As a series of scholarly lectures, the "Elektronenströme" (Electric Streams) maintain a discursive continuity between the Videonale events. One of the aims of these monthly evening lectures is to develop and promote a sensitivity for "other countries and other customs" through art. Alternating between scholarly lectures, the presentation of artistic positions and hosted tape-screening events, they provide a forum for discussion of current topics relevant to video art.

As a series of scholarly lectures, the "Elektronenströme" (Electric Streams) maintain a discursive continuity between the Videonale events. One of the aims of these monthly evening lectures is to develop and promote a sensitivity for "other countries and other customs" through art. Alternating between scholarly lectures, the presentation of artistic positions and hosted tape-screening events, they provide a forum for discussion of current topics relevant to video art. Gaining insight into unfamiliar and differently organized art scenes is a way of revealing their visual codes. In addition to individual understanding, which develops slowly, there is also a quasi-collective understanding. The media provide visual experiences that function on a global level, giving historical events such as the Second World War, the 9/11 terror attacks or the tsunami disaster a legibility that is culturally independent. Elektronenströme offers alien images and uncommon perspectives in order to maximize this sensitisation process. The viewer frees him- or herself from acquired viewing habits and experiences - not least in the context of the exhibition - the variety of perspectives as the consistency and discrepancy of familiar codes and unfamiliar images.