Francis Hunger’s practice combines artistic research and media theory with the capabilities of narration through installations, video essays, radio plays, performance. Currently he co-teaches the class for Emergent Digital Media at the Academy of Visual Arts, Munich and is co-editor of Carrier-Bag.net.
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What would a socialist database look like? Cold War Current: Speculative worksession with Francis Hunger
12 September 2025
This worksession takes political commentator Aaron Bastani's naïve call for a “Fully Automated Luxury Communism” serious and conceptually investigates how today's capitalist production databases could be converted to socialist databases.
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The times of Cold War seem long gone, yet they significantly impact present cultural ideologies that repeat and evolve in contemporary creative production. This evening gathering is the starting point of a series that tries to expose the influence of the Cold War across present day narratives, technologies and geopolitics.
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