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Digitale Zwillinge neu denken. Vom Doppelgänger zur performativen Persona
Date details
- Date Friday, 22/May/2026 19:00 bis 20:00
- Venue Haus der Kulturen der Welt
- Address John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin-Tiergarten
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Underground
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U Bundestag
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U Bundestag
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Bus
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Haus der Kulturen der Welt
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Platz der Republik
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Katharina-Paulus-Str.
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Lüneburger Str.
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Reichstag/Bundestag
- 100
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Berlin, Paulstr.
- 187
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S+U Hauptbahnhof/Washingtonplatz
- 245
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Alt-Moabit/Rathenower Str.
- 245
- 187
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Schloss Bellevue
- 100
- 187
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Lehrter Str./Invalidenstr.
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- N5
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Haus der Kulturen der Welt
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Tram
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Lüneburger Str.
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- M5
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Lesser-Ury-Weg
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Alt-Moabit/Rathenower Str.
- M10
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Clara-Jaschke-Str.
- 18
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Lüneburger Str.
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Train
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S+U Berlin Hauptbahnhof
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- RB63
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S+U Berlin Hauptbahnhof
Rethinking digital twins. From doppelganger to performative persona
Keynote with Randi Heinrichs
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‘Digital twins’ are widely invoked yet often loosely defined, carrying a range of techno-optimistic promises. The term spans sectors—from smart cities and aerospace to healthcare, logistics, and software engineering—but twinning also operates as a broader cultural and technical logic, appearing in dashboards, synthetic data, generative AI, deepfakes, and personalized systems such as AI agents. Said to mirror reality in order to optimize it, twinning promises accurate reflection of systems, environments, and even people. But what if the twin is read not just as a doppelgänger, but as a complex relational entity that rearranges sameness and difference? In an age intent on rendering the world fully computable, the notion of twinning is attractive because it suggests fully knowable, manageable, and optimizable systems: a world fully represented, a person fully captured. This keynote invites a shift in perspective—from complete likeness to absence and difference, from doppelgänger to persona—and a critical reflection on the consequences that ‘false’ twins introduce. Consider non-consensual deepfakes often labelled ‘Not Taylor Swift.’ These pieces of synthetic content stage personas calibrated to be just inaccurate enough to linger in legal and ethical grey zones. In such cases the twin becomes an alibi: similar enough to perform, different enough to deny accountability. Drawing on examples of digital twins across diverse domains, Randi Heinrichs’s talk shows that twinning is not simply representation; it is a logic that plays with recognition and misrecognition. Digital twins actively compose worlds, objects, and subjects: they classify, extract, approximate, and regenerate. As Heinrichs illustrates, such entities do not merely reflect but perform, intervene, and reshape the realities they capture, with profound political and ethical consequences.
Part of AI (Ancestral Immediacies): Digitale Zwillinge und Datendoppelgänger, 22 & 23 May 2026.
Part of AI (Ancestral Immediacies): Digitale Zwillinge und Datendoppelgänger, 22 & 23 May 2026.
Meeting point: Safi Faye Room
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