Chaos Communication Congress

Wohnungsbot: An Automation-Drama in Three Acts (36x154)

Air date: Dec 30, 2019

(A media-art project which automates the search for flats in Berlin and challenges automation narratives) At the center of Clemens Schöll's latest art project is the "Wohnungsbot" (flat-bot), which automates flat searching in Berlin. But it doesn't only try to search flats for everybody, it fundamentally questions power-relationships in (flat-searching) online platforms. Where are the utopias about public automation? Who should be able to automate what, and how?