Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures

About

• The Peter Weibel Research Institute for Digital Cultures is a place for the scientific and scientific-artistic examination of digital media technologies and the transformation processes they trigger. Based on the Peter Weibel Archive, it offers space for new perspectives and innovative research. It is also a place for public and international discourse on digital cultures, digitality in general and the relationship between science and media art in particular. Regular lectures, discussions, symposia and publications serve the theoretical and artistic exploration of digital cultures, both within the academic community and in the discourse of society as a whole. As a place of intervention, reflection and further development of digital cultures, the Weibel Institute offers a space for discourse in the field of tension between science and art that faces up to its social responsibility. It explores the possibilities of collective forms of expression in the face of cybernetic control systems, machine learning processes, media technology infrastructures and newly emerging data worlds. This is done not least from a historical perspective that critically scrutinises the colonial origins of digital technologies and thinks beyond their data-positivist constitution.