Digital Interventions

Bodies, Infrastructures, Politics
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-3-0358-0876-6
Verlag: Diaphanes Verlag

Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 225 mm

Reihe: Intervening Arts

investigates the potential of artistic practices that aim at either creating and safeguarding emancipatory spaces of the digital or challenging and countering the many forms of digital surveillance, exploitation and repression. Claiming that in the post-digital condition the digital always and already permeates our bodies, infrastructures and politics, the volume brings together art practitioners, activists and scholars from the fields of film studies, media studies, dance studies, performance studies, art history, computer science, and sociology to investigate the digital as both the site and the means of digital interventions.

The term “digital interventions” itself is wrapped in fundamental and irresolvable contradictions. The digital sphere is a space of refuge and resistance as anonymity and privacy of communication provide shelter from oppressive violence. And yet, at the same time, the digital sphere is subject to massive surveillance, trolling and disinformation that capture and undermine political expression. With social media participation governed by the attention economy, the internet structured by platform capitalism, and political discourse undermined by algorithms, what are the practices and where are the fissures for artists and activists to intervene? How can complicity be turned into criticality? How do artists, activists and scholars maneuver within and challenge the protean landscape of the digital?

The volume includes contributions by Aram Bartholl, Naomi Boyce, Arantxa Llanos Ciafrino, Florian Cramer, Aria Dean, Sirin Fulya Erensoy, Azadeh Ganjeh, Matthias Grotkopp, Roman Horbyk, Pekka Kallioniemi, Iryna Kovalenko, Joana Moll, Jean Peters, Florian Schlittgen, Veronika Solopova, Simon Teune, and Brigitte Weingart.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Teune, Simon

Boyce, Naomi

Grotkopp, Matthias

Kovalenko, Iryna

Schlittgen, Florian

Weingart, Brigitte

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Installations-, Aktions-, Computer- und Videokunst
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Digitale Medien, Internet, Telekommunikation

Über Autor(innen)

Kovalenko, Iryna
Iryna Kovalenko Iryna Kovalenko is a doctoral researcher at the Collaborative Research Center 1512 “Intervening Arts” at the European University Viadrina of Frankfurt (Oder) and Free University Berlin. Her field of research is contemporary Ukrainian culture and literature. Within the CRC 1512, she is working on the project “The Practices of Artistic Intervention During the Ukrainian Revolution in 2013–2014.” She is examining how artists contributed to the protests on the Maidan, challenging dominant narratives and highlighting the unique aesthetics that emerged.

Teune, Simon
Simon Teune Simon Teune is a postdoctoral researcher at the Collaborative Research Center 1512 “Intervening Arts” at Freie Universität Berlin. His research focuses on protests and social movements in general, and the cultural embedding of protest movements in particular. He has worked on the visual representation as well as the media coverage of protests. Within CRC 1512, he works on the project “Expectations of the Impact of Artistic Intervention: An Enquiry into Self-Understanding, Practices, and Receptions.”

Weingart, Brigitte
Brigitte Weingart ist Professorin für Medienkulturwissenschaft an der Universität zu Köln und Redakteurin der Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft. Gegenwärtige Schwerpunkte in Forschung und Lehre: Medientheorie und -geschichte, Genealogie und Medienästhetik der Faszination, Celebrity Cultures, Medienpraktiken der Aneignung.