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We are excited to introduce you to the new Mensch Maschine fellows and give you a glimpse into their work and plans for the residency. Today: Phumulani Ntuli (@phumulani_ntuli ), a sculptor, video artist, and researcher whose essayistic films map the porous movement of images through fiction, collage, and performance. His work collides documentary and invention to probe post-lens materiality, revealing history’s gaps, silences, and ripples within geopolitical imaginaries. Merging sculpture, video installation, and performative research, he makes visible what archives leave behind. Trained at the University of Johannesburg and ECAV Sierre (where he earned the Prix-excellence), Phumulani has shown at Fak’ugesi, Kampala Biennale, and Live Works, with residencies at Fondazione Pistoletto and Alps Art Academy. ➡️ Stay tuned to see how Ntuli’s work unfolds over the coming months. We’ll share updates as Phumulani’s vision takes shape! A cooperation with @akademiederkuenste @e.on_foundation @visit_eonfoundation @u_jazdowski Credits: (1) Phumulani Ntuli. Point-Cloud, 2024. Photo: Kane Lucus. (2) Phumulani Ntuli. Synthetic fibers, 2024. Photo: Kane Lucus. (3) Phumulani Ntuli. Cloud Migration, 2021. Courtesy of the artist.

We are excited to introduce you to the new Mensch Maschine fellows and give you a glimpse into their work and plans for the residency. Today: Flora Weil (@florawl ), an interdisciplinary technologist, designer, and researcher whose practice connects ecology, anthropology, philosophy, and game design. She co-runs Nephila (@nephila.world ), a creative studio building open-source tools for experimental worldbuilding. During her residency, Weil will develop a project centered on the Gobi Desert, using autonomous browser agents to trace how trade, wind, migration, and love shape both environmental and human systems. These web-based “ghosts” gather shapes, sounds, texts, and actions, creating a dispersed choreography that reimagines AI as a medium for sensing planetary rhythms and more-than-human life. 👁 Stay tuned to see how this project unfolds over the coming months. We’ll keep you updated on our channels! A cooperation with @akademiederkuenste @e.on_foundation @visit_eonfoundation @u_jazdowski Credits: (1) Flora Weil. things that hesitate. Courtesy of the artist. (2) Flora Weil. design in rising winds. Courtesy of the artist.

We are excited to introduce you to the new Mensch Maschine fellows and give you a glimpse into their work and plans for the residency. Today: Edgar Fabián Frías (@edgarfabianfrias ), a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and brujx based in Los Angeles. During the Mensch Maschine residency, Frías will explore Indigenous and ancestral Wixárika technologies, especially the Nierika, to imagine new ecological and machinic futures. Drawing on ritual, code, trance-based drawing, and audiovisual practice, they will create sculptural and sonic works that bridge human, spirit, and more-than-human realms. Rooted in Wixárika lineage, queer/trans cosmologies, and Indigenous Futurism, Frías’ practice conjures portals of care, justice, and re‑enchantment. ➡️ Stay tuned to see how this research evolves over the coming months. We’ll share updates as Edgar’s project takes shape! A cooperation with @akademiederkuenste @e.on_foundation @visit_eonfoundation @u_jazdowski Credits: (1) VESSEL, Photo: Isabel Avila. (2) Kïïka, 2024. Courtesy of the artist. (3) Animacy, 2024. Courtesy of the artist.

We are excited to introduce you to the new Mensch Maschine fellows, and give you a sneak preview of their work and plans for the residency. Today: Sepideh Behrouzian (@sepidehbehrouzian ) During the Mensch Maschine residency, artist and researcher Sepideh Behrouzian is developing 'When I Call a Ghost', a multi-channel moving-image installation that explores the haunted intersections of energy, gender, and image-making. Bringing together archival films, geological samples, and reflective optics, the work begins to form a conversation with the ghosts of exhausted infrastructures, inviting viewers into a mirrored field where mechanisms of capture become gestures of attention. Through this ongoing project, Sepideh investigates how energy, matter, and memory co-inhabit landscapes and bodies shaped by extractive modernities. Born in Iran and based in Toronto, she works across film, installation, and research to trace how technology and modern systems of representation shape what we see and what remains unseen. 👁 Stay tuned to find out what happens in the next few months as 'When I Call a Ghost' unfolds! We’ll keep you updated on our channels! A cooperation with @akademiederkuenste @e.on_foundation @visit_eonfoundation @u_jazdowski Credit: Sepideh Behruzian. Courtesy of the artist.

Looking back at Mensch Maschine: Return to Earth 👀  The group exhibition of the VISIT Fellows 2024-2025, presented by E-WERK Luckenwalde, JUNGE AKADEMIE der Akademie der Künste and us. Between its opening in September and its closing in February, around 1,000 visitors experienced the exhibition in Luckenwalde. Joining the guided tour of the exhibition during our launch event in January was definitely one of the highlights of the evening. The exhibition explored the entangled relationships between human and machine, animal, plant and planet in a time shaped by climate emergency and rapidly advancing digital technologies. Moving through the exhibition offered a moment of reflection: How can artistic practices help us rethink our relationship with technology, ecology and the futures we are collectively shaping? Grateful for the opportunity to experience these perspectives together in such a remarkable place of transformation! Featuring works by: Assem Hendawi, Emerson Culurgioni & Viktor Brim, hn. lyonga & Safiya Yon, Kira Xon 📸 Kathleen Pracht

🚨 Final Call! Only this weekend left to see 'Mensch Maschine: Return to Earth' at E‑WERK Luckenwalde before it closes on Sunday. Don’t miss the last chance to experience the works of the Mensch Maschine Artist in Residence Programme exploring the intersections of ecology, energy and technology. Open Saturday  &  Sunday, 12:00 – 18:00 We can’t wait to welcome you one last time! 💛 ____________ 🚨 Final Call! Nur noch dieses Wochenende ist „Mensch Maschine: Return to Earth“ im E‑WERK Luckenwalde zu sehen – bevor die Ausstellung am Sonntag endet. Verpasst nicht die letzte Gelegenheit, die Werke des Mensch Maschine Artist in Residence Programms an der Schnittstelle von Ökologie, Energie und Technik. Geöffnet Samstag  und  Sonntag, 12:00 – 18:00 Uhr Wir freuen uns, euch ein letztes Mal zu begrüßen! 💛 Featuring: Assem Hendawi (@assemhendawi ) Emerson Culurgioni (@emerson.culurgioni ) & Viktor Brim (@viktorbrim__ ) hn. lyonga (@hn_lyonga ) & Safiya Yon (@seedmother_studio ) with David Osaodion Odiase (@thedavidodiase ) & Cate Lartey (@ceitii ) Kira Xonorika (@xonorika ) Maithu Bùi (@maithu_bui ) Rae Hsu (@hsurae ) Sonya Isupova (@sonya.isupova ) Eine Kooperation mit @akademiederkuenste @e.on_foundation @visit_eonfoundation 📸 @kathleenpracht

It arrived! Our project All the Power That Remains finally finds its conclusion in the publication Procession. From 2019 to 2022, we visited, researched and worked on the abandoned test tracks of the Aerotrain, Transrapid and Hyperloop. Procession is both a critical and careful celebration of the effort, faith, rupture and return of unfinished ambitions. The publication contains the performance, sculptural and installation work made in this project, accompanied by texts from Marijke Lukowicz, Harald Welzer and Sebastian Muehl. Published and distributed by Kerber Verlag. After a long proces of sketching, evaluating, assembling and tests prints we are very pleased with the result. Many thanks go out to Anna Busdiecker for her careful design and necessary patience, Marijke Lukowicz, Sebastian Muehl and Harald Welzer for their thoroughly contemplations on this topic, @leinemannsiftung for their support of this publication, @kerberverlag for bringing and taking it into the world, and of course the @e.on_foundation for their generous support of the publication and the whole project. Please join us hanging out and presenting Processions @info_on_books @cafe_babette @kindlberlin at Kindl Brauerei Berlin on February 19, 8pm. We ll both be there looking forward seeing you!

We are delighted to announce that artists Phumulani Ntuli (@phumulani_ntuli ), Flora Weil (@florawl ), Edgar Fabián Frías (@edgarfabianfrias ) and Sepideh Behruzian (@sepidehbehruzian ) have been selected as new fellows for the Mensch Maschine Residency programme by an expert jury. Congratulations! 🎉 Mensch Maschine is an artist-in-residence programme by the JUNGE AKADEMIE of the Akademie der Künste, the programme VISIT by the E.ON Foundation and E-WERK Luckenwalde. @akademiederkuenste @visit_eonfoundation @e.on_foundation The artists will have a studio space at E-WERK or at the Akademie der Künste between April - June 2026. Joint events will be planned at the Akademie der Künste and E-WERK with a Spring School, Open Studios and field trip to Ujadowski Castle of Contemporary art, Warsaw (@u_jazdowski ). We want to say THANK YOU to all the other artists who applied and the jury: Nolan Oswald Dennis (@data_body ), artist & researcher Chus Martinez (@the_chus_martinez ), Head of the Institute Art Gender Nature, associate curator of TBA21 Sarah Johanna Theurer (@sarahjohanna.t ), curator, Haus der Kunst, Munich Kirsten Reese (@kirstenreese ), composer & sound artist Anh Lingh Ngo (@anhlinh.ngo ), Vice-President of the Akademie der Künste, architectural publicist & curator Tiara Roxanne (@tiara_roxanne_ ), artist & researcher Make sure you follow our channels to get all the updates and find out what’s coming next! 📸 (1) Phumulani Ntuli. Photo taken by Thys Dullaart. (2) Flora Weil. Courtesy of the artist. (3) Headshot of Edgar Fabián Frías. Courtesy of the artist. (4) Sepideh Behruzian. Courtesy of the artist.

All eyes on our big opening day of 'Mensch Maschine: Return to Earth' and 'Mensch Maschine Musik' at E-WERK Luckenwalde back in September! 👀 We would like to thank everyone involved in this project, as well as all the artists who took part in the exhibition and performed live at Stadtbad Live next door. It was a day to remember! Assem Hendawi (@assemhendawi ) Bendik Giske (@bendikgiske ) Cate Lartey (@ceitii ) David Osaodion Odiase (@thedavidodiase ) Discovery Zone (@discoveryz0ne ) Emerson Culurgioni (@emerson.culurgioni ) & Viktor Brim (@viktorbrim__ ) hn. lyonga (@hn_lyonga ) & Safiya Yon (@seedmother_studio ) Kira Xonorika (@xonorika ) Maithu Bùi (@maithu_bui ) Nazanin Noori (@nznnsmmnr ) Rae Hsu (@hsurae ) Sonya Isupova (@sonya.isupova ) The exhibition still runs until 22 February 2026 and is open on Saturdays and Sunday – don’t miss it! 🌍 A cooperation between EW Luckenwalde, JUNGE AKADEMIE of Akademie der Künste (@akademiederkuenste ) and funded by E.ON Foundation (@e.on_foundation ). Curated by Clara Herrmann (@claradius ), Helen Turner (@helsxturner ) & Katharina Worf (@katharinaworf ). 🎥 @andreas.daniel.jakob 🎶 @discoveryz0ne - Dance II

Symposium Mensch Maschine: Soil, Sound, Memory Sat 15.11.2025, 1-9pm Keynotes, Lecture-Performance, Konzerte, Panels We are very excited for this year’s guests at the "Mensch Maschine Symposium: Soil, Sound, Memory", who join the fellows with lecture performances, keynotes, concerts and as moderators. Nolan Oswald Dennis @data_body  is an artist based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Their practice explores the material and metaphysical conditions of decolonisation, questioning histories of space and time through system-specific interventions. Jonathan Gray @jwyg  is Co-Director of the Centre for Digital Culture at the Department of Digital Humanities, Kings’s College London. His research critically and creatively engages with the roles of digital data, methods and infrastructures in society. Wesley Goatley @wesleygoatley  is an artist and researcher based in London, UK. His work critically interrogates the relations between the AI industry, the climate crisis, and the social impacts of digital technology. Tamara Kneese @teegoldberg  is the director of Data & Society’s Climate, Technology, and Justice program at Data & Society Institute, a former tech worker, academic researcher, and labor organizer. Tiara Roxanne @tiara_roxanne_  is a scholar performance artist whose work rethinks the ethics of AI through an anticolonial, eco-feminist, and cyberfeminist lens. Helen Starr @themechatroniclibrary  is an Afro-Carib cultural activist, curator and producer based in the UK. ​Community, healing and learning are the core of Starr’s practice. Over the past decade composer and vocalist and Akademie-member Jennifer Walshe @milker_corporation  has worked with, through and around AI, creating a body of work by turns playful and anarchic, serious and thought-provoking. Closing Concert by @just.junoo 💬 In English 🎫 Free admission The Mensch Maschine programme is a cooperation between JUNGE AKADEMIE, E-WERK Luckenwalde & E.ON Foundation. With the fellows: @maithu_bui  @viktorbrim__  @emerson.culurgioni  @hn_lyonga  @hannguyenchi  @sonya.isupova  @seedmother_studio  @xonorika @assemhendawi The Open Call for the next fellowship round is open until November 16!

🗣 Incoming news! Starting in 2026, the Mensch Maschine programme will welcome the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art (@u_jazdowski ) as a new European partner. Together, we will collaborate on exchange residencies and a joint public programme including an interdisciplinary Autumn School to expand dialogue across Europe and connect Polish, cultural, and regional perspectives with new networks of artists and thinkers. For many years, U–jazdowski has hosted an internationally acclaimed artist-in-residence programme alongside exhibitions and discourse in contemporary and transdisciplinary art. Today, the residency serves as a space to explore coexistence, collaboration, and the relationship between humans, the non-human, and the posthuman world amid global crises. Upcoming projects will focus on strategies for coexistence and regeneration. Don’t forget to apply for 2026: the open call for the next fellowship is still open until 16 November! (🔗link in bio) 📸 Kuba Rodziewicz and Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art The Mensch Maschine project is chiefly supported by the E.ON Foundation and is a partnership between E-WERK Luckenwalde, JUNGE AKADEMIE of Akademie der Künste, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art and the E.ON Foundation. @akademiederkuenste @visit_eonfoundation @e.on_foundation

'Mensch Maschine Musik' in September transformed the Bauhaus Stadtbad next to E-WERK Luckenwalde into a playground of sound, tech, and art.⚡️ With powerful performances by Bendik Giske (@bendikgiske ), Discovery Zone (@discoveryz0ne ), Nazanin Noori (@nznnsmmnr ), and residency artists Rae Hsu (@hsurae ), Kira Xonorika (@xonorika ), and David Osaodion Odiase (@thedavidodiase ) & hn. lyonga (@hn_lyonga ), the night explored everything from canine robotics to ambient hardcore and quantum poetry. Take a look for yourself by clicking through the gallery. 👉 A cooperation with the JUNGE AKADEMIE of the Akademie der Künste and funded by the E.ON Foundation 📸 @kathleenpracht @ewerk_luckenwalde @akademiederkuenste @eonstiftung @visit_eonstiftung #MenschMaschineMusik #StadtbadLive #EWERKLuckenwalde #AkademieDerKuenste