In the exhibition Creating Empathy, Spektrum presents works investigating the relation of the self with the other person and, more generally, humans with other life forms. In neuroscience, empathy is defined as the ability to understand and share someone else’s feelings by means of a mirroring effect provided by special type of neurons—mirror neurons—in both animals and humans. This reflective...

The Pornfilmfestival Berlin is an alternative, independent film festival that focuses on sexuality, politics, feminism and gender issues, and is the only festival of its kind in Germany. Since 2006, the festival has screened an average of over 100 films from around the world, featuring feminist and queer perspectives on questions around sexual morality, identity, and body norms, emphasizing...

Radical Networks is a conference that celebrates the free and open Internet,

with hands-on workshops, speakers, and a gallery exhibiting artworks centered around radio and networking technology. It fosters critical discussion on contemporary issues that include surveillance, the spread of misinformation, ownership of personal data, and the increasing opacity of “The Cloud”.

Radical Networks...

Materiality of Sound: In this chapter, we will present projects that get closer to the sonic phenomenon directly presented on stage in front of our eyes and ears as a form of scientific and artistic experiment. The materiality of sound, intended as a specific focus on using principles of the physical world to initiate a new listening into the matter, reveals the vibrational fundaments constituting...

This sixth chapter of the Sonic Vibrations series presents projects exploring robotics for music in terms of movements of sound sources, mechanically controlled parts, computed synchronizations in order to create an over layer of kinetic automation in the musical instrument that becomes an essential aspect for the composition.

Sonic Vibrations is a series of hybrid events presenting scientific...

IN FLUX Festival presents seven days of concerts and talks from 30 solo artists of the current Berlin experimental electro-acoustic music scene. Artists include Tomomi Adachi, Liz Allbee, Boris Baltschun, Rashad Becker, Burkhard Beins, Andrea Belfi, Sofia Borges, Jim Campbell, Roy Carroll, Mario De Vega, Sabine Ercklentz, Korhan Erel, Andrea Ermke, Evapori, Hanna Hartman, Hatam, Annette Krebs, Cao...

In the exhibition Alien Organs, we recall the tradition of experimental sound art on building new musical organs – or musical machines – expanded to field of interest not immediately intended usual to music.

The exhibition #13: Cybernetic Choreographies questions artistic modalities of human to machine and machine to machine interaction. 

The Pornfilmfestival Berlin is an alternative, independent film festival that focuses on sexuality, politics, feminism and gender issues, and is the only festival of its kind in Germany. Since 2006, the festival has screened an average of over 100 films from around the world, featuring feminist and queer perspectives on questions around sexual morality, identity, and body norms, emphasizing...

The collaborative project Klang-Raum-Skulptur is a dome-shaped sound installation that utilizes an immersive 3-dimensional sound system. The installation was originated by Paul Deme who developed the initial spatial concept. Attracted by the sculpture’s ideal form for the use of Ambisonics spatialization, Sven König joined the project and installed the Ambisonics system inside the dome.

The exhibition Dark Habitats Dark Ecology challenges artists and audience to reflect on alternative ways to look into the state of home-sustainability and shows examples in which technology and science can reveal our human, specific way to impress upon the idea of nature an always beautiful but ecologically problematic sense of living.

While smart is the keyword of the omni-connection through the internet of things and social media, dark is the state of our relation with the user-oriented technology that operates the data collection of our online choices and issues our privacy and self determination in the web.

The 3rd Exhibition for this section of Dark Society aims to gather works that unveil these technological dimensions...

The contemporary interaction trough social media means to quantify the cultural desire of self in terms of user-clicks and offers, as condition of success, easy availability to pre-defined aesthetics. But, on the other side, dark entities and activities happen to contaminate bodies and perceptions, bending the limits of social norms while infesting the world with new social manifestations.

Showcasing a year of community building at SPEKTRUM, featuring: 

Artgames // Berlin modular // CryptoParty // 
MadeByUs // movLab // Live Cinema Lab // 
MetaMatter // Smell Lab // Sonic Code Sessions // 
reConnect communities table // Spatial projections

Part of the transmediale/CTM Vorspiel 2017 festival

The exhibition Dark Science presents artistic works that approach specific phenomena focusing on their physicality by means of the paradox underlying our human relation to them, in terms of states of absence, immateriality, evanescence and void. This pushes the boundaries of our imagination and reflects a constant need to sense and understand levels of the physical world in an observable and...

The exhibition 'Behavioural Machines' explores the way in which mathematical models that describe complex natural phenomena have been used to create new audiovisual works applied to domains such as light sculpture, robotics and abstract film. With works by: So Kanno, TeZ, Ran Ancor & Krisjanis Rijnieks

The Pornfilmfestival Berlin is an alternative, independent film festival that focuses on sexuality, politics, feminism and gender issues, and is the only festival of its kind in Germany. This year some of the screenings, performances and lectures will take place in Spektrum.

reSense.MOV is a festival debating current questions of the intersections of motion, sensing, performance and technologies in art and sciences, curated by Byrke Lou and Marcello Lussana in collaboration with SPEKTRUM. The International Metabody Forum 2016 Berlin coordinated by Jaime del Val is part of the festival. Throughout the week there will be workshops and performances, with a conference...

The “States of Matter” exhibition seeks dimensions of meaning and beauty by unfolding nature’s innermost secrets. Visual concepts such as light, color, materiality and movement are reinvented through plasma physics, fluid dynamics, low temperature crystallisation, and experiments testing the chemical origins of life. The four classical states of matter are the subjects of the artworks selected for...

For three days, Spektrum is overgrown by Lacuna Lab, a Berlin-centred collective of trans-disciplinary artists. For the collective's inaugural exhibition, spores of ideas waft across the canal from their studio on Paul-Lincke-Ufer, taking root as a multi-channel network of biology- and technology-based pieces.