On the 3rd and 4th May, E-WERK Luckenwalde will host a retreat in collaboration with Mensch Maschine fellows 2025, hn. lyonga and Safiya Yon. The retreat will be open to current and previous Mensch Maschine fellows, in addition to jury members, and participants are invited to stay overnight in Luckenwalde.

As collaboration between PASS – Center for Practice-based Art Studies, University of Copenhagen & Die JUNGE AKADEMIE, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, the forum and two-part seminar looks at how speculative storytelling, hybrid identities, and interdisciplinary research and artworks can engage with and reformulate the past to address pressing issues of our time.

The AI Anarchies Book sheds light on the debate surrounding AI and ethics from an artistic and scientific perspective and explores new approaches to the topic. As documentation, reflection and toolbox, the publication conveys knowledge and background information on the “AI Anarchies Autumn Academy” 2023 and the artistic projects that were created as part of the programme in essays, interviews, picture galleries and recipes.

The 150th anniversary of the Serpentara provided the occasion for a positioning. In 1873, artists saved the oak grove in Olevano Romano, Italy, from being cut down. Today, “Villa Serpentara” is a residence for Akademie scholars. In 15 contributions, Serpentara artists, contemporary witnesses and art historians explore the myth, visual motif and stories surrounding the famous oak grove and offer new approaches to its history.

The JUNGE AKADEMIE, VISIT, the artist-in-residence programme of the E.ON Stiftung and E-WERK Luckenwalde are cooperating to offer four fully funded fellowships once again in 2025 for international artists, to fund projects operating at the intersection of art, science and ecology, concerning the topic of the human machine.

The exhibition “Broken Machines & Wild Imaginings” presents ten new installations by fellows of the JUNGE AKADEMIE, whose artistic research examines artificial intelligence. The focus is on speculative and experimental practices that articulate and question how power and ethics are dealt with in the context of AI. In response to the fragile reality of machines and their extractivist logic, algorithmic violence and techno-solutionism, the artists create poetic worlds and playful concepts and strategies of repair. They develop alternative paradigms, historical narratives and imaginings/imaginaries of technologies and a digital life beyond the systems of Big Tech.

The 2022 fellows for the Akademie der Künste’s Human-Machine Programme have been selected. The jury recieved more than 170 applications and chose the artist and designer Petja Ivanova.

JUNGE AKADEMIE launches programme "AI Anarchies" on the topic of Artificial Intelligence & Ethics: Fellows are selected and applications are now open for the Autumn School study group.

For the third time, the JUNGE AKADEMIE of the Akademie der Künste, in partnership with VISIT, the artist-in-residence programme of the E.ON foundation, will award one fellowship per year to fund international projects dealing with the topic “Human-Machine”.