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Symposium: Costs of (Dis)Connecting

Digital connections has long been sold to us as an unalloyed good: seamless, frictionless, universal. Yet the infrastructures that knit us together are also infrastructures of extraction, dispossession, and psychic attrition. To connect is to pay—with attention, with intimacy, with the disassembly of common worlds. In this symposium, we ask: what are the costs of (dis)connecting in the digital present?
Programme

Thu 04.12.2025, HGB
10 am - 9 pm
Introductory Workshops for HGB students:
Lenn Blaschke & Caspar Weimann hosted by Prof. Christin Lahr & Sven Bergelt (Class Artistic Action and Research
Nicolas Gourault hosted by Prof. Clemens von Wedemeyer (Expanded Cinema class)
Aleks Berditchevskaia hosted by Prof. Eli Cortinas & Prof. Stine Jacobsen (Media Art foundational course)
Cait Fisher hosted by Anna Zett (Class for Performative Arts)

Screenings of works: Nicolas Gourault, and others

Fri 05.12.2025, HALLE 14
10 am - 9 pm
Full-day program consisting of lectures, talks, a workshop and performances with: Günseli Yalcinkaya, Shumon Basar, Orhun Mersin & Yagmur Uçkunkaya, Shusha Niederberger & Heiko Schmid, Franziska von Hasselbach, and others

Screenings of works: Gala Hernández, and others

More info and updates:
www.hgb-leipzig.de/en/study/-un-learningdigitalities
www.instagram.com/unlearningdigitalities_hgb/
www.hgb-leipzig.de/en/teaching/photography/photographyinthefieldofcontemporaryartclass 
www.instagram.com/klasse.ehrenstein/