Bringing together artistic, academic, and curatorial perspectives, the event engages critically with the politics of presence, both physical and virtual, and interrogates the tensions between human sensory perception and machine vision.
How do digital representations of hybrid identities, political conflict, and bodily imagery reshape our sense of self, our presence in public spaces, and our ways of navigating, occupying, and sharing those spaces?
Who is entitled to claim space – and whose presence, movements, and interactions are governed by the implicit or explicit forces of surveillance, censorship, othering, hate speech, rituals of judgment, and the protocols of algorithmic visibility?
Date: Friday, June 20, 2025,
Time: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Location: Auditorium, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
Admission: Free
The event will be held in English and German.
Please register by email at hdp[#]deichtorhallen.de.
With Laia Abril, Nadine Isabelle Henrich, Jonas Hoeschl, Dr. Annekathrin Kohout, Dr. Jana Haeckel, Marco de Mutiis, Sheung Yiu.
A discourse program by HAUS DER PHOTOGRAPHIE TEMPORÄR.
Supported by:
11 a.m.
Welcome
Dirk Luckow, Director of Deichtorhallen Hamburg
Intro
Nadine Isabelle Henrich, Curator at the House of Photography
11:30–12 p.m.
The living archive. Synthetische Bilder als multisensorische Erfahrungsräume im Feld der Kunst
Dr. Jana Johanna Haeckel, Art Historian and Curator
12:15–12:45 p.m.
I Ask The Magical Machine –
Desktop Performative Lecture
Sheung Yiu, Image-Centered Artist and Researcher
BREAK
2:30–3 p.m.
Networked Affective Imaging –
On the Contemporary Role of the Image Between Reaction Economies and the Politics of Emotions
Marco De Mutiis, Digital Curator at Fotomuseum Winterthur
3:15–3:45 p.m.
Dokumentation oder Intervention?
Politische Körper und fotografische Zeug*innenschaft
Jonas Höschl, Photographer and Conceptual Artist
4:30–5 p.m.
React or it didn’t happen:
Präsenz in der Reaktionskultur
Dr. Annekathrin Kohout, Author and Cultural Studies Scholar
5:15–5:45 p.m.
A History of Misogyny –
On Abortion, On Rape, On Mass Hysteria
Laia Abril, Multidisciplinary Artist
You can find detailed information about the program here.