Art and Media Day

In November 2005, ZKM was chosen from among approximately 200 participants as one of the nation’s most outstanding institutions by the jury for the federal initiative »Germany—Land of Ideas.« It is therefore part of Germany’s hitherto largest event series, »365 Landmarks in the Land of Ideas.« As a »Landmark in the Land of Ideas,« ZKM will present itself with an »Art and Media Day,« highlighting the work of the research institutes.
 

Program

2 p.m.
ZKM_Foyer
Welcome: Heinz Fenrich, Mayor of Karlsruhe
Peter Weibel, Chairman and CEO of ZKM, Mike de Vries, FC Deutschland GmbH
Presentation of the »Land of Ideas« first prize by Alexander Mast, Deutsche Bank Karlsruhe


Presentation of the Research Institutes
2–6 p.m.
ZKM_Media Theater
PanoramaScreen (ZKM | Institute for Visual Media)
The moving image taken with the help of a 360º camera will be presented as a full-panoramic picture in a cylindrical projection environment, 3.5 meters high and 10 meters in diameter.
3 and 5 p.m.: introduction by staff members of the Institute

2–6 p.m.
ZKM_Cube
Music Pipeline (ZKM | Institute for Music and Acoustics)
Your favourite CD listened to a bit differently! Feed the music pipeline with the music that you’ve brought and hear how sounds can be transformed. Your music will flow through the pipeline and sound again from stations with loud speakers. At every station it sounds different: with echo, filtered, or completely transformed.


2–6 p.m.
ZKM_Foyer
robotlab
In the ZKM Foyer the artist group »robotlab« will present the robot-sound installation »instrument« (karaoke version). At the center is a »wohltemperierter« industrial robot who plays music with its motors and gear sounds as though a sound instrument. With the appropriate accompaniment, it sings of the past, the production industry in which it was raised and its utopian future.
Workshops for children and young adults

2–6 p.m.
HfG atrium
program: www.zkm.de
ZKM | Museum open


2:30–7 p.m.
ZKM | Media museum
3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 p.m.: guided tours through the media museum focusing on the installations by the research institutes ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art
2:30, 3:30, 4:30, 5:30, and 6:30: guided tours through the exhibition »Light Art from Artificial Light«
ZKM_Media lounge and ZKM_Museum balcony
»40yearsvideoart.de – Part 1. Revision.zkm«


ZKM | Media museum
2:45, 3:45, and 4:45 p.m.
»Röhrenrechner Zuse Z 22« 30-minute presentation
6–8 p.m.
HfG_Cube
»Im Vorgarten des Paradieses« (In the front yard of paradise)
Mit: Prof. Jürgen Claus – Prof. Dr. Dr. Markus Enders, Prof. Dr. Uli Lemmer – Prof. Dr. Dr. Hans Mohr, Prof. Peter Weibel – Dr. Gregor Jansen (presentation), Dr. Albert Käuflein (presentation).
The interdisciplinary discussion, which will illuminate theological, philosophical, natural science, and art historical aspects of light, offers an overview of the conditions and possibilities of light.
8 p.m.
ZKM_Cube
Klangdom demonstration and concert
Works by Ludger Brümmer, Robert Normandeau and Robin Minard.
The newly built Klangdom at the ZKM | Institute for Music and Acoustics is an instrument unique throughout the world, for spatializing music and sound. More than thirty loudspeakers hang three-dimensionally in the space on an elliptical rig system, with additional ones set up on the floor. This enables surround-sound listening that far outshines Dolby-Surround.