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The third edition of Aurora Digitalis explores border-crossings between digital and physical worlds and realities. At its core are questions of identity, technological saturation, and the shifting structures of social order. Through speculative scenarios, digital fictions, and mythological reinterpretations, the presented works examine how concepts of subjectivity, the body, and power are transformed in the digital age – and invite us to renegotiate the boundaries of what can be thought and represented.

Programme: 

Lawrence Lek – Empty Rider (2024)
Harun Farocki – Parallel II (2014)
Caro Eibl – MASTER BEDROOM (2021) 
Cao Fei – Cosplayers (2004)
Unmake Lab – The Sisyphean Variables (2021)

Aurora Digitalis is a screening format dedicated to time-based digital films that create alternative worlds with game engines, among other tools, and renegotiate these worlds in their identities, virtual bodies and socio-economic structures. Through speculative narrative forms, the understanding of game mechanics and avatars, they question the ideological foundations of digital technologies and open up critical perspectives on power structures and future concepts. The screening includes films from international positions as well as HGB alumni.

Organised as part of (Un)Learning Digitalities - Programme on the Practice and Theory of the Digital with Clemens von Wedemeyer(Expanded Cinema class) and Eliza Goldox (Office for Digital Teaching) at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig in cooperation with the Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig.

The project is co-financed by the European Union and co-funded by public funds allocated by the members of the Saxon State Parliament.