Multitasking Symposium, Berlin

Multitasking
Synchronicity as a cultural practice


Exhibition: 1 September - 7 October 2007, daily 12-18.30 h
Opening: Friday, 31 August 2007, 19 h

Symposium: Friday, 5 and Saturday, 6 October 2007


The Multitasking exhibition presents contemporary artistic positions which focus on the cultural practice of simultaneous activity and reception. Attention will focus on the issue of the social, technological and emotional consequences of increased speed and density of information.

The synchronicity of today's media-backed daily life means that multitasking penetrates into almost spheres of life and has a particular influence on our perception, communication and interaction. The exhibition presents the multitasking phenomenon as a metaphor to describe the profound changes currently taking place in the economy, the media and society.

An exhibition by the Arbeitsgruppe Fotografie of the Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin in cooperation with the department of European Media Studies at the University of Potsdam / University of Applied Sciences Potsdam.

Artists: Cory Arcangel, Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Irene Hug, Bernadette Klausberger/Jana Krause/Hannah Stracke, Constantin Luser, Warren Neidich, Yves Netzhammer, Stefan Panhans, Adrian Piper, Bill Shackelford, Lars Siltberg, Lars Tunbjork, Marius Watz/Christine Wolfe


Symposium:

5 October 2007 - NGBK, exhibition space, ground floor
6 October 2007 - RADIALSYSTEM V, Holzmarktstr. 33, 10243 Berlin

Participants drawn from a range of academic disciplines (medicine, neurology, psychology, computing, media studies, history of art, etc.) will take part in an interdisciplinary discussion of the multitasking phenomenon. Speakers: Klaus Bengler, Frithjof Bergmann, Peter Bexte, Sophie Ehrmanntraut, David Linden, Hannes Mandel, Adrian Piper, Margarete Pratschke,Claudia Reiche and Nils Roller

The conference will be held in German.
For more information about the programme see www.ngbk.de

Catalogue: The catalogue accompanying the exhibition and symposium contains detailed information on the works shown as well as interdisciplinary contributions on the topic of multitasking. ISBN 978-3-938515-12-9