FRI 5/12/2023 6:30 PM
- Opening
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Wüste der Wirklichkeiten, Teil I
Opening with Sabine Flachand Schutzengel, droneperformance, Roland Jankowski
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Zerstören, Foto: Alexandra Gschiel, © ESC medien kunst labor, 2016
Kairus Suspicious Behavior1, Foto: Martin Gross © ESC medien kunst labor, 2020
Radio Cyborg Transmitter, Foto: Martin Gross © ESC medien kunst labor. 2020
swarm curious tautophone and dr dopplers machine, Foto: Martin Gross © ESC medien kunst labor, 2019
In Search Of Lost Paradises2, Foto: Maryam Mohamadi © ESC medien kunst labor, 2017
Speculative capital28, Foto: Elevate © ESC medien kunst labor, 2017
3D Printing 6963, Foto: Martin Gross © ESC medien kunst labor, 2020
esc media art laboratory
The central task of esc medien kunst labor is the production of art. The main focus is on the close observation and seismographic recording of artistic processes that investigate and deal with socio-political developments (information and biotechnologies, socio-economic systems) and new technologies (hardware and software). The artistic activities are determined by the fact that art is understood as a subsystem of societal and social reality; the media-specific aspect is derived from the designation of this reality by "new" cultural technologies ["new media"].
The esc mkl is programmatically oriented towards the interests of artists as well as current research projects of scientists and theorists. The idea of networking finds expression in the continuous exchange with international artist collectives and the participation in international joint projects.
- Exhibition
5/12/2023 - 7/7/2023
Desert of Realities, Part I
Wüste der Wirklichkeiten © esc medien kunst labor, Flavia Mazzanti
The title quotes a scene from the film Matrix, in which two realities are confronted.
One resembles the one that the audience recognises as their own, with which they have more or less come to terms; the other reality is apostrophised as the desert of reality, which in contrast to the general reality of experience is an apocalyptic landscape of ruins.
Just as in the destruction of nature and the consequences of climate change, the ruinous has its counterpart in the erosion of social and democratic achievements.
From this perspective, the question arises as to whether our (social) life, as it is largely experienced as real, has not long been indebted to a kind of "matrix".
- Artists:
- Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Marco Donnarumma & Ana Rajcevic, Roland Jankowski, knowbotiq, Stefanie Lepp, Superflux, Benjamin Von Wong, Liam Young
- curated by:
- esc medien kunst labor
SAT 5/13/2023 11:00 AM
- Performance
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Wüste der Wirklichkeiten, Teil I
Schutzengel, droneperformance, Roland Jankowski
hourly, start on the hour, duration: 5 minutes
until 5:00 pm
SAT 5/13/2023 1:03 PM
- Guided Tour
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Wüste der Wirklichkeiten, Teil I
Guided Tour with Reni Hofmüller, Ilse Weber