Online Courses
Artistic Practice: Inquiring a Digital Self
Lecturer: allapopp
Course date: Sa March 15th 2025, 2–6pm (CEST)
Maximum participants: 20
⮕ Enrol here until March 14th, 2025
Fee: EUR 150
Artistic Practice: Inquiring a Digital Self
In this 4-hour multimedia online workshop, participants will critically explore self-representation in the digital realm by creating new avatars and digital personas using generative AI tools. Through collaborative reflection and hands-on practice, participants will examine the aesthetics, attributes, and ethics of digital self-representation while producing a hybrid visual and text-based essay narrated by their avatars.
This workshop emphasizes a process-oriented approach to digital storytelling and creative production. Participants will engage with concepts such as gaze, the socio-political futures of digital personas, the relationship between digital and physical bodies, and the reciprocal influence of avatars and narratives in the digital realm. Through collaborative inquiry, participants will examine their own avatars and digital personas as both objects and subjects, critically exploring their potential as doorways to understanding the self in the digital age.
By the end of the workshop, participants will have developed a deeper understanding of digital identity and produced a hybrid creative essay synthesizing visual and textual elements, grounded in collectively curated contextual inquiry.
allapopp is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary digital media and performance artist, originally from Tatarstan in Russia. allapopp’s work fuses post-soviet, mixed Tatar, queer, and migrant experiences with tech-inclusive envisioning, performance, and digital art. Formally working within the domains of performance, media and sound, research, storytelling, machine learning, and interactive live phygital formats and experiences in XR and the web, allapopp’s practice is directed toward fostering new worlds and visions as sources of inspiration and pathways to self-determination. allapopp has trained and practiced art in Germany, across the EU, China, Rwanda, Japan, and the USA. They are the co-founder of the TATAR KYZ:LAR and BBB_ music projects and a member of the dgtlfmnsm collective.
The workshop output will be shown in the online exhibition Attention is all I need at Virtual HEK Basel from April 4th to May 30th 2025.
Preparation for the course:
To ensure a smooth experience, please use a headset (or headphones) and choose a quiet place with a stable internet connection. You will receive access to the required reading materials after booking the course; please review them in advance.
Procedure
This intensive live course will be conducted via Zoom on a Saturdays from 2:00 to 6:00 PM CET/ CEST. Please prepare a brief introduction of yourself and your projects (3 minutes). The successful outcome is a participation in the digital exhibition.
Technical instructions
Download the Zoom application. You will find a detailed installation guide here. Zoom can also be accessed through a browser on Mac, PC, iPad, iPhone, Android tablet, or Android phone. You will receive a Zoom invitation with a link to join the workshop.