In the installation’s display of images, documentation and the background materials of the artist’s research, scientific language blends with fictional imaginations.
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Topography of Tears is a study and series of more than one hundred human tears photographed through an optical microscope, comprising a wide range of the artist’s own and others’ tears, causes and emotional states: from elation to onion, sorrow, frustration to rejection, resolution to laughter.
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Filmmakers have always been fascinated with the potential of dystopian scenarios where machines and humans endlessly collide in violent confrontations under a dark and gloomy sky.
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The Talk Show closes our festival weekend by triggering conversations on the ultimate emotional puzzle: our common ecological future.
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The project “Humans Sound Like Apes” addresses the field of affective sciences in humans and animals and the way mankind extrapolates human-centered academic terminology (e.g. from psychology) to the natural world.
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Technology has grown into a channel for the expression of our emotions, particularly so in term of love and our need to be connected through different online communities.
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His unique designs and painfully personal experiences mark a journey that gets him closer to himself than he ever intended.
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(un)ease your feelings raises the question: how do we relate to our emotions and feelings when they get the better of us?
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In the film's Berlin Premiere, Herzog leads viewers on a journey through a series of provocative conversations that reveal the ways in which the online world has transformed how virtually everything in the real world works - from business to education, space travel to healthcare, and the very heart of how we conduct our personal relationships.
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The project and installation, specifically developed for STATE Festival 2016, will engage the emotional cognition of visitors' stomachs and intestines in solving one of the world's most pervasive and intractable problems: anthropogenic climate change.
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Come to the Kühlhaus Berlin from 20:00 for our closing party with performers and DJs from Fusion, KaterBlau and Garbicz Festival. We guarantee you a good time in our Wes Anderson-themed industrial space.
Read MoreThis Foresight Workshop by FUTURIUM provides a hands-on introduction to the methodology of future research for scientists and other creators who are interested in "tomorrow“.
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Dient’s rapid idea generation model sets up a challenge, which aims at exploring, exploding and reimagining the how and what of the future of care.
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Would you be able to sniff out your future partner in the STATE crowd?
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This critical thinking workshop begins with the question "Would you live with an autonomous prosthesis?"
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The workshop provide festival goers with the possibility of experiencing an embodied VR set up that will allow them to put themselves in someone else's shoes.
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AXNS Collective is a not-for-profit, curatorial collective that explores intersections between art, neuroscience and technology (axnscollective.org).
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What would you like them to do if your jewellery, your furniture and your curtains could do something when we feel bad?
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In this talk, I will contend with the cultural anxieties and expectations that surround the feminine posthuman, and suggest important links between contemporary robotics and AI, gender, and the cultural history of the doll.
Read MoreA creative perspective on neuroscience and emotions will also be open for the public to interpret.
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