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This reminds me of Marina Abramovic and Ulay's art piece 'Rest Energy'.

'Standing across from one another in slanted position

Looking each other in the eye.

I hold a bow and Ulay holds the string with the arrow

pointing directly to my heart.

Microphones attached to both hearts recording

the increasing number of heart beats.' (Marina Abramovic)

This video only has the beginning, but the entire piece is I've seen the entire piece is the four longest minutes I've experienced on film.

And in some ways, that kinda fits with the Zukka dynamic of trust and testing trust which is often in fic. Zuko does need to test the trust of Sokka as well as the rest of the Gaang to find that he can trust them, and he tests them multiple times (esp in what I've read of the comics).

Quote from here: https://werkleitz.de/en/rest-energy/

maybe it's a metaphor. maybe it's not. you can decide (wip) [id in alt]

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petitioning the empty sky | prtn | 2015

Petitioning The Empty Sky | Den leeren Himmel anrufen

Radio Feature produziert mit der Unterstützung von Radio Corax im Rahmen des Werkleitz Festivals 2015.

Eine Reflexion über Medien, Medienkunst, mediale Vermittlungsformen, den medialen Raum als ideologische Formen einer erst herzustellenden Öffentlichkeit, in der es tatsächlich um die Menschen und ihre Angelegenheiten ginge, entlang der Begriffe der Zerstückelung und der Zerissenheit.

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📷this year, on the occasion of the Werkleitz Festival 2021, the HOERMASCHINE98 team spoke with various scientists about topics that would suit other societies - Stephanie Wakefield, Mel Hogan, Desiree Förster, Simon Schaupp, and Christopher Coenen lend their voices to the possible changes.

HOERMASCHINE98 will be broadcasted at www.reboot.fm on 05.12.21 from 23:59 - 03:00 (06.12.21) via live stream and on-air in berlin through 88.4fm (potsdam 90.7fm)

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10 Artists You’ll Be Talking about Long after the Venice Biennale

While the Venice Biennale gives a platform to countless artists from around the world, a few inevitably steal the show. Here, we share the names of the acclaimed artists who presented the work that challenged and inspired us, and most importantly, got us talking. From the Golden Lion winners to the artists whose works became Instagram sensations, we share the names of emerging and established artists who we’ll be seeing long after the Biennale.

Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca

Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca, “Swinguerra (film still),” for the Brazil Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale, 2019. Courtesy of Fundação Bienal de São Paulo.

In representing Brazil at the Biennale, filmmaking duo Barbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca spotlit the underrecognized Swingueira dance groups of Recife, Brazil. Their captivating film sees the young dancers, many of whom are black and identify as non-binary, undergo strenuous rehearsals and elaborate performances that reflect on the passion and struggle of their everyday lives. The film is a collaboration with the dancers rather than an anthropological study of them, presenting a fresh mode for artists to engage with and give a platform to marginalized groups.

The artists have taken this tack before, previously working with singers in Germany to give a platform to the divisive Schlager musical sensation for their 2017 project for Skulptur Projekte Münster. Beyond Venice, the artists’ work is currently resonating internationally. They are currently showing their films at Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum, Miami’s Pérez Art Museum, and Dublin’s Temple Bar Gallery and Studios.

Kahlil Joseph

Installation view of Kahlil Joseph, BLKNWS, 2018, at the 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, “May You Live In Interesting Times,” 2019. Photo by Andrea Avezzù. Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia.

Filmmaker Kahlil Joseph proposes an alternative to our humdrum news channels, many of which cater to white audiences. His addition to the Biennale, entitled BLKNWS (2018), features an entertaining, fast-paced collation of recent news items tailored to a black audience. Actress Amandla Stenberg and curator Helen Molesworth serve as news anchors. Multitalented and clearly well-connected, Joseph has previously worked on Beyoncé’s Lemonade (2016), a video short entitled Until the Quiet Comes (2012)—a collaboration with musician Flying Lotus—and various other film projects. Yet the Biennale presentation suggests that he’s a valuable asset to the worlds of media and art, as well. Institutions ranging from the New Museum to the Tate Modern have already shown Joseph’s work. He’s currently a visiting artist at Stanford University, in its Presidential Residencies on the Future of the Arts program.

Haris Epaminonda

Installation view of Haris Empaminonda, VOL. XXVII, 2019, at the 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, “May You Live In Interesting Times,” 2019. Photo by Andrea Avezzù. Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia.

Cyprian artist Haris Epaminonda’s beguiling work VOL. XXVII (2019) fills a large suite at the Arsenale, intervening in the architecture of the old armory. She’s laid down a white floor and a series of white platforms that support black or white columns. Around the rooms, Epaminonda has scattered and hung various objects: small statues of a horse head and a black bird; a relief depicting mythical creatures; and framed texts about a “river goddess” and a “white tiger (one of four gods).” All together, they suggest that the installation is some ancient ritual site that juxtaposes elements from myriad religious traditions. The viewer sees each piece as part of Epaminonda’s larger, Silver Lion–winning puzzle. The artist, who is known for similarly spare conjunctions of found materials, is enjoying a solo presentation at Brescia’s Massimo Minini gallery through June 15th. She’s also showing work at Berlin’s Gropius Bau in the group show “And Berlin Will Always Need You,” up through June 16th; and at the Werkleitz Festival in Dessau, Germany—a celebration of the Bauhaus that extends through June 10th.

Sun Yuan & Peng Yu

Chinese duo Sun Yuan & Peng Yu made two of the Biennale’s grandest gestures with their entries, Dear (2015) and Can’t Help Myself (2016). The former features a massive silicon chair with a black hose whipping out of it and striking the cage that encased it. The latter consists of a giant robotic paintbrush that continuously sweeps up blood-red paint. Crowds have swarmed—the works’ spectacular violence appeals even to the suited-up art crowd. The pair have made a career out of shock and awe tactics: Their materials have ranged from live animals to baby cadavers. They’ve exhibited internationally at institutions ranging from New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Lyon, France, and the Biennale presentation. Their uniquely grotesque, Instagram-ready aesthetic bodes well for their continued popularity.

Martin Puryear

Installation view of Martin Puryear, “Liberty/Libertá,” for the United States Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale, 2019. Photo by Zachęta. Photo by Joshua White. Courtesy of Madison Square Park Conservancy.

Installation view of Martin Puryear, “Liberty/Libertá,” for the United States Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale, 2019. Photo by Zachęta. Photo by Joshua White. Courtesy of Madison Square Park Conservancy.

Martin Puryear made a moving statement by obscuring the American pavilion with an elegant wood screen. The building, erected in the 1930s, was an homage to Monticello, the home and working plantation of slaveholder Thomas Jefferson in Charlottesville, Virginia. Inside the pavilion, visitors encounter the artist’s signature form, the Phrygian cap—a symbol of liberty that dates back to antiquity—and just beyond it, a sculptural ode to Sally Hemings, the slave who birthed Jefferson’s children.

The pavilion was sponsored by New York’s Madison Square Park Conservancy, which also commissioned Puryear’s monumental 2016 sculpture Big Bling. That public work—a looming construction of wood and chainlink fence, with a golden shackle—traveled from Madison Square Park to Philadelphia and MASS MoCA.

Known for his historically engaged, deftly hewn wood forms, Puryear has honed his woodworking skills since the 1960s, when he learned the craft techniques of West Africa, while serving in the Peace Corps. In his five-decade career, he’s continued to use such techniques to develop organic forms that speak to the natural world, African-American history, and salient cultural issues.

Arthur Jafa

Installation view of Arthur Jafa, The White Album, 2018, at the 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, “May You Live In Interesting Times,” 2019. Photo by Francesco Galli. Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia.

Arthur Jafa wants to unsettle Biennale visitors—and he is succeeding. Winner of the Golden Lion prize, the lauded filmmaker presented a damning examination of white supremacy with his film The White Album (2018). The work, which follows up his celebrated 2016 video Love is the Message, The Message is Death, unites quick clips of found cell-phone and internet footage. Together, they offer a pointed portrait of the dangers of “whiteness.” One white woman offers that cringeworthy phrase that so often precedes prejudiced language: “Let me start by saying that I am the farthest person from being racist,” she says. In another fragment, a bearded man wields a massive gun—Jafa asserts that the dangers to blackness span the linguistic to the corporeal. A traveling show, entitled “A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions,” will bring his work to Stockholm’s Moderna Museet and Prague’s Galerie Rudolfinum. The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humblebæk, Denmark, will host a Jafa solo exhibition in 2020.

Njideka Akunyili Crosby

Installation view of Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Various Works, 2012–17, at the 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, “May You Live In Interesting Times,” 2019. Courtesy of the artist, Victoria Miro, and La Biennale di Venezia.

Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s magnetic, multifaceted paintings hold court across the Arsenale and Giardini in Ralph Rugoff’s “May You Live in Interesting Times,” as well as in a tight show at Victoria Miro’s canal-side Venice gallery. At the gallery and the Giardini, we see the vibrant collaged pieces for which the artist has earned both acclaim and seven-figure sums on the auction block. For these works, she used photo-transfer to invoke personal narrative and pop culture, literally collaging together her Nigerian heritage and her present life in Los Angeles. In the Arsenale, we see small yet powerful paintings in which Crosby focuses on the faces of the Nigerian diaspora. In 2020, she will have a show at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut, curated by beloved cultural critic Hilton Als.

Laure Prouvost

Installation view of Laure Prouvost, “Deep See Blue Surrounding You/Vois Ce Bleu Profond Te Fondre,” for the France Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale, 2019. Courtesy of Institut français.

At the French pavilion, don’t miss Laure Prouvost’s presentation, cumulatively titled “Deep See Blue Surrounding You/Vois Ce Bleu Profond Te Fondre.” It includes the most transportive film you’ll find at the Biennale. Visitors enter the show after waiting in a long line that wraps around the wooded area next to the pavilion. They walk upstairs, past a giant dirt hole—Prouvost has said she’s tunneling to the British pavilion. Inside, they’ll find a floor coated in ocean blue, adorned with rubble. The theater lies just beyond a curtain, playing a video in which Prouvost breathily narrates a wacky, magical journey. Exit through the darkened galleries at the side, which bring additional elements of Prouvost’s fantasy to life. The artist has long been celebrated for her fountains made of glass breasts, her off-beat films, and her engulfing installations for which she creates elaborate narratives. On May 19th, she closed a solo show entitled “AM-BIG-YOU-US LEGSICON” at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp.

Michael Armitage

Installation view of Michael Armitage at the 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, “May You Live In Interesting Times,” 2019. Photo by Andrea Avezzù. Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia.

In the Arsenale portion of “May You Live in Interesting Times,” Kenyan-born, London- and Nairobi-based painter Michael Armitage’s showstopping, ethereal paintings challenge Western conceptions and colonial narratives surrounding the African continent. In the Giardini, a series of small, delicate ink drawings are just as moving. He created them after witnessing photographers in political rallies in Kenya in 2017, ahead of the country’s elections that year. The pen-and-ink studies capture individuals’ impassioned expressions; some figures are also the protagonists in his paintings. Armitage, who shows with White Cube in London, will continue to make waves this fall as his work goes on view in New York. In October, he’ll open a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art through its partnership with the Studio Museum in Harlem, curated by Studio Museum director Thelma Golden.

Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė, and Lina Lapelytė

Installation view of Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė, and Lina Lapelytė, “Sun & Sea (Marina),” 2019, for the Lithuania Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale, 2019. Photo © Andrej Vasilenko. Courtesy of Miles Evans PR.

Lithuanian artists Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė, and Lina Lapelytė took the Biennale—and Instagram—by storm with their indoor beach opera, Sun & Sea (Marina) (2019). Awarded the Golden Lion, the pavilion is a refreshing and magnetic meditation on climate change. Originally performed in Vilnius, Lithuania, in 2017, the Venice iteration required a new libretto in English, and offered a rare live performance amid the video-heavy Biennale.

The artists previously collaborated on Have a Good Day! (2013), a musical commentary on capitalism told by cashiers at a supermarket. Together, their expertise spans art, music, film, and theater. Based in Vilnius, Barzdžiukaitė is a filmmaker and theater director who has recently worked on documentaries and operas, exploring the boundary between fact and fiction. Grainytė, the librettist of Sun & Sea (Marina), is a writer, poet, and playwright who has also recently developed site-specific performances and radio plays, delving into social issues, collective memory, and daily routines. And Lapelytė, who is based between London and Vilnius, has a performance-art practice through which she draws upon her background in sculpture and the violin.

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Zukuenftige Ruinen

Radio Feature produziert mit der Unterstützung von Radio Corax im Rahmen des Werkleitz Festivals 2018.

Einige Überlegungen zum Verhältnis von Natur und Gesellschaft unter den Bedingungen des Kapitals und zu dessen Auswirkungen, betrachtet aus der Perspektive der Logistik, der Mobilität und des Verkehrs, anlässlich des Werkleitz Festivals 2018, das unter dem Titel »Holen und Bringen« der medienkünstlerischen Auseinandersetzung mit Logistik und Infrastrukturen gewidmet ist.

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Body Switchers @ Satellite Art Show

Helen Maurene Cooper, On the Half Shell, 2017, pre-pasted inkjet wallpaper, dimensions variable

Body Switchers December 7-10, 2017 Satellite Art Show (Room 115) The Ocean Terrace Hotel: 7410 Ocean Terrace, Miami Beach, FL

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Tiger Strikes Asteroid Chicago is pleased to present Body Switchers, curated by Holly Cahill, at Booth 115 at the Satellite Art Show in Miami.

Endlessly interfacing with communication technologies, the human species has changed.  We have mutated so that we are still flesh and blood, but also possessed of a form of electronic embodiment.  As we shuttle back and forth between our physical surroundings and immaterial space, our bodies and minds multiply as we get sucked into portals of the internet. This mixing creates a tension and perhaps another order of space, a third space, a disorienting space, where the physical and the virtual compete for recognition.

What are we to do with the body and its double? How might we re-insert or re-imagine our dimensions, form and gender in virtual space?  Has the virtual become the material of our physical surroundings?  Body Switchers includes the work of five Chicago-based artists who negotiate these questions.

Michael C. Andrews, Helen Maurene Cooper, Meg Duguid, Kelly Kaczynski, and Jeroen Nelemans practices span engagements ranging from the advent of the supercomputer to our interaction with hand held devices as well as those worlds that exist somewhere between the virtual and the physical.  

Michael C. Andrews tapestries, sculptures, and animations taunt the categorizations of textile, cinema, and object. His hybrid approach to making is fueled by the desires and anxieties of a schizophrenic and body conscious culture. Exhibitions include MCA Chicago, Dan Devening Projects and Exhibitions in Chicago, IL, The Chicago Cultural Center, and PENELOPE in New York City. Michael C. Andrews is the Executive and Creative Director at Ox-Bow School of the Arts and Artists’ Residency.

Helen Maurene Cooper earned a BA from Bard College and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.  Cooper's work is driven by personal connection and building relationships with community. She is an artist who uses numerous photographic processes along with installation and publication to connect and build relationships, explore feminism, entrepreneurship, small economies, the power of adornment, and intimacy. Since 2008, her worked has been focused on place-based exploration, specifically within beauty-centered communities in Chicago. Subjects have included custom made prom dresses, drag queen culture, and the specialty minority-owned nail businesses of Chicago’s west side.

She has received funding for exhibitions and publications through the University of Chicago, the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Council of Eindhoven, Netherlands. Her work has been reviewed by the Chicago Tribune, New City, International Forum for Contemporary Visual Arts, New York Photo Review, Temporary Art Review, Bust.com and Vice. Her monograph, Paint & Polish, Cultural Economy and Visual Culture from the West Side, Onomatopee, Eindhoven Netherlands, debuted in 2017 with an accompanying exhibition in Netherlands.

Meg Duguid believes that documentation is paramount to her art making and is invested in the ways that documentation and art can be integrated in a single practice. She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her MFA from Bard College. She has performed and exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 6018 NORTH, Slow Gallery, the Mission, Terrain, Roman Susan, the Chicago Cultural Center, and Defibrillator Performance Art Space in Chicago, as well as the DUMBO Arts Festival in Brooklyn, 667 Shotwell in San Francisco, and the Zona Maco Art Fair in Mexico City. Duguid has screened work at Synthetic Zero in New York, Spiderbug in Chicago, and the Last Supper Festival in Brooklyn. From 2009 to 2011 she ran Clutch Gallery, a 25-square-inch white cube located in the heart of her purse; since then, she lends her purse to others to curate and carry. Duguid is a member of Tiger Strikes Asteroid Chicago and lives and works in Chicago with her husband, her son, and three cats.

Kelly Kaczynski is a Chicago based artist working within the language of sculpture. Selected exhibitions include Peregrineprogram, IL; Ortega y Gasset Projects, NY; Soap Factory, MN; Comfort Station, IL; Gahlberg Gallery, IL; threewalls, IL; Hyde Park Art Center, IL; Rowland Contemporary, IL; University at Buffalo Art Gallery, NY; Triple Candie, NY; Islip Art Museum, NY; Josee Bienvenu Gallery, NY; DeCordova Museum, MA; Boston Center for the Arts, MA. Public installations include projects with the Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA; the Interfaith Center, NY; Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston and the Boston National Historic Parks, MA; Boston Public Library, MA. Curatorial projects include the 2014 exhibitions, Roving Room at Habersham Mills, GA and Virtually Physically Speaking at Columbia College, Chicago, IL and the 2011 exhibition Mouthing (a sentient limb) at the Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL. Recipient of Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award ’15; Artadia, Chicago ’08; Visible Republic, Boston, ’00. Kaczynski received an MFA from Bard College, NY and BA from The Evergreen State College, WA. She is a Lecturer with the School of the Art Institute, Chicago.

Jeroen Nelemans (1974) was born in the Netherlands and currently resides in Chicago. Nelemans has shown at the Mission gallery in Chicago, Aspect/Ratio gallery in Chicago, the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, the de la Cruz Collection Contemporary Space in Miami, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art in Greece, Elmhurst Art Museum in Illinois, the Nice&Fit gallery in Berlin and the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts in Grand Rapids. His works has also been screened at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami, the Banff Center in Canada, Gallery 400 in Chicago, as well as the Werkleitz Centre for Media Art, Halle, Germany, the Magmart International VideoArt Festival in Napoli, the Dublin Electronic Arts Festival in Ireland and the Kortfilm festival in Copenhagen as well as the 25th Festival Les Instant Video in Marseille France. Nelemans received a Full Merit Scholarship from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and finished his MFA in 2007. He was a resident at the Jentel residency, Vermont Studio Center.

Holly Cahill is an artist member of the newest branch of Tiger Strikes Asteroid in Chicago.  Trained as a painter, she uses an exploration of materials and process to engage with ideas connected to choreography, landscape, hyper-dimensional phenomena, and architecture.  Her work has been shown at Penn State University, DEMO Project, Chicago Artist Coalition, David and Reva Logan Center for the Arts, D Gallery, The Franklin, Hyde Park Art Center, and the Walter Philips Gallery in Banff Canada, among others.  She received her BFA in painting from Syracuse University and an MFA from the University of Cincinnati.  She has been an artist in residence at the Vermont Studio Center, 8550 Ohio, the Banff Centre, and Ox-Bow.

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Solidarische Stadt der Zukunft

Dokumentarfilm und Diskurs 

Auf den Festivals Crossroads in Graz und Werkleitz in Halle

Im Programm des Werkleitz 2017 wird DAS GEGENTEIL VON GRAU gezeigt. Das von Florian Wüst zusammengestellte Filmprogramm des Festivals – Motto “nicht mehr, noch nicht” – widmet sich dem städtischen Miteinander. Im Anschluss diskutieren der Kurator und der Filmemacher mit dem Publikum.

Freitag, 3. November 2017 ab 21:00 Uhr im Zazie Kino, Kleine Ulrichstraße 22, Halle an der Saale. Werkleitz Festival | Filmprogramm

Im Programm des internationalen Festivals für Dokumentarfilm und Diskurs CROSSROADS ist DAS GEGENTEIL VON GRAU im österreichischen Graz zu sehen – Podiumsdiskussion im Anschluss.

Das von dem Team um Josef Obermoser kuratierte CROSSROADS-Festival für Dokumentarfilm und Diskurs steht unter dem Motto: Graz für Alle! Für eine Solidarische Stadt der Zukunft. Hier zum Programm.

Freitag, 24. November 2017 ab 21:00 Uhr im Forum Stadtpark, Stadtpark 1.

Bilder: Oben die Hochstraße in Halle an der Saale, unten mit Stil und Lesesinn im österreichischen Kaffeehaus. Hier das Café Dogenhof in der Wiener Praterstaße.

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Goethe Institute

MEDIA ART GUIDE  MUSEUMS ZKM_MedienmuseumThe ZKM_Medienmuseum is a unique Museum for Interactive Art. It covers a wide spectrum, ranging from interactive film via simulation techniques and cyberspace to the use of current software applications on the internet. Installations and environments demonstrate different strategies for involving the observer in the work, and exemplify the creative use of new technologies. INSTITUTIONS Foro Artistico, HanoverThis forum for international media art offers innovative exhibition projects with video sculptures, interactive video and computer installations, sound and light installations, and artistic CD-ROM productions and internet projects.Fraunhofer Institut für MedienkommunikationThe Fraunhofer-Institut für Medienkommunikation (IMK) takes the ongoing media revolution as its point of departure. It focuses chiefly on virtual environments and computer graphics, cultural heritage, interactive television and e-cinema, multimedia management, knowledge spaces and web-based solutions.HMKV Harteware MedienKunstVerein, DortmundPlatform for the production, presentation and education of contemporary and experimental media art: organization of exhibitions, film and video programs, conferences and workshops.Institut für neue Medien, FrankfurtEver since 1990 the Institut für neue Medien has offered international media artists a platform for realising their projects. At the same time it is also a forum for theoretical discussion and debate on the various new media.inter media art instituteThe imai is a non-profit foundation with the goal to ditribute, preserve and convey media art,with an emphasis on video art and the artistic film. The institution provides for the scientific analysis of media art, organises exhibitions, screenings and symposia. In addition, its media art archive offers an online catalogue featuring a large number of video artworks from the imai's collection that can be watched in full length.Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, BerlinThe Neuer Berliner Kunstverein regards it as one of its prime tasks to organise exhibitions of contemporary art. In addition to this, its “Video Forum” offers a comprehensive collection of international artists’ videotapes.

spiegel, MünchenSpiegel showcases aspects of contemporary video art and the new media, and also offers an extensive video library that is based on the collection in the Lenbachhaus municipal gallery, and is constantly being added to.

Videolounge im Museum Ludwig

Video collection of the Ludwig Museum, Cologne.

Werkleitz Gesellschaft e.V., Halle

The Werkleitz Gesellschaft in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, is a non-profit association for the realisation of film, art and media projects. It supports artists and media producers working in the field of digital media. It offers grants and workshops, as well as the unique online-database "cinovid" for Experimental Film and Video Art. Apart from organising the Werkleitz Biennale, an international and interdisciplinary forum/festival for art and media, the Werkleitz Gesellschaft also produces and organises exhibitions, round tables and festivals in cooperation with regional, national and international partners.

Centre for Art and Media Technology (ZKM)

The Centre for Art and Media Technology (ZKM) is a major centre for media art in matters of production, research, presentation, documentation and awareness-raising. The in-house media library includes an extensive video collection.

235 Media

Video art and video installations are extensively documented in 235 Media Art’s digital archive. EDUCATION Academy for Children’s Media

The Academy for Children’s Media is a vocational training for writers initiated by Förderverein deutscher Kinderfilm e.V. which is located in Erfurt. The aim is enhancing the lobby for original and inventive children’s media and the preparing each project for the market.

Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig

Leipzig’s Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (“Academy of the Visual Arts”) currently offers the following four degree courses: Painting / Graphic Art; Book Design / Graphic Design; Photography; Media Art.

Kunsthochschule für Medien, Cologne

Cologne’s Kunsthochschule für Medien (“Academy of Media Arts”) opened its doors in 1990 as Germany’s first academy for audiovisual media. Its degree course offers a very wide range of different elements, enabling students to put together their own individual study programmes. There are four subject groups: TV and Film; Media Design; Media Art; Art and Media Studies.

Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe

The Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung (“State Academy of Design”) offers four undergraduate courses — namely Media Art, Product Design, Graphic Design and Scenography — and also a Master’s course in Media Theory and Fine Art.

Kunsthochschulen in Deutschland

A list of links relating to all Academies of Art in Germany, with additional addresses and information.

Hochschulliste

A list of links relating to German-language universities with Media departments. FESTIVALS Ars Electronica, Linz

Ars Electronica offers a festival of media arts with a wide range of events reflecting the connections between art, society and the media.

Backup-Festival, Weimar

Backup is a festival of digitally created film and video productions.

CYNETART, Hellerau

This annual festival is dedicated to “cultural reflection through computer-aided art”. In addition, a biennial competition is held and an advancement award as well as an artist-in-residence scholarship are granted.

Dokumentarfilm und Videofest, Kassel

Film and media festival focusing on new media.

EMAF, Osnabrück

EMAF — short for “European Media Art Festival” — takes place annually in Osnabrück. It is a meeting place for art, culture and media specialists, and a forum for international media art.

Transmediale, Berlin

Transmediale is Germany’s largest festival dedicated to art and the creative application of digital media. Each year the festival showcases new and important projects from the world of digital culture, and offers reflections on the role of digital technology in present-day society.

Videofestival, Bochum

Video festival with an international video competition and VJ-contest.

Videonale, Bonn

This event takes place every two years in Bonn’s Kunstmuseum, and showcases current art video works by means of a festival and exhibition.

Viper, Basle

Viper is a European festival devoted to film, video and new media. Taking place annually, it offers a platform for the presentation of innovative works and projects, and a forum for the discussion of future-oriented approaches within the area of media, culture and society in the 21st century.

Werkleitz Biennale, Halle

The Werkleitz Gesellschaft is an association dedicated to the encouragement and realisation of film, video and media art projects. The Werkleitz Biennial was established in 1996 as an international forum for media and art, and offers both a curated film festival and an art exhibition.

ZKM Mediathek

List of links relating to international media art festivals. SCHOLARSHIPS AND PRIZES Akademie Schloss Solitude Scholarships

With its international programme of scholarships the Schloss Solitude Academy supports young artists from the fields of fine art, architecture, music, literature, design, film / video, and theatre. In addition, academic researchers working in associated disciplines — e.g. musicology or the theory of art — may also apply. Awards are made once every two years.

Digital Sparks Award

This competition is open to students and recent graduates working in the fields of media art, media design, media IT and media communication. The objective is to foster interactive, experimental and theoretical work which demonstrates an innovative approach to digital culture technologies.

Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst Oldenburg

The Edith Russ House is dedicated to new media art. In addition to its programme of in-house exhibitions it also offers one six-month scholarship per year to media artists.

Künstlerhaus Bethanien

The Künstlerhaus Bethanien and its Media Arts Lab promote the development of new forms of expression by digital means. Like all other artists, however, media artists are only accepted within the framework of their own national student support systems; hence they cannot apply directly to the Künstlerhaus itself, but only via partner institutes in their own country.

Marl Media Art Prizes

The Marl prizes for media art are organised by the city’s Glaskasten sculpture museum. The Marl Video Art Prize was the first to be offered in 1984, but over the years further prizes have been added. At present the Sculpture Museum offers the Marl Video Art Prize, the German Sound Art Prize, and the Video Installation Prize together with the associated “Media space” competition.

Nam June Paik Award – The Kunststiftung NRW Media Art Prize

This media art prize was first awarded by the art foundation Kunststiftung NRW in 2002. An international jury nominates bewteen six and eight artists for an exhibition, and from this the main prizewinner emerges. In addition, the NRW-Förderpreis is awarded to a promising young artist from North Rhine-Westfalia.

Transmediale Award

The Transmediale Award is offered by transmediale, Berlin’s festival of art and digital culture. The prize competition is aimed at outstanding artistic achievements in current digital media art.

Filmbüro Bremen New Talent Prize for Video Art

This prize is aimed at encouraging emerging talent, and is awarded for the purpose of enabling the winner to realise a specific project or projects. The spectrum is broad in terms of both form and content — research in the video field is just as welcome as poetic digital collages, video tapes and video installations.

Werkleitz-Gesellschaft Scholarship Programme and Werkleitz Award

The Werkleitz Gesellschaft offers media artists an interesting range of scholarship programmes, and also a prize for outstanding examples of media art: EMARE (European Media Artists in Residence Exchange); a project scholarship; support for up to four projects by artists from Germany and abroad; an art scholarship; the Werkleitz Award. ONLINE SERVICES Bild-Rausch

Online data bank and archive aimed at presenting female media artists and giving them exposure on the internet.

Database of Virtual Art

This data bank has been developed in cooperation with established media artists, researchers and institutions, and documents the field of media art.

Medienkunstnetz

Medienkunstnetz (Media Art Net) offers a comprehensive and unique overview of the development of media art which is rendered accessible on the internet by means of examples of individual works.

netzspannung.org

Netzspannung.org is an internet platform. As an interface between media art, media technology and society it serves as an information pool for artists, designers, computer scientists and socio-cultural researchers.

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