UPDATE IDENTITY LATURBO AVEDON “Selfie” Was Chosen As the English Word of the Year in 2013, and Today 25 Million Germans Admit to Occasionally Taking Selfies

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O THE FUTURE OF THE DIGITAL UPDATE IDENTITY LATURBO AVEDON “Selfie” was chosen as the English word of the year in 2013, and today 25 million Germans admit to occasionally taking selfies. A 2014 “Time” magazine survey found that Düsseldorf is the selfie capital of Germany, and the city placed 136 in an international comparison, well ahead of Berlin or Hamburg. The digital revolution has influenced and changed photography more than any previous development: “I think, therefore I am” has become “I photograph, I document, therefore I am”. The quest for identity has always been one of the major questions driving humanity, one that has presented itself in myriad social, political and cultural forms of expression. The question that naturally follows, “Who do I want to be, or who should I be?”, is part of the basic repertoire of culture, philosophy, economics, theology and politics, alongside the collective version this question: “Who are we?” – as a social group, as a nation, as Europeans. The exhibition project “Ego Update. The Future of Digital Identity” explores how these questions have changed and developed under the influence of digital media. How do digital and technological advances around the world affect human identity, and what kind of society is likely to result? How are our notions of identity and our desires shaped by digital communication, or even created by it?

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The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication featuring essays that take an in-depth look at the theme, by authors including Jerry Saltz, Douglas Coupland, Adam Levin, David Rubinstein, Brooke Wendt and Karen Ann Donnachie. 1 2 MARTIN PARR ROBBIE COOPER AUTOPORTRAITS, 1991–2012 & ALTER EGO, 2002–2007 & PHOTOBOOTH, 2015 IMMERSION, 2008

B. 1952 IN EPSOM, B. 1969 IN LONDON, LIVES IN LONDON AND BRISTOL LIVES IN BANGKOK

British Magnum photographer Martin In his series Alter Ego, British photog- Parr is regarded as a satirist of rapher and video artist Robbie contemporary life; his photographs Cooper portrays online gamers and are scathingly critical, his inimitable their avatars. Avatars are self-created gaze deflating subjects both mundane graphic characters that let users and grotesque. His pictures are operate in virtual worlds. The video known for their bright colours, bizarre project Immersion assumes the point motifs and unusual, condensed of view of the computer screen to perspectives. When Parr travels, he show us the reactions on the has his portrait taken in local photo faces of gamers absorbed in play. studios. He deliberately leaves the staging and styling of the image up to ROBBIECOOPER.ORG the respective photographer. These humorous self-portraits uncover a global sociology of photographic taste and display the almost infinite possibilities of digital image editing. Visitors to the exhibition will have the opportunity to be photographed in typical Parr style in the new Magnum photobooth.

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ROBBIE COOPER: ALTER EGO, 2010

EGO UPDATE 4 A WING MARTIN PARR

MARTIN PARR: AUTOPORTRAIT, BENIDORM, SPAIN, 1997. © COLLECTION MARTIN PARR / MAGNUM PHOTOS

EGO UPDATE 5 A WING 4 AMALIA ULMAN EXCELLENCES & PERFECTIONS, 2014

B. 1989 IN BUENOS AIRES, LIVES IN LONDON AND GIJÓN

ANDREAS SCHMIDT: ANDY WARHOL Amalia Ulman’s artistic practice AUS FAKE FAKE ART, 2012 consists in a mix of painting, sculpture, photography and net art. She deals with female stereotypes, power, 3 social anxiety and self-expression in ANDREAS SCHMIDT the age of social media and Photo- FAKE FAKE ART, 2012 & shop. Ulman used her own social HUMAN RESOURCES I / II, 2014 media profiles for an elaborately detailed online performance: for four B. 1967 IN WERNECK BEI months she told a fictional picture SCHWEINFURT, story on Instagram, altering her LIVES IN BERLIN AND LONDON physical appearance and playing with clichés. The piece quickly made her Artist and photographer Andreas an internet celebrity. Her virtual Schmidt presents 19 pictures that performance calls into question the show famous artists such as Roy authenticity of social media and our Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and addiction to self-optimization. Gerhard Richter standing next to their “Excellences & Perfections is a project works. But appearances are deceiv- about our flesh as object, your body ing: the series Fake Fake Art doesn’t as an investment. How do we market actually show real scenes. Schmidt this flesh? How do we price this has instead altered the original meat? How long will it stay fresh for?” photographs in the series Real Fake Art by photographer Michael Wolf, AMALIAULMAN.EU which shows world-renowned works of art and their forgers. Also on view in the exhibition are two of Schmidt’s artist books: Human Resources I / II contain screenshots of all of his Facebook friends who have chosen to portray themselves on their profile and cover pages holding a camera.

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EGO UPDATE 6 A WING 5 6 OLIVER SIEBER DIRK WITEK CHARACTER THIEVES, A.K.A. MC FITTI 2005–2007 #SELFIEGOTT, 2015

B. 1966 IN DÜSSELDORF, B. 1976 IN GIFHORN, LIVES IN DÜSSELDORF LIVES IN BERLIN

Oliver Sieber has devoted his series MC Fitti could no doubt be described Character Thieves to the Japanese as a “living selfie.” The German trend known as Cosplay (a portman- feel-good rapper with his impressive teau made up of “costume” and beard, mirrored sunglasses and “play”). Cosplayers dress up as their snapback cap constantly takes favorite characters from mangas, photos, regularly incorporating his animes, computer games or movies, distinctive countenance in wacky also imitating their behavior. Sieber collages or images. MC Fitti is photographed them over several presenting his first museum artwork years as their alter egos, but in their here: a bronze bust with selfie arm familiar environment – traveling to that first toured Germany’s summer Japan, the USA, Canada and festivals before reaching its final Germany. destination: a temple at the NRW- Forum Düsseldorf. This was also the site of the concert performance OS66.DE recorded in a video on view in the installation.

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OLIVER SIEBER: HOWL, LEVERKUSEN, 2007, FROM THE SERIES CHARACTER THIEVES

EGO UPDATE 7 A WING 8 DAFNA MAIMON HUMAN COMMA BEING, 2015

B. 1982 IN FINLAND, LIVES IN BERLIN GUIDO SEGNI: THE MIDDLEFINGER RESPONSE, 2013 Dafna Maimon’s video and performance project Human Comma 7 Being is concerned with identity GUIDO SEGNI constructions that challenge defini- THE MIDDLE FINGER tions of the self and the other. It RESPONSE, 2013 acknowledges that our bodies are never complete, but haunted by B. 1988 IN ITALY, memories of living or technological LIVES IN ITALY doppelgängers and missing limbs. For the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, As a hacker, net and video artist, the Finnish-Israeli artist has created a Guido Segni (alias Clemente Pestelli, narrative two channel video installa- Dedalus, Guy McMusker, Angela tion combining footage from Merelli, Anna Adamolo, Guy The Bore, performances with fictional and Umberto Stanca, Silvie Inb, Fosco documentary video material. The Loiti Celant, Guru Miri Goro, Leslie video work follows a complex story Bleus, Luther Blissett) works at the line that relates the actual practice crossroads of art, pop, net culture, of the artist’s mother, who has data madness and multiple identities. created a Victorian alter ego for In many cultures, a raised middle herself living in the 1860s to the finger is viewed as an insulting practice of her fictional son, an artist gesture. Segni stages it in this series: working with self-representation. he paid the digital proletariat – Both, in turn, are linked to the playful so-called “crowdworkers” who do creative manner in which the matriar- digital grunt work on platforms like chal bonobo primates structure the Amazon Mechanical Turk that way they live together. Throughout computers are not yet able to do – the installation these narrative half a dollar to shoot a self-portrait of strains and voices are connected, themselves in their normal surround- reconfigured, and reconstructed ings making this gesture. through a twisted psychoanalytic reading. GUIDOSEGNI.COM DAFNAMAIMON.COM

EGO UPDATE 8 A WING 9 10 DAVID SLATER JONAS UNGER MONKEY SELFIE, 2014 AUTOPORTRAITS, 2010–HEUTE

B. 1968 IN COLEFORD, B. 1975 IN CUXHAVEN, LIVES IN CHEPSTOW LIVES IN PARIS

The so-called Monkey Selfies created Back when selfies were not yet a pop- by British wildlife photographer David cultural mass phenomenon, photo- Slater made headlines worldwide grapher Jonas Unger invited celebri- when they were first published in ties to photo-shootings where he 2011, unleashing a copyright debate. handed out analog QuickSnap When Wikipedia included one of the cameras and asked them to take their animal self-portraits in its English self-portrait. The entire series is article on primates, Slater objected. on display for the first time in the exhi- But the online encyclopaedia refused bition, from supermodel Karolína to take the image offline, citing Kurková to national football coach US copyright regulations. However, “Jogi” Löw. the legal situation is different in the UK, where photographers can claim JONASUNGER.COM the right to images even if they themselves did not press the shutter button. The outcome of the case is still open.

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JONAS UNGER: JOACHIM JOGI LÖW, FROM THE SERIES AUTOPORTRAITS, 2010–HEUTE COURTESY GALERIE DEROUILLON, PARIS

EGO UPDATE 9 A WING 11 12 & 20 KIM ASENDORF & NETRO EVAN ROTH SELFIE TEMPLATE, 2015 & INTERNET CACHE TEH LIFE, 2015 PORTRAIT, 2015 & SELF PORTRAIT, AUGUST 14, 2015 & B. 1981 IN ACHIM, IDEAS WORTH SPREDING, 2013 LIVES IN BERLIN B. 1978 IN OKEMOS, Kim Asendorf studied new media at LIVES IN PARIS the Kunsthochschule Kassel and is today a conceptual artist who works Evan Roth, co-founder of the Graffiti with digital media, engaging with Research Lab and the Free Art & Internet culture and technology. Technology Lab, is a US artist and In his spare time he is Creative Direc- hacker whose work examines the tor at the Internet agency Netro, relationship between subversive which he runs together with the artist usage and self-empowerment. By Ole Fach and the photographer misappropriating seemingly rigid Jana Lange. The trio produced a new structures and applying the philoso- work expressly for the exhibition: Teh phies of the hacker community, Roth Life is a virtual sitcom whose first transfers his projects to non-digital episode can be watched on the NRW- systems. In the installation Ideas Forum Düsseldorf website. A further Worth Spreading, visitors can hold work can be discovered in the rest- their own TED talk. And the Internet rooms: Asendorf’s Selfie Templates. Cache Portrait is a virtual self-portrait Each template consists of a mirror of Roth, something like his digital selfie from which the artist cut out the fingerprint. subject’s face. EVAN-ROTH.COM KIMASENDORF.COM NETRO.CC

EGO UPDATE 10 B WING 13 KURT CAVIEZEL THE USERS, 2011

B. 1964 IN CHUR, LIVES IN ZURICH

Exhibitionism and surveillance: Kurt Caviezel’s film set is the internet, his camera the webcams operated by others. For 15 years, the Swiss artist has been searching the internet for publicly accessible webcams that record both public and private spaces. He then collects individual images before they are overwritten again. He has already archived more than three billion such scenes. ONTHEROOFS: HONG KONG “The user does not exist, at least not as an image,” Caviezel says. “This is a paradox, because the term is omni- 14 present. As an individual, he shows VITALIY RASKALOV & himself on the Internet using a VADIM MAKHOROV webcam. And he also lets his picture A.K.A. ONTHEROOFS be taken there. You have to see HONG KONG, JAPAN, EUROPE, through the medium in order to reach USA, 2013–2015 them. The greater the spatial dis- tance between user and photogra- B. 1993 IN KIEV, pher, the closer (in the sense of LIVES IN HONG KONG authenticity) the photographer gets B. 1989 IN NOVOSIBIRSK, to the user. The work thus ventures LIVES IN NOVOSIBIRSK onto new photographic territory.” Whether Cologne Cathedral, Shang- KURTCAVIEZEL.CH hai Tower or the Pyramid of Cheops: Ontheroofs have been working together for five years, dedicated to the theme of urban exploration, meaning above all climbing the world’s tallest buildings and taking self-portraits there.

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EGO UPDATE 11 B WING 15 16 ERIK KESSELS CEDRIC KIEFER & JULIA LAUB MY FEET, 2015 ONFORMATIVE GOOGLE FACES, 2013 B. 1966 IN ROERMOND, LIVES IN AMSTERDAM B. 1982 IN HEIDELBERG B. 1980 IN BAVARIA, The Dutch artist, curator and founder BOTH LIVE IN BERLIN of the KesselsKramer agency turns found photos into quirky picture The Berlin-based agency Onforma- stories and installations. For My Feet, tive deals with what is known as Kessels collected thousands generative design: generating images of foot selfies on the Internet. We see using codes. The projects range from here feet on holiday beaches, feet artistic data visualizations to genera- proudly displaying new shoes, tive sculptures to expansive installa- feet covered with blisters, and also tions. The Google Faces were Kessel’s own feet. He used search generated by a facetracking algo- terms in several languages, or simply rithm, which used Google Maps entered “I’m bored”, and found to discover a variety of faces in land- out that people all over the world like scapes. The aim of the project (in to share pictures of their feet. His cooperation with Christian Loclair) wider interest is in the state of was to elicit machine-generated photography in these days when pareidolia, a psychological phenome- millions of images course through the non in which people see supposed Web. For his installation 24 Hrs In faces in things and patterns. Photos, for example, he printed out 350,000 images that were posted ONFORMATIVE.COM within a 24-hour-period to the Flickr photo sharing platform.

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EGO UPDATE 12 B WING 17 18 LATURBO AVEDON ARVIDA BYSTRÖM UNTEXTURED SELF–PORTRAITS, MOST COMMENTED. MARCH 2015 2015 & STREAM, 2015 & UNTITLED, 2013–2015 B. IN THE WWW, LIVES IN THE WWW B. 1993 IN STOCKHOLM, LIVES IN LOS ANGELES This artist wouldn’t exist without the internet, because she exists only as a The works of the Swedish artist, female avatar. “My digital experiences photographer, and blogger address have formed my identity. Every time I the themes of femininity, sex, gender set up a new online account, roles and the search for identity. In I go through a process of character Arvida Byström’s frequent photo- generation,” says Avedon. Her digital graphic self-portraits, glitter, pastel sculptures, photographs and videos colors and the subversive moment ignore the lack of physicality and play an essential role. In a sculpture instead emphasize the practice of produced especially for the exhibi- virtual authorship. Her latest self-por- tion, Byström takes a closer look at trait series quotes Jan Vermeer, her most commented-on Instagram mimics the internet meme “Parked image. Domain Girl,” and pays homage to her idol, the professor and author of the ARVIDABYSTROM.SE Cyborg Manifesto, Donna Haraway.

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ARVIDA BYSTRÖM: UNTITLED, 2013–2015

EGO UPDATE 13 B WING 19 21 EVAN BADEN HEATHER DEWEY-HAGBORG TECHNICALLY INTIMATE, STRANGER VISIONS, 2008–2011 2010–2013

B. 1980 IN SAUDI ARABIA, B. 1982 IN PHILADELPHIA, LIVES IN CHICAGO LIVES IN CHICAGO

An intimate moment, and the selfie in Our DNA carries our genetic informa- a lascivious pose is quickly transmit- tion and defines who we are. The US ted via smartphone to one’s partner, artist and bio-hacker Heather and how frivolous is online sex before Dewey-Hagborg uses found DNA, for the webcam really when everything example from lost hairs, spat-out goes from one protected place to chewing gum or discarded cigarette another? But things really get titil- butts, to create computer-generated, lating when this material is forwarded post-photo-graphic 3D portraits. to others or posted and shared Dewey-Hagborg delves here into publicly on social networks. Baden issues of genetic profiling, proposing demonstrates with his photo series in a follow-up project to respond to that the feeling of privacy in the World this threat by strategically blurring Wide Web is nothing but an illusion. DNA evidence. Her work poses pressing political questions relating to EVANBADEN.COM the application of forensic DNA phenotyping and the reliability of its physical results.

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EGO UPDATE 14 B WING EVAN BADEN

EVAN BADEN: EMILY FROM THE SERIES TECHNICALLY INTIMATE, 2008–2011

EGO UPDATE 15 B WING ALISON JACKSON

ALISON JACKSON: C´EST L´AMOUR, 2013 © COURTESY OF ALISON JACKSON STUDIO

EGO UPDATE 16 B WING 22 AT THE OPENING ALISON JACKSON & CLOSING EVENT: CONFIDENTIAL, 2010–2015 FLORIAN KUHLMANN B. 1970 IN SOUTHSEA, THE ARTIST IS PRESENT, LIVES IN LONDON 2008–2015

British photographer and video artist B. 1978 IN HO-CHI-MINH-CITY, Alison Jackson makes staged LIVES IN DÜSSELDORF pictures that explore the cult of celebrity, giving us an imagined peek In the fall of 2008, Florian Kuhlmann behind the scenes at the private lives presented the artist is present for the of the rich and famous. The images first time as a metamodern remix of often have an aesthetic similiar to that concept art, video installation, net art of sneaky paparazzi shots, but are and live performance at Worringer actually fictions elaborately Platz in Düsseldorf. The setting is constructed in the studio. “My works,” conceivably simple: Kuhlmann sits in says the artist, “are about how we front of his computer’s webcam and think we know these people’s most transmits the video-signal via live- intimate secrets. But all we really stream in the otherwise completely know about them are pictures and empty exhibition space. the artist is stories that have been thought up and present is first and foremost an ironic carefully constructed: by agents, the commentary regarding the codices of media or the celebrities themselves.” the global art system and the percep- tion of an established image of the ALISONJACKSON.COM artist. Simply because of that already, the work pursues a different approach than the eponymous and soppy performance by Marina Abramovic that caused a stir at the MoMa, New York, two years later. Kuhlmann is certainly interested in the figure of the artist, however in this case only in a secondary way. He is rather fascinated by the question what presence and absence mean in a world that is increasingly facilitated by media and technovisual means.

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EGO UPDATE 17 B WING FILM

18/9 – 11/10/2015

STÉPHANE DEGOUTIN & P GWENOLA WAGON WORLD BRAIN, F, 2015, 70MIN R In this essay-like transmedia project, the two French artists Gwenola Wagon and Stéphane Degoutin set out on a quest for the world brain. The 70-minute film and interactive O website take the viewer along on a dive down through the physical depths of the internet. World Brain is an attempt to investigate the utopias and ideologies associated with the G emergence of a collective intelligence and the hypothesis of a worldwide net- work. The film follows a group of re- searchers who are trying to survive in the woods with the help of the R internet. Their goal is nothing less than to create an alternative project A for the survival of humanity. M

EGO UPDATE 18 FILM PROGRAM 12/10 – 25/10/2015 26/10 – 8/11/2015

JANEZ JANŠA NICOLAS RITTER

MY NAME IS JANEZ JANŠA, THE CLOUD, SLO, 2012, 68MIN D, 2014, 29MIN

In 2007 three Slovenian artists join The digitization of everyday life is the conservative SDS Party. All three irreversible. What, then, can we do to officially change their names to Janez make life easier for digital natives and Janša – the name of the controversial to help digital immigrants assimilate? Party president and former prime The Arthur McLuhan Digital Webcam- minister. The actions of these multiple pus offers a solution: finger fitness, Janez Janšas quickly cause confu- multitasking training and practical sion. The meaning of a name and the real-life aids for the young internet possi bi li ty of modifying one’s own generation, and a gentle introduction identity are questioned here in an to the challenges of the information amusing and informative manner at age for the less technologically both the local and international levels. inclined. Frankfurt artist Nicolas Janez Janša (1970) is a conceptual Ritter’s debut documents with artist and director of the Aksioma affectionate satire a training camp for Institute for Contemporary Art in the digital society. Ljubljana.

EGO UPDATE 19 FILM PROGRAM 9/11 – 22/11/2015 23/11 – 6/12/2015

STÉPHANE CARREL DER BLICK ZURÜCK NACH VORN. FROM SELF-PORTRAIT TO SELFIE, F, 2015 VIDEO ART FROM THE ARCHIVES OF IMAI The ARTE documentary traces the history of the self-portrait. The photo- Since the 1970s, video technology booth, for example, which was in- has offered artists an ideal way to vented over 100 years ago, is today ex- showcase themselves, whether their periencing a revival, in some cases body, their actions or their own even equipped with nostalgic analog tech- identity. This screening assembles nology. And then there is the selfie artworks from the archives of the boom, which not even the Pope can media art foundation that fit in with resist. Is this trend a sign of unbridled this theme. They investigate the narcissism? Of people’s attempt to presence of the individual in front of claim a place in a society obsessed the camera and in the virtual space, with the cult of the celebrity? A new presenting video art as the memory fashion dictate or a creative means of of these performative and media expression for “Generation Internet?” experiments with and reflections on The documentary addresses all of the self. these questions – and even offers practical tips on how to make selfies without embarrassing yourself in front of your followers!

EGO UPDATE 20 FILM PROGRAM 7/12 – 3/1/2016 4/1 – 17/1/2016

CHARLIE BROOKER LYNN HERSHMAN LEESON

BLACK MIRROR: TEKNOLUST, WHITE CHRISTMAS, USA, 2002, 79MIN, FSK 16 UK, 2014, 75MIN, FSK 16 Teknolust is one of US artist Lynn Black Mirror is an award-winning Hershman Leeson’s most important British TV series that takes a satirical films – an absurd, amusing and highly look at our digital future. For each topical science fiction drama about episode, the author Charlie Brooker cyber identities, biogenetics, gender creates new characters and a new constructs and sexual self-determina- scenario and casts fresh actors. Each tion in the internet age. The plot time, a different reality unfolds, revolves around the scientist Rosetta showing us a not-too-distant future. Stone (Tilda Swinton), who illegally Social media, casting shows, smart- makes three clones of herself. The phone hype, cybersex and cyborgs artificial beings differ only in the color – every episode is a parable on the of their clothing and live in an isolated modern media era, viewed from a cyberspace. Because their survival frighteningly dystopian perspective. depends on absorbing the male Y White Christmas, the Christmas chromosome, Ruby, the femme fatale special, featuring actor Jon Hamm, among the clones, regularly goes on tells of digital cloning, cyber-crime man hunts. Sexual contact with Ruby and enhanced reality. renders her lovers impotent as well as causing an allergic reaction to a computer virus she carries which can be transmitted to humans. The growing number of infected men draws that attention of the FBI to the machinations of the clone family, leading to an investigation.

EGO UPDATE 21 FILM PROGRAM PERFORMANCES SCIENCE + FICTION: THE CYBORG FAIR 19/9/2015 #SELFIEGOTT: 6 – 8/11/2015 PERFORMANCE FEATURING The world’s first Cyborg Fair will MC FITTI bring together exhibitors from the fields of science, art, media, body 12/12/2015 modification, prosthetics and IT. In HUMAN COMMA BEING: SELFIE addition, artists, philosophers, BALLET PERFORMANCE scientists and hackers such as Tim FEATURING DAFNA MAIMON Cannon, M. Darusha Wehm, Anja Bagus, Stefanie Rembold, Enno Park and Ellfriede Nerdinger will present their views on the future of human- GUIDED TOURS kind. The fair is organised by Cyborgs e.V., the society for the promotion A free tour in German is offered every and critical guidance of the fusion of Friday at 8 pm. A free tour in English human and technology. is available on the last Friday of the month, likewise at 8 PM. Booking: +49 (0)211 – 89 266 84 or [email protected].

CONFERENCE

15 – 17/1/2016 STREAMING EGOS: DIGITAL IDENTITIES IN EUROPE

Streaming Egos is a project of the Goethe Institute in south-west Europe, in cooperation with the Slow Media Institute Bonn and the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf. Discourses and artistic forms of expression of digital identity in countries such as Germany, France, Italy, Portugal and Spain will be encouraged, creatively developed, examined and presented. National discourses become transnational ones here, enabling a European perspective to be taken on individual and collective identities and how they might unfold in future given the potentials of digital culture.

EGO UPDATE 22 ACCOMPANYING PROGRAM COVER IMAGE: NRW-FORUM DÜSSELDORF ARVIDA BYSTRÖM: UNTITLED, 2013–2015 Ehrenhof 2 D - 40479 Düsseldorf www.nrw-forum.de +49 (0)211 – 89 266 90

Director: Alain Bieber Commercial Director: Elke Menikheim Assistant: Nicola Funk Reception Desk: Sabine Brenner, Kornelia Linden Building Systems: Waldemar Maciossek, Rüdiger Stramm, Jörg Thur (F)

EXHIBITION: Curator: Alain Bieber Exhibition Design: Louisa Georg & Sadrick Schmidt Assistant: Nikolaj Tkatschenko Publication: Sina Michalskaja, EXHIBITION PARTNERS: Thomas Artur Spallek, Shahin Zarinbal Production: Nicola Funk Press: textpr+, Viviana Kleinert, Christine Peters Cooperation: coomedia, Henning Schnittcher Art Direction: KesselsKramer Web: V2A.net, Lars Wöhning Printing & Framing: Grieger Skateboard Ramp: Donald Campbell, Tobias Springborn (Pavel-Skates)

EXHIBITION BOOKLET Publisher: NRW-Forum Düsseldorf Texts: Alain Bieber, Viviana Kleinert Copyediting: Gian-Philip Andreas Translation: Jennifer Taylor MEDIA PARTNERS: Art Direction: KesselsKramer Gestaltung: Thomas Artur Spallek

INSTITUTIONAL PARTNER:

EGO UPDATE 23 ACCOMPANYING PROGRAM KIM ASENDORF FLORIAN KUHLMANN LATURBO AVEDON LYNN HERSHMAN EVAN BADEN LEESON CHARLIE BROOKER DAFNA MAIMON ARVIDA BYSTRÖM NETRO STÉPHANE CARREL ONFORMATIVE KURT CAVIEZEL ONTHEROOFS ROBBIE COOPER MARTIN PARR STÉPHANE NICOLAS RITTER DEGOUTIN EVAN ROTH HEATHER DEWEY- ANDREAS SCHMIDT HAGBORG GUIDO SEGNI MC FITTI OLIVER SIEBER IMAI DAVID SLATER ALISON JACKSON AMALIA ULMAN JANEZ JANŠA JONAS UNGER ERIK KESSELS GWENOLA WAGON

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