The aesthetics of computer games as a model of the apocalypse: all are fighting against all in the video tableau. Victim and aggressors cannot be recognised among the angelic ‘eternal rebels’.

Simply perfect: the greatest exertion and personal isolation is required in order to appear youthfully light and hassle-free. Janet Biggs’ video explains how harmony, perfection and recognition can only be achieved with absolute discipline and self-abandonment.

Fragmented body: an outrageously colourful film collage of consumer goods and body parts from advertisement images that promise prestige, eroticism and luxury. They reorganise body parts cut out from magazines into mythically flamboyant poses of adolescents, behind which collapse is already lurking.

Youths around Bochum main train station: the posing, styles and fashions change, clichés prove true, and yet individual, strong impressions remain of the mute people portrayed.

Second Life from very close up. Actors are standing at the ready in the glass cage when avatars receive instructions from the visitors, their ‘controllers’. Together with these ‘real’ avatars, users can explore what they can do for each other.

A meeting with the ‘Cacos’ (thieves), a group of youths in Neza, a suburb of Mexico City. Suburban criminals are portrayed, dreaming of gangster-rap in American metropolises.

A romantic evening on Berlin roofs. The camera rotates among a group of youths until the sun has set. Fragments of conversation are repeated, relaxed chilling out in dapper boredom, empty phrases are exchanged.

With a hint of irony, Markus Kison asks what is the sense of rankings in so-called social networks on the internet, where assessment by other users increasingly determines one’s own social status.

With great physical exertion, and kitted out in the ultimate of sports gear, a young woman works out on a cross-trainer. Her sporadic, absurd evasive manoeuvres and aggressive/hysterical monologues irritate and thwart the perfect lifestyle setting.

In their audio project, street kids from Kiev give advice to youths from rich countries on how to shoplift without getting caught. Fully in tune with the sense of being advocates of globalisation, they use their ‘advantages of location’ and reverse the flow of knowledge.

The Korean artist sensitively relates the story of a love lost between a homeless person and his girl-friend. The semi-fictitious story of despondency and loss is held together by improvised drawings and a sound contribution by the musician D.-M. DiGregoria.

The everyday violence, racism and sexism prevalent in South Africa are explored in short, slapstick-like scenes. Young actors from the townships and from well-to-do middle-class families adapt a piece by the American performance artist Bruce Nauman for Johannisburg.

The international body language of pogo and the roll of music in youth culture are explored by the Canadian artist. He adds his own digital music to the violent dance of the ‘straightedge’ scene from the 90s, slowing it down to a hypnotic-meditative choreography.

‘Indigo children’ is actually the term for children with special medial abilities. In this installation we children’s faces lit up blue by the screen; faces that absent-mindedly, almost sonambulently reflect fear, excitement and joy in smooth transitions. Alone with the video game, they appear to be en route to new human socialisation processes.

The Belgian documents why a boy from the Cambodian hinterland becomes an expert in anti-personnel mines from the USA, China or Japan. The closely networked, formidable and violent world trade also leaves its mark in Anchor Wat.

The news channel FOX NEWS is one of the most influential news networks in the United States. The installation deals with this Republican propaganda machine, which creates an atmosphere of utmost urgency and permanent alert as part of the ‘War on Terror’ and a policy of fear.

A woman, trapped in her apartment, loses all reference to time and space. The things and thoughts come to life and decay. They take control of time. In these surroundings, the borders between reality, consciousness and unconsciousness disappear.

In Six Apartments the occupants pursuit their every day life while the building and their bodies are ageing, giving way to bacteria, larva, and finally transformation.

The multimedia artists Madeleine Chiche and Bernard Misrachi create dense installative realms of experience. In complex surroundings consisting of video, sound, neon lights and coloured lighting, they unveil and accentuate life and the places where they perform, exploring concealed everyday life.

In her series of photographs, Johanna Domke not only creates perfect illusions of impossible situations but also refers to a world outside physical borders.

In the youth media project “Gute Plaetze – schlechte Plaetze” (Good Places – Bad Places), realised by Osnabrueck Music and Art School of the City of Osnabrueck, secondary school pupils documented good and bad places in their environment in photographic and film contributions, and artistically altered them, sometimes temporarily, sometimes permanently.