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20/6/2015

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ZKM_Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe

Globale: Program
The new art event in the digital age

The new polyphonic, multipolar art form, the GLOBALE, laboratory and academy at the same time, will begin with the 300th anniversary of the city of Karlsruhe in June 2015 and then continue for 300 days. It focuses on the cultural effects of globalization and digitalization, which both influence life on our planet. Exhibitions, concerts, performances, lectures, conferences and symposia show the crucial artistic, social and scientific trends of the 21st Century for the first time.

It is not about a new geopolitical cartography of culture, but the variety and richness of contemporary art beyond the market and the connection with technology and science. This art is performative and action-oriented and replaces representation by reality. In the mirror of globalization new tradition lines come into view, for example an extended Renaissance term to Asian and Arabic contributions. Globalization and digitalization cause a global synchronization of events, but also new forms of asynchrony, a "confluence of cultures" (Peter Weibel) and a "clash of civilizations" (Samuel Huntington).

Ryoji Ikeda: micro macro
21.06-09.08.2015

The »Infosphere« exhibition starts with a presentation by composer and artist Ryoji Ikeda in Atrium 1 + 2 of the ZKM. His large-scale projections relating to architecture and sound worlds, are a totally immersive experience for the visitors. With »the planck universe [micro]« and »the planck universe [macro]«, the ZKM presents a series of new works, inspired by the artist’s encounters with scientists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. CERN has the world’s largest particle physics research institute. Ikeda’s new synesthetic works are based on principles of particle physics and cosmology. Inspired by supersymmetry, they visualize a theory of particle physics – the different scales and dimensions of the universe.
Digital synesthesias of sounds and moving images

Through their spectacular presentation, Ikeda’s spatial and audiovisual installations develop a powerfully hypnotic effect, enhanced by rhythmic loops and repetitive sequences of short notes or noise. In 2012, Ryoji Ikeda shared the ZKM Giga-Hertz-Prize for Sound Art with Carsten Nicolai, for their encyclopedic investigation of the visual forms of sound. The mathematical and physical qualities of sound are presented in the book and CD-ROM »cyclo. id«. It is an atlas of over a thousand waveforms and sinus curves, which are visualized and set to music. Music becomes physics.

Ikeda’s sound art is primarily concerned with noise, with the bits and bytes of sounds. As he mainly generates his sounds from digital sources, he can convert this digital data, synesthetically or correspondingly, into acoustic and visual forms (e.g., »test pattern«, 2008). Ikeda is one of the first data artists to present the digital data flows of the infosphere both visually and acoustically, as signaled by the work titles »dataplex« (2005), »dataphonics« (2010), und »data.tron« (2010). Penetrating this world like a hacker, Ikeda makes its hidden features visible – its code – as data flows and abstract computing processes unfold and immerse the spectators.

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Transsolar + Tetsuo Kondo: Cloudscapes
21.06-27.09.2015

A cloud in the ZKM! As prelude to the exhibition »Exo-Evolution« Stuttgart-based Energietechnik GmbH Transsolar, together with Japanese architect Tetsuo Kondo plan to produce an artificial cloud in the ZKM spaces.

The project combines many years’ experience in the sphere of climate engineering with architectural knowledge: by applying cutting-edge technologies, not only is climate engineering made visible, but ways are also shown in which the human being will become capable of exercising greater influence on natural phenomena with increasing effectiveness in the future.

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HA Schult : Action Blue
21.06- 30.09.2015

Air and water: two elements. Air pollution and water scarcity: two matters of burning importance to humankind.

As his contribution to the GLOBALE, from June 18 to August 7, 2015, HA Schult is driving an electric car from Paris to Beijing. Along the way, HA Schult will take samples from rivers and lakes – using microscope photos of the samples to create biokinetic images, according to the motto: “Nature paints itself!” The highlight of the tour is a world press conference at a waterhole in the Gobi desert.

For two months, starting June 18, in the Subspace of the ZKM_Cube, visitors can participate daily in the HA Schult Rally, via video.

Image: HA Schult : Action Blue

Press Contact:
Dominika Szope, presse@zkm.de

Opening: Sun, June 21, 2015 sat 2 pm

ZKM_Center for Art and Media
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76135 Karlsruhe
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