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The Future of Demonstration

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VERMÖGEN | Season 1

31.10. - 11.11.2017

The Future of Demonstration is an art festival that engages with the transformation towards post-global ecologies and societies by exploring the notion of demonstration with its technological, political, pedagogical and aesthetic capacities. Initiated and curated by Sylvia Eckermann, Gerald Nestler and Maximilian Thoman, this post-disciplinary art series is the new edition of the City of Vienna’s official media art festival.

Algorithmic automation informs almost every realm of life today. Our reality increasingly coincides with data-driven models applied to anticipate, simulate and escalate that reality. The language of power shifts from representational to performative speech. Consequently, the criteria for critique shift from voicing judgment and dissent to the real-time evaluations that facilitate the production of reality from contingent future scenarios under the non-condition of hypervolatile capitalism – a world engulfed in information asymmetries and warfare.

The Future of Demonstration opposes these comprehensive models of competitive simulation by probing current potentials of counter-fiction. Its leitmotifs VERMÖGEN 2017 and PASSION 2018 evoke the powers of imagination and narration by forging and reorienting narratives, techniques, and affiliations of resistance.

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