Syndicate: The opening of the ZKM Karlsruhe

[annika blunck <blunck@zkm.de> (by way of Andreas Broeckmann)]

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ZKM|Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
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18/19 October 1997, 6pm: Opening of new ZKM site
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P e r m a n e n t   E x h i b i t i o n

+ ZKM|Media Museum +

Interactive, 'hands-on' installations that solicit spectator participation
were collaboratively developed for the museum by artists and researchers.
Artistically and technically sophisticated commentaries on the fascination
and hazards of the media world introduce the user to the 'world of games'
or investigate the relationship of media to body and space. An
'AcousticWorldAtlas' invites visitors to compose and experiment with
soundscapes derived from all corners of the globe. An 'interactive art
gallery' brings together pioneering works and current output in the field
of media art. Here, the actions of the visitors call into being artworks
that are invariably new and different according to the manipulation of the
individual. The 'Salon Digital' takes up its activities as a forum for
discussion and virtual museum both locally and on the global network. The
individual installations will be opened by small-scale performance events
during the inaugural weekend.

Including works by: Agnes Hegedues, Lynn Hershman, Perry Hoberman, Jill
Scott, Jeffrey Shaw, Christa Sommerer/ Laurent Mignonneau


+ ZKM|Museum of Contemporary Art +

The Museum of Contemporary Art houses one of the world's largest media art
collections. 'Classics' of the young genre, such as Bill Viola's 'The City
of Man' and Nam June Paik's 'Passage', are displayed alongside distinctive
pieces by famous video artists like Gary Hill, Marie-Jo Lafontaine, Bruce
Nauman and Fabrizio Plessi. While the Media collection sets the tone in the
Museum of Contemporary Art, all artistic fields are included - with
painting, graphics and sculpture figuring as prominently as contemporary
photography. This direct confrontation between the different art forms can
open up new prospects for the future. The first wing of the museum will
open to the public concurrently with the inauguration of ZKM. Public access
to the full collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art will be granted
>from 1999 onwards. Supplemented by the contributions from
Baden-Wuerttemberg's leading private collector, the museum will then be
Germany's most important forum for contemporary art.


*Permanent Service*

+ ZKM|Media Library +

Awaiting visitors are more than 10,000 contemporary music titles, a
comprehensive collection of the major positions in video art, and
literature in the fields of contemporary art, architecture, theater and
design: a treasure-trove for the researcher, but also a place where the
general public is welcome to browse and learn.
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E V E N T S

Opening of the new ZKM site
Saturday, 18 October 1997, 6pm

Opening Multimediale 5

- 6pm -
'Audio-visual tour' through the ZKM museums and institutes. 'TopoPhonie No.
4': a concertante stereophonic sound installation by Sabine Schaefer for a
large ensemble of loudspeakers
(Commissioned by the City of Karlsruhe)
Admission free

- 8pm -
Global teleconference: ZKM Plays Host to Goethe and the World
A 24-hour project conducted jointly with Goethe Institutes all round the
world and delivering multimedia commentaries on the human image on the Net
Admission free

- 8.15pm to 9.45pm -
Live broadcast on 3sat television
ZKM: Future, Art and Media
Discussions, films and music celebrating the opening
Moderation: Markus Brock
Admission free

- 10.30pm to midnight -
Repeat showing on SŸdwest 3

- 9pm -
Concert: Kraftwerk and guests
Kraftwerk, the maschine legend, will perform in germany for the first time
after years.
Tickets are available from all major booking offices and via phone.
Advance sales: 35 DM
Outdoor: 45 DM
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Sunday, 19 October 1997

- 11am -
Discussion: Conflicting Images - Talking about art
Made by SWF for 3sat
*Conflicting Images* is an attempt to reflect the discussion about art in a
way which is interesting for a wide audience as well as experts and art
lovers. In each broadcast a panel of experts is invited to conduct a clear,
to-the-point debate on the merits of artists and their current shows.
The new ZKM museums and the Multimediale 5 are the scheduled topics of
discussion on the third issue.
Admission free

- 4pm -
Discussion: End of the Century - End of Optimism
The prevailing 'fin-de-siecle' mood suggests civilization is caught up in a
general process of economical, ecological and cultural decline as the new
electronic era dawns. Or are there good reasons for having confidence in a
new departure? Marion GrŠfin Dšnhoff, Hildegard Hamm-BrŸcher and Jutta
Limbach debate the potential for a fresh start as the 20th century draws to
a close.
Admission free

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*Moving Arts*


Friday, 24 October 1997

Lecture

- 6pm -
Lecture: On Reproduction Media and the Change of New Media Around 1600
Klaus Theweleit
Klaus Theweleit goes back to the beginnings of opera history and Claudio
Monteverdi's 'Orfeo', to locate the starting points marking a transition in
epochs.

- 9pm -
Concert: Movement In and Between the Arts
Film, video and music by artists-in-residence at ZKM
Kiyoshi Furukawa: 'Die Gabe des Lapislazuli' for soprano and interactive
computer system Elena Kats-Chernin, Kirsten Winter: 'Clocks' and 'Smash',
music films
Steina Vasulka: Music performance with video

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Saturday, 25 October 1997

- 8pm -
Concert: Music in Space
Peter Eoetvoes: *Der Blick* (Premiere)
Concert installation with computer graphics by Alexander Urban and music by
the Ensemble Modern. Peter Eoetvoes, an internationally esteemed composer
and conductor, has designed an audio-visual environment that thematizes
'interior and exterior' with musical electronics.

Wolfgang Rihm: *Etudes d'apres Seraphin* (Premiere)
Directed by Manfred Reichert, the Ensemble 13 plays the concluding work in
Rihm's Seraphin cycle. The theme of the cycle - the superimposition of
contemporary sounds over traces of the past and future - is implemented
here by a linkage of electronically shaped music inserts and
instrumentalists playing live.

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Sunday, 26 October 1997

- 11am -
Discussion: Media Art Trans-Formations
Is media art the artistic usage and deployment, fueled by the search for
new aesthetic adventures, of electronic technologies? Or is media art a
space in which one can view, contemplate and reflect upon the rapid rise of
the new technologies? A discussion among representatives of the
international media art scene.

- 3pm -
Lecture: *On the Archaeology of Art Through Media* by Siegfried Zielinski
The director of the Kunsthochschule fŸr Medien, Cologne, sifts through the
CD-ROM 'Media Art Action - The 1960s and '70s in Germany' (produced by ZKM
and the Goethe Institute) in order to find illustrations for a media-based
theoretical and practical archaeology of art.

- 5pm -
Discussion: Media Art - Salvation of Art?
An answer to this question will be sought by the prominent media artists
Klaus vom Bruch, Jochen Gerz, Marie-Jo Lafontaine, Marcel Odenbach and
Jeffrey Shaw, as well as professors from the State School of Design,
Karlsruhe (HfG).
Moderator: Heinrich Klotz

- 8pm -
Video Premiere:David Larcher *Ich Tank*
David Larcher, an experimental filmmaker in the 1970s, and at the forefront
of research into the electronic image since the 1980s, has won a number of
awards and was nominated for the 1997 International Award for Video Art.
'Ich Tank' promises to join his earlier works in becoming a further
milestone of video art.

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*Narrative Forms in Media Art*

Friday, 31 October 1997

- 3pm -
Book introduction- Forum Kino Karlsruhe (EIKK/ZKM)
*Trau-Schau-Wem* about digitalization, documentational form and our
association with image (a new publication from the Documentarfilm Center
Stuttgart)

- 5pm -
Discussion: Forum Kino Karlsruhe (EIKK/ZKM)
The Cinema from Tomorrow: a second birth in the third thousand year
A discussion between Gideon Bachmann and european film producers

- 6pm -
Introduction to the multimedia operas on Friday, 31 October 1997

- 8pm-
Multimedia operas: Music Theater with Electronics (Three Premieres)
Three composers were commissioned to respectively work out a half-hour-long
scene in collaboration with artists in other fields and the incorporation
of electronic media. Electronic music, computer animations and interactive
audio-visual environments were realized for stage performance in close
cooperation with the ZKM-Institute for Music and Acoustics and the
ZKM-Institute for Visual Media, which placed their technological resources,
programmers and engineers at the disposal of the composers. Director: Henry
Akina, musical director: Zsolt Nagy

Kiyoshi Furukawa *Den ungeborenen GÅ¡ttern*
with computer animations by Robert Darroll for one singer, theremin and
four instrumentalists: a modern version of the ancient notion of a cyclical
path connecting the realm of the dead with the labyrinth of life. In its
aural and visual composition, the scene makes use of virtual computer
realms and diverse interactive technologies.

Mesias Maiguashca *Die Feinde*
freely based on the story 'The Secret Miracle' by Jorge Luis Borges with
computer animations by Tamas Waliczky for two singers, string trio and two
bass clarinets. In 'Die Feinde' ('The Enemies') the artists take a fresh
approach with electronic means to the subjects of suspended time, distorted
spatial perspectives and the interlocking of dream and reality.

Alejandro Viâ??ao *Rashomon*
Libretto by Craig Raine for five singers and computer music.
Four different, mutually contradictory and exclusive versions of one
procedure construct the chaotic diversity of truth in the age of electronic
media.

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Saturday, 1 November 1997

- 5pm -
Discussion: Inhabited Information Spaces
In the scope of an EU project titled '13' ZKM is involved in the
development of virtual information spaces in which people can interact even
over long distances. These spaces range from virtual cyber spaces to
physical, technologically expanded rooms. The partners participating in the
project will reflect upon, criticize and discuss current developments and
the issues thrown up by the potential of these new spatial forms.

- 8pm -
Multimedia operas: Music Theater with Electronics
(see Friday, 31 October 1997)

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Sunday, 2 November 1997

- 11am -
Matinee: New Media, Music, Scenes
Conversation with the artists involved in the three multimedia operas
Moderator: Marita Emigholz

- 5pm -
Discussion: Music Theater Today
What's new in contemporary musical theater and contemporary music written
for a stage setting? Is there a reservoir of topical themes and unspent
artistic resources that might provide new aesthetic experiences?
Representatives from musical and dance theater, national opera houses and
fringe theater have been invited to form the discussion panel.

- 8pm -
Multimedia operas: Music Theater with Electronics
(see Friday, 31 October 1997)

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*Nostalgia and New Art*

Friday, 7 November 1997

- 4pm -
Productions, projects and cooperation partners of ZKM
Akademie Schlo§ Solitude
Zorah Mari Bauer: Multifuntional Ranking System
Lectures and Presentations of their new works of art

- 8pm -
Concert: Live electronic music
Daniel Rothman: Fool Wind (premiere)
Marc AndrŽ: AB (premiere)
Luigi Nono: Guai ai gelidi mostri
Ensemble Recherche, director: Andre Richard
This is the first joint concert resulting from the close cooperation
between the ZKM-Institute for Music and Acoustics and the
Experimentalstudio of the Heinrich-Strobel-Stiftung of SWF in Freiburg. One
of the classics of live electronic music, Luigi Nono's 'Guai ai gelidi
mostri', will be presented for the first time in Karlsruhe. The new pieces
by the French composer Marc AndrŽ and American composer Daniel Rothman were
jointly commissioned by the Experimentalstudio and ZKM.

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Saturday, 8 November 1997

- 11am -
Siemens Media Art Prize
Prize Award Ceremony

- 3pm -
Lectures and Presentations by the Prize-winners
In associations with the Siemens Cultural Program, ZKM biennially awards
the Media Art Prize in recognition of outstanding contributions to the
field of media art and its dissemination. The 1997 awards have been
bestowed on the artists Peter Weibel and Ingo Guenther, and posthumously on
the philosopher Vilem Flusser. The event will concentrate on illuminating
different aspects of the work of the prize-winners.


- 8pm -
Concert: Computer music
Ludger Bruemmer: Phrenos (premiere)
Ramâ??n Gonzâ?¡lez-Arroyo: De l'Infinito Universo et Mondi
Johannes Goebel: Vom Uebersetzen ueber den Fluss
Music consisting of sounds that actually do not exist ... played and
projected into space in the ZKM's new music studio.

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Sunday, 9 November 1997

- 11am -
Symposium: New Places for A New Art.
Vanguardists of media art are finally putting into effect the old modernist
dream of tearing down the museum walls. What shape will be taken by the
fitting setting for art in the 21st century?
Museum directors and custodians from Japan, the USA and Europe share their
visions of the future.

- 4pm -
Symposium: The End of Art - The End of the Museum?
Forecasts made for the close of the 20th century have decreed the
simultaneous end of virtually all of human civilization; scenarios drafted
include the end of history, the end of the nation state, the end of work,
the end of art. Could it be that the flourishing growth of museums since
the late 1970s was only a final, defiant swan-song? This question will be
discussed by Jean-Christophe Ammann, Hans Belting, Siegfried Gohr, Boris
Groys and Katharina Schmidt.

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C U R R E N T
+ Multimediale Exhibition 18 Oct to 9 Nov +

On the occasion of the Multimediale 5, the ZKM|Institute for Visual Media
will open its production facilities in the new building, and present
selected works of its artists-in-residence.  Created between 1995 and 1997,
these works show how new technologies, methods and materials can be
embodied for artistic purposes.  Their interactivity also calls for an
engaged and critical involvement of the viewer.  Works by artists including
Luc Courchesne, Larry Cuba, Marina Grzinic & Aina Smid, Dieter Kiessling,
Bill Seaman and Bill Viola invite the public to be explorers in a territory
of digital expression.



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