The internet today feels more and more like a battleground, a terrain of increasing threat. The question of how to survive online has become both urgent and personal: how to be present and safe in a space where visibility itself carries risk? Bogna Konior's The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet (2026) maps a digital world in which silence becomes strategy and new forms of intelligence emerge through obfuscation. What does this mean for the internet of our future and for our agency online? Joining the conversation around navigating the internet are Anan Fries and Noemi Garay Murcia.
The discourse series conversation pieces takes everyday technologies as its starting point and situates them in the context of the swimming pool. Each edition departs from a text that sets the thematic frame and serves as a shared point of reference.
Anan Fries is an interdisciplinary artist based in Basel and Berlin. Their practice examines how technologies carry power, ideology and potential for social change. Fries creates installations and performances and regularly collaborates with HAU Berlin. Their video essay Artificial Sex Ep. 1 & 2 received the IDFA DocLab Award for Digital Storytelling and the Special Jury Prize of Columbia University's Digital Storytelling Lab. They are co-curator of New Rituals for the End of the World at HEK House of Electronic Arts Basel.
Noemi Garay Murcia is a curator and cultural producer based in Berlin, she is the co-managing director of Error 417 Expectation Failed , an independent foundation that supports contemporary Internet art. Since 2020, she has regularly curated exhibitions at panke.gallery and has also co-founded the project space /rosa in Berlin.
Her focus is on art that explores the conditions of contemporary networked technologies. Noemi is enthusiastic about facilitating spaces where people can come together to experience and discuss net-based arts.
The discourse series conversation pieces is a cooperation between Tropez and transmediale, curated by Anna-Lena Panter.
