Open Codes, ZKM Karlsruhe, Catalogue

Open Codes. Living in digital worlds

ZKM | Center for Art and Media
Exhibition brochure, 63 pages
2017
Deutsch, English
Peter Weibel

https://zkm.de/en/publication/open-codes-leben-in-digitalen-welten-englisch

We live in a world that is not solely generated, driven, and controlled by things, words, and images, but above all by data. A vast number of electronic interfaces, like smartphones, computers, TVs, and data displays, accompany us 24/7. Fields of Data are indispensable and omnipresent.
Living in digital worlds means increasingly a life spent in a programed, smart environment, a so-called »scripted reality.« The script is dictated in part by sensors, which provide information about the state of reality around us. The data from the sensors is processed by algorithms, which steer us through the world as though through a field of data. For the world we live in is more and more an artificial, human-made data world.

The large-scale installation »The World as a Field of Data« which awaits you in ZKM’s Atrium 8, takes up this topic. A »data cloud« of around 40 monitors shows the vast number of electronic interfaces, like smartphones, computers, TVs, and digital data screens that accompany us in everyday life: at the airport or train station, at the stock exchange and in the bank, in the office and in the home, in the hospital or in the medical practice.

Curator: Peter Weibel, Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás, Yasemin Keskintepe and Blanca Giménez
Participating artists: Jean-Michel Alberola, Moreshin Allahyari, Isaac Asimov, Lisa Bergmann, Michael Bielicky, Patrick Borgeat, James Bridle, Ludger Brümmer, Can Büyükberber, Emma Charles, Matthieu Cherubini, Arthur C. Clarke, Tyler Coburn, Max Cooper, Shane Cooper, Larry Cuba, Frederik De Wilde, Simon Denny, Götz Dipper, Constant Dullaart, Margret Eicher, Jonas Eltes, César Escudero Andaluz, Cerith Wyn Evans, Claire L. Evans, Harun Farocki, Thierry Fournier, Kristof Gavrielides, Jan Gerigk, Julia Gerlach, Julia Ghorayeb, Melanie Gilligan, Fabien Giraud, Manfred Hauffen, Daniel Heiss, Anton Himstedt, Yannick Hofmann, ICD/ITKE, Simon Ingram, Eduardo Kac, Helen Knowles, Beryl Korot, Anton Kossjanenko, Brigitte Kowanz, Manfred Kraft, Marc Lee, Donna Legault, Jan Robert Leegte, Lawrence Lek, Armin Linke, Bernd Lintermann, Fei Liu, Christian Lölkes, Andy Lomas, Solimán López, Wolfgang Maass, Shawn Maximo, Tamara Mchedlidze, Rosa Menkman, Ben Miller, Chikashi Miyama, Andreas Müller-Pohle, Jörn Müller-Quade, Martín Nadal, Greg Niemeyer, Helena Nikonole, Julian Palacz, Josef N. Patoprsty, Elizabeth Pich, Matthew Plummer-Fernandez, Julien Prévieux, Chandrasekhar Ramakrishnan, Peter Reichhard, Max-Gerd Retzlaff, Kamila B. Richter, Matthias Richter, Betty Rieckmann, robotlab, Curtis Roth, RYBN.ORG, saai | Südwestdeutsches Archiv für Architektur und Ingenieurbau, Chris Salter, Karin Sander, Raphaël Siboni, Karl Sims, Adam Slowik, Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits, Space Caviar, Barry Stone, Monica Studer, UBERMORGEN.COM, Ruben van de Ven, Christoph van den Berg, Harm van den Dorpel, Koen Vanmechelen, Danja Vasiliev, Ivar Veermäe, Nikolaus Völzow, Michael Volkmer, ::vtol::, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Peter Weibel, Alex Wenger, Where Dogs Run, Dan Wilcox, Stephen Willats, Manfred Wolff-Plottegg, World-Information Institute

Editorial staff: ZKM | Publications (Jens Lutz, Ulrike Havemann, Anna Straetmans, Miriam Stürner, Claudia Voigtländer)
Copy editing: ZKM | Publications (D), Gloria Custance (E)
Translations: Petra Kaiser (D); Gloria Custance, Isaac Custance, Jane Yager (E)
Cover design: Peter Weibel, Christian Lölkes

 

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