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      IMPRESSUM ︎GIA HERION    
                                         
   



is a creative mind, a cultural worker and researcher with a focus on contemporary art, design, inclusion, things and digital culture. 




Currently she is mainly working for studio speciale – an inclusive art and design studio. 














SELECTED PROJECTS



Ruhr-University Bochum, Ph.D. still writing...



PKRK, new website, 2026


The Artful Object, PR consulting, 2026


DIY MOBILE UNICORN with studio speciale, 2025


Unicorn Mobile, workshop with studio speciale, KUNSTLABOR 2, Munich, 2025


LAMPENLADEN 2.0 with studio speciale, Magistrale Kunsthalle, 2025 


studio speciale, inclusive design and art studio, since 2025


Palina Ringe, Schloss Dornburg, 2024 // communications


PKRK, 2021-2025 // project websites


Lena Grewenig, 2024 // website and online shop with studio farace


Maternity Leave, 2023-2024 // chill and recover


documenta fifteen, 2021-2022 // communications


Anna Stiede, 2022 // website with studio farace


Berlin Art Link, 2021 // article


TreuhandTechno, 2021 // website with studio farace


Constantin Übersetzungen, 2020 // website with studio farace


sculpture network, Biennale Venice, 2019 // article


Kepler 452b, Berlin 2017–2019 // art event


Dance of Urgency, FREI_RAUM Q21, MuseumsQuartier, 2019 // communications


Under Pressure, FREI_RAUM Q 21, Vienna, 2018 // PR


Faceless. Re-inventing Privacy Through Subversive Media Strategies, 2018 // PR


The mole keeps on digging, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, 2017 // PR


KEEP IT REAL, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, 2017 // PR


Limits of Knowing / Immersion, Berliner Festspiele, 2017 // PR


48 hours Neukölln / segeband.pr, 2017 // PR


Haegue Yang. Silo of Silence – Clicked Core, KINDL – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst / segeband.pr, 2017 // PR


Asta Gröting. Berlin Fassaden, KINDL – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst  / segeband.pr, 2017 // PR


Katrin Wegemann, Sammlung des Flüchtigen, 2017 // PR


Bjørn Melhus, 2015–2017
// studio assistant


9th Berlin Biennale for contemporary art. The Present in Drag, 2016 // PR


Das Museum eine Schule der Dinge – our homestories, Werkbundarchive – Museum of Things, 2016 // assistant cultural education


EPHEMERA. Advertising Graphics from the Collection of Documents of Everyday Culture, 2015 // PR


CUCULA. Refugees Company for Crafts and Design, Werkbundarchive – Museum of Things, 2015 // PR


STANDBY. On Living with Machines, Werkbundarchive – Museum of Things, Berlin, 2014 // PR


Made in Germany. Politics through Things. The German Werkbund in 1914, Werkbundarchive – Museum of Things, 2014
// PR


Ince belli / Slim Waist, Werkbundarchive – Museum of Things, 2014
// PR


Transformations. Concepts of Re-using Things, Werkbundarchive – Museum of Things, 2014
// PR


3x Collection. Design-Historical, Culturally Significant, Aesthetic, Werkbundarchive – Museum of Things, 2013
// PR


On Time. Timethings from the collections of the Werkbund Archiv – Museum der Dinge, 2013
// PR


The Interior of Devices, Werkbundarchive – Museum of Things, 2012/2013
// PR


Richard Mosse. Infra, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, 2012 // PR


Linn Pedersen. Floor Arrangements, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, 2012
// PR


Young & Giroux, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, 2012
// PR


Ylva Westerlund. Evolutionary throwback, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, 2012 // PR


Thomas Gust / Kasia Fudakowski, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, 2012
// PR


Zuspiel: Tobias Zielony, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, 2012 // PR


transmediale 2k+12 in/compatible, 2012 // PR


Francesco Clemente. Palimpsest, Schirn Kunsthalle, 2011
// PR


SECRET SOCIETIES. TO KNOW, TO DARE, TO WILL, TO KEEP SILENCE, Schirn Kunsthalle, 2011
// PR


PLAYING THE CITY 3, Schirn Kunsthalle,  2011
// PR



Gia Herion is writing a PhD under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Karen van den Berg (Ruhr-University Bochum) and Prof. Dr. Angela Koch (University of 
Art and Design Linz).



SEX AFTER DEATH.
Facing sexual violence in the mirror of contemporary art and discourse (working title)


abstract currently under construction...



Academic education


Gia Herion studied Cultural History and Theory at Humboldt University of Berlin. For her master's thesis “Wenn die Daten Trauer tragen. Die Tode von Alan Kurdi (2017)” (When Data Mourns: The Deaths of Alan Kurdi), she examined private and collective mourning in online memes and viral images over the death of Alan Kurdi. It was completed under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Iris Därmann and Dr. Holger Brohm at Humboldt University of Berlin.

Unfortunately, Iris Därmann's latest publications have not yet been translated. (e.g. Undienlichkeit. Gewaltgeschichte und politische Philosophie (2020), Widerstände: Gewaltenteilung in statu nascendi (2021), Aus der Nacht heraus. Kinderperspektiven (2025), all three Matthes & Seitz, Berlin)

They update and deepen also some important thoughts of Hannah Arendt on totalitarianism and help to better understand the zeitgeist and origins of colonial and genocidal violence and terror.  They also discuss its philosophical justifications and forms of resistance. 

Gia Herion’s masterthesis was cited in Benkel, T. and Meitzler, M. (eds.) (2023). Jahrbuch für Tod und Gesellschaft / Annual Review of Death and Society, Vol. 2/2023. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa.The findings were presented, among other places, in a lecture at “FLEEING IMAGES: AFFECT // REPRESENTATION” – A trans- and interdisciplinary event organised by Jacobus Bracker, Ann-Kathrin Hubrich and Stefanie Johns, 1–3 December 2016.

Her essay, “Belanglose Bilder – Vom Viral zum Internet-Mem” (Trivial images – From a viral to an internet meme) was published in “Originalität und Viralität von (Internet-)Memes” (Originality and Virality of (Internet-) Memes), 2018. It can be considered as one of the first interdisciplinary publications about online memes and was organised by Georg Fischer and Lorenz Grünewald-Schukalla for a special edition of kommunikation@gesellschaft.

Gia Herion has a bachelor's degree in Communication and Cultural Management from Zeppelin University. Her bachelor thesis, “Das Studio Eliasson als Trompe l' Œil?' (2010)” (first supervisor: Prof. Dr. Karen van den Berg; second supervisor: Prof. Dr. Maren Lehmann), received the Best Bachelor's Thesis Award in 2010 at Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen.
Her special interest are images. She is proud that she got a perfect score on her ethics AP exam. Her favorite game as a child was Memory.












Sometimes a blink of an eye (ein Augenblick) says more than words can. Or something else. It's something you cannot express with words. Something that may remain forever unspoken.

This freestyle page is currently under open construction.

Trigger Warning for images of violence.
A camera can be a weapon and it can be a healer.

Most images are by Gia Herion.
If not, mentioned in captions or let me know.


































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Giannina Adriana Lisitano, abstract silencer 1, 2026



Giannina Adriana Lisitano, abstract silencer 2, 2026



















































Giannina Adriana Lisitano, Two Panthers, 2026, Made with AI































eye sea you





















Let's go to Seoul and Japan once before I leave...





      






       


















































digital cloud drawings for children and adults







Visual reflections on digital image culture in times of AI generated images, memes, manipulated imagery, artworks, images of artworks and copyrights. Remixes of online images from Social Media profiles and digital images of artworks, 2016–2018.



Images: A selection of visual reflections on the sexual exploitation of children offline, in Live-Streamings, in Social Media and in the Dark Net. With filter transformed images remixed with own and public thoughts, questions and comments from Social Media users and view numbers of images. 

How can we raise awareness to better protect children? 2022/2025







This page is currently under open construction.

Trigger Warning: violent content.


A hidden pandemic in plain sight

Sexual violence against children is a global social, health and law crisis. We keep treating it like an isolated tragedy.

My grandmother once told me, in tears, that her best friend from childhood had been killed by a grenade right in front of her eyes as they ran towards a bunker together in wartime Munich. A friend of my other grandmother told me about children being raped to death by soldiers in Berlin. These were not distant stories for us. They were lived realities, carried silently into our families. I was further told that survivors returning from the concentration camps were warned: , 'Speak of what happened to you and you will be sent back, never to return.' Many of my grandparents' generation, who experienced war, were raised to remain silent out of fear.

Today, the silence has a different shape. Scenes of sexual violence against children in so called CSAM (Child Sexual Abuse Material) now circulate online within hours — viewed, shared, even celebrated. The mechanism of harm has changed. The instinct to look away from it has not.

For nearly five years, with interruptions, I have researched how sexual violence has been depicted across the history of art and images — from antiquity through the feminist artists of the 1970s, whose work I see as forerunners of the #MeToo movement, to the present day.

Along the way, I noticed a gap that unsettled me: very few serious works of art or images confront child sexual abuse material, incest, or sexual violence against children. It seems as though this is a very difficult and challenging visual and mental landscape. The fact that these images are rightly banned may well constitute a visual barrier to gaining an understanding of the perspective of the many children affected and the cruelty of the crime.

In nearly every image I found, the perpetrators are men. Women appear mainly as figures in spoken or written testimonies – and too often in the role of enablers or those who stayed silent. And survivors who are not girls are almost entirely absent from the visual record, despite clear evidence that abuse spans every gender. That absence is maybe not incidental. It reflects a broader public failure to reckon with the scale of what is happening — and what has, by any reasonable definition, become a hidden crisis in its own right.


The Scale of the Crisis

According to UNICEF, globally, 650 million (or 1 in 5) girls and women alive today have been subjected to sexual violence as children. Among boys and men, between 410 and 530 million (or around 1 in 7) experienced sexual violence in childhood.

Klaus M. Beier, director of the Institute of Sexology and Sexual Medicine at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and a leading voice behind the prevention network Kein Täter werden (“Don’t Become an Offender”), put it starkly in an October 2025 interview with the medical journal Deutsches Ärzteblatt: 

“I currently see all the criteria for a pandemic of sexual trauma being met. Not only do we have an increase in images of abuse, but we also have definable perpetrators, victims and transmission routes – and this is a global problem, just like a pandemic.“

This development seems to describe a systemic failure on a legal, medical and social level that has gone unaddressed for far too long, and one that falls hardest on children – especially in the Global South, where the financial and bureaucratic barriers to justice are steepest.


Rights and actions rather than abstract Justice

One concrete reform would be a globally accessible digital platform where survivors could voluntarily submit photographic, audio or video material they have from perpetrators or themselves for AI-assisted comparison against authoritative databases of CSAM, such as Interpol’s International Child Sexual Exploitation database or the resources maintained by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. A verified match could accelerate cross-jurisdictional cases. Such a system would demand rigorous data protection, trauma-informed design and binding international legal cooperation. It would not replace human judgment in the end. But it could meaningfully lower the practical barriers to evidence-gathering with the support of survivors that, right now, let cases quietly die in the space between jurisdictions.

The current EU debate on ‘chat monitoring’ illustrates why this distinction is important. Negotiations on the permanent regulation to protect children from sexual abuse remain at an impasse regarding the mandatory scanning of private communications and the associated threat to encryption. However, both sides already accept that matching hash values against known material is legitimate. An additional reporting centre supported by survivors and their allies stands firmly on this uncontroversial side: no scanning of private messages, no threat to encryption – only voluntary participation by those the system is designed to protect. That is what would make it viable, regardless of the outcome of the dispute over encryption.

The current system, fragmented across countries and agencies, still protects more perpetrators than victims. That is a choice — and it could change.


Silence protects. Silence kills.

The right to remain silent is a cornerstone of fair legal process. But that principle grows uncomfortable when the victims are nonverbal children, or people with severe disabilities who cannot testify on their own behalf. Whose silence, exactly, is being protected in those cases?

People who have experienced sexual violence often have a disability. Legal systems fail children and people with disabilities almost by design. They are built around an adult witness who can speak clearly and consistently under pressure. In cases of brutal violence against people who cannot advocate for themselves, it is worth asking directly whether an adult perpetrator’s or family member’s right to silence — or even to give false testimony — should carry the same weight it currently does. Children need stronger procedural protections. People with disabilities need trauma-informed, actively supported access to the justice system at every stage. Silence, when it shields those who harm the most vulnerable, is not neutral. It is a form of complicity — and at times, it costs lives.

Forensic medicine and emerging AI tools could take on more of the evidentiary burden that currently rests almost entirely on a survivor’s testimony.

It is a strange asymmetry of the current moment: AI is being used to generate sexualized images of real people without consent, even as the same technology helps investigators identify perpetrators and victims of CSAM with rapidly increasing accuracy once it is shared online. Many countries are starting to use AI for this combat. In Britain, the Metropolitan Police has said it is exploring AI tools to help staff review child sexual abuse material. Also the State Criminal Police Offices in Germany are trialling the use of AI in the fight against CSAM.

There are already some exciting other developments in the field of AI. The United Nations’ Division for Inclusive Social Development has already floated chat-based legal tools built around the specific communication needs of people with visual, intellectual and developmental disabilities and pointed to virtual reality as a way a lawyer might help a client on the autism spectrum grow familiar with a courtroom setting beforehand, or testify from elsewhere in the building through an avatar.

In Montreal, a chatbot called Botler AI already helps sexual assault survivors work out whether they have a legal case and produces an incident report they can bring to the authorities.

While "LAW-U" was originally developed in Thailand and India as an AI chatbot for sexual violence survivors it has rapidly emerged as a hub for its own advanced, context-aware legal AI chatbots and research assistant to help everyday citizens, advocates, and students navigate the complex Indian legal system.

None of these systems yet does what would maybe matter to many survivors who often have fragmented memories of the traumatic events: help to organize a non-chronological fragmented memory into something a court can actually use.

Portuguese courts maybe already move in that direction with what they call “Statements of Future Memory” — testimony recorded once, in advance, so a victim need not relive the memory again at trial months or years later.

The closest real-world analog to memory reconstruction itself comes not from a courtroom but from a hospital. The Stanford Medicine Portrait Project uses generative AI, such as Midjourney, alongside traditional art to help hospital patients process trauma and chronic illnesses. The study aims to measure art's impact on recovery by analyzing physiological changes, mood improvements, and overall wellness. The project is aimed at emotional recovery after accidents, not legal testimony after sexual violence, and its patients are not survivors of sexual violence. But it shows that AI-assisted image-making can, in at least some documented instances, help surface and structure fragments of memory that direct recall alone could not reach.

As far as I can tell, no one has yet considered how AI-generated images or texts might assist victims of sexual violence when giving evidence in court. Under the supervision of psychological experts or lawyers with psychological training, traumatic memories could be organised in such a way that they might potentially be used alongside oral testimony in court proceedings. Furthermore, consideration could be given to the extent to which AI might also break down barriers faced by people with disabilities when giving evidence in court. Research in this area could perhaps simplify legal proceedings and protect and support more affected people. I have not yet been able to find any broader discussion of this topic online, but I believe this gap and the resulting possibilities are in themselves already worth mentioning.


Wounds of Generations

The link between violence and long-term health outcomes is extensively documented, yet it remains strikingly absent from public conversation. Consider one data point: roughly nine in ten autistic women and girls report experiencing sexual violence.

Separately, research suggests that the severity of abuse a woman experiences correlates with a higher likelihood of having a child with autism — those who suffered the most severe mistreatment were found to be 60 percent more likely to have an autistic child than those who were not abused.

Findings like these point to something medicine and public health may still be underestimating: violence seems to leaves traces that extend across generations. If certain cancers, autoimmune disorders and mental illnesses are more closely tied to experienced violence than is currently recognized, our understanding of disease itself may be incomplete without accounting for trauma passed down violence through families.

Domestic violence, in turn, is frequently linked to violence experienced in wars and armed conflict — trauma transmitted across generations, into families, into the bodies of children not yet born when the original harm occurred. War is rarely a contained event. Its consequences ripple outward for decades, unrecognized, unaddressed.

None of this excuses harm. Some perpetrators are themselves survivors of violence, shaped by systems that offered them no other script. But understanding how these cycles begin is a precondition for interrupting them — through honest, supported conversation and therapy, gender equality and through sustained social investment. 


A war against children

Child sexual abuse material is not simply evidence of a past crime. It functions as an active weapon: each time it is viewed after being distributed online, it re-traumatizes the survivor depicted and normalizes violence against children for those who consume it. Children who encounter this material are not passive witnesses; exposure can leave children, adolescents and even adults traumatized, and distort a developing understanding of sexuality, boundaries and power.

Seeing can itself be a form of contact. Images of violence act on the people who view them — including the investigators and analysts who work to combat them professionally, some of whom develop post-traumatic stress disorder from years of exposure. Even people who consider themselves resilient are sometimes not immune.

Beyond the work of detecting, removing and destroying this material, there is a harder question that gets less attention: what images does public media actually need, to raise awareness without re-traumatizing survivors or sensationalizing their suffering? Bearing witness without perpetuating harm means finding ways to build understanding even when the subject itself — like so much of this — feels almost unbearable to look at directly.

The damage this does to children, and to society’s future, demands sustained attention rather than periodic outrage. It requires concrete, coordinated answers from clinicians, journalists, technology platforms, lawmakers and researchers alike — not just another news cycle that moves on.

Toward Peace

Those who have truly lived through violence — who carry it in their bodies, in their sleep, in what they cannot say — rarely romanticize it. What they tend to want is not the peace of defeat or enforced silence, but the peace of safety, dignity, connection and repair.

Peace, understood as the greatest possible well-being for the greatest number of people, is not a naive goal. It may be the most ambitious, and the most necessary, thing a family or a society can set out to build.

We can pursue it with more intelligence, more cooperation and far less violence than we currently treat as inevitable. That will take honest research, uncomfortable conversation, real accountability — and, where it becomes possible, a forgiveness that never requires forgetting, or ceasing to regret what happened.

It is hard, for almost everyone, to talk about this. But finding the courage to do so may be the one thing that determines what comes next for those who cannot speak for themselves.


This text has been proofread using AI technology.


Links for Survivors

https://rainn.org/

https://metoomvmt.org/

https://www.globalsurvivorsfund.org/

https://findahelpline.com/

https://www.hilfe-portal-missbrauch.de/en/home

https://www.feministlawclinic.de/

https://innocenceindanger.de/

https://ecpat.de/


Links for Offenders

https://www.stopso.org.uk/

https://www.atsa.com/

https://www.stopitnow.org/

https://eucpn.org/document/don-t-offend

https://ecsa.lucyfaithfull.org/

https://troubled-desire.com/en/



List of artists and projects (in progress...):

  • Laia Abril, *1986
  • Nancy Angelo und das Incest Awareness Project (1979–1981)
  • Andrea Bowers, *1965
  • Renate Bühn, *1962
  • Elina Chauvet, *1959
  • Shannon Cartier Lucy, *1977
  • Cerrucha, *1981
  • Katja Duftner, *1966
  • Tracey Emin, *1963
  • Regina José Galindo,*1974
  • Artemisia Gentileschi, 1593–1653
  • Gabrielle Goliath, *1983
  • Guerilla Girls, founded 1985
  • Jenny Holzer, *1950
  • Annika von Hausswolff, *1967
  • Sophia Hewson, *1984
  • Luzene Hill, *1946
  • Sanja Iveković, *1949
  • La Dame qui colle
  • Suzanne Lacy, *1945
  • Lady Skollie, *1987
  • Kiki Smith, *1954
  • Nikki Luna, *1977
  • Teresa Margolles, *1963
  • Monica Mayer, *1954
  • Carlos Motta, *1978
  • Ana Mendieta, 1948–1985
  • Zanele Muholi, *1972
  • Nessi Nezilla
  • Yoko Ono, *1933
  • Lydia Pettit, *1991
  • Nikki de Saint Phalle, 1930–2002
  • Emma Sulkowicz, *1992
  • Kara Walker, *1969
  • Sue Williams, *1954
  • David Wojnarowicz, 1954–1992
  • Alketa Xhafa Mripa, *1980
  • ...

 




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Little errors have arisen as a result of using AI for proofreading; I still need to correct these...

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