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MASTERCLASS. Das Stipendienprogramm für kunstinteressierte Jugendliche am ZKM | Ausstellungseröffnung

[30.07.2021]

Die MASTERCLASS ist eine Talentschmiede der besonderen Art: Das Stipendium unterstützt junge Positionen der Medienkunst! Die Stipendiat:innen der siebten MASTERCLASS sind: Lenny Bittger, Leon Lautenschläger, Ben Rentz, Clara Stett und Ferdinand Waltz.

Zur Eröffnung der Online-Ausstellung im Livestream stellen die diesjährigen Stipendiat:innen ihre Werke im virtuellen Raum aus und vor. Die aktuellen Werke der »Masterclass« 2020/21 werden dieses Jahr erneut im virtuellen Ausstellungsraum auf masterclass.zkm.de gezeigt.

Das Projekt ermöglicht jungen Menschen, zwischen 15 und 19 Jahren, aktuelle Kunstströmungen sowie das Programm des ZKM intensiv kennen zu lernen. Im Austausch mit Gleichgesinnten und professionellen Kunstschaffenden erlernen die Nachwuchstalente den Umgang mit neuen Medien und erarbeiten während eines Schuljahres ihr eigenes Werk. Ihnen stehen erfahrene Künstler:innen und Kurator:innen als Mentor:innen zur Seite, die sie als Expert:innen unterstützen und beraten.

BarabásiLab. Hidden Patterns | Online discussion

[04.11.2021]

Wendy Chun, Kim Albrecht, Matthew Ritchie and Albert-László Barabási in conversation

In this panel, scientists, data engineers and artists will talk about Big Data and engage critically with ways to analyze, process and visualize it. Big Data are data sets that are too large or too complex to be processed by conventional data processing software. Originally, Big Data was associated with three key terms: volume, variety and velocity. Challenges in Big Data analysis include data acquisition, data storage, data analysis, search, sharing, transmission, query, updating, information protection, data source, and, of course, visualization.

#meetdigilog. Digiloglounge Digital | Online Diskussion

[15.04.2021]

Blick mit unserer Expertin Maria Pawelec der Uni Tübingen hinter die Kulissen der Wissenschaft! 


Wie groß ist eigentlich die Gefahr, die von Deepfakes ausgeht? Gibt es auch Chancen? Und wo begegnen uns Deepfakes im Alltag? Öffnet mit uns die »Black Box« der Wissenschaft und geht mit uns der Frage nach, was für Auswirkungen Deepfakes auf unser Leben haben!

Deepfakes können als neue Form der Fake News und Desinformation demokratische Wahlen untergraben, politische Gegner:innen diskreditieren, oder sogar inner- und zwischenstaatliche Konflikte auslösen. Gleichzeitig können Deepfakes aber auch für Satire und Parodien, politische Kampagnen, Kunst und Aktivismus genutzt werden, um die demokratische Debatte und Willensbildung zu stärken.

Der gemeinsame Dialog steht im Fokus des Forschungsverbunds »digilog@bw«. Anhand aktueller Themen rund um den digitalen Wandel entwickeln wir Ideen zur Mitgestaltung und laden anhand von Veranstaltungen, Gesprächen und Workshops zum gemeinsamen Nachdenken und Diskutieren ein.

Mischa Kuball, Gregor Lersch und Peter Weibel im Gespräch

[05.11.2021]

»Resonanz wird zum Gegenpol der Entfremdung in der Welt« – Mit seiner Licht- und Klanginstallation »res·o·nant« lud der Konzeptkünstlers Mischa Kuball Künstler:innen, Denker:innen und Schriftsteller:innen zur Interpretation ein.

Das Buch »res·o·nant« kommentiert das gleichnamige Projekt des Konzeptkünstlers Mischa Kuball im Jüdischen Museum Berlin. Von November 2017 bis August 2019 bespielte Kuball unterirdisch gelegene Teile des von Daniel Libeskind entworfenen Baus mit einer ortsspezifischen Licht- und Klanginstallation. 18 Autor:innen und Künstler:innen beschallen, beleuchten, reflektieren und projizieren in diesem Buch den von Kuball geschaffenen Resonanzraum in- und außerhalb des Museums.

Im Anschluss an die Buchvorstellung kommen Mischa Kuball, Gregor Lersch und Peter Weibel ins Gespräch und gewähren weitere Einblicke in »res·o·nant« und die Bedeutung von Resonanz. Um einen musikalischen Beitrag erweitert »Kreidler« das Programm mit einer Live-Performance ihres 2019 erschienenen Albums »Flood«.

Critical Zones | Assembly Towards Permacircular Museums

[23.04.2020]

Earthly politics require an earthly education, also articulated through reimagined cultural institutions. What does an eco-centered, terrestrial education approach look like in practice? From what and from whom should we learn? What must we unlearn? And how could art education support a reweaving of relations, for us to think with, for and through the more-than-human? Together with educators, artists, curators, and other learners, we will explore possibilities to aligne education with multispecies worlding, and consider how regenerative pedagogies could significantly change cultural institutions in their role and impact. Education, here, is understood politically, and as a fundamental practice of care.

with Dr. Cara Courage (head of Tate Exchange), Ph.D. Kū Kahakalau (indigenous educator, CEO EA Ecoversity, Hilo, Hawaiʻi Island (Occupied Territory)), Marion Louisgrand-Sylla (co-founder of Kër Thiossane, Dakar), Rosario Talevi and Sarah Bovelett (Floating University, Berlin) and an activation by Alecia Neo (artist, Singapore)

Critical Zones | Assembly Towards Permacircular Museums

[22.04.2020]

The ecological footprint of art institutions can be reduced through a more responsible approach towards exhibition-making. This session will focus on sharing exhibition-making practices that follow a more sustainable way of production, thus highlighting the importance of taking responsibility for the environmental impact of institutions’ own action. This section will present case studies by experts in the field who practice these approaches but will also address obstacles to the process of ecologizing art museums. The event opens a space for discussion, exchange, and sharing between professionals in the art sector, also involving learning from experience of other types of museum institutions.

with Ianina Prudenko and Alexei Shulgin (co-founders of »Art Footprint Manifesto«), Graciela Melitsko Thornton (Creative Green Programme Lead, Julie’s Bicycle, London), Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin (design studio Formafantasma, Amsterdam), Helen Turner and Pablo Wendel (Co-Artistic Directors, E-WERK Luckenwalde) and an activation by Benoît Verjat (research designer)

Critical Zones | Assembly Towards Permacircular Museums

[22.04.2020]

Rising climate awareness as well as the pandemic are challenging global mobility in unprecedented ways. Place, space, and movement are being redefined. Édouard Glissant’s writings on the »Poetics of Relation« have introduced the radical difference between economic globalization and planetary globality. How can cultural institutions engage with these transformations, and reevaluate their relationship with both local contexts and the translocal circulation of ideas and forms? How to think beyond the dualist alternative between fossil-fueled hypermobility and the identity politics of re-rooting?

with Marco Baravalle (researcher and activist at IUAV and Sale Docks, Venice), Oliver Kandt (curator and director of Parallel Oaxaca, Oaxaca) and Edith Morales (artist, activist, Milpa Urbana, Oaxaca), Jakob Kudsk Steensen (artist, Berlin), Pia Lindman (artist, researcher of the subsensorial, and founding member of Solbacka ecovillage, Inkoo) and an activation by Benoît Verjat (research designer)

Critical Zones | Assembly Towards Permacircular Museums

[21.04.2020]

An art institution is a place of encounter of subjectivities, of visibility, and world-making. Its main functions are based on conservation, accumulation, and energy-intensive practices. This roundtable considers the concept of the »art footprint« to deconstruct the museum’s foundation on practices inherited from ecocidal capitalism, such as temperature control, low-cost flights, and the white cube. In the spirit of Ivan Illich’s »Tools for Conviviality«, what strategies could lead to re-tooling institutions and empowering low carbon communities?

with Diane Drubay (Founder of We Are Museums, Berlin), Hicham Khalidi (director of Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht), farid rakun (member of ruangrupa, collective artistic director of documenta 15), Tino Sehgal (artist) and an activation by Mira Hirtz (performance artist and art mediator, Karlsruhe)

BarabásiLab. Hidden Patterns | Online discussion

[01.05.2021]

György Buzsáki, Korinna Allhoff, Alice Schwarze and Albert-László Barabási in conversation

The exhibition »BarabásiLab. Hidden Patterns« is dedicated to the study of various complex systems. As such, biological networks provide the subject for this dialogue between Korinna Allhoff, György Buzsáki, Alice Schwarze, and Albert-László Barabási who give insights into their research and projects.

What are biological networks? Where can they be found? What do they look like and what role do visualizations play in exploring them? Four experts from network and neuroscience, biology, and theoretical ecology will address these and other questions in the panel discussion. In addition to neural and ecological networks, it will focus on the interconnectedness of all species.

With over 100 billion nodes, the human brain is perhaps the most complex network known to science. Neuroscientist György Buzsáki first outlined the role of GABAergic interneurons in network oscillations. He is primarily interested in »neuronal syntax,« i.e., how the segmentation of neuronal information is organized by the multitude of brain rhythms to support cognitive functions. Methods of applied mathematics and network science can help in the study of this complex system, as Alice Schwarze, PhD, demonstrates with her research. The extraordinary complexity of the brain's wiring patterns can also be seen in the visualizations by Albert-László Barabási and his lab. The 3D representations of the so-called »Connectome« open up new ways to understand brain function.

Korinna Allhoff, on the other hand, conducts research in the field of theoretical ecology and depicts ecosystems as networks in which different species interact with each other. She investigates the relationship between network structure and its stability, as well as the effects of changing environmental parameters, such as higher average temperatures.

The panel discussion aims to provide insight into the wealth of existing biological networks, their modes of representation, and the research approaches coupled to them.

Critical Zones | Terrestrial University

[22.07.2020]

How can insects help us to perceive and respond faster to the climate crisis and environmental threats? Sybille Neumeyer, Michael John Gorman and Jessica Ware in conversation. How is climate change experienced by a dragonfly? How can – in a data-driven world – old forms of insect-human relationships be recollected, to recover a diversity of knowledge, as fertile ground for new allies and terrestrial communities? And, what implications does the ecological crisis and species extinction have for the work of Natural History and Science Museums? Taking Sybille Neumeyer’s work »souvenirs entomologiques #1: odonata / weathering data« as a starting point, this conversation will investigate how insects can invite us to reconsider a diversity of relationships between humans and non-humans. While multiple insect identities are medially shaped and reshaped by co-evolving modes of mapping, monitoring and collecting, their embodied environmental knowledge, their sensorium and senses are an inspiration for alternate ways of perceiving and being in dialogue with the world.