27.09.2026
Join Us for DATA-WORLDS | Final Conference of 2nd Funding Phase of Schaufler Lab@TU-Dresden | Sept 28-30
Data ↔ Wolds: Final Conference of Second Funding Phase of Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden
Date: Sep.28-30, 2026
Place: Görges-Bau, Helmholtzstraße 9, 01069 Dresden
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The Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden is pleased to announce the international conference “Data↔Worlds”, which will take place from September 28 to 30, 2026, at TUD Dresden University of Technology (TUD). The conference marks the conclusion of the lab's second funding phase (2024–2027), which examines the interactions between data-based technologies and social realities under the guiding theme of Data↔Worlds: Sociotechnical and Cultural Syntheses of New Realities.
The conference will explore the multifaceted relationships between data worlds and political decision-making processes, social inequalities, cultural expressions, and ecological conditions. Different forms of knowledge, questions of power and participation, and the role of imaginations, narratives, and images surrounding the topic of data will play a central role.
In addition to the Schaufler Residency 2026 exhibition opening by artist duo Quadrature, the conference will feature keynote lectures by Louise Amoore, whose work examines how data-driven technologies are transforming practices of security, risk, and preemption, with far-reaching implications for society, democracy, and geopolitics, and by Joanna Zylinska, whose work engages with data, media, and art practice from a planetary perspective, addressing deep time, ecological crisis, and the evolving boundaries between human and machine intelligence. In her keynote, “UNBEHAGEN–When Critical Data Touches the Shadow of the Invisible,” Manuela Naveau explores how artistic research can move beyond the mere visualization of data to foster a critical engagement with the systems, imaginaries, and power structures that shape our world. Her perspective opens up new ways of approaching data—not merely as a technological resource, but as a cultural, political, and aesthetic condition of our contemporary reality.
The conference is designed as an open and diverse exchange. It brings together scientists, artists, and practitioners who have collaborated with the Schaufler Lab in a variety of ways in recent years—in academic seminars, symposia, exhibitions, experimental art formats, video productions, and publications. “Data↔ Worlds” offers a space to look back together, share experiences, and develop new perspectives for future projects. The conference language is English.
Full program, incl abstracts available here.
