How can art and activism be combined to tackle burning social issues, surveillance, unethical corporations and corrupt governments? Delighted to participate in the 30TH CONFERENCE of the DISRUPTION NETWORK LAB, CURATED BY TATIANA BAZZICHELLI, at STUDIO 1, KUNSTQUARTIER BETHANIEN, MARIANNENPLATZ 2, 10997 BERLIN

I would like to invite you all to an exhibition by RCA’s AiDLab ‘Critical Narratives’ exploring AI and critical narratives, where I will show works from my Atlas of the Liminal series. A pAIn in the …. None of the above SZN Gallery, 92 Brick Lane London E1 6RL There will be a private view, 18:00 […]

PLANETARY SKINS by Sylvia Eckermann and Gerald Nestler explores the materiality of the real and the digital. Configuring an osmotic skin between virtual and physical spaces, the art project explores the potentials, ambivalences, and conflicts induced by hybrid forms of presence. with the participation of: XR Production: Anna Pompermaier & Cenk Güzelis (./studio3). Soundscape, composition: […]

DREAMS REWIRED (dir. Manu Luksch, Martin Reinhart, Thomas Tode) is on show at the Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art and Urban Planning (MOCAPE) as part of the “Topologies of the Real: Techne Shenzhen 2022” exhibition. Organized by Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art and Urban Planning Institute of Sci-Tech Art, China Central Academy of Fine Arts […]

Tuesday 7th March 2023, Doors open at 6pm / Start 6:30 Tickets: Free event  “…the trouble requires learning to be present, not as a vanishing pivot between awful or edenic past and apocalyptic or salvific futures, but … entwined in myriad unfinished configurations of places, times, matters and meanings…” Donna Haraway  Set amongst the madness […]

The research project Artefacts of Resistance in collaboration with artists Manu Luksch and Mukul Patel will hold a public event With researchers and artists David Featherstone, Manu Luksch, Ufaque Paiker, Mukul Patel, Raktim Ray, Kalpana Wilson – eventbrite link will follow soon 4pm – 6 pm followed by drinks reception Senate House, 403, University of […]

ALGO-RHYTHM (AT/SEN/UK) is part of the programme Scientific Musicals on TV-Station / VoD-Plattform Labocine (US) – January Issue #83  “Operas, concerts, performances, music videos, chants and spoken word – we present to you “Scientific Musicals” to kick off this new year. Moving away from the passive score, the music is in the propeller of these narratives. […]

New York African Film Festival Short Film Selections are now streaming on Film Movement Plus, the films are available to stream in the US and Canada. This spotlight on the 2022 edition of the New York African Film Festival (NYAFF) includes the five short films: Notre Mémoire (directed by Johanna Makabi), Ukuhlolwa Kwephupha / A […]

Challenging Orders line-up: Podiumsdiskussion “Data, Technology and the Arts: Challenging Orders” mit Clemens Apprich, Thomas Fischbacher, Manu Luksch, Jutta Scheibelberger. Moderation: Robert Punkenhofer Renommierte Expert:innen aus den Bereichen Medientheorie, Digitalisierung, Wirtschaft, Kultur und Überwachungsstudien werden die Auswirkungen von Big Data auf soziale Beziehungen, politische Strukturen, kulturelle Institutionen, unser tägliches Leben und die Kunst diskutieren und […]

The group exhibition House of Challenging Orders as part of Vienna Art Week 2022 includes my mixed media installation Atlas of the Liminal – From matter to data that maps the contaminated sites in Silicon Valley. “The innovative potential of art in the struggle against prevailing structures through creative strategies is as much a topic […]

I’m delighted to present six large-scale prints from the series ATLAS OF THE LIMINAL at ‘Code & Algorithm’ in Madrid later this year. ‘Can algorithms ensure greater neutrality and efficiency? Are they as free from human bias as we usually think? The exhibition ‘Codes and algorithms. Meaning in a calculated world’ seeks to make sense […]

Films by Manu Luksch – including Contagious Whisper (2020, coll. Scott Kildall), Sing And Cry, Cry And Sing (2021), ALGO-RHYTHM (2019) and I thought I was seeing Citizen (2022, coll. Mukul Patel) at the Blickle Cinema, belvedere21, curated and introduced by Claudia Slanar