HEK Haus der Elektronischen Künste

What do we want from our technology? How do the tools we use define the future we can imagine? Our relationship with technology has always been co-extensive—we shape our tools and, thereafter, our tools shape us—yet we are often expected to uncritically embrace new technology, to see it as inherently neutral and progressive. To re-imagine the tools with which we make and re-make our reality is perhaps one of the most radical acts of creativity and a source of profound political power. The international group exhibition Tools for Change considers artists as inventors of «convivial tools» and brings together a wide range of artistic positions that chart alternative visions for technology and society by emphasizing access, creativity, justice and interdependence.

Featured artists: Tega Brain/Benedetta Piantella/Alex Nathanson, Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Anna Ehrenstein, Fragmentin, ISSA - Island School of Social Autonomy, Nicole L’Huillier, Yo-Yo Lin, Vanessa Lorenzo, Mary Maggic, mmcww/memeclassworldwide, Nascent, Rashaad Newsome, Caroline Sinders, Juan Pablo Garcia Sossa, Superflux, Alice Yuan Zhang Curator: Julia Kaganskiy