On June 7, the digital location Karlsruhe will be hosting coder workshops, start-up pitches, discussion rounds, company events with families and friends, drone courses, career councelling, guided tours of living labs and data centers and even more.
Bunte Nacht der Digitalisierung [Colourful Night of Digitalization] is Karlsruhe’s city festival of digital ideas and solutions that brings digitalization to life in all its facets. On which digital topics are Karlsruhe universities and research institutions actively researching? What constitutes digital art? How digital is the administration? What ideas are Karlsruhe start-ups and companies pursuing? And how can you experiment within NGOs with digital tools or get involved in those organisations?
Bunte Nacht der Digitalisierung kicks off at 2 p.m. at TRIANGEL on Kronenplatz with a welcome address by Stefan Krebs, State Government Commissioner for Information Technology and CIO and CDO of the State of Baden-Württemberg. From 3 p.m., the partners of the Bunte Nacht der Digitalisierung will be presenting their highlights of digitalisation at the various hotspots throughout the city. 60 partners from administration, business and science open their doors and present digitization in Karlsruhe in all its facets with their self-designed program. Let yourself be inspired by hands-on workshops, drone courses, exhibitions, guided tours and much more at the various hotspots of digitization until 9 p.m. The programme offers experiences for all ages and levels of knowledge. After the decentralized programme, the Bunte Nacht der Digitalisierung will be celebrated from 10 p.m. at TRIANGEL.
Media art installations @TRIANGEL&Kronenplatz
From the very beginning of the event until 11 p.m., media art installations will be on display at the Kronenplatz:
- Echos and Archives Part II – Im Strudel der Daten und flüchtigen Scheine, Kronenplatz: The artist collective Francis Karat will mobilize AI models for the Bunte Nacht der Digitalisierung and have them hallucinate the abstractions of future administration. The result will be an experimental film without human intervention, a futuristic reimagination of Marker’s “photo novel”. Through a rearrangement of the familiar yellow roadblocks, the story breaks out of the screen and interacts with the Kronenplatz.
- Ein Faktor der Evolution, TRIANGEL Studio: In Tina Jander’s sound and video installation, digital sound recordings of a cello, a Shaman Drum and a piano, as well as voices, were processed and arranged in a Digital Audio Work (DAW) station. The digital recordings create a dream-like aesthetic and are intended to illustrate the need for a cooperative society that ensures the well-being of all its members.
- Material Practice: Hyper Materials, TRIANGEL Space & Werkstatt: Material Practice explores transformative materials and textures through a sociological perspective. For the Bunte Nacht der Digitalisierung, artists Hoin Ji and Chelsea Kim present Hyper Materials, the first work in this series: in a four-screen installation, diverse materials are digitally represented through a glitchy, hypnotic aesthetic to reflect on solidarity, community, rave culture and base materials such as nickel, metal and earth.
- Media Arts @TRIANGEL&Kronenplatz – Presentation and guided tour with the artists, 7.30 – 8.30 p.m.: Media artists Tina Jander, Francis Karat, Chelsea Kim and Hoin Ji present their work, discuss it with the audience in the TRIANGEL Space and then offer a short tour to their installations. Moderated by Víctor Fancelli Capdevila (HfG Open Resource Centre).
The presentation of media art at the Kronenplatz is supported by the UNESCO City of Media Arts Karlsruhe.
Admission to all programme is free of charge.
Further information and the programme here.
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The karlsruhe.digital initiative connects stakeholders from science, business, culture and public administration aiming to foster Karlsruhe as a driver of digitalisation for a sovereign and sustainable society. Under the umbrella of the initiative, experts from over 50 institutions and companies work together. The digital aspects and success criteria of areas such as administration, science, education, culture and society, conditions that attract professionals, sovereignty, start-up culture, internationalization and innovation transfer are analyzed and developed in expert groups.
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