10.06.2019 - 14.06.2019

Law on Trial 2019: Communication Technologies on Trial

Law on Trial is a public engagement event that is run over five consecutive evenings by Birkbeck Law School, with a different theme every year.  Through a series of focused debates we will investigate the implications of the fact that communications technology, which is often used as though it were a public good, is privately…
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03.05.2019

65th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen

ALGO-RHYTHM – a hip hop musical on film by Manu Luksch Friday, 3rd May 17:00, Lichtburg Filmpalast Lichtburg, Oberhausen ALGO-RHYTHM , shot in Dakar with the participation of leading Senegalese musicians, poets and graffiti artists, probes the insidious but comprehensive threats to human rights and agency posed by the rise of the quantification and algorithmic management of daily…
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19.04.2019

Resonance FM: a sonic fiction, emerging from the lived reality of a London under ubiquitous surveillance

Manu Luksch & Mukul Patel: FACELESS – a sonic fiction, emerging from the lived reality of a London under ubiquitous surveillance 22:00-23:00 Friday, 19 April 2019 BAD PUNK, Resonance FM Based on the soundtrack to Manu Luksch’s 2007 CCTV sci-fi FACELESS narrated by Tilda Swinton, Mukul adjusted his composition for radio broadcast. FACELESS was entirely generated by…
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13.04.2019

Anarchivia and ULTRAcinema present: Short Films by Manu Luksch. Mexico City

Manu estará presente en la función: En esta ocasión nos comparte una selección de cortometrajes de manufactura reciente. THIRD QUARTERLY REPORT (excerpt, 10min), The Orchestra of Anxiety  (5min), A New and Exciting Experience (10 min), Make it snow! Make it snow! Make it snow!  (1 min), Mapping CCTV in Whitehall (3min), SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM (10 min), Linking Arms in Repression –…
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11.04.2019

Dreams Rewired: screening at ULTRAcinema, Mexico City

11 de abril 18:00 hrs. DREAMS REWIRED No es un simple ejercicio de retrofuturismo, esta película mira hacia atrás para mirar hacia adelante. Los clips están secuenciados, reformulando algunas de nuestras preocupaciones actuales sobre privacidad y seguridad, pero también certificando cómo el advenimiento de la electricidad realmente marcó el comienzo de la modernidad. La narradora…
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04.03.2019

Words for the Silenced 2019

An evening by Exiled Lit Cafe in partnership with Amnesty International: writing about and from those imprisoned for their words in Egypt, Turkey, the UAE and Saudi Arabia. 3,159 Tweets, a poster/brochure about Ahmed Mansoor, produced by Manu Luksch, Mukul Patel, Jack Wolf, designed by Lorenz Klingebiel, will be launched and available. Doors open at 18:30

25.02.2019 - 08.03.2019

Data Loam: Sometimes Hard, Usually Soft. Angewandte Innovation Laboratory, Vienna

Über die Zukunft der Wissenssysteme und die Stofflichkeit von Information Die KünstlerInnen und WissenschaftlerInnen des Data Loam Projekts erforschen die Vergangenheit und Zukunft von Wissenssystemen und postulieren die dringende Notwendigkeit neue Organisationsformen jenseits der verfestigten Kategorisierungen und Indexierungen zu entwickeln.

30.01.2019 - 01.02.2019

Privacy Salon / Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) conference

Join us for this free event (fr 1 Feb 14:30 Area42, Brussels) with Manu Luksch (artist, OSF Fellow), Dr Paul Bernal (Senior Lecturer in IT, IP and Media Law UEA Law School), and Stefania Milan (Associate Professor of New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam and Associate Professor of Media Innovation at…
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29.01.2019

Entanglement, The Opera. RCA, London

Entanglement: The Opera (a homage to Kurt Weill’s recently found anti-fascist composition, Song of the White Cheese) features PhD students Chang and Dave J playing cello and piano, accompanied by MA student Julia Wolf singing alternatively in German, English, Chinese, Russian and Spanish. Guest speakers include: Manu Luksch, Anat Ben-David, Gerald Nestler, and keynote Dr…
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