• TLDR
    "Complicity" took place in the congenial setting of the event space SUPERMARKT (Brunnenstr. 64). On November 7th and 8th there were three parallel Workshops around the conflicting pairs of pirates and capitalists, professionals and amateurs, programmers and (citizen) journalists. On November 9th Public Talks bundled the key issues of the conference. The goal here was to inform a broader audience about emerging forms of collaboration.

  • Public Talks (PT)
    The third day of the conference (November 9th) was dedicated to the Public Talks. Here lectures and panels addressed a broader audience by presenting central concepts as well as major phenomena of complicity in the digital era. Starting with a key note lecture by Prof. Gesa Ziemer the conference established a theoretical framework for a series of interventions by experts from Japan, Netherlands, Austria, USA, Romania and Belarus. Complete program here.

  • Workshops (WS)
    Three parallel workshops took place on the first two days of the conference: November 7th and 8th. Here we explored concrete possibilities of collaboration as well as future scenarios of working together in fields apart. Finally all workshop groups presented their results at the matineé of the Public Talks from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Saturday November 9th. "Amateurs & Pros" info "Hackers & Journalists" info "Pirates & Capitalists" info

  • Info auf Deutsch
    Workshops: alles dazu hier. Public Talks: alles dazu hier. Aktualisiert: 28.10.

  • Contact
    Susann Hochstein
    0049+(0)30-60947246
    sh(at)berlinergazette.de

  • Editorial Focus
    The conference is accompanied by Berliner Gazette's editorial focus on complicity entitled KOMPLIZEN (accomplices).

  • Our mission
    Does the internet foster a thinking „outside of the box“? This question motivates Berliner Gazette to analyze and test emerging cultural practices. As a nonprofit and nonpartisan association of journalists, researchers, artists and programmers we publish berlinergazette.de in German under a Creative Commons-License - with more than 800 contributors from all over the world. For 14 years now we also organize conferences, seminars, edit books, etc.

  • Funded by

  • Credits
    COMPLICITY is curated and organized by berlinergazette.de It is funded by the Culture Programme of the European Union and the German Federal Agency for Civic Education. Supported by 50HOURS App, Exberliner, ikosom, iq consult, Sapporo Media Arts Lab, sourcefabric, Streampark.TV, TAB Ticketbroker, transcript. This conference is part of the initiative "Aesthetic Education Expanded": a project curated by berlinergazette.de, Kuda.org, Kontrapunkt, Multimedia Institute and Mute - funded with support by the Culture Programme of the European Union . Also realized within this context: the conference "Digital Backyards" and the workshop "Bottom-Up and Open" - documented on our open platform.


  • Krystian Woznicki

    Krystian Woznicki

    Profil in der Berliner Gazette

  • Documentation
    A video and streaming team, a photographer as well as a group of graphic recorders documented the three day conference.

  • Public Talks
    Photos: flickr
    Videos: Vimeo
    Graphics: flickr

  • Workshops
    Photos: flickr
    Graphics: flickr

  • Reviews
    heise.de
    Carta
    sebstein

  • Interviews
    DRadio
    Trackback
    Politik Digital
    Netzpiloten
    Hinterhofgespräche
    Carta

  • Selected quotes
    "Propably the most interesting culture and net conference of the year." (Carta.info)

    "The debates focused on practical questions, to which the participants instantly developed model applications." (heise.de)

  • Hashtag
    #bgcon13

  • Social Networks

  • Publication
    The conference and the annual focal point serve as the main reference points for a publication on emerging collaboration cultures. The collection of essays and reports is bundled in an Ebook to be published by iRights.Media. The E-book is edited by Magdalena Taube & Krystian Woznicki and contains over 25 texts on the production of culture and knowledge in the wake of complicity. For info please go to: iRights.Media

  • Follow up: April 6th 2014
    Since the Snowden disclosures, the protagonists of the digital revolution are preparing for a new era of collaboration: hackers and journalists, pirates and capitalists, amateurs and professionals. Yet the common goals are still rife with conflict; there is still a lack of common values and universal practices. Nonetheless, or possibly exactly for that reason, we have become accomplices (in German: Komplizen). What greater problems could be addressed if the supposed opponents put aside their quarrels and work together? How could having a look through someone else’s glasses provide new approaches to finding solutions?
    The all-day event KOMPLIZEN offers workshops (10 am – 4 pm), which bring together hackers and journalists, pirates and capitalists, amateurs and professionals in an attempt to find answers to the question: What should we do together? At the end of the day, a panel (from 5 – 6 pm) offers room for a public debate.
    For info please go to: SUPERMARKT