[rohrpost] June 8th, 7pm"Mediating the Immediate. Influences of the New Media on Politics" Panel Discussion at KW

[Peggy Sylopp]

*"Mediating the Immediate. Influences of the New Media on Politics" 
Panel Discussion*

Friday, June 8, 2012, 19 pm
at the Autonomous University, Berlin Biennale 7
KW 69, Institute of Contemporary Art, Auguststr. 69, Berlin


The discussion sets itself the aim to analyze the interaction of the 
newest media and politics. Whether the enhanced communication 
possibilities provided by the new media are the channel of instant 
communication bringing through the message or vice versa, and what kind 
of communication it is in particular, is a matter of debate. The nature 
as well as the history and the future possibilities of the new media 
involvement into politics might be more serious than we might have 
realized up to now. Occupy representatives,  politicians, artists and 
researchers are invited to contribute. We are standing now at the 
historical threshold, and hopefully things won't run out of control.

Some of the issues to be discussed:
What is the role of the new media in politics? What is the nature of 
influence of the new media on political processes world-wide? How can 
public opinion be manipulated by the new media? The new media as the 
means of immediate communication versus the impossibility of 
communication -- these are the basic issues to be discussed and even more.

The Panelists are:

  * Artist Joulia Strauss, (Free Pussy Riot)
  * Alexander Morlang (Berliner Abgeordnete Piratenpartei)
  * Hector, representative of Occupy Berlin and the Indignados, Spain
  * Axel Kistner (Software Developer Liquid Democracy)


Conceived by the:

ARE/Artistic Research Encounters: Lily Fürstenow-Khositashvili and Peggy 
Sylopp in cooperation with the Autonomous University, the Occupy Berlin 
within the framework of the Berlin Biennale 7

Special thanks to Joulia Strauss for advice and inspiration

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