The symposium was initiated by Prof. Dr. Annette Jael Lehmann, a professor of visual culture and theater at Freie Universität Berlin and a principal investigator at the Einstein Center Digital Future. It aims to consider the relevance of the digital for current issues and application-related formats in the communication of art and culture from a  global perspective. This field of research studies representation criticism and postcolonial topics. There is strong overlap with critical museology and museum sciences and an attempt to develop an independent positioning in the area of digitalization.

The event organizer and content curator is Yvonne Zindel from the Berlin University of the Arts. The symposium is being sponsored by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Commission for Artistic and Academic Projects (KKWV) at the Berlin University of the Arts. It is being held in cooperation between Freie Universität Berlin (Institute of Theater Studies) and the Berlin University of the Arts (Institute for Art in Context).