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Janne Kummer (they/them, no pronouns) is a director, performer, media artist, and educator, working at the intersection of performing and digital art, game design, music, and critical theory. Their artistic practice is a continuous exploration of the politics of body representation, disidentification, and the transformative potential of art—both in analog and digital spaces. With a strong focus on the societal and cultural impacts of artificial intelligence, their work critically examines how AI shapes power structures and dominant narratives, aiming to imagine alternative realities beyond capitalist logics of exploitation and accumulation.

Kummer’s background as a martial artist and active fighter forms the foundation of their performative movement practice. Their creative process is informed by a trauma-sensitive, somatic understanding that recognizes the body as a primary source of knowledge, resistance, and healing.

In close collaboration with HAU Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin, Kummer has created notable works such as Unreal Conditionals, XBPMMM – A Travelogue of Morphing Bodies, and The House of Monstress Intelligenzia. As an esteemed participant in artistic-performative research, they have been a fellow in several distinguished programs and initiatives, including the Academy for Theatre and Digitality Dortmund, the XR_Unites Fellowship at HTW Berlin, the DiGiTal program of the Berlin Equal Opportunities Program, and the ATLAS Choreography Residency at ImPulsTanz in Vienna.

In addition to their artistic work, Kummer regularly leads seminars, workshops, and alternative teaching formats across academic, artistic, and community contexts, including at UdK Berlin, LUCA School of Arts, ZHdK Zurich, HfS and FU Berlin, New Fears Gallery, ZKM Karlsruhe, Re:publica, and HAU Berlin. They also organize a queer community workshop series focused on martial arts, trauma, power dynamics, self-defense, and playfighting, and are part of the queer wrestling collective liminal beast of prey.

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WORKSHOPS

* How to:  queer-feminist AI

* Qn Self Defense

* The undisciplined Fighters Workshop

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SEMINARS

* Dis-AI-Dentification - on the socio-political impact of AI driven technologies on identity, representation, and discrimination

* Non-linear Narrations - Storytelling for the post-digital Age
* Cyber/Techno/Datafeminism - from early 90s until now
* New Collaborations - Approaches to New Materialism and Post-humanism

 

 

 

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