OPEN UP! ENABLING DIVERSE ENCOUNTERS IN MEDIA SPACES
Lecture + Talk Digital Culture Talks & Workshops
Cultural offerings often appeal to the same homogenous audience. Does artistic work with digital means offer an opportunity to reach a wider public, or does it narrow the address further? Vanessa Opoku, Susanne Schuster, and Christine Stender talk about strategies for diverse encounters in hybrid artistic spaces.
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Vanessa Opoku presents her artistic work in museums as well as in theatres. Using mixed reality, she explores history, digitality, and marginalised narratives. In her input, she describes how her background influences and politicises her art.
Susanne Schuster is a curator and dramaturge. With her collective OutOfTheBox, she creates settings in which participants can playfully explore current digital discourse. For „In Skills We Trust“, she had numerous conversations about the promise of access through digital skills.
Christine Stender is a board member of Kulturliste Düsseldorf e.V., an association that enables people with low incomes to participate in the experience of culture. She simultaneously conducts research at Heinrich Heine University on exclusions in culture based on education, income, and social background. In an input, she sheds light on the role of digital cultural offerings.
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ON/LIVE is organised in cooperation with the medienwerk.nrw office. The guest performance of In Skills We Trust as well as the ON/LIVE accompanying programme receive support from Fonds Darstellende Künste, with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. You and A.I. is funded by the NRW KULTURsekretariat and the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.