Media Arts at the Colourful Night of Digitization

On June 7, Karlsruhe as a digital location invites you for the third time to coder workshops, start-up pitches, discussion rounds, company parties with families and friends, drone courses, career advice or guided tours through real laboratories and data centers and much more. Visitors can experience this year’s artistic highlight on Kronenplatz.

“Bunte Nacht der Digitalisierung” is Karlsruhe’s city festival of digital ideas and solutions that brings digitalization to life in all its facets. On which digital topics are Karlsruhe universities and research institutions actively researching? What constitutes digital art? How digital is the administration? What ideas are Karlsruhe start-ups and companies pursuing? And how can you experiment within NGOs with digital tools or get involved in those organisations?

“Bunte Nacht der Digitalisierung” kicks off at 2 p.m. at TRIANGEL on Kronenplatz with a welcome address by Stefan Krebs, State Government Commissioner for Information Technology and CIO and CDO of the State of Baden-Württemberg. From 3 p.m., around 60 partners of the Colourful Night of Digitalization will be showcasing their digitalization highlights at various hotspots throughout the city. Whether lectures for interested professionals, hands-on workshops for citizens, a summer party for employees and their families and friends – each partner designs its own program. The unique ecosystem of the digital stronghold Karlsruhe can be seen and experienced in over 200 events. After the decentralized programme, the Colourful Night of Digitalization will be celebrated in style at TRIANGEL from 10 pm.

Experience media art

Right at the beginning of the event until 11 pm, media art installations will be on display on and around Kronenplatz:

• Echoes and Archives Part II – In the vortex of data and fleeting bills on Kronenplatz: The artist collective Francis Karat mobilizes AI models for the Colourful Night of Digitalization and lets them hallucinate the abstractions of future administration. The result is an experimental film without human intention, a futuristic reimagining of Marker’s “photo novel”. Through a rearrangement of the familiar yellow roadblocks, the story breaks out of the screen and interacts with the Kronenplatz.
• A factor of evolution in the TRIANGEL Studio: For Tina Jander’s sound and video installation, digital sound recordings of a cello, a shaman drum and a prepared piano, as well as voices, were processed and arranged in a Digital Audio Work (DAW) station. The digital film recordings create a dream-like aesthetic and are intended to illustrate the need for a cooperative society that ensures the well-being of all its members.
• Material Practice: Hyper Materials at TRIANGEL Space & Workshop: Material Practice explores transformative materials and textures through a sociological perspective. For the Colourful Night of Digitization, Hoin Ji and Chelsea Kim present Hyper Materials, the first work in this series: in a four-screen installation, different materials are digitally represented through a glitchy, hypnotic aesthetic to reflect on solidarity, community, rave culture and basic materials such as nickel, metal and earth.
• Media Arts at TRIANGEL and on Kronenplatz – presentation and tour with the artists, 19.30-20.30The media artists Tina Jander, Francis Karat and Hoin Ji will present their work, discuss it with the audience in the TRIANGEL Space and then offer a short tour of their installations on and around Kronenplatz. Moderated by Víctor Fancelli Capdevila (HfG Open Resource Center).

The presentation of media art on and around Kronenplatz is supported by the UNESCO City of Media Arts Karlsruhe.

Further highlights at the Colourful Night of Digitization:

For families:

• Soccer tricks with team members of KSC II: Prove your skill with the soccer ball in a completely analog way at TelemaxX
• Immerse yourself in virtual worlds at Infokom with classic games and the latest gaming hits
• Presentation of hacking gadgets at aramido. Like the USB condom soldering station, for example, where you can solder yourself. Or voice cloning, where your own voice is cloned.
• The fellow.olympiad at fellowork in Durlach is all about mastering challenges in AI and agility
• Programming without code? This is possible at Sopra Steria Custom Software Solutions GmbH, where children can playfully achieve their first programming successes in Scratch
• You can get hands-on with AI at Infokom: playfully discover what qualities you have as art forgers & get exciting insights into the topic of AI!
• Teachers at Helmholtz-Gymnasium train each other. Interested parties are invited to listen
• Grand opening of the technikaLab student research center at CyberForum e.V.
• Guided tour of the Makersphere – the open learning space at the SMZ. With gaming_&coding school, makerspace, media workshop (podcast / GreenScreen) and technika-Lab
• Experience VR training: Explore d igital tools for education in the Digital Learning Lab and do 360° video training in taekwondo or karate
• You can get a taste of campus life at the CAS Innovation Festival, with exciting software solutions of the future and the popular drone course

For professionals:

• At the CyberForum, applicants can find career advice, vacancies in the digital economy and tips & tricks at the information stand for job seekers and CV check
• At Women in Tech e.V., visitors are immersed in a world in which technology is shaped equally by people of all genders
• Karlsruhe-Rastatt Employment Agency and Karlsruhe Job Center open their doors
• Visitors to _w-AI-lness_ will get up close and personal with future technology from Baden-Württemberg at the Baden-Württemberg AI Alliance in the Smart Production Park
• Working with robots? Stogl Robotics Consulting invites you to get to know us
• We.Meet – get to know the design fields of CAS with the interactive job wall
• Creative yet serious play with clamping blocks enables haptic building and real interaction with New Work approaches at Sopra Steria CSS GmbH
• The developer community is invited to bluehands for a party with inspiring talks, workshops, discussion rounds and open code sessions with an insight into the projects
• Bright minds for retirement – Deutsche Rentenversicherung BW provides information on training and dual study programs
• Welcome to OK! Exchange and networking on the topic of “Joining Objektkultur” above the rooftops of Karlsruhe
• Talking about software development in the age of AI! The Karlsruhe Software Engineers’ Association invites you to lectures, discussions and a party
• Looking for an employer in Durlach? The Raumfabrik invites you to outdoor networking with live music, snacks and drinks on the campus and fellowork presents itself in its own rooms
• The City of Karlsruhe’s Economic Development Agency presents new ways of career guidance at the marketplace with the craft.ROADSHOW
• Looking for inspiration for teachers? The Helmholtz-Gymnasium and the City Media Center offer some of these.
• Inovex offers networking on the terrace
• The CyberLab offers the opportunity to get to know and exchange ideas with start-ups

The complete program is available in the app, without any download.