Within the framework of Vorspiel 2019, the official yearly preliminary program leading up to the Berlin Transmediale, SomoS Art House presents a day of performance art curated by Zander Porter of XenoEntities Network. The presented performances explore the topic of technological tools as prosthetics; interpreting them as enabling-devices for performance and for identity construction within the performative space.
SomoS is pleased to host the 79th edition of the Scope Sessions Artist’s Talks and Media Salon. The Scope Sessions are a meeting point for the creative and the curious, a platform for sharing and learning in an informal setting. Each session, two guest artists are invited to present a project, a concept, a process […]
SomoS is pleased to host the 78th edition of the Scope Sessions. Scope is a meeting point for the creative and the curious, a platform for sharing and learning in an informal setting. Each session, two guest artists are invited to present a project, a concept, a process or an experience. The presentations are short, […]
In the 77th edition of the Scope Sessions, taking place at SomoS, artists Kate Chen and Mila Chiral demonstrate and discuss their work.
For the 76th installment of the “Scope Sessions – artist talks & media salon,” taking place at SomoS, artists Pascal Glissmann and Michael Reiley McDermott demonstrate and discuss their work.
The Replica platform again calls for workshop participants for their new workshop series “The Magic Thing,” taking place Sunday, July 15th 2018, between noon and 5pm: OPEN CALL: Workshop Participants (performers & technologists) Participation is free but curated — please contact ping@replica.institute before July 12, 8pm to tell us about your skills and interests. The […]
The Replica platform calls for workshop participants for their new workshop series “The Magic Thing // Objects of Desire.” The workshop aims to foster one-to-one collaborations between performers and technologists (creative coders, interaction designers, makers and tinkerers), and to co-devise both future work sessions and an augmented performance. Participation is free but curated — please […]
June 2018 SomoS presented the Personae group show, as part of that year’s Berlin 48 Stunden Neukölln Festival. Connecting the Internet’s queering of identity with Hannah Arendt’s thoughts on the performativity of the self, artists Edurne Herrán, Jonas Blume, Lyndal Walker, Stacie Ant, Zander Porter, Boris Alexander Knop reflected on authenticity in the digital age.
SomoS is delighted to host the “Scope Sessions – artist talks & media salon.” Artists presenting their work in edition #71 are: – Ali M. Demirel – Bahadir Hamdemir Ali M. Demirel Lives and works in Berlin since 2008. Studied nuclear engineering at Hacettepe University, and architecture at Middle East Technical University (METU). After receiving […]
In her installation Uncanny Valley, American Multi-media artist Erin Mitchell transformed SomoS’ exhibition space into an immersive installation that physically recreated the idealized natural imagery of screensavers and desktop wallpapers. Bringing the digital into the analog realm in a literal way, Mitchell encourages us to question our relationships with personal technology and redefine our perspectives and movements within these two often competing realities.
In her 2016 solo exhibition Film is Un/Dead at SomoS arts Berlin, Paris-based American visual artist, experimental filmmaker and writer Marguerite Harris combines a personal re-imagining of the legacy of Expanded Cinema with inclusive Social Art strategies.
“Future, Now.” participant Ka Fai Choy (SI) is an artist, performance maker and speculative designer now based in Berlin. He is inspired by the histories and theorizations that together contain the uncertainties of the future. His research springs from a desire to understand the conditioning of the human body, its intangible memories and the forces […]