The internet and its infinite possibilities, a digital space which is constantly changing and re-defined. A space for exchange and interaction, an archive and collection of all sorts of material, a stage and a realm that can either be interpreted as utopia or dystopia. TOUCH MY SCREEN presents six different approaches to this medium. They are examining its current phenomena, engaging in online discourses and are creating new forms of artistic expressions. This program is a call for action, an invitation to follow the stream, to analyze the web, identify its mechanisms and players, decipher its codes and most important of all, to reflect about our own position. (Sarah Adam)
Pulsating colors and noise textures flicker on the screen, reflect on our retina and resonate in our eardrums. Patterns and Soundtracks interlace, mutate and morph, and thus confront us with our own perception and personal interpretation. Is this material of an analogue nature or are we following an algorithmic image composition?… >>>
Keywords, codes, and triggers illustrate debates about identity politics and filter bubbles. Karoline Rößlers desktop film documents the exchange of positions via today's digital media. The collection of e-mails, phone calls, Instagram-posts, news articles and YouTube videos shows us an intimate and at the same time distanced relationship revealing helplessness, fear and vulnerability. A digital dialogue between daughter and father interlaced with a more general social conflict and generation gap.… >>>
Lost in the Metaverse between digital threads and virtual Empires. A multicolored rabbit hole into digital realms leads us to underground networks and safe spaces in Kiev and Paris.… >>>
A talk show with multiple personalities in a heated debate about feminism and gender equality. Catherin Schöberls stages a performative cross-examination of attributions and gender roles, in which glitches and snippets present a diverse range of choices. This can, however, only lead to an individual design if we take the freedom to accept one offer, refuse another, to put them together in new ways, or to completely renounce it and create new visions of our own.… >>>
The NEOZOON collective takes us on a new mesmerizing journey through the internet and its platforms, prophets and promises. A found footage film about the Christian idea of life after death.… >>>
NONBINARY is a recording of an Instagram Live Performance. The artist features themself as their avatar applying makeup and visual algorithms to change its form. Simultaneously, the avatar performs a song addressing its non-binary gender identity which doesn't correspond to other’s perception of it. With the performance, the artist creates a new form of representation while questioning it.… >>>