÷ Visit ZKM on twitter and facebook ::

Current informations about the ZKM, pictures or videos of the exhibitions, installations, and events, as well as a forum for discussion are also available on facebook and twitter. Currently you may find here among others views of the exhibitions "just what is it ..." as well as "bense and the arts." Please click on the respective symbol to visit the ZKM forums:

÷ Installation by Boris Petrovsky :: You&Me-isms/ part I ::

Drawing from analogue technologies, such as optical telegraphs, telex machines, and advertising media, the installation by the visual and media artist Boris Petrovsky "You&Me-isms" is an idiosyncratic cyber punk communication machine. Visitors are asked to interact with a message via SMS or Twitter. Their messages then appear as an illuminated path of signs in the blip matrix, where they cross over with web news feeds. [more]

[Installation in the SubRoom of the ZKM_Cube | from 1 March 2010]

Since 2007, the ZKM | Institute for Music and Acoustics and the EXPERIMENALSTUDIO of the SWR award the Giga-Hertz-Award for Electronic Music. The Giga-Hertz-Award addresses composers working in the areas of electronic and acousmatic music. A Grand Prize and four Special Prizes are awarded once a year by an international jury.
The Special Prizes à 8.000 € serve to initiate and support new projects, and are aimed especially at young composers in electronic and acousmatic music.
The Grand Prize with the sum of 15.000 € honors the artistic achievements of outstanding composers. It is not awarded in the framework of a public competition but selected from the nominations of the jury members. [more]

With the Walter-Fink-Award of the ZKM for Dance, Electroacoustic Music and Media projects are awarded, in which electronic and electroacoustic music, new media and dance/body go into a symbiosis and bring together creatural movements with advanced sound processing and performance technics. The prize with a sum of 10.000 € is advertised by a jury of four and represents the basis for a new yet to be realised project. [more]

[Application deadline for both awards is May, 31st]

÷ bense and the arts ::

For the 100th birthday of the philosopher Max Bense, ZKM presents an exhibition showing his international impact on the fine arts and literature, which can be compared to that of Umberto Eco and Marshall McLuhan. The exhibition, which carries forth the ZKM series "Philosophy and Art," presents Bense as poet and author, scholar of the arts and literature, as well as exhibition curator and publicist. [more]

[An exhibition at the ZKM | Media Museum, Project Space | until 11 April 2010]

With the exhibition just what is it... the Museum of Contemporary Art becomes a “Temporary Museum of the Modern Era.” One hundred years of art from the beginning of the twentieth century to the first decade of the twenty-first, will be documented on the basis of first-class, privately owned seminal works in Baden-Württemberg. In this way, important developmental lines of modernity and postmodernity can be shown. In the sense of a "musée imaginaire," the Museum of Contemporary Art will thereby become a site that enables an opulent overview of the currents and trends from the first decade of the twentieth century to the present. The show presents works of high international renown from the classical modern through to contemporary art, i.e., from Cézanne and the expressionists through to Picasso, from Baumeister to Wols, from Pollock to Rothko, from Warhol and Beuys to Baselitz, Kiefer, Kippenberger, and Rehberger. [more]

[An exhibition at the ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art | until 11 April 2010]

The future is the declared objective of the work produced at the ZKM. Twenty years after its foundation in 1989 the institution 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 with the best of media art works produced by international guest artists at the ZKM. In addition, the entire spectrum of the ZKM activities is made visible by means of documentation and archive material from research, production, publication, restoration and presentation. [more]

[An exhibition at the ZKM | Media Museum | until 31 December 2010 | IMAGINING MEDIA MOBILE]

÷ ZKM tours | educational program ::

The entire program in the areas of museum communication and museum education can be found here: guided tours, workshops, and further education.

÷ Film fesival :: 8. Karlsruhe Silent Film Days :: Jean Renoir and René Clair ::

For all of their differences, the careers of the two French directors Jean Renoir (1894–1979) and René Clair (1898–1981) have one thing in common: they filmed their first movies in the 1920s and were later also successful in the sound film era.

This year's Karlsruhe Silent Film Days at the ZKM and Studentenhaus Karlsruhe are dedicated to these two magnificent film-makers and show among others "La règle du jeu" (1939), "Nana" (1926), "La petite marchande d’allumettes" (1928), "Sur un air de Charleston" (1927), "Tire-au-flanc" (1928), "Paris qui dort" (1923), "Entr’acte" (1924), "Un chapeau de paille d’Italie" (1927), "Le fantôme du Moulin Rouge" (1924), "A nous la liberté" (1931), "Le silence est d’or" (1947). [Program at the ZKM]

[8. Karlsruhe Silent Film Days | Thurs–Sun 11–14 March 2010 | single ticket € 9/6 | festival ticket € 28/16]

÷ Electronic Concerts :: Quantensprünge X ::

On the second weekend of March, ZKM’s Institute for Music and Acoustics presents the results of the International Ensemble Modern Academy (IEMA), a unique, international program to promote Germany’s next generation. Young composers, musicians, a director, and a sound director work out modern programs of contemporary music under the direction of the Frankfurter Ensemble, and present them in three evening concerts. With works among others by Régis Campo, Tristan Murail, Vito Zuraj, George Crumb, Ben Johnston, Steve Reich, Ying Wang, Béla Bartók, György Ligeti, and Karlheinz Stockhausen. [more about the program]

[Quantensprünge X | International Ensemble Modern Academy (IEMA) at the ZKM | Fri–Sun 12–14 March 2010 | all concerts at 8 p.m. | admission € 9/6]

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