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.
GLOBALE ZKM / RW.26 − RW.30
FIVE ROOFS | FIVE CONTINENTS
ONE EARTH UNITES MANY WORLDS
RW.26
Installed | Location: 02-07-2015 | Taipei Artist Village, Taiwan, Asia
Author | Words | Curator on site: Peter Weibel | MANY… | Annie Ivanova
Exhibition: GLOBALE, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany
Roof Size | Font Size: 101qm | 4,68m x 21,60m
On Air: –
RW.27
Installed | Location: 23-07-2015 | Port-au-Prince, Haiti, America
Author | Words | Curator on site: Peter Weibel | WORLDS | Leah Gordon and André Eugène, Ghetto Biennale Haiti
Exhibition: GLOBALE, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany
Roof Size | Font Size: 1300qm | 2,70m x 16,25m
On Air: –
RW.28
Installed | Location: 01-08-2015 | SKY, Soweto Kliptown Youth, Johannesburg, South-Africa
Author | Words | Curator on site: Peter Weibel | ONE… | Indra Wussow, Sylt Foundation
Exhibition: GLOBALE, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany
Roof Size | Font Size: 350qm | 7,2m x 28,7m
On Air: –
RW.29
Installed | Location: 16-08-2015 | MIT Manukau Institute of Technology, Faculty of Creative Arts, Auckland, New Zealand, Oceania
Author | Words | Curator on site: Peter Weibel | EARTH… | Grant Thompson and Courtney Meredith
Exhibition: GLOBALE, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany
Roof Size | Font Size: 216qm | 4,5m x 26m
On Air: –
RW.30
Installed | Location: 16-08-2015 | ZKM, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany, Europe
Author and Curator on site | Words : Peter Weibel | UNITES…
Exhibition: GLOBALE, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany
Roof Size | Font Size: 100qm | 6m x 37,2 m
On Air: –
06/01/2015
REMOTEWORDS @ Open Day ZKM Karlsruhe
At the open day 2015, preciesely 165 days before the start of GLOBALE, ZKM turns into a laboratory: In manifestations, lectures, performances, guided tours and concerts the visitors can test facilities how art and science approach each other.
For “Tag der offenen Tür” the concept of REMOTEWORDS is being expanded into a virtual game: a large-scale, individually accessible satellite picture of the exhibition premises (ZKM) invites each visitor to cover one roof with a message. The statements are forthwith applied to the satellite picture. Visitors can contribute statements on issues such as urbanity, navigation, digitality, virtual simulation and city (urban) space. At predetermined times, remote-controlled drones will fly over the 10 x 6 m walk-around satellite picture. The pilotless aircraft is equipped with a CCTV system that, during its flight, relays live images of the area below onto a projection wall. The live image is practically indistinguishable from a real flyover-video of Karlsruhe.