System Vulnerability
From Art Is Not a Thing by Ars Electronica
November 30, 2025 · 17 min · Season 2 · Episode 6
About this episode
Hannah talks to Simon Weckert about the societal impacts of digitalisation and artistic strategies to challenge digital systems.
In this episode, Hannah talks to German media artist Simon Weckert about the societal impacts of digitalisation and his artistic strategies to disrupt, redirect, or reduce the logic of systems to absurdity. His work points to the vulnerability of allegedly infallible digital systems and the risks of relying on them. Art Is Not a Thing is produced by Ars Electronica and developed in collaboration with Radio Ö1. Host: Hannah Balber Producers: Ana-Maria Carabelea, Christopher Sonnleitner, Marle...
People in this episode
Host: Hannah Balber
Guest: Simon Weckert
Topics covered
- digitalisation
- societal impacts
- artistic strategies
- system vulnerability
- technology
- absurdity
Keywords
- digitalisation
- art
- society
- technology
- system vulnerability
- Simon Weckert
- Hannah Balber
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Ars Electronica, Radio Ö1
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