Shimon Basar (JUXTAPOSITIONS)

Shumon Basar is a writer, editor and curator. He is author of the books The Extreme Self: Age of You and The Age of Earthquakes: A Guide to the Extreme Present, both with Douglas Coupland and Hans Ulrich Obrist. In addition to being Commissioner of Art Dubai’s Global Art Forum since 2011, Basar has also been a member of Fondazione Prada’s “Thought Council;” Chief Narrative Officer at Zien; a curator at Fórum do Futuro and at Art Jameel; and has editorial roles at the magazines TANK, Bidoun, 032c and FlashArt. / shumonbasar
In the summer semester 2023, 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...