Digital Decoding: digitality as subject and method
Digital Decoding is a collaborative seven-day research-driven exhibition by five female artists and designers from sound, object, and textile design investigating how digital technologies both conceal and reveal the material realities, labour, and power structures they depend upon. Through approaches spanning AI voice recognition, human–machine co-creation, virtual environments, heritage craft, and digital infrastructures, the project asks: How can artistic research with digital technologies expose the hidden materialities, practices, and biases that digitality itself obscures?
Taking place over one week in April 2026, and following a four-month development period, the exhibition invites audiences to engage with these artistic investigations. Bringing together Mittelbau artists from the Universität der Künste Berlin, weißensee kunsthochschule berlin and Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin, Digital Decoding is a unique opportunity to highlight the value of cross-institutional and cross-disciplinary artistic research in shaping critical perspectives on contemporary technological culture.
Featured artists:
Vernissage:
14 April 2026, 18:00 – 22:00
Opening hours:
15 – 21 April 2026, 11:00 – 20:00
Digital Decoding is part of the DiGiTal programme. It is supported by the Berliner Chancengleichheitsprogramm, the Kommission für künstlerische und wissenschaftliche Vorhaben (Universität der Künste Berlin), Einstein Center Digital Future, transmediale e.V., and Berlin Open Lab.