“Google and the World Brain” is showing three times this month at international festivals. Two screenings are at Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions in Tokyo, a festival showcasing exhibitions, projections and live performance that combine art and visual language.
Conceived under the umbrella theme “True Colours” this edition aims to capture the diversity of modern society whilst examining losses and gains in the process of globalisation. “Google and the World Brain” screens this Wednesday 12th and Saturday 22nd of February.
If you can’t get to Tokyo but are in Germany, you can see the documentary during the “Karlsruhe Dialogues” symposium organised by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in collaboration with Arte TV, where this year’s theme is: Trade with goods, data and humans. The free screening forms part of their Arte film night, showing at midnight on Saturday 15th of February, in a 200 seat theatre, so if you’re close by make your way there!
Coming up in May in Canada, Knowledge channel will screen “Google and the World Brain” on Tuesday 13th at 21:00h. Knowledge Network were one of the first broadcasters to back the project during development. The documentary had it’s USA television premiere on Al-Jazeera America last year and now it’s Canada’s turn.