Symposium & Hackathon

Digitality, Democracy & Culture
Keynote by Audrey Tang, former Digital Minister of Taiwan

 

The Moovy Symposium brings together artists, researchers, tech enthusiasts, and cultural practitioners every year. Together we aim to explore how digital technologies are transforming dance, art & culture, and society as a whole – and how we can actively shape these transformations.

How can we create digital spaces as places of community – accessible, safe, democratic, and creative?

That is why we want to:

• develop new ideas,
• discover inspiring practical examples, and
• in a hackathon, design concrete digital concepts for the arts & cultural sector – even looking beyond dance itself.

A key focus: making the perspective of users visible! Digital spaces thrive on the people who use them. How can barriers be removed? And how can communities take an active role in shaping them?
We will also look beyond borders: digital culture knows no national boundaries – inspiration, exchange, and collaboration emerge worldwide. That’s why we bring in international perspectives, to learn from each other and to build global alliances.

Program
The symposium opens with our international guests Audrey Tang, former Digital Minister of Taiwan, and E. Glen Weyl, American economist at Microsoft Research and founder of RadicalxChange. Together with an international community of authors, they co-wrote the visionary book Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy. In it, they highlight technology not as a threat but as a driving force for democratic participation and social collaboration.
This is followed by impulses and discussions with experts from cultural policy, media studies, and institutions on missing strategies, current challenges, and necessary frameworks. Among them: Olaf Zimmermann (Director, German Cultural Council), Miyazaki Shintaro (author of Dancing Digitality), Çidem Uzunolu (Grimme Institute), and Klaas Werner (medienwerk nrw).

Another focus is on practical examples: representatives of leading institutions present their approaches to opening digital spaces for art and audiences. We look forward to contributions from Madeleine Frey (Max Ernst Museum), Christian Geiger (MIREVI), Sarah Reimann (HAU 4), and Alain Bieber (Kunstpalast Düsseldorf), followed by an open discussion.

On the second day, we invite participants to a hands-on hackathon. In working groups we will develop strategies for new digital art forms, innovative mediation, and democratic participation. The results will be presented, discussed, and translated into recommendations for cultural policy and institutions.

For two days, the Moovy symposium & hackathon will provide an inspiring space for exchange and networking – with the aim of setting concrete impulses for the future of culture and digitality.