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Ecovium Video Storytelling
Future by Docu-Fiction: Inspirational Visioning & Creative Strategy Design
Focus on diversity
In our work on the concept of diversity, we have come to realise that it is not just an outwardly visible expression of will – since last year we have…
Quantum consulting
For the first time, we have set ourselves an internal research and focus topic for 2023. A rather new one, one with future potential, and one where we don’t know…
Demeter in the East
In April 2018 the “Association for the Promotion of Biodynamic Agriculture in East Germany e.V.” emerged from the formerly separate regional working communities of Berlin-Brandenburg and Saxony. The new board…
Age of Artists #2
Conference on dealing with uncertainty
17 – 19 March 2021 | Probstzella
Bauhaus hotel »Haus des Volkes«
Insights
Ona Jarmalavičiūtė & Benjamin Stromberg
Salomé Voegelin is a widely interested artist, writer and researcher working in different modalities. Her professional work is mostly engaged in the world sound makes, socio-political and aesthetic thinking via the practice of listening. She is the author of three influential books on sound: The Political Possibility of Sound (2018), Sonic Possible Worlds (2014),…
Thomas Castéran
I first met entrepreneur and video-maker Gaspard Bonnefoy while we were finishing our master’s studies in Montpellier. Back then, I remember rushing off to find an internship in a big company that would provide me the opportunity to start my career. Gaspard, meanwhile, was turning down a permanent job offer…
Benjamin Stromberg
A NEW NORMAL Whether the situation is acute like SARS-CoV-2 or creeping like the climate catastrophe: what is perceived as a state of emergency can, today, be understood as a constant companion in different guises. “Uncertainty is the new normal,” explained IMF chief Kristalina Georgiewa in a recent interview with…
Thomas Castéran
When asked how he became an artist, Renard looked at us, slightly puzzled, before answering: “This is a difficult question. I don’t really know how we become artists”. After a short pause, he finally added: “All I know is that at some point in my life and studies, I studied…
Dirk Dobiéy & Thomas Koeplin
A unique feature of artificial intelligence is that it knows no feeling. It works logically, although its logic is not always understandable for us humans. The reason may be that with us humans the feeling still comes first (even if we all feel it differently), followed by the slower mind,…
Dirk Dobiéy & Thomas Koeplin
Machines reduce our workload thanks to automation. They take on dangerous tasks, tasks that require precision, or tasks that bore us. The increasing efficiency or (if you will) intelligence of the systems makes it possible also to automate knowledge-intensive or complicated activities.
Dirk Dobiéy & Thomas Koeplin
One of the benefits of artificial intelligence is that it helps us take decisions today (or more so in the future) or releases us from them altogether. This sounds sensible and tempting in the face of a real or perceived increasing variety of possibilities. How welcome would a simple app…
Dirk Dobiéy & Thomas Koeplin
Technological progress is often equated with efficiency gains. For example, machines, especially those that get ascribed more and more certain intelligence, can often do things many times more efficiently than humans can. They relieve us of tasks and decisions and thus also reduce the wealth of personal experiences quite casually.
Dirk Dobiéy & Thomas Koeplin
The highest hopes for economic growth are linked to technological progress. Technological progress unveils fascinating possibilities. At the same time the upheavals associated with it are partly also highly problematic and their consequences mostly unpredictable. Most far-reaching, or at least most apparent, are the advances we have made in the…
Benjamin Stromberg & Dirk Dobiéy
In his life, Wolfgang Ullrich has worked intensively on art and its significance for our society and is able to combine his expertise with compelling analyses of contemporary social phenomena.
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Tina Winkel
Chief Culture Campaigner
Tina is a cultural scientist, media educator and currently project manager for the garage campus, one of the four large intervention areas of the European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025. Since her first visit to a European Capital of Culture in 2009, the subject has become her passion.
Greta Verlage
Greta Verlage is a freelance photographer and studies social and economic communication at the University of the Arts in Berlin. In her work with Age of Artists, she combines her transdisciplinary background with an aesthetic and economic practice.
Thomas Richter
Supreme Leader of Glitches and Aesthetics
Thomas Richter researches the transfer of artistic-aesthetic working methods and processes in organisations. In the context of Open Innovation, the expansion of innovation ecosystems, he is investigating the integration of artists and designers into entrepreneurial practice.
Jana Dörfelt
Hat of Artistic Chaos and Permeability
Jana is a performing artist and an art-analogical consultant. For Jana, the artistic process reveals knowledge and invites adaptation. She is convinced that regular training of the art muscle helps to increase elasticity and tolerance for uncertainty.
Annalena Maas
Chief Performance Virtuosa
Annalena directs in various theaters as well as in the independent scene. Her works have one thing in common: they always look for other possibilities and perspectives. For her, acting artistcally is an essential building block for sustainable, entrepreneurial change.
Sarah Friese
Head of Multiverse Exploration
Sarah is an geographer with an interdisciplinary background in natural sciences, management and urban design. She analyzes current situations, explores transitions and designs transformation processes.
“The moment of surprise always adheres to creativity. You get surprised by yourself.”
Composer
“Each work gives me the opportunity to use an individual language.”
Contemporary artist
”Everyone has a different creativity.“
Entrepreneur und video maker
“I like not knowing. I like being surprised.”
Painter and sculptor
“It’s not about changing the repertoire of elements, at the most to widen it to its maximum. The dangers for creativity are the routine and the uniformity.”
Contemporary artist
“There is no security. Terms like fault or failure only exist if you allow them.”
Dancer
“I don’t believe in inspiration. I believe in construction.”
Painter and Professor of Fine Arts
“I consider it as my job to create something new.”
Contemporary artist
“I’m always collecting impressions – no matter where I am.”
Singer
“Trust is the main point of good leadership.”
Conductor
