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8/10/2009

Produced@zkm. media art revisited

ZKM_Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe

Curated by Peter Weibel and Bernhard Serexhe

Back to the Future – The future is the declared objective of the work produced at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe. On the occasion of its jubilee, now twenty years after its foundation in 1989 the institution now casts back to its past with the opening of an exhibition, which brings the history of the ZKM to life: in a large-scale overview presentation commencing on the 10 October, the best of media art works produced by international artists at the ZKM will be presented. In addition, the entire spectrum of the ZKM activities will be made visible by means of documentation and archive material from research, production, publication, restoration and presentation. With “40yearsvideoart.de,” a presentation had already been organized at the ZKM providing an overview of the development of media art in Germany. At this event, works were discovered which were then exhibited in their original or restored versions.

The Creation of the Future – Since its foundation in 1989 as a digital Bauhaus and Mecca of media art, the ZKM Karlsruhe has been responding to the rapid developments in communications and information technologies and to the social transformations linked to these with artistic and scientific research, productions and presentations. Here, the aim was to identify the possible uses, creative potential, but also the dangers of new media and to respond to the subsequent uncertainties.
Art from the research and development work carried out at the ZKM are to be exhibited. Thus, the ZKM | Institute for Visual Media will show various artistic works, but also the technical equipment of the Panorama Technology developed there. Interactive installations, recordings of important musical events and the presentation of the Sound Dome developed at the ZKM exemplify the work done at the ZKM | Institute for Music and Acoustics. Publications, in book form, as CD, CD-Rom, DVD or the internet, show the vast output of these institutes as well as of the third ZKM | Institute for Media, Education, and Economy.

In collaboration with over 500 guest artists from all over the world, the various institutes of the ZKM have generated a multiplicity of highly regarded works that have received worldwide recognition in biennales, festivals and exhibitions, which have thus decisively marked the face of media art. Through the ongoing adoption of these works at the beginning of the 1990s by the founding Director Heinrich Klotz, the ZKM_Collection Karlsruhe is today one of the most important collections of international media art worldwide. Thus, the exhibition produced@zkm aims at no less than the reconstruction of the international development of media art by way of a presentation of the best productions from the ZKM.

The Preservation of the Future – Whereas the ZKM, as avant-garde laboratory, has been able to provide, and continues to provide its guest artists with innovative hardware and software for the professional development of artistic works. At the same time the existence of the works produced are endangered as a consequence of rapid advances in technology. While it is the interactive works in particular which are most susceptible to the fast-paced transformations of data architectures, carrying media and electronic equipment, their medial quality is based on the perfect interlocking of software and hardware at the interface of man and machine. In that for compelling technical reasons the preservation of media art cannot be transferred to future generations The project produced@zkm has given itself the objective to reconstruct the best works from the ZKM_Production and to make them accessible permanently to a broad public.

Artists: among others, Ludger Brümmer, Bruno Cohen, Shane Cooper, Luc Courchesne, Frank den Oudsten, Frank Fietzek, Masaki Fujihata, Agnes Hegedüs, Bernd Lintermann, Michael Naimark, robotlab, Bill Seamann, Paul Sermon, Marie Sester, Jeffrey Shaw, Bill Viola, Tamás Walitzky

A press conference followed by a tour through the exhibition will organized for the media representatives at the opening on Thursday, 8 October. We take the opportunity here to cordially invite you to this event.

Press Contact Friederike C. Walter
Management Press
phon: +49 (0)721 / 8100 – 1220
Evelyne Astner, Trainee Press
Tel: +49 (0)721 / 8100 – 1821
E-Mail: presse@zkm.de

Press Conference: Thursday, October 8, 2009, 11 a.m.
Opening Fri. 9 Oct. 2008, 7 p.m.

ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
Lorenzstrasse 19, D-76135 Karlsruhe

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