The exhibition opening "Digital Colonialism - The Dark Side of Progress" will take place on November 5, 2024 at 7 p.m. at the Einstein Center Digital Future. The exhibition will be on site at the ECDF until the end of January and interested parties can register for a viewing by //E-Mail with Friedrich Schmidgall.

In the exhibition at the Einstein Center Digital Future, Berlin University of the Arts students explore, critique, and reflect on the practices of data extraction, surveillance, and neo-colonial power struggles as part of the digital age. The exhibition consists of student-generated AI imagery as well as their designs of “critical machines”. The AI images are based on prompts inspired by the themes and topics discussed in lectures and reflect on how technology can shape our worldview through visual patterns, stereotypes and biases generated by the algorithms. Students have also designed “critical machines” as conceptual rapid prototypes out of inexpensive materials with speculative, imaginary, and satirical functions that critique procedures of digital colonialism in contemporary society.