Ausstellung: Digital Decoding – Digitality as Subject and Method

"Digital Decoding" is a collaborative research-driven exhibition by five female artists and designers from sound, object and textile design investigating how digital technologies both conceal and reveal the material realities, labour and power structures they depend upon. Through approaches spanning AI voice recognition, human–machine co-creation, virtual environments, heritage craft and digital infrastructures, the project asks: How can artistic research with digital technologies expose the hidden materialities, practices and biases that digitality itself obscures?

The practices of all five involved artists involve a strong focus on exposing the human perspectives behind digital and technological advances and tools. With each bringing in their personal approaches as artists, designers and craftspeople, the exhibition will give access to important, diverse and still widely underrepresented topics such as biases in AI, craft materiality and heritage in a digitalised world and human-machine interactions. Through experimental, playful and tangible explorations the artists demonstrate how artistic research can make a difference in bridging the wide gap between a society which is fully immersed in digitality, whilst at the same time lacks the invitation and information required for true inclusion and digital sovereignty.

The exhibition is funded by the ECDF Gender and Diversity Network. The opening vernissage will take place on April 14, 2026, from 6pm to 10 pm. The exhibition can then be visited until April 21, 2026, 8 pm. 

Artists:

Andra Kryeziu (Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin)
Joana Schmitz (Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin)
Nayeli Vega Vargas (Universität der Künste Berlin)
Julia Wolf (Universität der Künste Berlin)
Emma Wood (Universität der Künste Berlin)