In this workshop we will play through and look at three examples of digital artistic history-telling and speculative past models, and discuss their differing approaches, techniques and impact, keeping in mind the following themes: Memories can’t wait. Why and how do we remember the past in the future? Stop making sense. Do we have to understand everything? Road to Nowhere Do we need to tame the eternal other we don’t understand?
Immersive digital media change and expand our ideas and interpretations of space and time, and consequently modify the axes through which we construct and interpret history.
Digital tools are some of the instruments that allow us to challenge narratives, add unheard voices to our collective memories, and expand audio-visual patterns of storytelling. Artistic approaches allow us to break with national echo chambers and assemble international, interdisciplinary perspectives so that citizen-led history-telling can be inserted into current political discourses.
About Anna and Felix
Dr. Felix Fuhg and Dr. Anna Norpoth curate the eCommemoration programme dealing with memory in the digital age at Körber-Stiftung. The programme was initiated in 2021 in order to research the transformative power of new media and digital arts on our understanding of history and remembrance.