Lukas Feireiss works as curator, author and educator in the international mediation of contemporary cultural reflexivity beyond disciplinary boundaries. He attained his graduate education in Comparative Religious Studies, Philosophy and Ethnology in Berlin and Rome. Feireiss is author and editor of numerous books, and curator of manifold exhibitions in the field of art, architecture and design in theory and practice. He has lectured and taught at various universities worldwide. At the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam he developed and directed the temporary Master of Fine Arts and Design program Radical Cut-Up, that examined the cut-up and collage as a contemporary mode of creativity and dominant global model of cultural production today. More information on www.studiolukasfeireiss.com.
In the winter semester 2023 / 24, the Studium Generale organized a series of hybrid lectures on the topic of contemporary cultural production at the University of the Arts Berlin. Curated and moderated by Guest Professor Lukas Feireiss, JUXTAPOSITIONS aims at a broad cross-disciplinary audience.
Against the backdrop of the accelerated proliferation of digital technologies in nearly all areas of life, the lecture series pays special attention to the impact and influence these ubiquitous media have on creative processes today and the creation and consumption of popular culture worldwide. Many forms of contemporary cultural production absorb the ever growing pool of source material made possible through these new digital conditions. In a constant revision of what is being created this digital do-it-yourself culture allows everyone in the internet to be simultaneously artist, producer, collaborator and spectator, but equally being participant, subscriber, friend, and follower. Digitization is thus also turning the art and culture industry upside down. It creates new access points, new ways of working and thinking. It also makes new forms of financing possible. But it also brings new dependencies - it changes art, cultural production and the future of work as a whole.
Production and realization: Lukas Feireiss (Guest Professor), Flóra Tálasi (Coordination), Katrin Wendel (Administration), Leon Vatter (Research Assistant), Filipe Pirl (Student Assistant)
For reasons of privacy and data protection all images of the students are cut out of the public videos.
For more information and upcoming lectures: www.udk-berlin.de/studium/studium-generale/ & juxtapositions.net