Publikationen


A person dressed in shorts writes on a wall at night but light dark is turned upside down.

A Show of Affection, Collection Constellation 1, Booklet

Photo Museum Winterthur
Exhibiton Booklet, color, 84 pages, 18 x 27 cm
2024
English, German
Edited and Published by Fotomuseum Winterthur

Fotomuseum Winterthur, PDF Booklet: EN, DE

Fotomuseum Winterthur is taking the opportunity presented by the institution’s thirtieth anniversary to examine its own collection, with a selection of artworks providing an insight into the museum’s collecting activities. On display are works by a total of 19 different photographers and artists, a mix of well-known names and new discoveries.

 


Black background with green wavy-jagged lines and white lettering: ISEA2023 SYMBIOSIS

ISEA2023 SYMBIOSIS Catalogue

28th International Symposium on Electronic Art
Symposium catalog, color, 120 pages, 16 x 24 cm
2023
English, Français
Edited and Published by ISEA

http://isea2023.isea-international.orgCataloge (PDF)

ISEA, a major event on the global electronic art scene, aims to strengthen the dialogue between artists, researchers, engineers, designers and entrepreneurs from the cultural and creative industries who participate in the advances of research and creation. This multidisciplinary event is open to both specialists and the general public.
The 28th edition of ISEA, co-organized by Le Cube Garges and the School of Decorative Arts, took place in Paris at the Forum des images from May 16 to 21, 2023 as well as through an artistic program spread over fifty partner cultural venues throughout France until September 15, 2023.

 


Transmediale Berlin, a model a map a fiction

Transmediale Berlin, a model a map a fiction

Transmediale e.V. Berlin
Festival brochure, 35 pages
2023
Deutsch, English
Maeve O’Neill, Pip Hare

2023.transmediale.de

The 36th edition of transmediale takes place at Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg, and across the city from 1 to 5 February. a model, a map, a fiction explores how scale reconfigures relations, politics, and affects. Alongside the festival, transmediale presents the free citywide exhibition Out of Scale distributed and embedded within the networks and infrastructures of Berlin

 


Dark purple cover with white text: Unfold X - Shaping the Future, a new art ecosystem mediated by technology

UNFOLD X 2022, Shaping the Future, Seoul

Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture (SFAC)
Exhibition brochure, color, 140 pages, 17 x 24 cm
2022
English, Korean
Changki Lee (President)

Exhibition brochure (PDF)

Seoul Arts & Tech Festival Unfold X 2022
Convergence — Synergistic Symbiosis between Art and Technology

For the past 10 years, DA VINCI CREATIVE (2010-2019) has put a focus on expanding the scope of arts by supporting the convergence between art and technology. Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture (SFAC) reorganizes its business as “Unfold X,” which aims at expanding the innovative convergence art platform through the collaboration between convergence art-specialized organizations and corporations.


Black cover and Neon Letters: Changwon Sculpture Biennale 2022, Channel: Wave-Particle Duality

Changwon Sculpture Biennale, Channel: Wave-Particle Duality

Nampyo HONG
Book, color, 596 pages, 17 x 24 cm
2022
English, Korean
Kwangyong CHO, Taehoon Lee, Hyojin NAM, Eunsoon YOO, Dongyoung KIM, Dasol Lee
ISBN 979-11-980671-0-4
changwonbiennale.or.kr
This year’s Biennale is held under the theme “Channel: Wave-Particle Duality,” which is a modern-day reinterpretation of the Eastern monistic view of life through the lens of quantum physics. It is designed to invite reflection and dialogue around “I, you, we, culture, and life.”


Photorealistic rhino standing in a white cube gallery

ESCH 2022, HeK Basel, Earthbound: In Dialogue with Nature

Hatje Cantz
Book, color, 160 pages, 17 x 23.5 cm
2022
English, French
Ed. Sabine Himmelsbach, Françoise Poos, text(s) by Nancy Braun, Yulia Fisch, Sabine Himmelsbach, Beat Jans, Boris Magrini, Sam Tanson, Yvonne Volkart, graphic design by Rutger Fuchs
ISBN 978-3-7757-5240-4
hatjecantz.de
Exhibition Brochure DE, EN, FR
Earthbound—In Dialogue with Nature gathers forward-thinking works that propose alternative ways of shaping the complex relationship between human activities and the ecosystem—visionary approaches that emphasize the need for dialogue through new forms of interaction and consciously intervene in the current debate to initiate change. Created in collaboration with HEK, Haus der elektronischen Künste―a young institution from Basel dedicated to digital culture―and curated by HEK director Sabine Himmelsbach and Boris Magrini, this exhibition demonstrates that precisely where other strategies fail, art can open up new perspectives.


Industrial Hall Möllerei, Esch-Belval 2022

ESCH 2022, ZKM Karlsruhe, Hacking Identity – Dancing Diversity

Hatje Cantz
Book, color, 176 pages, 17 x 23.5 cm
2022
English, French
Ed. Anett Holzheid, Françoise Poos, text(s) by Anett Holzheid, Georges Mischo, Françoise Poos, Sam Tanson, Peter Weibel, graphic design by Rutger Fuchs
ISBN 978-3-7757-5239-8
hatjecantz.de
Exhibition Brochure DE, EN, FR
Remix Art: How Contemporary Media Art Forges New Narratives

Hacking Identity—Dancing Diversity opens a vivid kaleidoscope of artistic notions of identity that reflect upon the particular and the universal, the aesthetic and the intellectual, the historical and the futuristic, the human and the non-human. Organized in cooperation with the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, a unique cultural institution in Europe, expanding the original tasks of a museum by combining research, exhibitions and performances, the exhibition is curated by Anett Holzheid, scientific consultant at ZKM, and Peter Weibel, its chairman and director.

 


Used to Be My Home Too exhibited in vertical standing flat screens

Capturing Human’s Impact on Biodiversity through Citizen Science, Swissnex San Francisco

swissnex.org
Website
2022
English
Meg Shiffler
swissnex.orgPDF

Swissnex in San Francisco is pleased to present Swiss artist Marc Lee’s project Used to Be My Home Too as a key part of a series of programs and events highlighting Ticino, the Italian speaking canton of Switzerland, organized by the Consulate General of Switzerland and in parallel to the Italian Language Week this October in San Francisco.

 


White cover with blue text: Swiss Media Art and red text: HEK, House of Electronic Arts Basel

Swiss Media Art, Marc Lee, Chloé Delarue, Laurent Güdel – Pax Art Awards

HEK (House of Electronic Arts), Basel, Switzerland
Exhibition brochure, 6 pages
2022
Deutsch, English, Français
Boris Magrini

Exhibition brochure (PDF) EN, DE, FR

The Pax Art Award jury is pleased to award Marc Lee (*1969) with this year’s Pax Art Award for an established voice in the domain of media arts in Switzerland.

With his net-based practice he has been a long-standing and important voice within the media art field in Switzerland and he has created a striking body of work. Marc Lee creates impressive and immersive installations that expand through spaces which simultaneously enchant and overwhelm.

 


Black letters on white page: Cäcilia Brown: Landstreicherinnen, Marc Lee: Loss of Diversity

Infrastrukturen – Doppelausstellung: Cecilia Brown – Landstreicherinnen, Marc Lee – Loss of Diversity

Galerie für Gegenwartskunst, E-Werk Freiburg
Exhibition brochure, 35 pages
2022
Deutsch
Heidi Brunnschweiler

Ausstellungsbooklet (PDF)

The Pax Art Award jury is pleased to award Marc Lee (*1969) with this year’s Pax Art Award for an established voice in the domain of media arts in Switzerland.

With his net-based practice he has been a long-standing and important voice within the media art field in Switzerland and he has created a striking body of work. Marc Lee creates impressive and immersive installations that expand through spaces which simultaneously enchant and overwhelm.

 


Virtual city, Marc Lee

Pax Art Awards 2021

Art Foundation Pax
Brochure, 2 pages
2021
Deutsch, English
Art Foundation Pax

https://www.artfoundationpax.chBrochure (PDF)

The Pax Art Award jury is pleased to award Marc Lee (*1969) with this year’s Pax Art Award for an established voice in the domain of media arts in Switzerland.

With his net-based practice he has been a long-standing and important voice within the media art field in Switzerland and he has created a striking body of work. Marc Lee creates impressive and immersive installations that expand through spaces which simultaneously enchant and overwhelm.

 


Rubber duck meme as book cover

SEND ME AN IMAGE

Steidl GmbH & Co. OHG (Verlag)
Book, color, 328 pages, 17 x 27 cm
2021
English, German
by Felix Hoffmann und Kathrin Schönegg, CO Berlin Foundation, Berlin, Germany
ISBN 978-3-95829-962-7
https://shop.co-berlin.org/produkt/send-me-an-image/

Photography has always been a social medium shared with others. But why do we communicate with each other using images? And how do the virtual essences that are photographs change our societies? Featuring works by Moyra Davey, Gilbert & George, Theresa Martinat, Thomas Ruff and Clare Strand, among others, Send me an Image. From Postcards to Social Media explores the development of photography from a means of communication in the nineteenth century to its current digital representation online. Its focus lies on the dialogue between traveling images throughout photography’s 150-year history and contemporary artists beginning in the 1970s who work with both traditional and modern photographic techniques, uses and modes of dissemination.

 


Black cover with white text: Digital Art Collection

EIGENHEIM EDITION 5 – Digital Art Collection

Galerie Eigenheim in cooperation with mkv
Book, black and white, 70 pages, 21 x 29.7 cm
2021
English, German
by Konstantin Bayer & Bianka Voigt
galerie-eigenheim.dePDF

The EIGENHEIM EDITION #5 – Digital Art Collection, a project by EIGENHEIM Weimar/Berlin in cooperation with media art association Berlin.
The digital is real. Our everyday lives are significantly shaped by technologies such as the Internet, smartphones and computers. Such technologies are constantly dissolving boundaries between physical and virtual spaces and connecting these spheres together. Art as a mirror of our time uses these media to freshly approach both artistic forms and contemporary discourses. In doing so, the works make us aware of opportunities and challenges, forcing us to examine them on a content-related, formal and technical level.

 


Black letters on white page: Case for Keeping It Random, from The New York Times

A Case for Keeping It Random, The New York Times

nytimes.com
Website
2021
English
Alexis Kleinman
nytimes.comPDF

PAID POST by Dashlane — A Case for Keeping It Randome explores the role of randomness in art, science and cybersecurity.
… Marc Lee, a Swiss artist, also makes art for and with the internet. His project “Airport Lounge” shows social media posts sent from airport lounges laid on top of satellite images of airports. Lee doesn’t choose which posts end up in the piece. “I just take the newest social media posts,” he says. “It’s a strict concept. I always start with the youngest posts in the beginning. You never know who is posting what.” Without this randomness, Lee says, “the piece would not work.”

 


White letters on black book cover: cadaptured in-between

Captured in-between Dys-Utopia

Kunstverein, Friedrichshafen, Germany
Cataloge, color, 90 pages, 21 x 30 cm
2021
English, German
Hannah Eckstein

kunstverein-friedrichshafen.dePDF (page 38-63)

The catalogue includes a detailed documentation of the exhibition, a foreword by the curator, Hannah Eckstein, and texts by Ulrike Bergermann, John Brennan and Heiderose Langer on the works of the participating artists Ira Konyukhova, Marc Lee and Lena Polizcka.

Utopias as well as dystopias are profoundly human concepts. The first utopia can be traced back to antiquity and Plato’s Politeia, in which the notion of an ideal society was recorded for the first time in human histo-ry. The term ‘utopia’ itself was coined in 1516 by the English statesman and humanist Thomas More in his novel On the Best State of a Republic and the Island of Utopia. The title already suggests that this work shares as its theme an ideal society in an ideal state. Evidently, both Plato’s and More’s works arose from a humanistic way of thinking that believes in a better form of existence for mankind.

 


Book cover sky in skin color

Stormy Weather

Verlag für moderne Kunst
Book, color, 72 pages, 21 x 15 cm
2020
English, French
by Katharina Brandl, Claire Hoffmann
ISBN 978-3903796157
https://www.vfmk.org/books/stormy-weather(PDF)

The metaphor and the reality of the ‹cloud› are omnipresent in our daily lives. It is not only the place where data are stored but also-by cloud computing, cloud gaming, or cloud streaming-the place where the central functions of computational power and auto-learning artificial intelligence have migrated to. The cloud is not a storage folder-it is our super brain. The exhibition project «Stormy Weather» questions the relationship between the human-made clouds of our present to humans, climate and politics.

 

A stickman shouts utopia from a pit.

KUNSTFORUM International, Bd. 267

post-futuristisch. Kunst in dystopischen Zeiten
Zeitschrift / Serie, 335 pages
2020
Deutsch
Herausgegeben von Ann-Katrin Günzel

https://www.kunstforum.de/band/2020-267-post-futuristisch/Book P. 140-147 (PDF)

Dass wir uns so unvermittelt und mit einer solch harten Vollbremsung in einer Entschleunigungsphase wiederfinden würden, hätte vor wenigen Wochen noch niemand vermutet: Unsere wachstumsorientierte, schnelllebige Leistungsgesellschaft wird derzeit geradezu dramatisch vom Corona-Virus ausgebremst, das dabei ein atemberaubendes Tempo an den Tag legt und sich wie im Flug über alle Landesgrenzen hinweg verbreitete. Im Gegensatz zum utopischen Fortschrittsdenken der italienischen Futuristen am Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts befinden wir uns heute in einer Zeit des Post-Futurismus, in der die Auswirkungen der Wachstumsideologie zwar noch andauern, Stimmen des Widerstands aber angesichts einer nicht mehr zu leugnenden Klimakrise immer lauter werden und der Zustand der zunehmenden Erschöpfung alternative soziale, politische und ökonomische Entwürfe erfordert. Das spiegelt sich auch in der Kunst.

 


Thin neon-coloured lines overlay the dark blue cover

A Ripple In The {Data} Flow

MA Curatorial Practice, School of Visual Arts, NY
Catalogue
2020
English
by Xinchen Du

www.macp.sva.edu/a-ripple-in-the-data-flowCataloge (PDF)

A Ripple in the {Data} Flow proposes a series of urgent questions too often ignored in this age of global connectivity: What kind of self-awareness can users maintain when they are actively, passively, or indirectly accessing data? If data is structured in a rational way, to what extent are we rational when using data? What are the perils of infatuation with the networked world and the many kinds of information, pleasure, convenience, and fantasy it offers? Curated amid the unprecedented human novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic,

 


Book cover colorful letters: LUX AETERNA on white background

LUX AETERNA – ISEA 2019 Art Catalogue

Art Center Nabi
Book, color, 200 pages, 15 x 22 cm
2019
English
Edited and Published by Art Center Nabi
ISBN 979-11-87275-05-3
http://isea2019.isea-international.org/Cataloge (PDF)

The 25th International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA), Gwangju, South Korea.
ISEA is one of the world’s most prominent international arts and technology events, bringing together scholarly, artistic, and scientific domains in an interdisciplinary discussion and showcase of creative productions applying new technologies in art, interactivity, and electronic and digital media.

 


Desert landscape with yellow sky

The Quotidian: Same but Different, Multi-Screen Installation in Public Space

nabi.or.kr
Website
2019
English, Korean
Edited and Published by Art Center Nabi
www.nabi.or.krPDF ENKR

Exhibition Statement
With the development of social networks in the digital age, the world seems to be constantly connected in a huge network, resembling each other. People living in their contemporaries feel closer to the political, economic, cultural and social issues globally and feel more connected than ever before. Networking activities on the internet work as a communication channel that transcends the physical constraints, reflecting voices of various individuals based on real-time community build-up and the commentary culture, and sharing their daily lives and thoughts every day.

 


The Kind Stranger Exhibition

Approaching Nonplace from Marc Lee, UNArt Center First Exhibition

Pro Helvetia
Website
2019
Chinese, English
Edited and Published by Pro Helvetia – Swiss Cultural Foundation
mp.weixin.qq.com, PDF CNEN

Swiss artist Marc Lee will present the new work «Non-Places» at the opening exhibition of «The Kind Stranger» at the UNArt Center. Marc Lee himself will also perform at the UNArt Art Center. This new facility is located in the former site of Dongchang Cinema, the first home theater in Pudong New Area, Shanghai.

 


Book cover colourful 3d gradients

xCoAx 2019: Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics and X

Universidade do Porto, Praça Gomes Teixeira
Book, color, 382 pages, 21 x 29.7 cm
2019
English
Mario Verdicchio, Miguel Carvalhais, Luísa Ribas, André Rangel
ISBN 978-989-746-220-7
http://2019.xcoax.orgDownload (PDF)

7th International Conference on Computation – Communication – Aesthetics and X, Milan, Italy, xCoAx 2019.

 


White angel surrounded with white IoT on light blue background

FILE SÃO PAULO 2019: 20 Years of FILE 20 Years of Art and Technology

SESI-SP cultura
Book, color, 260 pages, 21 x 28 cm
2019
Português, English
Ricardo Barreto and Paula Perissinotto
ISBN 9788589730297
file.org.br/pdf_books/file-sao-paulo-2019Cataloge (PDF)

The 20th edition of FILE – Electronic Language International Festival in São Paulo takes place from 25 June to 11 August 2017 at the Fiesp Cultural Center.

In 2019, FILE – Electronic Language International Festival – celebrates its 20th anniversary. The festival’s main focus is to show what is innovative in art and technology, and for the last 20 years FILE’s mission has been to offer the Brazilian public the chance to experience the latest and best of electronic art.

 


User wearing a htc vive headset and holding a VR controller

Research TECHNOLOGY URBANITY, Schafhof – European Center for Art Upper Bavaria

Schafhof – European Center for Art Upper Bavaria
Exhibition brochure, 19 pages
2019
Deutsch, English
Eike Berg

Cataloge (PDF)

The exhibition presents three artistic positions that deal in various ways with technology and the theme of urbanization as well as the linking of real and virtual spaces. Clemens Fürtler’s light installations are image machines situated between sculpture, painting, photography and theater. In their installations, Marc Lee and the artist duo Banz & Bowinkel present two different approaches to the use of virtual reality (VR) technology in art.


Large TV screen in a VR setup

Freisinger Schafhof, Süddeutsche Zeitung

sueddeutsche.de
Website
2019
Deutsch
Alexander Huber

Die neue Ausstellung im Schafhof beschäftigt sich mit dem Verlust urbaner Identitäten, der Globalisierung sowie dem Widerspruch analoger und virtueller Welten.

sueddeutsche.dePDF

 


Two users use a mobile phone to control a projection

Marc Lee: Non-Places, Annka Kultys Gallery

annkakultys.com
Website
2019
English
Annka Kultys

Annka Kultys Gallery is pleased to present Non-Places an augmented reality installation of new bodies of work by the Swiss artist Marc Lee.
annkakultys.comPDF

 


Arts, Digital Media and Cultural Institutions

Cultures of Participation: Arts, Digital Media and Cultural Institutions

Taylor & Francis Group (London, UK)
Book, color, 250 pages, 15 x 30 cm
2019
English
Birgit Eriksson, Carsten Stage, Bjarki Valtysson
ISBN 0367218380, 978-0367218386
Extract: Towards a participatory mode of overlapping realities (PDF)

This book examines cultural participation from three different, but interrelated perspectives: participatory art and aesthetics; participatory digital media, and participatory cultural policies and institutions.
Focusing on how ideals and practices relating to cultural participation express and (re)produce different «cultures of participation», an interdisciplinary team of authors demonstrate how the areas of arts, digital media, and cultural policy and institutions are shaped by different but interrelated contextual backgrounds. Chapters offer a variety of perspectives and strategies for empirically identifying «cultures of participation» and their current transformations and tensions in various regional and national settings.

 


Woman dressed in black wearing a VR data Google

Virtualities and Realities. New Experiences, Art and Ecologies in Immersive Environments

RIXC, LiepU MPLab
Book, color, 480 pages, 24 x 17 cm
2019
English
Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits
ISBN 9934843471, 978-9934843471
rixc.org

Immersive technologies, coupled with superior virtual environments, artificial intelligence algorithms, faster processors, and biometrics, are launching a new era in virtual experiences,entertainment and interactive storytelling. At the same time these technologies have the potential for invasive monitoring and control.
What are the present and future artistic strategies that deal with this? Combined with the acceleration of VR/AR and technologies of immersion, how will societies react?

 


Pink - orange neon letters: Wake Me Up

32. Stuttgarter Filmwinter – Festival for Expanded Media

Wand 5 e.V., Stuttgarter Filmwinter
Film and exhibition brochure, 229 pages
2019
Deutsch, English
Giovanna Thiery, Marcus Kohlbach

filmwinter.deCataloge (PDF)

Exhibition Expanded Media – Media in Space & Network Culture Competition Kunstbezirk Stuttgart
Artistic works from the competitions Media in Space and Network Culture are on display, which includes cross-border formats such as performance, installation, Expanded Cinema and Net Art like interactive web or social web projects or interventions at public and virtual spaces.


Book cover pixel pattern with blue-white rectangles

The Internet of other people’s things

KAIRUS ART+RESEARCH, Graz, AUSTRIA
PDF Version, 235 pages, colour illustrations
2018
English
Edited by Linda Kronman and Andreas Zingerle
ISBN: 978-3-9504200-1-2
PDF Version
http://ioopt.kairus.org/index.php/book/journey-into-predictability/
Dealing with the pathologies of a digital world

The Internet of Things (IoT), smart city initiatives, and smart home technology are marketed to us as sleek and glamorous 3D renderings promising a convenient and sustainable technology that will save us and our planet from a future of environmental distress. Yet the buzzword bingo of smart city rhetoric, the polished advertisements for networked devices, and the glossy packaging of smart home devices are in stark contrast to the news and research which investigates the vulnerabilities of our connected lives.


Book cover blue with faceless person in red

Faceless – Re-inventing Privacy Through Subversive Media Strategies

Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, Edition Angewandte, Gerald Bast
Book, 304 pages, colour illustrations, 24 x 16.8cm
2018
English
Doringer, Bogomir / Felderer, Brigitte
ISBN Print 978-3-11-052771-1, eBook 978-3-11-052770-4
https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/481591
Current positions and approaches in contemporary art and media practice
Artistic strategies in the age of global surveillance

The contributions to this book explore a phenomenon that appears to be a contradiction in itself – we, the users of computers, can be tracked in digital space for all eternity. Although, on the one hand, one wants to be noticed and noticeable, on the other hand one does not necessarily want to be recognized at the first instance, being prey to an unfathomable public, or – even less so – to lose face.


Book cover image of a large stone and a foldable chair

Medienkunst in der Schweiz/ Media Arts in Switzerland

Christoph Merian Verlag
Book, 130 pages, 50 colour illustrations, Paperback, 16.5 × 20.5cm,
2018
Deutsch/English
Migros-Culture Percentage, Dominik Landwehr
ISBN 978-3-85616-867-4
merianverlag.chPDF
Media Arts in Switzerland
Pioneers, tinkerers, provocateurs
Featuring Andreas Bosshard, the media art group etoy, Studer/van den Berg, Wachter & Jud, !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Marc Lee and rebell.tv

Never before in history a medium has so radically changed society and culture as digitization and the Internet have. This development has also brought forth a new art movement: media arts.

 


Virtual Reality art gallery opens in Berlin with exhibition by renowned Swiss artist Marc Lee, FAD Magazine

VR Art gallery opens in Berlin, FAD Magazine

fadmagazine.com
Website
2018
English
Mark Westall

Synthesis Gallery, the first Virtual Reality art gallery, makes its debut on April 5th in Berlin with ‘Same but Different’ by renowned Swiss artist Marc Lee. The exhibition will premiere new exclusive works as part of the series ‘Same but Different’ and ‘Nonplace’, reflecting on the profound radical transformations brought by the digital revolution to personal identities, places and time.
fadmagazine.comPDF

 


Black cover, background with code fragments and written OPEN CODES in pink colour

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.

 


A finger penetrates through a transparent film

AESTHETICS OF CHANGE / 150 Years of the University of Applied Arts Vienna

MAK – Museum of Applied Arts Vienna
Exhibition brochure, 67 pages
2017
Deutsch/English
Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, Gerald Bast, Elisabeth Schmuttermeier, Peter Weibel, Patrick Werkner

www.mak.at

The exhibition AESTHETICS OF CHANGE: 150 Years of the University of Applied Arts Vienna in two parts casts a glance back onto 150 years of the University’s history, while at the same time daring to look into the future.

 


White book cover with pictures in different sizes and contents

Farewell Photography. Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie

Verlag Der Buchhandlung Walther König
Book softcover, 256 pages, colour illustrations, 29.5 x 22.5cm
2017
Deutsch/English
Florian Ebner, Fabian Knierim, Boaz Levin
ISBN-13: 9783960982050, ISBN-10: 3960982054
https://biennalefotografie.de

The first Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie bids farewell to photography as we know it. Farewell Photography illuminates the radical changes in our dealings with images in the digital era and presents an alternative vision of the history of photography.

Since its invention, photography has been a medium of social exchange, a means by which people can relate to one another. With digitization not only has the number of photographic images exploded but their capacity to be reproduced and distributed—which was already one of photography’s characteristic features in the analogue age—has multiplied.


Bubbling bubbles in an simplified universe

Bubbling Universes – FILE SÃO PAULO 2017

SESI-SP cultura
Book, color, 240 pages, 21 x 28 cm
2017
Português, English
Ricardo Barreto and Paula Perissinotto
ISBN 9788589730235
file.org.br/file_sp_2017/file-sao-paulo-2017-bubbling-universes/Cataloge (PDF)

The 18th edition of FILE – Electronic Language International Festival in São Paulo takes place from 18 July to 3 September 2017 at the Fiesp Cultural Center.

Bubbling universes
The emergence of social networks has led to a multiplicity of events on a scale never seen before. The unchecked proliferation of information has now reached an astonishing level and is stored in an unprecedented amount of storage, accessed by thousands of networked data devices.


On red sand with hand are growing in from hands - Virtual Reality

DIE UNGERAHMTE WELT, THE UNFRAMED WORLD – Virtuelle Realität als künstlerisches Medium, Virtual Reality as Artistic Medium

Merian, Christoph Verlag, HeK (Haus der elektronischen Künste Basel)
Book softcover, 96 pages, 63 colour illustrations, 17.5 x 24.5 cm
2017
Deutsch/English
Sabine Himmelsbach
ISBN 978-3-85616-850-6
https://hek.ch/en/program/exhibitions/die-ungerahmte-welt

Artistic positions using virtual reality technologies
New perspectives on the depiction of digital pictorial worlds
Essays from Bettina Back, Julia Kaganskiy, Patrick Lichty and Tina Sauerländer

The essays present the works from different research perspectives, thus enabling a broad overview of current trends in a media art based on virtual reality technologies.

The latest virtual-reality technologies are asserting themselves currently in the domain of the fine arts and facilitating an immersion in artificial worlds. Virtual reality is used not only to explore aes-thetic potential, but also as a critical medium for reflecting on the existential state of today’s life-world. The works presented in this publication deal with multifaceted themes, such as physical per-ception and physical laws, societal structures as well as architecture and poetry.


Reflective surface in rainbow colors, title New Gameplay

New Gameplay – Nam June Paik Art Center

Nam June Paik Art Center, Seoul
Book softcover, 335 pages
2017
English, 한국 (Korean)
Jinsuk Suh
ISBN: 978-89-971283-3-4 (93600), CIP: 2017002824

https://njpac-en.ggcf.kr New Gameplay, NJP ARTCENTER (PDF)

Table of Contents
Foreword – Jinsuk Suh
Development Needs Subversion: Strategie s in Art and Gameplay – Bernhard Serexhe
The Politicizati on of Videogames? From creati ve subversion of technology to explicit political signifiers – Stephan Schwingeler
Interview: Conversations with Artists – Hyejin Park

Homage a Nam June Paik, Media Art in the Context of Games, Hacking/Modifying Technology, Urban Play, Society and Games, Games and Apps


Exhibition visitors watching Realtime Stories projected on large walls

Realtime Stories – 21st Century Digital Art

digiart21.org
Website
2017
English
21st Century Digital Art

digiart21.orgPDF

What if we could see the world-wide information that is uploaded to social media in realtime? What would we learn about each other, ourselves, and what would we get from the experience?

 


Gelber Umschlag mir schwarzer Schrift: Mut zur Lüge

300. Stuttgarter Filmwinter – Festival for Expanded Media

Wand 5 e.V., Stuttgarter Filmwinter
Film and exhibition brochure, 274 pages
2017
Deutsch, English
Claudia Preker, Renate Schreck, Petra Rühle, Marcus Kohlbach

filmwinter.deCataloge (PDF)

Exhibition Expanded Media, Kunstbezirk Stuttgart
Artistic works from the competitions Media in Space and Network Culture are on display, which includes cross-border formats such as performance, installation, Expanded Cinema and Net Art like interactive web or social web projects or interventions at public and virtual spaces.


White cloud on black sky, text: TESTING GROUNDS

TESTING GROUNDS – Art and Digital Cultures in South Asia and Europe

Goethe-Institut Sri Lanka, British Council, Alliance Française de Kotte
Exhibition brochure, 60 pages
2016
English
Susanne Jaschko

Cataloge (PDF)

Cinnamon Colomboscope is a contemporary and multidisciplinary arts festival that takes place in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Originally started in 2013, as a joint initiative between Alliance Française de Kotte, the British Council and the Goethe-Institut, the festival has continued to attract support and participation from Sri Lankan artists as well as those from Europe. Over the past two years, the festival’s reputation has spread beyond these two locales, and more artists from the South Asia region and other parts of the world have wanted to be part of the event.


Red book cover, black letters: Update 6 – New Technological Art Award. International Exhibition

Update 6 – New Technological Art Award. International Exhibition

[BE] MER. Paper Kunsthalle
Book paperback, 88 pages, 27.9 x 21.6 cm
2016
Dutch, English
Jean-Marie Dallet & Isolde De Buck
ISBN: 9789492321473 ISBN-13: 9789492321473

UPDATE_6 gives an overview of how new technological art has developed since the 1950’s. At the site ‹Zebrastraat Ghent› various renowned and upcoming artists gave their take on the idea of new technological art. Update_6 reflects of this international exhibition and takes the reader on an insightful journey through the evolution of how the new technological arts have unfolded through history.


Person in VR (Virtual Reality), wearing a data google in front of a virtual skyline

Marc Lee:信息,吾栖之肤 (Information, the skin we live in)

theinitium.com
Website
2016
Chinese
阿毛 lingguorg

theinitium.comlinggu.orgPDF

 


Black book cover white lines pointing out from middle

Festival Images, Vevey

Book soft cover, 336 pages
2016
Français
Stefano Stoll, Raphaël Biollay

www.images.ch

 


Men in front of huge screen

Interview by Moguer (CN)

mp.weixin.qq.com
Website
2016
Chinese
Moguer 捕流星的人

mp.weixin.qq.comPDF

 


Server farm

GLOBALE: Infosphere

ZKM | Center for Art and Media
Exhibition brochure, 65 pages
2015
Deutsch, English
Peter Weibel, Daria Mille, Giulia Bini

http://zkm.de/publikation/infosphare

The »Infosphere« exhibition presents an overview of art in the era of the digital revolution and its social consequences. In addition, it provides insights into the new data world – whose existence has been finally brought home to the general public, through the NSA affair.


Book cover, futuristic police surveillance stations

Global Control and Censorship

ZKM | Center for Art and Media
Exhibition brochure, 68 pages
2015
Deutsch, English
Bernhard Serexhe,  Lívia Rózsá

Global Control and Censorship Deutsch English

Description
Knowledge is power. And power is possessed especially by whoever controls the flow of information. This applies particularly in digital culture, where all the information in the World Wide Web can be manipulated, uncontrolled. For a long time, a hope for new forms of democratic participation arose from the use of these digital instruments, but recently they have been misused as the ideal door opener for the surveillance of billions of people. Democratic states have long reserved the right to spy even on their »friends«, in all military, economic, and social aspects, and on all levels: governments, organizations, NGOs, and individual citizens are all under surveillance.

Besides mass analysis of communications metadata and massive access to personal data, there is increasingly open or clandestine censorship through manipulation or shutting down. Where the fear of this threat has no effect, the secrecy of important information is enforced, with methods ranging from hindering publication to kidnapping and assassinating journalists. Being at the mercy of overwhelmingly powerful authorities of control and censorship has become the conditio humana of our time. Today a large part of the public has already resigned in the face of a ubiquitous state and commercial surveillance.


Robert Rauschenberg and Billy Klüver

New media art in history by Jack-Lew 历史上有哪些“新”媒体艺术 (CN)

mp.weixin.qq.com
Website
2015
Chinese
师刘卓群(Jack Lew)教授

PDF

 


Head of young boy with shaped hear but visible apple logo and text: Poetics and Politics of Data

Poetics and Politics of Data

Merian, Christoph Verlag, HeK (Haus der elektronischen Künste Basel)
Book softcover, 272 pages, 83 mainly colour illustrations, 17 x 24 cm
2015
Deutsch, English
Sabine Himmelsbach, Claudia Mareis (ed.)
ISBN 978-3-85616-681-6
https://hek.ch/en/program/exhibitions/poetics-and-politics-of-data

Poetics and Politics of Data reflects life in a world increasingly controlled by data and presents artistic positions that aim to make continuous streams of data visible – whether using Internet-based installations or graphic data visualizations. The participating artists question the relevance and place of the individual in a technologically connected society in which every day, each of us generates a nearly incomprehensible amount of data: Our every move on the Internet leaves behind a digital trace. In critical essays, Orit Halpern, Sabine Himmelsbach, Lev Manovich, Claudia Mareis, Ramón Reichert and Roberto Simanowski explore the phenomena of ‹Big Data› and ‹Data Mining› and pose critical questions about the ambivalence of life in a «datified» world.

I can’t think of any other book that pinpoints in such a wide-ranging and critical way the topic of politics and data. This is a solid publication that goes beyond its simple role of being an art catalogue. (Régine Debatty, www.we-make-money-not-art.com, 25.8.2015)


Red circle, like a target with black line

18th Japan Media Arts Festival

Catalogue
2015,
日本の (Japanese)
Japan Media Arts Festival, Japan

http://archive.j-mediaarts.jp

 

The 18th Japan Media Arts Festival is on in Tokyo 4-15 February. The festival includes the Exhibition of Award-winning Works, a reflection of the “here and now” of Media Arts, and a concurrent program of 150 events.

The Japan Media Arts Festival is a comprehensive festival of Media Arts (Media Geijutsu) that honors outstanding works from a diverse range of media – from animation and comics to media art and games. The festival gives awards in each of its four divisions: Art, Entertainment, Animation, and Manga. It also provides a platform for appreciation of the award-winning and other notable works.

The exhibition presents the Award-winning Works from the four divisions of Art, Entertainment, Animation and Manga, chosen by the jury from among a record number of 3,853 entries from 71 countries and regions. The winners of Special Achievement Awards will also be shown. The Award-winning Works, selected after a rigorous judging process, reflect the most recent trends in their respective fields.

Cover der Zeitschrift »Kunstforum«: Zwei Personen stehen vor einer Projektion, die Sonnenerruptionen zeigt.

KUNSTFORUM INTERNATIONAL, 237

Kunstforum, ZKM | Karlsruhe: GLOBALE
Zeitschrift / Serie, 408 pages
2015
Deutsch
Giulia Bini, Annika Etter, Stine Hollmann, Michael Hübl, Christina Irrgang, Heinz-Norbert Jocks, Sabiha Keyif, Bruno Latour, Marjoleine Leever, Carmela Thiele, Wolfgang Walk, Peter Weibel, Philipp Ziegler

http://zkm.de/publikation/kunstforum-international-237

»KUNSTFORUM« nimmt das 300 Tage dauernde Großereignis des ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie KArlsruhe, die »GLOBALE« zum Anlass, die großen Themen und entscheidenden Tendenzen des 21. Jahrhunderts zu dokumentieren: Globalisierung und Digitalisierung an der Schnittstelle zur Naturwissenschaft, werden anhand der ausgestellten aktuellsten Kunstproduktionen in kommentierten Ausstellungsrundgängen, Essays und Interviews diskutiert.

Sie werden dort künstlich geschaffene Mikroben sehen, die verschmutztes Wasser reinigen. Sie sehen, wie in nanotechnologischen Fabriken aus dem Feind CO2 der Freund gemacht wird, indem das Oxygen vom Kohlenstoff abgespalten und zur Erzeugung synthetischer Brennstoffe verwendet wird. Sie sehen Materiezustände, die sich den Erfordernissen des Menschen anpassen. Sie sehen, wie winzige Bewegungen eines Ohrs riesige Flügelapparate in Bewegung versetzen. Sie sehen Lösungen für die Probleme des 20. Jahrhunderts – erschaffen von einer neuen Allianz zwischen Kunst und Wissenschaft, der Renaissance 2.0.

In den beiden zentralen Ausstellungen der Infosphäre und der Exo-Evolution treffen die Leitgedanken brennpunktartig zusammen: Was ZKM-Direktor Peter Weibel als „Confluence of Cultures“ bezeichnet, soll letztlich auf eine neue Definition des Menschen hinwirken, der sich nicht mehr als Mangelwesen, sondern dank seiner avancierten Technologien als Möglichkeitswesen begreift.


Book cover white color, red text: Inauguration of MMCA Seoul

Inauguration of MMCA Seoul

MMCA | Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Seoul
Book hardcover, 561 pages
2014
English, 한국 (Korean)
CHUNG Hyungmin
ISBN: 978-89-6303-069-2
10.000 moving cities – same but different, Page 60 – 71 (PDF)Website MMCA

Birth of a Museum: Documenting the Construction of MMCA, Seoul
MMCA presents five special exhibitions on the occasion of her inauguration that anticipate the vision and direction of the new museum, introducing artworks by approximately 120 artists in seven disciplines. Connecting_Unfolding aims to advance into the heart of Korean art and into the hub of the international art scene; The Aleph Project symbolizes the future of MMCA Seoul as a platform for communication and a fusion of diverse genres of contemporary art; Zeitgeist Korea depicts the potential of Korean contemporary art within a historical context; Site-specific Art Project presents customized, large-scale site-specific installation works that fully utilize the museum’s spaces; and Birth of a Museum shows a diverse and holistic photographic documentation of MMCA Seoul’s construction process.

Connecting_Unfolding, the premiere exhibition of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Seoul, is designed to accentuate art’s ever-changing interpretation of and union with life, particularly in this era of disintegrating boundaries and emerging dimensions of convergence and synthesis between disciplines. The exhibition represents a fresh inquiry into the ways in which our individual values and ideas may erupt into the world, igniting communication and forcing us to reassess the value of art in any given era or society. In this context, a team of curators from six countries Eunju Choi, Richard Flood, Ann Gallagher, Yuko Hasegawa, Sook-Kyung Lee, Bernhard Serexhe, and Pooja Sood have gathered to select the seven participating artists: Tacita Dean, Kim Jones, Amar Kanwar, Marc Lee, Lee Mingwei, Kishio Suga, and Minha Yang. In the marvelous new venue of MMCA Seoul, built to represent the intersection of various concepts the traditional and contemporary, history and the present, society and art, the museum’s inaugural exhibition focuses on the primary themes of «connecting» and «unfolding,» incessant processes through which phenomena perpetually encounter and contact one another to enact new dimensions and possibilities.

Ions of convergence and synthesis between disciplines. The exhibition represents a fresh inquiry into the ways in which our individual values and ideas may erupt into the world, igniting communication and forcing us to reassess the value of art in any given era or society. In this context, a team of curators from six countries Eunju Choi, Richard Flood, Ann Gallagher, Yuko Hasegawa, Sook-Kyung Lee, Bernhard Serexhe, and Pooja Sood have gathered to select the seven participating artists: Tacita Dean, Kim Jones, Amar Kanwar, Marc Lee, Lee Mingwei, Kishio Suga, and Minha Yang. In the marvelous new venue

 


skewed letters

Chinese magazine Art Times

Email interview Marc Lee
2014

Chinese/ English

Interview Marc Lee (PDF)

 

 

 


trees coverd with snow

November 2014 Special Issue

LandEscape Art Review, United Kingdom
Publication
2014
English

LandEscape Art Review, Marc Lee, Page 56 – 71 (PDF)

 

 


People walking around cubes

Schweizer Medienkünstler Marc Lee stellt in Seoul aus

DIGITAL BRAINSTORMING
Website
2014
Deutsch
Sternenjaeger

blog-de.digitalbrainstorming.chPDF

 

 


Videowand mit 10000 Bildern, orange Schrift: Generation i.2

Journal Generation i.2 – Ästhetik des Digitalen im 21. Jahrhundert

Claudia Giannetti
Journal with colour ill
2013
Deutsch
Claudia Giannetti
ISBN: 978-3-00-043807-3
EDITH-RUSS-HAUS für Medienkunst

http://www.edith-russ-haus.de/shop/shop/publikationen.html

Exhibiton: Generation i.2 – Aesthetics of the Digital in the 21st Century
15.11.2013 – 16.02.2014
EDITH-RUSS-HAUS für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, Germany

Worldwide networking creates new, global aesthetic tendencies: that is the tenor of this exhibition. It presents a selection of outstanding key works by international artists of the five continents. The exhibition’s main objective is to take interim stock of the most prominent tendencies in contemporary art in the first decade of the 21st century whose works are directly or indirectly influenced by the new languages of digital media, social network cultures, and networking processes—both in a formal and conceptual as well as in an aesthetic sense.


Blue book cover with white letters: Publication INTERINVENÇÃO

Inter[in]venção / Inter[in]vention

Fundaçâo Eugénio de Almeida, Coleção / Collection ZKM | Karlsruhe
Exhibition brochure, 125 pages
2013
Englisch / Português
Peter Weibel, Claudia Giannetti, Bernhard Serexhe
ISBN: 978-972-8854-63-8
Organisation / Institution
http://zkm.de/publikation/interinvencao-interinventionEnglish

INTER[IN]VENÇÃO
29.11.2013 – 09.03.2014, Fórum Eugénio de Almeida

Description
Fórum Eugénio de Almeida presents, for the first time in Iberian Peninsula, a wide selection of works from the Collection ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany – the world’s most important center for art and technology.

The exhibition brings to Fórum Eugénio de Almeida some of the most relevant works by Nam June Paik, one of the pioneers of media art, and comprises 33 pieces by 39 internationally renowned artists such as Bruce Nauman, Marina Abramovic, Bill Viola, Christa Sommerer & Mignonneau Laurent, Paul Sermon, Tony Oursler, Peter Weibel, Masaki Fujihata, Valie Export, Pipilotti Rist, Paul Garrin, Robert Wilson, among others.

The selection includes works in formats such as video sculpture, video art, video performance, video installation, audiovisual installation, interactive installation, and interactive sound installation.
The exhibition’s central thematic focus falls on the two concepts present in its title: intervention and invention. We highlight the relation between the etymologies of both terms and the artistic genres shown: the prefix “inter” expresses an intermediate position, while “in” denotes an inward movement, an action with-in the work. Invention is the capacity to create and discover, but also the action of imagining “virtualities”, a characteristic common to many media art pieces. A widely used concept in the field of contemporary art, intervention usually stands for interference, manipulation and interaction between oeuvre and audience. With the show’s emphasis on interactive art and through its inventions and interventions, the audience stops being a passive observer and becomes the main protagonist of the exhibition.


Grey book cover, black letters: Digital Art Conversation

Digital Art Conservation, Preservation of Digital Art: Theory and Practice.

Ambra V Wien and ZKM | Center for Art and Media
Anthology / Sammelband, 665 pages, 174 images in color, 30 images b/w
2013
Deutsch, English, Français
Bernhard Serexhe (Hg.)
ISBN: 978-3-7091-1469-8; ISBN: 978-3-7091-1469-8; ISBN: 978-3-9904-3533-Digital Art Conservation DeutschEnglishFrançaisFallstudie Gassert: TV Bot 2.0 (DE)(EN)

English edition
Theory and Practice in the Conservation of Digital Art. The Project digital art conservation

Are you born-digital? This could be the ultimate, decisive question in the future when it comes to preserving and making the art of our time accessible for future generations. The book presents the results of the digital art conservation project that was conceived at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe in 2010. It includes text contributions by major theorists, restorers, programmers, and artists as well as case studies. It is designed to foster the international debate on the conservation of digital art. With contributions by Edmond Couchot, Alain Depocas, Johannes Gfeller, Sabine Himmelsbach, Anne Laforet, Aymeric Mansoux, Antoni Muntadas, Jussi Parikka, Bernhard Serexhe, Peter Weibel, Siegfried Zielinski, and many others.

Blue block cover with videostills

Meisterwerke der Kunst – Medienkunst, 18 beispielhafte Medienkunstwerke

Neckar-Vlg
Sammelmappe 24,5 x 32,5 cm, inkl. DVD
2012
Deutsch
ISBN-10 3-7883-9215-0 / 3788392150, ISBN-13 978-3-7883-9215-4 / 9783788392154

Breaking The News – Be a News-Jockey, Marc Lee (PDF)

In Zusammenarbeit mit dem ZKM entstand diese Sammelmappe.
Sie dokumentiert 18 beispielhafte Medienkunstwerke aus der Sammlung des ZKM und beleuchtet die Entwicklung der Medienkunst von ihren Anfängen bis heute.

Das beiliegende Begleitheft mit einer Vita der Künstler/-innen und Beschreibung der Kunstwerke ermöglicht zusammen mit der Dokumentation der Werke auf DVD eine fundierte Beschäftigung mit den Kunstwerken im Unterricht und bereitet hervorragend auf einen Besuch des ZKM vor.

Meisterwerke der Medienkunst
Marc Lee (geb. 1969): „Breaking The News – Be a News-Jockey“, 2007
Interaktive Medieninstallation

Text: Katrin Heitlinger
Vom virtuellen Jonglieren mit Nachrichten
Marc Lee (geb. 1969) | Breaking The News – Be a News-Jockey, 2007
Interaktive Medieninstallation, 1 PC mit 4 DVI- oder VGA-Ausgängen, 4 Projektoren, 2
Lautsprecher, 1 Breitband-Internetverbindung | Maße variabel | Zürich, im Besitz des Künstlers


Faces of famous people

Big News

Art World Magazine Shanghai
Art magazine
2012
中国 (Chinese)
Interview with Marc Lee
ISSN 1005-7722
PDF

Art world 2012年1、2月合刊 260 Issue
在这期合刊中,中外艺术家们不仅对灾难、战争发言,对金融、时局表态,也对八卦、娱乐、寻人启事好奇。如果说“去人民性”是第三世界当代艺术曲线救国的策略,那么我们不如把艺术家鉴定为外星来客,或者是那些悬浮在空中让人类焦虑的 PM2.5 颗粒。“介入”社会并非他们的诉求和职业病,因为他们确实生活在其中,只是以漂移的方式罢了。换言之,当他们漂移时,便成为了艺术家(进入了艺术的状态)。

 


Boock cover showing trees half real, half artificial

gateways. Art and Networked Culture

Hatje Cantz Verlag in connection with Tallinn, European Capital of Culture 2011
Exhibition catalogue, 240 pages, approximately 80 color illustrations, 50×24 cm
2011
Deutsch, English, Estonian
Sabine Himmelsbach; KUMU Art Museum, Tallinn; Ralf Eppeneder, Goethe-Institut, Estonia. Texts by Sirje Helme, Sabine Himmelsbach, Raivo Kelomees, Karin Ohlenschläger and others
ISBN 978-3-7757-2796-9
http://www.goethe.de/ins/ee/prj/gtw/ueb/en6944843.htm

The gateways catalogue introduces artists whose works deal with the changed conditions of an interconnected world that increasingly is influenced by media.
The exhibition gateways. Art and Networked Culture introduces a young generation of artists whose work deals with the changing conditions of a networked world – a world increasingly transmitted through media. The artistic works presented here use various means to tackle the theme of gateways that lead to realms of action and experience in our digitally interconnected culture.

Through their use of electronic networks and mobile technologies, the artists encourage the public to participate actively and transport new experiences in perception.


Old apple computer

Digital Art Works, The Challenges of Conservation

ZKM | Center for Art and Media
Exhibition brochure, 54 pages
2011
Deutsch, English, Français
Bernhard Serexhe, Arnaud Obermann, Chiara Marchini Camia

http://zkm.de/publikation/digital-art-works DeutschEnglishFrançais

ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe in cooperation with Espace Multimédia Gantner ; CEAAC (Centre Européen d’Actions Artistiques Contemporaines)

Was passiert mit Medienkunst, wenn sich das Internet–Environment, für das sie konzipiert wurde, verändert? Dürfen Arbeiten, die einst für den PC entwickelt wurden, heute auf dem iPad gezeigt werden? Die Ausstellung »Digital Art Works. The Challenges of Conservation« geht Fragen nach dem Sammeln, Ausstellen und Erhalten computerbasierter Kunstwerke auf den Grund und lässt die Vorgänge rund um die digitale Konservierung sichtbar werden.

Seit wenigen Jahrzehnten erlaubt die Digitalisierung eine leichtere Bearbeitung und Weitergabe von Daten; im Internet sollen sie jedem Nutzer jederzeit an jedem Ort zur Verfügung stehen. Grundsätzlich aber ist die Bewahrung von digitalen Inhalten einer immer kurzfristigeren Anpassung an neue technische Systeme unterworfen. Damit scheint das Fortbestehen des kulturellen Gedächtnisses grundsätzlich unsicher.


blurred humans like ants, text: was tun

Was tun, Figuren des Protests. Taktiken des Widerstands

Hildegard Fraueneder, Gianni Stiletto
Book  softcover, 208 pages, 16 x 23 cm
2010
Deutsch
Hildegard Fraueneder, Gianni Stiletto
ISBN 978-3-99014-014-7

Reader zum Festival «basics. Medien / Kunst / Gesellschaft», veranstaltet von ARGEkultur, Fachhochschule Salzburg – MultiMediaArt, subnet und der Galerie 5020

Soll und kann Kunst die Welt verändern? Soll sie zu Revolutionen anstiften und Menschen dazu bewegen, sich zur Wehr zu setzen? Kann sie Unterdrückung und Abhängigkeit bekämpfen?

Der Band erforscht Protest und Widerstandsformen im Kontext künstlerischer, medialer und kultureller Praxis und fragt, wie sich diese in unterschiedlichen Wissensdisziplinen wie der Sozial-, Medien- und Kunstwissenschaft ausbilden.
„Was tun» ist Motto im doppelten Sinn: einerseits als verzweifelte Frage nach Handlungsmöglichkeiten, andererseits als entschlossener Aufruf zum Handeln.

Hildegard Fraueneder, geboren 1961, Kunstwissenschaftlerin und Ausstellungskuratorin. Forschung und Lehre an den Salzburger Universitäten und an der FH Salzburg in Genderstudies, Kunst und Gesellschaft, Kunsttheorie und Gegenwartskunst. Publikationen und Vorträge. Leiterin der Galerie 5020 in Salzburg.

Gianni Stiletto, geboren 1953, freier Komponist und Keyboarder. Kompositionsstudium an der Musikhochschule Wien, Gründungsmitglied des K&K Experimentalstudios, Medienperformances und -installationen. Seit 1996 department head audio des Studiengangs Multi-MediaArt der FH Salzburg.

 


Printscrins of 100 websites

Owning Online Art – Selling and Collecting Netbased Artworks

FHNW, Basel
Cataloge
2010
Deutsch, English
Markus Schwander, Reinhard Storz

PDF
Translations: Aileen Derieg, Jean-Marie Clarke, Tolingo Hamburg
Editing: Isabel Zürcher
Design: Nicole Boillat (Edit – gestaltet)
Publication Owning Online Art – Selling and Collecting Netbased Artworks
The research project Owning Online Art – Study for a Netart Gallery of the UAS Northwestern Switzerland, Academy of Art and Design was funded by the Kommission für Technologie und Innovation (KTI).
This publication was supported by the UAS Northwestern Switzerland, Academy of Art and Design, the Christoph Merian Foundation und the Migros Kulturprozent.
In the publication Owning Online Art – Selling and Collecting Netbased Artworks, art historians discuss the critical positioning of selected works of net art (Rachel Mader) and approach questions on the relationship between internet art and the art market from the standpoint of the history of media (Peter Schneemann). Using the example of specific works, artists discuss aspects of the materiality of net-based art (Markus Schwander) and reflect on their experience with curators and collectors, as well as with the issues of the commercialisation and conservation of net art (Olia Lialina, Carlo Zanni).
Our research partner, the AktiveArchive project contributed its expertise in the areas of documentation, conservation and restoration of electronic art and discussed solutions for the restoration of net-based works (Tabea Lurk). A number of different economies can be applied to the issue of the relationship between net-based art and the art market: the economies of the market, of novelty and of recognition (Simon Grand), as well as aspects of the economy of free, immaterial products (Felix Stalder).


green flyer

You_ser 2.0, Celebration of the Consumer

ZKM | Center for Art and Media
Exhibition brochure, 68 pages
2009
Deutsch
Peter Weibel, Bernhard Serexhe

http://zkm.de/publikation/youser-20Exhibition
You_ser 2.0 – Celebration of the Consumer
Edition ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe

In its exhibition YOU_ser 2.0: Celebration of the Consumer the ZKM engages with the effects on art and society of net-based, global creation and demonstrates for the first time in technologically advanced installations the link between «user generated content» and contemporary art. The new installations presented in the exhibition transfer the potential for users’ creative collaboration developed in the internet into an artistic context and enables the visitors to emancipate themselves. They can act as artists, curators and producers. Visitors to the exhibition are central as users, as emancipated consumers. YOU are the content in this exhibition! YOU are a part of the universe: YOUniverse. YOU are the user of the world and part of the world, and with that a participant in the world. Whoever is a part of the world also bears some responsibility for the world, of which they are a part. Through their participation, the YOU, the user, has the chance to change the world.In the most technologically advanced environments and installations, the most recent state of the art of participation, pARTicipation, is being shown. That reinforces that tendency, which becomes established in the spirit of the enlightenment for democracy, for untrammelled access to education for all and for the creativity of all.


Youniverse, Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla

Youniverse – Bienal de Arte Contemporaneo de Sevilla BIACS3

Edition fundacion biacs
Exhibition catalogue, 386 pages
2008
English
Peter Weibel, RHEE Wonil(이원일), Marie Ange Brayer
ISBN 978-84-6127-285-3

3rd International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville – YOUniverse, the exhibition
More than 150 artists from all over the world will participate in the third edition of the International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville (Biacs3), which will be held from 2 October 2008 to 9 January 2009.

In the global context of the information and communication society, the Biacs3 will make a new map of Global Art, World Art, addressing the specific aspect of media, environment and technology. Under the title youniverse, the Biennial of Seville will show how contemporary art worldwide has changed through the influence of media, technology, science and architecture by fostering one main goal: the participation of the public and a new equation between man and his environment.

 


Book cover white color, black letters

Arts Zurich: 13 Positions from the Department of New Media

Scheidegger Und Spiess Ag Verlag, Germany
Hardcover, 204 pages, 400 color plates, with PAL-format DVD, 7-1/2 x 9-1/2
2008
Deutsch, English
With Essays by Inke Arns, Andreas Broeckmann, and Giaco Schiesser and Photographs by Schaub Stierli
ISBN-10: 3-85881-210-2 / 3858812102, ISBN-13: 978-3-85881-210-0 / 9783858812100

Mediale Kunst Zürich: 13 Positionen aus dem Studienbereich Neue Medien / Media Arts Zurich: 13 Positions from the Department of New Media (English and German Edition)

Media art is one of the most exciting experimental fields to emerge in contemporary art in recent years—and yet its innovations have been sparsely documented. Media Arts Zurich, the third yearbook published by the Department New Media at the newly founded Zurich University of the Arts, seeks to fill this gap, offering an illuminating overview of the Swiss media art scene of the past decade. This book examines the varying approaches, techniques, and strategies of acclaimed media artists as well as the public reception of their work.
Accompanied by a companion DVD in PAL format and 400 lavish illustrations, this volume presents thirteen individual artists and groups in the context of their backgrounds, exhibitions, and the state of European media art. Two essays by art and media historians here position these Swiss media artists in the international art world and document the first ten years and visions for the future of the media art program at the Zurich University of the Arts and its predecessor, the School of Art and Design Zurich. Richly illustrated and deeply informed, Media Arts Zurich points the way to a new European avant-garde.


Book cover, yellow in red letters: Hack the City, Digital Playground

Digital Playground – Hack the City!

Total Museum of Contemporary Art
Hardcover book, 113 Pages, 24 cm
2008
한국 (Korean)
Nathalie Boseul Shin
Media art city intervention workshop
ISBN 978-89-961789-0-3 93600
http://datenform.de/blog/digital-playground-hack-the-city

Nathalie Boseul SHIN curator at Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea invited me to run the WoW workshop/performance for this exhibition. “Digital Playground” is an annual media art exhibition started in 2005 at Eujeongbu International Media Art Festival. I am quite exited to run WoW in korean hangul letter system.

Digital Playground 2008 “Hack the City!”

Recently, the outlook of Seoul is rapidly changing. It means we are surrounded by ‘under construction’ sign boards. Seoul is under-construction. One day, we have the artificial river, Cheonggae-cheon” at the down town, huge buildings, parks. What is changing is not only outlook, but our daily life is also changed. It is no longer surprise thing or imagination to watch TV or talk with friends face to face.
Last year, Seoul city government announced big plan ‘Seoul city gallery project’ which is for making Seoul as the art city. Many art works are installed on the street, overpasses. People can enjoy art in the park. However, take the different perspective, and ask to ourselves. for what we need art installations in public spaces? Furthermore, what is purpose of art in that sense? There are many kinds of arts, but if we can say about contemporary ‘media’ art, it should be more clear about that question. As I quoted above, “artists alone can’t change the world”, but I believe “artists can make people see or think the other side of what is actually happening with artworks or projects”


Silver human shape, pointing to the future

You_ser, The Century of the Consumer

ZKM | Center for Art and Media
Exhibition brochure, 64 pages
2007
Deutsch, English
Peter Weibel

http://zkm.de/publikation/youser DeutschEnglish
ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe
YOU_ser,
Das Jahrhundert des Konsumenten
21.10.2007 – 30.04.2009, ZKM | Medienmuseum, EG

Im 19. Jahrhundert ist das 20. Jahrhundert imaginiert worden als Technologie der Mobilisierung und Personalisierung. Mit PC und Handy etc. sind diese Phantasien eingetreten. Diese Technologien haben aber auch die Kunst verändert. Die Geschichte der Betrachter von Kunst und der Besucher von Museen hat im 20. Jahrhundert neue Akzente erhalten. Nach 1945 hat in der Neuen Musik und in der bildenden Kunst die Partizipation des Publikums als Teil des Kunstwerkes eingesetzt. Die Medienkunst hat die Teilnahme des Betrachters am Entstehen des Kunstwerkes als Interaktivität zwischen Betrachter und Kunstwerk, im Sinne einer wechselseitigen Beeinflussung, etabliert (im 1. Stock des ZKM | Medienmuseums kann man diese Entwicklung nachvollziehen). Im 21. Jahrhundert erzeugt nun der Betrachter durch die Möglichkeiten des Internets auch die Inhalte der Kunstwerke, die untereinander ausgetauscht und im Netz frei verteilt werden können. Der Betrachter wird zum Nutzer/User. Die Ausstellung »YOU_ser: Das Jahrhundert des Konsumenten« zeigt in den nächsten ein bis zwei Jahren mit wechselnden Kunstwerken und Positionen erstmals Konturen dieser neuen Nutzerkunst.


Flayer, in the middle of the space a PC interface terminal. Screen shows the letters: Breaking the News

Netzspiele von Marc Lee, netzwerkorientiert und interaktiv seit 1999

Wildprovider
Website
2007
Deutsch
Mario Purkathofer

marclee.io/de/netzspiele

Marc Lee steht auf der kleinen schwarzen Bühne und bewegt eine leicht modifizierte Maus. Rund um ihn herum bewegt sich das akute Weltgeschehen in Bildern, Tönen und Momenten von Menschen produziert, in Szene gesetzt oder abgelegt. Marc Lee garantiert eine Welt in Echtzeit! Seine robotischen Suchmechanismen werden jetzt auf die Reise geschickt. Sie arbeiten schnell. Die Bar ist geöffnet und bald kann jeder das was Lee soeben noch demonstriert hat, selbst ausführen, während Alkohol in Strömen fliesst und die Stimmung steigt.

Situationsbeschreibung zur Eröffnung der Ausstellung Marc Lee: Breaking the News im Dock18 Zürich, 2007
weiter lesen…


White book cover with blue number 404 and grey letters Object Not Found

404 Object Not Found

Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Art Center Nabi, Alternative Space LOOP
Exhibition brochure
2006
English, 한국 (Korean)
Nathalie Boseul Shin

O-N-N, Marc Lee (PDF)

‹404 Object Not Found_Seoul 2006› was a research project launched by the Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, to address issues related to the production, presentation, and preservation of media art, with a particular focus on net-based art and data archiving. It encompasses an exhibition, research project and symposium. It is a follow-up to ‹404 Object Not Found›, which took place in 2003 in Dortmund, Germany.

Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
Art Center Nabi, Seoul, South Korea
Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul, South Korea

This publication presents the exhibited works, research findings and other documentation of the project.
O-N-N_404-object-not-found_Total-Museum-of-contempory-Art_Seoul

Artists and works
Warning – Antonio Muntadas, Babel – Simon Biggs, Reverse Engineering the Library_Simon Biggs Babel – Steve DIETZ, O-N-N – Marc Lee, Technology to the People – Daniel Garcia Andujar

 


Book coverd with linen

Mapping New Territories – Schweizer Medienkusnst International /Art Multimédia International /Swiss Media Art International

Christoph Merian Verlag, BUNDESAMT FUR KULTUR
Book paperback, 2005. 265 pages, 24 x  19 cm, 1 CD-ROM
2005
Deutsch, English, Français
ISBN10 3856162380, ISBN13 9783856162382

Publikation zur Ausstellung vom 30.1.-27.3.2005, St. Gallen.
[plug.in]; Neue Kunsthalle St.Gallen

Medienkunst – nach den Videos nun auch net.art und interaktive Installationen – halten in jüngster Zeit Einzug in den traditionellen Kunstbetrieb und gewinnen ein breites Publikum. Etliche auch international erfolgreiche Werke entstehen dabei in der Schweiz. ‹Mapping New Territories› nimmt eine Standortbestimmung der Schweizer Medienkunst vor. Essays von Yvonne Volkart, Villoe Huszai, Maria …

GLOBALE: Infosphere
ZKM | Center for Art and Media
Exhibition brochure, 65 pages
2015
Deutsch, English
Jean-Marie Dallet & Isolde De Buck
ISBN: 9789492321473 ISBN-13: 9789492321473


Book cover, grey color

Digitale Transformationen. Medienkunst als Schnittstelle von Kunst, Wissenschaft, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft

WHOIS, Heidelberg
Book hardcover
2004
Monika Fleischmann, Ulrike Reinhard
ISBN: 3-934013-38-4, Signatur: KT-AUS-4140.3
GOLDSTRASZ-Thomas Suchmaschinen Digitale Transformationen (PDF)issuu.com

Die Publikation «Digitale Transformationen» beschäftigt sich mit den grundlegenden Transformationen, welche die Kunst und das moderne Leben durch digitale Technologien erfahren. Theoretiker, Künstler und Wissenschaftler kommen neben Produzenten, Förderern und Vermittlern zu Wort, um die digitalen Transformationen in ihren vielfältigen Rollen und an konkreten Beispielen als neue Ästhetik und als Innovationsforschung vorzustellen. In der Kunst mit Informationstechnologien geht es um Bild(er-)findungen auf der Grundlage kommunikativer Prozesse, um begriffliche Strategien und kognitive Methoden.
Damit möchten die Herausgeberinnen Ulrike Reinhard und » Monika Fleischmann nicht nur den klassischen Kulturbereich ansprechen, sondern die Medienkunst als künstlerische Position an der Schnittstelle von Technologie, Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft und Kultur denen nahe bringen, die bereit sind, diese Kunstform als einen wichtigen Schlüsselfaktor für neues Denken und Innovation anzuerkennen und zu fördern. Medienkunst zeigt neue Weltbilder. Sie zeigt, wie wir verstehen, was wir sehen und hören. Die Texte geben einen Einblick in Diskurs und Praxis im deutschsprachigen Raum und sind hier nachzulesen.


Book read_me – Software Art & Cultures

read_me, Software Art and Cultures

Aarhus
Book, 396 pages, 21 cm
2004
Olga Goriunova and Alexei Shulgin
ISBN 87-98844-404-0

Software Art and Cultures Conference (2004 : Århus, Denmark)
Software art is a practice that regards software as a cultural phenomenon that defines one of the principal domains of our existence today. Thus, software is not regarded as an invisible layer, but rather as a decisive level and a language working at reproduction of certain orders, whether aesthetic, cultural, social or political. Software art creatively questions and redefines software and its ways of functioning.

 


White book cover with light green fields

Approaches to Interactivity: MetaWorx : Young Swiss Interactive

Birkhäuser, Basel
Book paperback, 175 pages, color illustrations, CD-ROM
2004
English, Deutsch
Vera Bühlmann, Association MetaWorx
ISBN 3764300892, 9783764300890

by Association MetaWorx (Editor), Christoph Tholen (Preface)

New media and interactivity: what do the latest generation of young Swiss designers have to offer? This book provides an overview. MetaWorx is a foundation supported by the leading design schools and art academies of Switzerland. In this publication, MetaWorx presents the next generation of «Swiss Graphics, » providing a challenging contribution to the research into the theory and expression of interactivity which must surely be one of the most stimulating and fascinating fields of art and design in our time. The transdisciplinary perspective opens a wide field where moments of interactivity are expressed in surprising and visionary installations. In this publication, the artists and designers present their projects themselves, and their contributions are accompanied by theoretical texts which reflect on interactivity in general and set the projects within the broader context of modern day culture. The accompanying DVD provides a video documentation including texts, pictures, sounds and applications. MetaWorx will first go public in October 2003 when an exhibition will take place at Viper Basel, an international festival for film, video and new media.

 


Black and white letters: 56kTV – Bastard Channel

56kTV – Bastard Channel

Pro Helvetia and Xcult project
56kTV MAGAZIN ONLINE
2004
Deutsch, English, Français, 日本の
Reinhard Storz
PDF

56kTV – bastard channel has its own programme magazine. International authors from the worlds of the film, art and the media sciences comment on the TV project and the individual programmes, thus enriching the audio-visual online offer by a print & read version. We are investing in a good visual concept and leaving the print-on-demand to our public, since the TV magazines can be printed on every home printer.

EDITORIAL
bastard channel is a cross between a television and a web project, a platform in the Internet that tells the story of itself as a television channel. The channel works with the lowtech and financial means of network art and has collaborators on three continents. Its programme can be received all over the world.

Green book cover playfully written "tainment" - Spielformen der Bewusstseinsindustrie

tainment: Spielformen der Bewusstseinsindustrie

RealismusStudio, NGBK Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst
Book, soft cover, 64 pages
2004
Deutsch
Harald Fricke, Knut Hickethier, Marlene Streeruwitz, Renée Zucker, Hildtrud Ebert
ISBN-10: 3926796944 ISBN-13: 9783926796943

Hildtrud Ebert (Vorwort)
Harald Fricke (Autor)
Knut Hickethier (Autor)
RealismusStudio NGBK (Herausgeber/-in)
Marlene Streeruwitz (Autorin)
Renee Zucker (Autorin)

Inhalt
9 Teststrecke der Musikindustrie: »Deutschland sucht den Superstar« Harald Fricke
13 Nichts gegen Infotainment, Renee Zucker
28 Influtainment, Marlene Streeruwitz
iß Entertainisierung, Knut Hickethier

Black book cover with organically water-like structures

Die algorithmische Revolution, Zur Geschichte der interaktiven Kunst, La Rivoluzione Algoritmica

ZKM | Center for Art and Media
Exhibition brochure, 32 pages
2004
Deutsch
Dominika Szope, Peter Weibel, Margit Rosen, Sabine Himmelsbach

zkm.de/publikation/die-algorithmische-revolutionExhibition

Normalerweise liegt eine Revolution vor uns und kündigt sich mit »Getöse« an. Die Algorithmische Revolution dagegen liegt bereits hinter uns und nur wenige haben sie bemerkt – umso wirkungsvoller ist sie gewesen. Die Algorithmische Revolution begann um 1930 in der Wissenschaft, um 1960 in der Kunst. Inzwischen gibt es kaum noch einen Bereich unseres gesellschaftlichen und kulturellen Lebens, der nicht von Algorithmen durchdrungen ist: Technik, Transport, Haushalt, Banken, Wirtschaft, Kommunikation, Architektur, Literatur, Kunst, Musik.

Unter einem Algorithmus versteht man eine Entscheidungsprozedur, eine Handlungsanweisung, die aus einer endlichen Menge von Regeln besteht, eine endliche Folge von eindeutig bestimmten Elementaranweisungen, die den Lösungsweg eines spezifischen Problems exakt und vollständig beschreiben. Der wohl bekannteste Einsatz von Algorithmen ist deren Umsetzung in der Computerprogrammierung. Ein Programm ist ein Algorithmus, der in einer Sprache formuliert ist, welche die Abarbeitung durch einen Computer ermöglicht. Jedes Computerprogramm (eine höhere Maschinensprache) ist also ein Algorithmus. Der Mensch hat die Abarbeitung von Erzeugungs- und Entscheidungsverfahren, z.B. tage- und stundenlanges Rechnen, in eine Maschine, die Rechenmaschine, ausgelagert. Parallel zur Entwicklung der Rechenmaschinen wurden daher auch immer präzisere Programmierungen notwendig. In den letzten Jahrzehnten sind Algorithmen vor allem in der Informatik, der Komplexitäts- und der Berechenbarkeitstheorie zu einem zentralen Thema geworden. In Form von Computerprogrammen und elektronischen Schaltkreisen steuern Algorithmen Computer. Der erste für eine mechanische Rechenmaschine konzipierte Algorithmus (für die Berechnung von Bernoulli-Zahlen) wurde 1842-1843 von Ada Lovelace in ihren Notizen zu Charles Babbages Analytical Engine (1833) niedergeschrieben. Weil jedoch Babbage jene Analytical Engine nicht vollenden konnte, wurde Lovelaces Algorithmus nie darauf implementiert.