Friday, 12 September, 3:00 pm
Language: English
Moderation: Irina Nalis – Scientist researching Digital Humanism at TU Wien, Curator at Elevate
Festival Graz

Participants:
Clemens Apprich – Head of the Department of Media Theory and the Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures, as well as Vice-Rector for Research & Digitality at the University of Applied Arts Vienna
Olga Yurkova – Co-Founder of StopFake.org
Christoph Thun-Hohenstein – Cultural Manager, Curator, Author, and Artistic Director of ReGenerativa

This year’s STATEMENT focuses on algorithmic control, digital disinformation, and technological manipulation. Digital platforms, shaped by autocratic regimes, techno-libertarians, and platform oligarchs are reconfiguring public discourse and democratic possibility on a global scale. Disinformation, synthetic media, and surveillance technologies are no longer abstract concerns, but concrete forces shaping perception, agency, and civic life. Leading experts reflect on how these forces operate across regions and histories, particularly where disinformation has long been used as a tool of statecraft, cultural erasure, and ideological warfare.

With the kind support of ERSTE Foundation