Mensch Maschine: Soil, Sound, Memory
Symposium on 15 November 2025
Keynotes, lecture performance, concerts, panels
Akademie der Künste
Hanseatenweg 10
Studiofoyer
13:00 – 22:00
Free admission
With: Jonathan Gray, Juno, Wesley Goatly, Nolan Oswald Dennis, Tamara Kneese, Anh-Linh Ngo, Tiara Roxanne, Jennifer Walshe, Helen Starr and fellows of the Mensch Maschine programme: Maithu Bùi, Victor Brim, Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi, Emerson Culurgioni, hn. lyonga, Sonya Isupova, Safiya Seedmother, Kira Xonorika
Cooperation by JUNGE AKADEMIE, Akademie der Künste, E-WERK Luckenwalde, VISIT/E.ON Foundation
As AI continues to evolve, grow, and expand, from the material to the industrial to the digital and beyond, its impact on the Earth, climate, humanity and the more than human all too often remains invisible. For this years’s Mensch Maschine symposium, soil, sound, and memory serve as starting points for rediscovering alternative narratives and conceptions of technologies and intelligence in the arts that acknowledge global perspectives, experiences, and voices. In the context of ecological grief and extractivism, technologies of nature and the cosmos, vibrations of the earth, and machine learning, artists and scientists discuss and explore new ways and practices of thinking, acting, and feeling in relation to the intersection of technology with ecology. The symposium will take place alongside the group exhibition Mensch Maschine: Return to Earth at E-WERK Luckenwalde.
Curated by Clara Herrmann, Tiara Roxanne, Helen Turner
