Poetics of Encryption

Though we rely on digital tools for many things, we rarely understand how they work and affect us both on a personal and on a societal level. What symptoms of this register in the cultural field? What moods, symbols, or narrative frames capture the aesthetics and politics of exclusion, occlusion, secrecy, and speculation concerning the inside of technology? Poetics of Encryption surveys an imaginative landscape where technical systems capture users, work in stealth, and distort cultural space-time.

Participating artists: Emmanuel Van der Auwera, Gillian Brett, Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Julian Charrière, Joshua Citarella, Clusterduck, Simon Denny, enorê, Tilman Hornig, Daniel Keller, Andrea Khôra, Eva & Franco Mattes, Trevor Paglen, Matthias Planitzer, Jon Rafman, Rachel Rossin, Troika, among others.

Poetics of Encryption is curated by Nadim Samman, the author of the recent book titled Poetics of Encryption. Art and the Technocene. The exhibition is initiated by KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, with support by Volkswagen Group.

The exhibition at Kunsthal Charlottenborg is supported by the Aage and Johanne Louis-Hansen’s Foundation, the Augustinus Foundation, the Beckett Foundation, the Danish Art Foundation, the New Carlsberg Foundation, the Obel Family Foundation, the William Demant Foundation.