ARE YOU FOR REAL. Phase 2
Through its digital platform, ARE YOU FOR REAL aims to expand international cultural exchange and contemporary co-creative exhibition practices through transnational dialogue around digital world-making experiments, aesthetic investigations, and performative and political reflections. It addresses the material and immaterial aspects of the digital and how they are perceived by various disciplines; artists, researchers, and coders are commissioned to create works that convey their understandings of reality.
6 Stops
online,
Cluster 1: There is no Software
2023/70
02.08.–01.01.
online,
Cluster 2: Regeneration
2023/70
06.10.–01.01.
online,
Cluster 3: Rituals of Nascent Worlds
2023/70
02.12.–01.01.
4 Artists
3 Contributors
Giulia Bini,
Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás,
Concept
Nina Frohm,
Project Management ifa
About the exhibiton
Are you for real? It would be an odd question to ask if we didn’t have technologies at hand capable not only of representing but generating realities. Computation propels a shift in our understanding of what “real” is, and how it should be distinguished from the merely possible, the virtual, and the actual.
Realities can be constructed by calculating machines as much as by the scientific activity that shapes how we perceive our digital and analog life-worlds. The understanding that computation and scientific investigation are two main forces that define our realities lies at the core of ARE YOU FOR REAL Phase 2.
The featured artists use computers as tools, as collaborators, and as agents of world creation. They increasingly base their works on the results of scientific research, while also borrowing and transforming its methods in their investigations. The different perspectives enable us to grasp various aspects of digitalization, and to explore a reality now irreducibly entangled with the online sphere.
The ongoing web-based project was launched by ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen in 2020, and curated by Julia Grosse, Paula Nascimento, and Yvette Mutumba until 2023. The second phase is shaped curatorially by Giulia Bini and Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás.