Annekathrin Kohout: Off to Candy Mountain – or rather to Silicon Valley?

How did the unicorn evolve from a mythical creature to an icon of the digital present? From billion-dollar “unicorn startups” to queer appropriation as a symbol of identity to ironic-nostalgic meme and filter culture: this lecture explores how the former symbol of purity and rarity became a colorful mass phenomenon and what this transformation reveals about our digital society. 

Annekathrin Kohout is a cultural scientist, author, and editor who works at the intersection of popular culture, digital image culture, and contemporary art. She has written books on internet feminism, nerds, and K-pop. Her most recent book is "Hyperreaktiv. Wie in Sozialen Medien um Deutungsmacht gekämpft wird" (Hyperreactive: How the Power of Interpretation is Fought Over in Social Media). She writes the internet column “Feed Interrupted” for the taz newspaper. 

Off to Candy Mountain – or rather to Silicon Valley?
Lecture by Annekathrin Kohout
Thursday, January 15, 7 p.m.
Museum Barberini, Auditorium
Ticket: €20 (includes admission to the exhibition on that day from 5:30 p.m.)