Artists and scientists, video- and filmmakers, designers, programmers and (h)activists, researchers in media and network cultures, and others interested in interdisciplinary exchange are invited to join the conference, to discuss their ideas and projects, to share and to develop know-how both in theory and in practice.
Call for contributions and further information: www.interfiction.org
Contact: info@interfiction.org
interfiction, a yearly workshop symposium, has been part of the Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival since 1995. As the interdisciplinary section of the festival, interfiction’s aim is to bring together artists and scholars, theorists and practitioners in one event, in order to deal with the complex field of art, media and net culture together. Every year there is a new topic of focus. Based on the pressing questions of the issues, projects and hypothesis are presented and discussed, while workshops and talks enable a concentrated exchange, which is supposed to lead to a deeper reflection and show new perspectives.
interfiction is a forum for the exchange, networking and cooperation of producers of theory practice. The main structure of the event is reflected in the wish to function as a “temporary laboratory” – not only a platform for ideas and projects but to enable a direct and productive discussion about questions and problems which are essential to the participants.
Head of the section is Dr. Verena Kuni, professor for Visual Culture at the Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main.
interfiction XXXI / 2024
CARE FRICTIONS
Care here, care there, care everywhere: when – and where – will this end? What about the real things? How bad are times that see us taking all that care about caring, and continuously talk about it, above all? Can’t you just take care of yourself?
Or maybe that’s our problem, especially in recent analogital media cultures. So much for attention economy, a term charged with special perversion anyway: When everybody has to care for being cared of by as many people as possible, and for oneself: how miserable, and also concerning, crying-for-care is that indeed?
On the other hand: isn‘t this exactly an issue we should take care of? How can care facilitate togetherness that is neither based on anger nor on pity? Alas, shouldn’t we give care another chance, beyond applauses from social-maiden’s-balcony?
This year's interfiction workshop-conference for art, media and network cultures takes a closer look at utopias and realities of care in digital, analog and analogital networks: CARE FRICTIONS...
Artists, video- and filmmakers, designers, programmers and (h)activists, researchers in media and network cultures, and others interested in interdisciplinary exchange are invited to join the conference and to discuss their ideas and projects. (Verena Kuni)
// * interfiction 2024 is planned in a hybrid format – with necessary consequences for our program’s concept and schedule. Find more information at www.interfiction.org