Within the framework of the Mattering Worlds Artist Residency, Ars Techne presents a two-day workshop with Vienna-based writer, radio-maker, and media artist Lale Rodgarkia-Dara.

📅 March 5 & 6
🕖 19:00
📍 SEC
Alikhanyan St., 1st Blind Alley 1

Störkoordinaten approaches interference not as malfunction, but as method. Drawing on media theory and sound theory, the workshop explores how signals circulate, how noise is defined, and how transmission systems regulate what becomes audible, visible, and shareable.

The first session introduces key theoretical perspectives on signal and noise, radio as social and political infrastructure, media archaeology, and algorithmic filtering in AI-driven environments. Interference is discussed as an aesthetic, tactical, and infrastructural gesture — a way of making systems perceptible.

Participants will engage in a participatory mapping of contemporary media “disturbances,” reflecting on experiences of overload, censorship, distortion, silence, misinformation, and algorithmic filtering. These contributions will form a small collective archive of lived media conditions.

The second session revisits this material through collective discussion and analysis, situating it within broader media and sound theoretical frameworks. If feasible, a small applied exploration of sound distortion or signal alteration will extend the inquiry into embodied experimentation.

The workshop invites critical reflection on media freedom, propaganda, information warfare, and the ethical and geopolitical implications of disruption in contemporary media ecologies.