Kreativ für den Algorithmus: Ein Dialog zwischen Literatur & Digitalität

In the organizer's words:

For many creative workers, digital platforms are both a stage and a gatekeeper. They influence which literature is noticed and which is not. The novel "Am Samstag gehen die Mädchen in den Wald und jagen Sachen in die Luft" by Fiona Sironic, which was nominated for the German Book Prize 2025, illustrates the extent to which the digital public sphere influences our lives. The protagonist observes how two young people erase their past online, while she herself tries to hold on to a disappearing world.

At the D64 association, we want to focus on the interplay between digital platforms and cultural production. In addition to Fiona Sironic, we have also invited Clarissa Walter, a researcher at the Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin. Clarissa investigates how our ideas about algorithms influence our behavior, even if we can only guess at the underlying rules. In her research, she sheds light on how algorithms influence the production of digital content in science communication through the power they wield over visibility.

How do views, likes and dwell time influence our view of the quality of texts? How can we use digital platforms without losing our own artistic voice? We want to discuss these and other questions with you in a dialog between Clarissa's research and Fiona's novel on 27.05. from 19.00 in the Lettrétage e.v. premises.

We invite everyone who writes and is interested in the growing influence of platforms on creative work to this exchange between literary practice and research into digitality.