Virtual Colloquium: Threads & Tits – “An ongoing investigation into artistic strategies for de-radicalizing online”

The design collective Threads & Tits are joining us as part of the Virtual Colloquium on this Thursday, 24.10.2024 at 09:30 a.m. Berlin-time on Zoom for a presentation titled “An ongoing investigation into artistic strategies for de-radicalizing online”. As artists, we ask how online spaces contribute to the political shift to the right and how we as creatives can respond to this. Together, we will analyze how the right uses creative means to present itself in a new light and which aesthetic strategies it uses to shift discourses. We will discuss which tendencies are reinforced by algorithms and how right-wingers consciously use algorithms to radicalize. After looking at the aesthetics and strategies of the right online, we will pose the question of artistic agency on these digital stages. How can we counteract these developments with creative means?

Threads & Tits see themselves as agents of socio-ecological change and use artistic interventions to inspire with vision and courage. With humor and sharp analysis, they draw attention to social and ecological injustices, which they bring into different spaces in the form of desirable “reality corrections”. In this way, they use fashion and textile products as a political communication medium through which they negotiate neoliberal continuities. With their consulting and mediation practice, Threads & Tits bring art, change and design strategies to universities, institutions and companies.

Please find below the Zoom link to join, which will be the same for all online sessions this semester:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82954605489?pwd=VP3XBDzVogeuQtLWaXbWEFpm9ObxiQ.1

Meeting-ID: 829 5460 5489
Kenncode: 079532