{"id":5764,"date":"2026-10-05T15:41:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T13:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/?p=5764"},"modified":"2026-10-05T15:41:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T13:41:26","slug":"mediengruppe-bitnik-qwen-stefani-against-techfascism-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/mediengruppe-bitnik-qwen-stefani-against-techfascism-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"!Mediengruppe Bitnik \u2014 Qwen Stefani Against Techfascism (2025\u2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"<style id=\"fragment-featured-image-5764\">body.postid-5764 .wp-block-cover:has(img.wp-post-image){min-height:0!important;aspect-ratio:auto!important;padding:0!important}body.postid-5764 .wp-block-cover img.wp-post-image{position:relative!important;width:100%!important;height:auto!important;object-fit:contain!important}body.postid-5764 .wp-block-cover:has(img.wp-post-image) .wp-block-cover__inner-container{display:none}<\/style>\n<div class=\"fragment-video\" style=\"max-width:540px;margin:0 auto\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1232570401\" title=\"Qwen Stefani Against Techfascism \u2014 part 1\" width=\"608\" height=\"1080\" style=\"display:block;width:100%;height:auto;aspect-ratio:608\/1080;border:0\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>A synthetic influencer cries, addresses the camera and recomposes herself to the rhythm of a social feed. In <em>Qwen Stefani Against Techfascism<\/em>, !Mediengruppe Bitnik turns this manufactured closeness into the material of a video work: to whom do we give our attention, trust and capacity to act? The character\u2019s political speech belongs to the work\u2019s fiction. Her tears, gestures and fragmented images shift the boundary between lived and programmed emotion.<\/p>\n<p>The project also takes the form of a figure split across several screens. Presented at Ars Electronica 2026, this incarnation distributes one face through space: the intimacy of a phone becomes a collective, almost monumental presence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location.<\/strong> ANNKA KULTYS GALLERY, online exhibition from 21 September 2026. The project was also presented at Ars Electronica, Seminary Church Heiligen Kreuz, Linz, Austria, 9\u201313 September 2026.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The artists.<\/strong> Carmen Weisskopf and Domagoj Smoljo form !Mediengruppe Bitnik, a Berlin-based duo whose practice crosses the internet, software, moving image, installation and interventions into networked systems.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Documentation.<\/strong> Project begun in 2025. The first video part, dated 2025, was uploaded by Annka Kultys to <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/1232570401\">Vimeo on 3 October 2026<\/a>; this is not the work\u2019s creation date. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annkakultys.com\/phygital\/mediengruppe-bitnik-qwen-stefanie-against-techfascism\/\">Online exhibition<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A synthetic influencer cries, addresses the camera and recomposes herself to the rhythm of a social feed. In Qwen Stefani Against Techfascism, !Mediengruppe Bitnik turns this manufactured closeness into the material of a video work: to whom do we give our attention, trust and capacity to act? The character\u2019s political speech belongs to the work\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5761,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-non-classifiee","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5803,"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5764\/revisions\/5803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fragmentation.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}