All Creatures Welcome sketches a utopian image of society in the digital era. Accompanied by the appeal to »use hacking as a mindset«, the viewers immerse themselves, together with the filmmaker, in a documentary adventure game and explore the world of hackers and nerds.
Together with the filmmaker and the slogan »use hacking as a mindset« we immerse in a documentary adventure game and explore the world of Komputerfrieks, as they used to call themselves at the inaugural meeting of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC for short) in 1981. We come upon an open, free-spirited society. The events of the CCC are a kind of utopian real-world reflection of the virtual spectrum. We encounter angels, activists, robots, coders and makers. We learn what a hack is, why lockpicking can be important, how a cellular system works. We dive into the game and become part of the community that is as inclusive as it is sophisticated. Still outside of this collective the challenges are immense in an era, in which political certainties and institutions increasingly erode. Models of governance, economics, social order, technology and science are being put into question 24/7. With the internet’s rules of conduct, national laws are being repealed and transformed into global structures. While the worldwide web would structurally actually allow a radical renewal of democracy, changing it from representation to participation, more and more states are drifting towards
authoritarian societies in political reality.
In the course of that process, en passant the largest surveillance machinery of human history has been created. We see how the hacker culture meets these challenges and what inner contradictions it encounters. We learn that our lives are not determined by general, given truths but actually through the way we work, develop ourselves, suffer or dream. The events of the CCC become a possible blueprint of social upheaval. Self-organization, freedom of expression and critical discussion merge in a colorful, polyphonic chorus apart from social norms and capitalist constraints: »Be excellent to each other!«
- Organization / Institution
- ZKM and Goethe-Institut Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai
Accompanying program
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- Sun, February 10, 20194 pm
- Digital Embroidery
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Workshop
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- Sat, February 09, 20192 pm
- Algorave
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Workshop
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- Fri, February 08, 20196 pm
- Build your own pollution sensor
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Workshop
Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai
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- Thu, February 07, 20196 pm
- Digital Embroidery
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Workshop
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- Wed, February 06, 20198 pm
- Build your own pollution sensor
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Workshop
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- Tue, February 05, 20198 pm
- Digital Embroidery
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Workshop
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- Tue, February 05, 20196 pm
- Sublime Encoded
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Workshop
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- Mon, February 04, 20198 pm
- All Creatures Welcome
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Workshop
Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai
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- Sun, February 03, 20194 pm
- Build your own pollution sensor
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Workshop
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- Sat, February 02, 20196 pm
- Kinetics of Yoga using Computer Vision
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Workshop
Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai
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- Sat, February 02, 20194.30 pm
- First steps with augmented reality
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Workshop
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- Sat, February 02, 20192 pm
- Creative Data Lamps
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Workshop