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1/3/2013

Three Exhibitions

ZKM_Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe

From March 2, 2013 on
Boris Petrovsky
The Wishful Matrix (You&Me-isms Part 2)

“You&Me-isms Part 2” is an installation and an artistic-experimental media system in the age of high-tech communication machines. The installation, composed of over 500 illuminated signals appears as a kind of idiosyncratic cyberpunk communication machine.
Visitors may enter their text messages of up to 60 signs via an input terminal. Controlled by means of a computer program, the message is played back letter for letter, word for word. The messages may be notifications, news and short pieces of prose, aphorisms, wishes or questions. Thus, for the visitors, the illuminated sign matrix is a playable communications or information sculpture on which they may ›inscribe‹ their own messages. With playful-ironic and subversive-rebellious gestures, the visitors are called upon to rebel against commercial signs and information monopoles. But the installation contains, above all, the invitation to take a scrutinizing view of the world of objects and things, which surround us in the way we perceive them and, hence, the way they determine us.

A coproduction between the ZKM | Karlsruhe and the ABTART Gallery Stuttgart.

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March 2–May 12, 2013
Henry Flynt
Activities 1959-

The artistic work of Henry Flynt is considered one of the most well-preserved secrets of recent history. The artist was the first to coin the term ”Concept Art” and is considered among experts of the North American avant-garde scene as one of the central figures. However, a broad reception of the artist, philosopher, mathematician, economic scientist, composer and musician’s artistic work, produced only sporadically since 1959, has been rarely shown in public.

The exhibition ”Henry Flynt. Activities 1959–“ at the ZKM | Media Museum – which could be previously viewed in the Kunstverein for Rhineland and Westfalia, Düsseldorf – provides an overview of the artistic works of the artist born in 1940. Together with numerous publications, documents and other archival material, the significant selection of his works facilitates an understanding of the historical genesis of Flynt’s work, and classification of it into the contemporary historical context.
The exhibition, designed and presented for the first time in Düsseldorf, was produced in close collaboration with Henry Flynt.

Insights into a piece by Henry Flynt exclusively for the Internet which was on the web site of the Kunstverein Düsseldorf: Token

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March 2–May 19, 2013
MACHINEVISION
Field Research in the Spaces of Imaging Technologies

Today, the “Spaceship Earth” (Buckminster Fuller) is equipped with myriad sensors – whether in the form of satellites in space or in the sonar measurement devices in the oceans. Only a few of these are classic “camera eyes”, as one knows them in analog photography. They do, however, produce images: the measurement data gained through these sensors are visualized so as to be rendered amenable to interpretation by the human being.
Such measurements and visualizations take up a momentous role in the processes of control and decision in science, politics and the military, in medicine and in the police. The new practices of the two and three-dimensional cartography produce maps in the form of pixels and voxels that can be freely transformed and called up worldwide. They thus change not only the scope of knowledge and surveillance of the world, but open up a new, worldwide sphere of action.

Through video essays and photography, the exhibition MASCHINENSEHEN [MACHINEVISION] documents the practice of picture production: its devices and technologies, the laboratories, as well as the sites where the new processes are applied. In addition, it shows a selection of current objects of research: from self-experiments in a brain scanner, the reconstruction of crime scenes through 3D photography, the remeasurement of the continental shelf and the fight for raw material resources, the automation of dairy farming, measurement flight in the atmosphere, up to the evaluation of satellite imagery.

The project MACHINEVISION is based on the field research of an interdisciplinary seminar at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG), directed by Prof. Armin Linke and curated by Anselm Franke.

With contributions by Henning Arnecke, Lisa Bergmann, Felix Mittelberger, Daniel Neumann und Susan Funk, Christoph Oeschger and Elke Reinhuber.

Curator of the exhibition: Anselm Franke

Project management ZKM: Margit Rosen

Project management HfG Karlsruhe: Armin Linke

Project supervision: Armin Linke, Wilfried Kühn, Margit Rosen, Frank Halbig, Urs Lehni

Artists: Henning Arnecke (Art Studies), Lisa Bergmann (Media Art), Susan Funk (Art Studies), Felix Mittelberger (Art Studies), Daniel Neumann (Art Studies), Christoph Oeschger (Media Art), Elke Reinhuber (Media Art)

A video of the exhibition: YouTube channel of the ZKM

The exhibition is accompanied by a publication with contributions by Anselm Franke, Inge Hinterwaldner, Bruno Latour, Margarete Pratschke, Margit Rosen, Henning Schmidgen as well as Henning Arnecke, Lisa Bergmann, Felix Mittelberger, Christoph Oeschger and Elke Reinhuber.

Maschinensehen. Feldforschung in den Räumen bildgebender Technologien, ed. by Felix Mittelberger, Sebastian Pelz, Margit Rosen und Anselm Franke, Leipzig: Spector Books, 2013

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Opening: Fri, March 01, 2013, 7 p.m.

ZKM_Center for Art and Media
Lorenzstrasse 19, Karlsruhe
Hours: Wed-Fri 10am-6pm
Sat-Sun 11am-6pm
Mon-Tue closed
adults: € 6,00
reduced/ for groups of ten or more: € 4,00
7 - 17 years: € 2,00
families [max.2 adults+max.3 children under 18 years]: € 12,00

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