
»The medium is the message«. This proposition, abstracted to the keyword and formulated by Marshall McLuhan in 1967, is still one of the most influential statements of 20th century media theory.
Thus, the media that surround us every day are not neutral, they are not mere containers of a message, but shape it through their specific properties – a break with the media theory of the time. McLuhan concentrated on the effect of the medium on people and especially on the interaction between both parties.
According to Peter Weibel, the new digital technology has brought us to a historical point where we can step out of natural evolution and redesign the »world« as well as ourselves. Man leaves the Holocene and enters the Anthropocene – the new human age, in which man has the Earth and his destiny at his disposal - because: »What we experience today as nature is made by us.« (Peter Weibel's theory on exo-evolution)
To what extent can people still distinguish the technical from the »natural« in their perception? The latest technical means lose surprisingly quickly the character of the foreign and become second nature; the first or actual nature (evolution) vanishes more and more into the technology revolution (Jan Knopf).
Jan Knopf and Teresa Retzer discuss these questions, which are becoming increasingly fundamental as a result of Corona, with the filmmaker, writer, philosopher, and above all practical and theoretical media specialist Alexander Kluge, as well as with the artistic and scientific director of the ZKM | Karlsruhe, Peter Weibel.
The event is accompanied by the telegram group t.me/zkm_bauhaus. We cordially invite you to participate in the chat of the group, to ask questions and exchange thoughts.
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Accompanying program
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- Wed, October 07, 20207 pm
- Intermediality II – Is there a beyond of the media?
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Talk
Online
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- Wed, September 30, 20207 pm
- Intermediality I
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Talk
Online
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- Sun, August 23, 20205.30 pm
- Reform der menschlichen Beziehungen
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Film Screening
Kinemathek Karlsruhe
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- Sun, August 23, 20203 pm
- Das Neue Bauen – Effizienzfieber
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Film Screening
Kinemathek Karlsruhe
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- Wed, July 29, 20206 pm
- The radio and the beginning of mass media & the »Absolute Radio Art«
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Talk
Online
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- Wed, July 22, 20206 pm
- Virtuelle Ausstellungstour: bauhaus.film.expanded
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Guided Tour
Online
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- Sun, May 17, 20206 pm
- Neues Sehen [New Vision]
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Talk
Online
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- Sun, May 17, 202011 am
- Online Workshop: Instant Movie Making
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Workshop
Online
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- Thu, May 14, 20206 pm
- The screening and preservation of historical (Bauhaus) films
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Talk
Online
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- Sun, May 10, 20206 pm
- Film music, silent and sound films
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Talk
Online
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- Fri, May 08, 20204 pm
- Cancelled – Transgressions - Church at the ZKM
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Guided Tour
Lichthof 1+2, 2.OG
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- Thu, May 07, 20206 pm
- Abstract Films: bauhaus.film.digitally.expanded
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Talk
Online
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- Sun, May 03, 20206 pm
- Ella Bergmann-Michel
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Talk
Online
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- Thu, April 30, 20206 pm
- Architectural Films: bauhaus.film.digitally.expanded
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Talk
Online
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- Sun, April 26, 20206 pm
- Symphonie Diagonale Revisited
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Talk
Online
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- Fri, April 24, 20204 pm
- Online Workshop: Instant Movie Making
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Workshop
Online
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- Thu, April 23, 20206 pm
- Political and Experimental Film Essays: bauhaus.film.digitally.expanded
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Talk
Online
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- Sun, April 19, 20206 pm
- Ellen Auerbach. Bauhaus Artist from Karlsruhe I & II
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Talk
Online
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- Thu, April 16, 20207 pm
- Digital Opening: bauhaus.film.digitally.expanded
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Opening
Online
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- Fri, March 20, 20204 pm
- Online guided tour of »bauhaus.film.expanded«
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Guided Tour
Online
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- Sun, February 16, 20206 pm
- Dynamik der Großstadt – zum Ursprung der Großstadtsinfonien
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Film Screening
Vortragssaal
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- Sun, February 16, 20204 pm
- Guided tour with curators
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Guided Tour
Lichthof 1+2, 1.OG
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- Sat, February 15, 20206 pm
- Konkrete Geräusche und Musik der Maschinen
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Film Screening
Vortragssaal
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- Sat, February 15, 20204 pm
- Guided tour with curators
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Guided Tour
Lichthof 1+2, 1.OG
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- Sat, February 08, 20203 pm
- Guided tour with curators
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Guided Tour
Lichthof 1+2, 1.OG
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- Thu, February 06, 20206 pm
- medialounge at six
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Lecture
Vortragssaal
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- Sat, January 18, 20207.30 pm
- ARTE Film Night – 100 Years of Bauhaus
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Film Screening
Medientheater