ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie
ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany

GLOBALE
The New Art Event in the Digital Age

An actual cloud in the ZKM museum? An uprooted house suspended by a crane in Karlsruhe city center? Spectacular installations, innovative works of art at the interface of natural science, urban area performances, concerts, lectures and conferences – come and experience 300 days of GLOBALE – The New Art Event in the Digital Age. Step into the all-encompassing, otherwise invisible infosphere in the museum-scale, audio-visual installation by Japanese media artist Ryoji Ikeda. Though perhaps not »sitting on a cloud« then by means of a conversion – you can experience the way in which art and science complement one another and, with new tools, transform things into a reality that one had previously thought as impossible.

http://zkm.de/globale-infosphere

The institut für buchforschung (i. gr.)
Fachhochschule Dortmund
http://buchlabor.net

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03/06/2015
Lecture (Ringvorlesung) Dortmunder U

17:00
Gerard Unger
Wie man´s liest

18:00
Achim Mohné + Uta Kopp
REMOTEWORDS

The Sylt Foundation initiates and supports innovative contemporary literary, visual art and performance projects with the aim to encourage cultural dialogue and artistic interaction.
With its residency programmes it offers these international multi-disciplinary artists, performers and writers the opportunity to live and work in the quiet environment on the island of Sylt, in Johannesburg or at other places, where the Foundation works together with its partners.
Residencies are one or two months long and every resident should either work on his own project/reflection or on a project of the Sylt Foundation.

About the woman behind

Indra Wussow, born in Herford/Germany, studied Comparative Literature and German as a Foreign Language in Erlangen/Germany, Berkeley/USA and Florence/Italy. She is currently living in Johannesburg and Sylt/Germany and is working as a curator, writer and literary translator.
2002 Indra founded the private Sylt Foundation on the island of Sylt in the North of Germany, which is financed by means of donations, government funds and sponsoring. Indra is director and curator of the foundation. In 2008 its branch in Johannesburg was opened.
Besides Indra Wussow is the editor of a series of African Literature, which is published in the small but prestigous German publishing house „Das Wunderhorn“. As a curator Indra is working with various international institutions.

http://www.syltfoundation.com

ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany

By extending the original duties of a museum, the ZKM | Center for Art and Media has become a cultural institution unique throughout the world. It is a house for all media and genre, a house for both spatially-based arts, such as painting, photography and sculpture as well as time-based arts, such as film, video, media art, music, dance, theater, and performance. ZKM was founded as a museum in 1989 with the mission to perpetuate classic arts in the digital age, which is why it is occasionally referred to as “Electronic or Digital Art Bauhaus,” an expression that can be traced back to Heinrich Klotz. Beyond that, ZKM houses institutes and laboratories where scientific research, development, and production is carried out. Alongside the classic guiding principle of a museum, namely, to protect the disappearance of artworks, ZKM has also taken on the task of creating conditions under which works of art arise; for one, by way of guest artists, and for another, by way of the staff members. For this reason, it is called a center and not a museum.

http://zkm.de

The NAK (Neuer Aachener Kunstverein) is a private non-profit association for contemporary art in the tradition of the German “Kunstverein” model.
The institution of a “Kunstverein” and its significance is based on a more than 200 years lasting tradition in showing contemporary art in Germany.

www.neueraachenerkunstverein.de

RW.4 MEHR JETZT IST NIE
Instaled: 16-12-2008
Location | GPS: Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Germany| 50.781645,6.0971308
Curator: Melanie Bono, Brigitte Steiner
Roof Size | Font Size: 100qm | 2m x 11m
On Air: Apple Maps 1-2014

“The Unperfecthouse is a new approach in helping people to try out their ideas, start projects, to experiment with different ideas without being broke if an idea does not succeed. In contrast to known approaches, we do not select projects up front and we do not give big support only to those which we predict will be successfull, but instead we give little support to ALL projects.“

www.unperfekthaus.de

RW.15 !=CTRL
Installed: 16-09-2010
Location: Unperfekthaus Essen, a collaboration with Hacking the City, Museum Folkwang Essen, Germany | 51.459016,7.007495
Author: REMOTEWORDS
Curator: Sabine Maria Schmidt
Roof Size | Font Size: 165qm | 3,5m x 14m
On Air: –
RW.15 was part of the exhibition project “Hacking the City” which took place at the Museum Folkwang Essen and all over the City of Essen. “Hacking the City” is a project reacting to changing structures in the public, mobility and communication in the city. The “Unperfekthaus” in Essen has been marked within the exhibition project Hacking the City. The message “!=CTRL” refers to open source computer languages like Linux. “!=” is used as a negation or not-operation. Thus “!=CTRL” means not controlled or uncontrolled.

RW.14 EDLE ARTIST AG
Installed: 20-04-2010
Location: Stadtgalerie Kiel, Germany | 54.319044,10.13434
Author: Arne Rautenberg
Roof Size | Font Size: 1131qm | 5m x 53,1m
On Air: Apple Maps 2013, Bing Maps 2014

http://www.dortmunder-u.de/en

E-CULTURE FAIR / ISEA 201

23-8-2010 – 25-8-2010
For the E-Culture Fair 2010 REMOTEWORDS has been expanded as a virtual game: A large-scale, accessible satellite picture of the surrounds of the exhibition space (Dortmunder U) invited each visitor to cover one roof with a message. On the spot, the statements were directly applied to the satellite picture. By means of REMOTEWORDS’ blog virtual visitors from around the world could contribute statements on issues such as urbanity, navigation, digitality, virtual simulation and city (urban space).

Thanks to AeroWest Dortmund who provided the data for the large aerial image. Copyright and courtesy: AeroWest, Germany.

www.eculturefair2010.eu

SK Stiftung Kultur der Sparkasse KölnBonn
http://medienkunst.sk-kultur.de/core-lts/index.php/remotewords.html
Birgit Hauska
Cultural Education Media Art / Film

RW.19 …MAX, DER ERNST DES LEBENS…
Installed: 27-06-2012
Location: Max-Ernst-Gesamtschule, Köln, Germany | 50.979254,6.869216
Author: Franziska Lettang + REMOTEWORDS
Roof Size | Font Size: 250qm | 2m high
On Air: Apple Maps 2013, Bing Maps 2014

The schoolyard of the Max Ernst Secondary School in Cologne Bocklemünd has a message: …Max, der Ernst des Lebens… /…Max the earnestness of life…
The phrase was developed in collaboration with the students and refers to the school’s name giver and to Dadaist sound poetry. Almost every child in Germany begins his school career with the portentous words: Now life starts in earnest…

Museum Folkwang, Essen
http://www.museum-folkwang.de/

16/07 – 26/09/2010

REMOTEWORDS was part of the exhibition project “Hacking the City” which took place at the Folkwang Museum in Essen and all over the rest of the City of Essen. “Hacking the City” is a project that reacts to changing structures in the public domain such as mobility and communication within the city. The “Unperfekthaus” in Essen has been inscribed as part of the exhibition project Hacking the City. The message “!=CTRL” refers to open source computer languages like Linux. “!=” is used as a negation or non-operation. Thus “!=CTRL” means not controlled or uncontrolled.

Curator: Sabine Maria Schmidt