
It's about nothing less than the love of life! At the intersection of art, science, and technology, the project »It's about Life« of ZKM brings together people of different ages and backgrounds and encourages an exchange on biophilia, the love of life.
Peter Weibel, artistic and scientific director of the ZKM, sees the crises currently threatening us as a starting point to finally focus on life again. And specifically, a life in which the focus is not on human, but on the earth. "Life on earth itself will not perish and neither will the earth. But whether humans will survive self-induced climate change, that's the question. We have to be careful that species extinction doesn't one day also hit Homo Sapiens," says Peter Weibel.
»It's about Life« accompanies the ZKM's current program, which approaches biophilia in different ways. Artists and scientists come together with citizens and local initiatives. Dialogical tours, creative workshops, the digital reading circle »Ecophilia Reading Group«, film screenings on the ZKM's forecourt or the experimental »Kitchen_Ferm_Lab« literally bring the biophilic approach of »It's About Life to life«.
The program is hybrid, so it can be experienced at the ZKM and at any other place on earth.
Program
On site tours
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- Information and registration
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- Overview tours
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- Tandem tours in »The Beauty of Early Life«
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- Natural history tour in »The Beauty of Early Life«
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- Reflections – Performative guided tours through the exhibition »It's about Life« with Gabriela Lang
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- Transgressions – Theologians meet Contemporary Art
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- Curator's tour through »BioMedia. The Age of Media with Life-like Behavior«
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On site workshops
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- Information and Registration
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- Sensors Workshop
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- Loving Life – A Moving Workshop
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- My new world with BioMedia
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- Becoming hybrid – Design your green screen body filter
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- Robotic Creatures @BÄM Family
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- Artificial intelligence and discrimination
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- Your AI video clip
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- Scratch – Family Jump
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- Dance with the media
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- Lumen Prints
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- Becoming hybrid – Design your green screen body filter
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- BÄMlab
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Filmscreenings
Art me Anything @ZKM Karlsruhe
So in our new series »Art me Anything« we decided to ask the artists of the ZKM exhibitions random questions about life and technology – like, “How do you define whether something is alive?“ or “Would you upload your mind to a cloud?“.
Artist Talk with AATB | Art me Anything @ZKM Karlsruhe
Artist Talk with Sommerer & Mignonneau | Art me Anything @ZKM Karlsruhe
Artist Talk with Christian Mio Loclair | Art me Anything @ZKM Karlsruhe
Artist Talk mit Bernd Lintermann | Art me Anything @ZKM Karlsruhe
Artist Talk with Špela Petrič | Art me Anything @ZKM Karlsruhe
Artist Talk with Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen | Art me Anything @ZKM Karlsruhe
- Organization / Institution
- ZKM | Centre of Art and Media
- Program funder
Funded within the impulse program »Culture despite Corona« of the Ministry of Science, Research and Art Baden-Württemberg
Accompanying program
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- Wed, September 28, 20225 pm
- Antiwarcoalition.art as a guest at ZKM
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Kubus
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- Wed, July 06, 20227 pm
- Filmscreening »It's about Life« Day 2
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Insel Hub auf dem Vorplatz
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- Mon, July 04, 20227 pm
- Filmscreening »It's about Life« Day 1
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Insel Hub auf dem Vorplatz
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- Thu, June 30, 20225 pm
- Clothing and book bazaar
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Meet-Up
Insel Hub auf dem Vorplatz