantly developing new techniques, machines, and networks in the
cyber-human world -– therefore, new processes are conceived, launched, resumed,
cancelled and completed at any given moment in close vicinity of everyone and
everything.
In this performance, Moritz Zeisner and Martin Haug are searching for new noise
by training an artificial neural network on a noise database. They will ask the
neural network to reproduce these noises.
Using the early training output of such an artificial neural network that still
contains some error can be a new approach for humans to discover and learn about
new noise and may guide towards a new perception of music.
Lychenerstraße 60, 10437 Berlin
Website: ausland-berlin.de
INTERFERENCE
Victoria Martinez at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien
06. - 12.02.2020
"Parody by itself is not subversive, and there must be a way to understand what makes certain kinds of parodic repetitions effectively disruptive, truly troubling, and which repetitions become domesticated and recirculated as instruments of cultural hegemony“ – Judith Butler
The connecting link between the shown works is the element of interference, of disturbance. Hegemonial structures will be shown and challenged on formal, semiotic, or activist levels.
The aspect of disturbance – understood as a cultural practice, act, and artistic strategy – serves the purpose of questioning given power structures and asymmetries in different parts of public and social life. The norm is made apparent and put to the test by this act of disturbance wether the frame of action be in the public, in the intimate, in the art frame, or in the fictional room of a utopian reality.
The question remains if a utopian notion automatically requires a closed system and by that becomes exclusive? Can a social system be absolute and if it is, doesn’t this phenomenon describe exactly the vulnerability of democracy?
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Jamila Barakat Milena Bühring Léo Faulhaber Mania Godarzani-Bakhtiari Emrah Gökmen Moritz Haase Joana Heitzer Frank Jimin Hopp Lisa Kaschubat Victoria Martínez Matthias Planitzer Maria Serga Laura Suryani Thedja
Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin
Website: kunstraumkreuzberg.de
PARALLAX GOES RUNDGANG
PARALLAX team at 34C|Rundgang Universität der Künste
12. - 14.07.2019
/ˈparəlaks/ the effect whereby the position or direction of an object appears to differ when viewed from different positions.
In our room, week by week, artistic and scientific perspectives try to grasp one another. On the way, various hybrid expressions were developed; from ideas to rough sketches, from prototypes to almost-finished projects.
In the Rundgang 2019, Parallax Lab will present parts of the on-going research and creative processes.
Come to hear, think, play with the Parallax effect.
Hardenbergstraße 33, 10437 Berlin
Website: interflugs.de | udk-berlin.de
AALE LEUCHTEN NACKT
AT 48 STUNDEN NEUKÖLLN
PARALLAX team at IDA NOWHERE
22. - 24.06.2018
Im Zentrum unserer Exposition steht das Medium Licht. Dieses Medium ermöglicht es uns, Raum und Farben wahrzunehmen. Aber wie lässt sich diese Wahrnehmung durch Reflexion und Projektion beeinflussen? Neben der Auseinandersetzung mit leuchtenden Objekten wollen wir in gesellschaftlichen Kontexten denken. Wie nackt zeigen wir uns in sozialen Netzwerken und was hat das noch mit unserem "echten" Spiegelbild zu tun? Sind unsere Profile nichts anderes als soziale Hologramme?
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Donaustraße 79, 12043 Berlin
Website: ida-nowhere.com
35C3
AT CHAOS COMPUTER CONGRESS
Benjamin Maaß + Manuel Peuckert at Messe Leipzig
27. - 30.12.2018
"One should understand the Chaos Communication Congress as a political action. For five days, hackers and activists appropriate one of the largest venues in the country and do their own thing. All this happens without sponsors and subsidies. [...] The congress is therefore a prime example of the self-organisation of alternative communities. [...] An important event that brings together hackers from technology, media, culture and social movements, promotes their networking and joint projects and thus ultimately strengthens democratic civil society." - Markus Reuter for netzpolitik.org
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Together with the Experimental Stage Project some Parallax participants went to Leipzig and presented their project "Quacking Aspen". The project was mentioned and praised in the closing speech of the congress.
Messe-Allee 1, 04356 Leipzig
Website: ccc.de | xstageproject.com
SHADOW BOUNDARIES
AT 48 STUNDEN NEUKÖLLN
Emma Sokoll + Clara Roca-Sastre at KollektivBar ES
23. - 25.06.2017
The shadow: an image that deprives the object of its dimensionality. A metaphor for the unconscious, the imperfect, the indirect. The possibility of revealing the invisible and understanding the untouchable. At the 48h Neukölln Festival we present performative installations in the framework of Experimental Stage Project, which put our thoughts on reality to the test. Together with the artists Mathilde Schalla, Doro Dorn and Simon Ball.
Pflügerstraße 52, 12047 Berlin
Website: kollektivbar-es.de
