The interdisciplinary MA Design & Computation between the University of the Arts Berlin and Technische Universität Berlin presents an exhibition that explores the diverse challenges arising from contemporary technological and societal transformations. “Virtual Matters” moves beyond the constructed binary of ‘reality’ and ‘virtuality’, focusing instead on the continuous spectrum in-between. It reveals the mutual influence of affective, narrative, linguistic, temporal and technological matters that shape today’s complex socio-technical systems and contribute to the ongoing polycrisis. The exhibition invites to renegotiate the relationships constituting these systems and to imagine ways of coexisting within these virtual matters.

The MA and associated research platform New Practice foster a new postdisciplinary practice at the intersection of art, technology and science. Through the program, the two universities are working collaboratively across disciplines to develop new teaching and research formats.