Founded in 1989 by visionary citizens of the city of Karlsruhe, the ZKM | Center for Art and Media celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2019. To mark this occasion, the ZKM not only presents its unique collection in its anniversary year with the exhibition »Writing the History of the Future«, but also celebrates its birthday with a long anniversary weekend together with the most important guests: its visitors.
In chronological order, the most important stages from 30 years of ZKM history will be presented during the festive program of the anniversary weekend. Since its foundation, the ZKM has accompanied the development towards digital culture and takes up current topics in its exhibitions and events in order to draw the public's attention to questions, backgrounds and problems of current developments.
The ZKM was founded in 1989 with the idea of combining artistic concepts with future-oriented technologies. Today, the ZKM is regarded worldwide as a driving force for digital change beyond the borders of Karlsruhe and is constantly developing new formats and approaches to art and culture. The anniversary weekend spotlights the artistic highlights of the house and invites all visitors to go on an expedition to the most important stations of the »digital Bauhaus« – like the ZKM is also called.
PROGRAM – 30 Years – 30 Hours – 3 Days
Friday, October 4, 2019| 11:30 am–7:30 pm | Every half hour there are short guided tours through the ZKM exhibitions and behind the scenes. | |
10:30 am–6 pm LH 9, 1.OG | Best of BÄM, workshops for all ages at BÄM |
| 10:30 am–10:45 am Foyer | Adaption of Poème symphonique, composition for 100 Metronome György Ligeti, 1962 | 1989 |
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| 10:45 am–11 am Foyer | Welcome and introduction by Peter Weibel, artistic-scientific director of the ZKM and Henning Rickmann, chairman of the Fördergesellschaft ZKM / HfG e.V. | 1989 |
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| 11 am–11:40 am Media Theater | Development and opening of the ZKM in conversation with Dr. Michael Heck, Heinke Salisch and Christiane Riedel | 1990 |
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| 11:30 am–12:00 pm Cube | On the foundation of the Institute for Music and Acoustics film presentation: Interview with the founder of the Institution Johannes Goebel | 1990 |
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| 12 pm–12:30 pm | On the foundation of the Institute for Visual Media lecture by Jeffrey Shaw | 1991 |
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| 12 pm–1 pm Cube | ZKM Image film (2007) film presentation 22 min. (in loop) | 1991 |
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| 1 pm–2 pm Lecture Hall | Institute for Music and Acoustics IDEAMA | 1992 |
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| 1 pm–2 pm Cube | Martin Daske: »Mada.nces 1–7« (1992), Fixed Media, 50'52'' | 1992 |
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| 2 pm–2:30 pm Lecture Hall | Infermental (fundamental basis of the video collection) | 1993 |
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2:30 pm–3 pm Lecture Hall | Development of library, media library and shop talk with Petra Zimmermann and Petra Koger | 1993 | ||||
| 2 pm–3 pm Cube | Harry De Wit: »Song for the Pigeons« (1993), Fixed Media, 20'56'' | 1993 |
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| 3 pm–3:40 pm Media Theater | »Art in Motion«, »Flusser«, »Llull«, »Allahs Automaten« lecture by Siegfried Zielinski | 1994 |
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3 pm–4 pm Cube | Ludger Brümmer, »Ambre Lilac« (1994), Fixed Media, 21'42'' Ludger Brümmer, »Le temps s'ouvre« (1994), Fixed Media, 35' | 1994 | ||||
4 pm–4:30 pm Media Theater | Immersive Projektionsumgebungen lecture by Jeffrey Shaw followed by presentation of the documentation »con FIGURING the CAVE« | 1995 | ||||
4:30 pm–5 pm Media Lounge | On the beginnings and development of museum and exhibition technology talk with Martin Häberle and Martin Mangold | 1995 | ||||
4 pm–5 pm Cube | Bojidar Spassov und Tamàs Waliczky »Asylphonia« film presentation Animation, 1995, 10 min. (in Loop) Multimediale 4: Neufundland II film documentary, 1995, 26 min. | 1995 | ||||
5 pm–5:40 pm Media Theater | Guest artists at ZKM Keynote Speech by Jeffrey Shaw and Ludger Brümmer, followed by a discussion | 1996 | ||||
6 pm–6:40 pm Media Theater | The multimedia contents and the beginnings of the museum talk with Hans-Peter Schwarz and Jeffrey Shaw | 1997 | ||||
6 pm–7 pm Cube | Sabine Schäfer about the sound art project »TopoPhonien«, TV-Interview by Ulrike Becker, SWF 1993, 8 min.
Joachim Krebs, »Artificial Soundscape No. 3« (1997), Fixed Media, 27'15'' Sabine Schäfer, »TopoPhonie Nr. 4« (1997), Fixed Media, 7'30'' | 1997 | ||||
| 7 pm–7:20 pm Lecture Hall | The Art of Coding lecture by Christian Lölkes | 1998 | ||||
7 pm–7:20 pm Cube | Shigenobu Nakamura, »Sabi« 1998, experimental film, 11 min. | 1998 | ||||
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Saturday, October 5, 2019
| 11:30 am–8:30 pm | Every half hour there are short guided tours through the ZKM exhibitions and behind the scenes. | |
11:30 am–6 pm LH 9, 1.OG | Best of BÄM, workshops for all ages at BÄM |
11 am–11:30 am Media Theater | History of the »Museum für Neue Kunst« lecture by Götz Adriani | 1999 | |
11:30 am–12 pm Media Theater | »net_condition« lecture by Peter Weibel | 1999 | |
11 am–12 pm Cube | Elena Kats-Chernin, »Unceremonious Processions« (1999), Fixed Media, 45'13'' | 1999 | |
| 12 pm–12:30 pm Media Theater | »Elmgreen and Dragset« keynote lecture by Andreas Beitin followed by a conversation with Martin Häberle | 2000 | |
12:30 pm–1 pm Lecture Hall | ZKM-Publications conversation by Peter Weibel and Jens Lutz | 2000 | |
12 pm–1 pm Cube | Martin Schüttler, »Pink Fantasy Island« (2000), Fixed Media, 16' Michael Edwards »anonymous obvious« | 2000 | |
| 1 pm–2 pm Media Theater | HfG and ZKM talk by Matthias Gommel (RobotLab) and Dominika Szope about experiences in exhibitions and design
Olafur Eliasson and CTRL [Space] talk by Peter Weibel and Sabine Himmelsbach | 2001 | |
1 pm–2 pm Cube | ZKM Image film (2007) film presentation 22 min. (in loop) | 2001 | |
2:40 pm–3 pm Lecture Hall | Intermedium 1 (1999) and 2 (2002) lecture by Herbert Kapfer | 2002 | |
2 pm–3 pm Cube | »The Jew of Malta« Oper, documentation, 2002, 2 parts: 11 min. and 21 min. | 2002 | |
3 pm–3:40 Uhr Media Theater | »Future Cinema« talk by Peter Weibel and Jeffrey Shaw | 2002 | |
3 pm–4 pm Cube | Jorge E. López, »Mountain War Project – Waking Dream for Video Design with Concrete and Instrumental Space Sound« | 2003 | |
4 pm–4:40 pm Media Theater | Laboratory for Antiquated Video Systems talk by Christoph Blase and Dorcas Müller | 2004 | |
| 4:40 pm–5 pm Lecture Hall | Presentation of works and projects lecture by Götz Dipper | 2004 | |
| 4 pm–5 pm Cube | Karlheinz Stockhausen, »LICHT-Bilder« Opera, 2003, documentation, 40 min. Shintaro Imai, »Glitchdesign« Fixed Media, 2003, 9'00 | 2004 | |
| 5 pm–5:40 pm Media Theater | »Gedankenausstellungen« at ZKM: »Iconoclash«, »Making Things Public«, »Reset Modernity« and a preview on »CRITICAL ZONES« talk by Birgit Mersmann and Peter Weibel | 2005 | |
| 5 pm–6 pm Cube | Gilles Gobeil, »ombres, espaces, silences« (2005), Fixed Media, 22'45'' Nicolas Bernier, »Writing machine« (2005), Fixed Media, 15'34'' | 2005 | |
6 pm–7 pm Lecture Hall | ARD Radio Play Days conversation with Ekkehard Skoruppa and Viola Gaiser »Move on Asia« and »GLOBAL CONTROL AND CENSORSHIP« | 2006 | |
| 6 pm–7 pm Cube | Ludger Brümmer, »Glasharfe« (2006), Fixed Media, 19' Hiromi Ishii, »Ginn – Tokio 2006« (2006), Fixed Media, 12'13'' Robert Normandeau, »Kuppel« (2006), Fixed Media, 18' | 2006 | |
7 pm–8 pm Media Theater | »Paul Thek« (2007), »Werner Büttner«, »William S. Burroughs«, »Gianfranco Baruchello« »YOU-ser« talk with Peter Weibel and Dominika Szope | 2007 | |
| 7 pm–8 pm Cube | Panoramafestival documentation, 2007 | 2007 | |
8 pm—8:30 pm Lecture Hall | »Der Diskrete Charme der Technologie« | 2008 | |
| 8:30 pm–9 pm Cube | The Giga-Hertz-Prize and other Festivals lecture and concert by Ludger Brümmer | 2008 |
Sunday, October 6, 2019
| 10:30 am–6:30 pm | Every half hour there are short guided tours through the ZKM exhibitions and behind the scenes. | |
| Best of BÄM, workshops for all ages at BÄM |
10 am–10:40 am Lecture Hall | »Banquete« and »Performative Science and Beyond« by Karin Ohlenschläger | 2009 | ||
| 10 am–11 am Cube | Karlheinz Stockhausen »Strahlen«, 2009 Film documentation of the origin, 57 min. | 2009 | ||
11 am–11:50 am | On the evolution of the ZKM collection Guided tour through the exhibition of the collection »Writing the History of the Future« with curator Margit Rosen | 2010 | ||
11 am–12 pm Kubus | »Amazonas Opera«, 2010 film documentation, 48 min. | 2010 | ||
12 pm–12:30 pm Media Theater | »The Global Contemporary« Lecture by Andrea Buddensieg with commentary by Peter Weibel | 2011 | ||
12:30 pm–1 pm Media Lounge | Restoration and conservation of Media Art Talk by Margit Rosen and Morgane Stricot | 2011 | ||
| 12 pm–1pm Cube | Luc Ferrari, »Jetzt – oder wahrscheinlich ist dies mein Alltag, in der Verwirrung der Orte und der Augenblicke«, 2011 audio book, 3:03'37'' (exerpt, 50 min.) | 2011 | ||
| 1 pm–2 pm Lecture Hall | Big events at ZKM Museumscommunication and BÄM Lecture by Janine Burger | 2012 | ||
1 pm–2 pm Cube | Junya Oikawa, »Bell Fantasia – acoustic scenery of Schwäbisch Gmünd« (2012), Fixed Media, 21'50'' Robert Normandeau, »La Part des Anges« (2012), Fixed Media, 14'30'' | 2012 | ||
| 2 pm–2:40 pm Media Theater | »zkm_gameplay« talk with Hans-Peter Schwarz, Stephan Schwingeler and Jerome Nguyen about the gaming plattform of the ZKM | 2013 | ||
2:40 pm–3 pm Lecture Hall | »Aby Warburg« Lecture by Axel Heil | 2013 | ||
2 pm–3 pm Cube | Peter Weibel, Ludger Brümmer, Bernd Lintermann, Nikolaus Völzow, Götz Dipper, Hartmut Bruckner, Manfred Hauffen, Manuel Weber: »The Origin of Noise – The Noise of Origin« 3D-noize-concert, 2013, documentation, 50 min. extract | 2013 | ||
| 3–3:30 pm Media Theater | Lynn Hershman-Leeson talk by Peter Weibel and Sabine Himmelsbach | 2014 | ||
3:30 pm–4 pm Info Point | »Zeitstrahl Beuys Brock Vostell« – Rekonstruction of an exhibition Guided tour with curator Daria Mille (max. 15 participants) | 2014 | ||
| 3 pm–4 pm Cube | Christoph Illing, »Brain Decompositions« (2014), Fixed Media, 17' Yannick Hofmann, »Dipole« (2014), Fixed Media, 7' Marc Richter, »Spiral Organ of Corti« (2014), Fixed Media, 16'54'' | 2014 | ||
| 4 pm–4:50 pm Media Theater | »GLOBALE« talk with Christiane Riedel, Peter Weibel and Wolfgang Knapp | 2015 | ||
4 pm–5 pm Lecture Hall | Schlosslichtspiele film documentation, 15 min. (in loop) | 2015 | ||
5 pm–6 pm Media Theater | »Kunst in Europa« talk with Eckhart Gillen, Peter Weibel and Daria Mille educational experiment »Open Codes« talk by Ursula Scheer, Eva Hambsch, Peter Weibel, Christian Lölkes, Blanca Giménez, Barbara Kiolbassa and Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás | 2016 | ||
6 pm–6:30 pm Media Theater | Das ZKM | Hertz-Labor and artistis research at the ZKM – a gaze into the future talk by Yannick Hofmann, Christian Lölkes, Ludger Brümmer and Lisa Bensel | 2017 | ||
6:30 pm–7 pm Cube | Opening Performance Orchestra »Trio No. 1« für drei Intonarumori 2019, premiere, 21' | 2018 | ||
7 pm–9:30 pm Foyer | Closing Ceremony with State Secretary Petra Olschowski, mayor Dr. Frank Mentrup, Heinz Fenrich, former mayor, Dr. Michael Heck, Former Culture Officer of the City of Karlsruhe, Prof. Dr. Gerhard Seiler, former mayor and Dr. iur. Erwin Vetter, Minister a.D. | 2019 |
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