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Starting July 1, 2021, »Open Codes. Networked Commons« can be seen at the Nam June Paik Art Center!

New publication highlights »African Positions Beyond the Binary«.

On March 25, 2021, the new bed and functional building »M« at the Karlsruhe Municipal Hospital was opened after a four-year construction phase. Peter Weibel congratulates on the occasion with a speech.

Peter Weibel, artist, curator and board member of the ZKM, is awarded the Lovis Corinth Prize. The prize is aimed at internationally important artists whose work is thematically or biographically related to the Central and Eastern European region.

The installation »Eau de Karlsruhe – Cyprès« by Fabien Léaustic can currently be admired at EnBW. On the occasion of the exhibition »Critical Zones«, the »ecosystem« of cypresses and electric light shows the symbiotic relationship between natural and artificial elements.

The artistic-scientific director of the ZKM Peter Weibel receives this year's TREBBIA Award. The renowned award honors artists, companies, and benefactors from all over the world. The award ceremony will take place on Sunday, March 22, 2020 in Prague.

The Federal Cultural Foundation's »Fonds Digital« is implementing a project that breaks new ground in museum communication and mediation: »The Intelligent Museum«. The aim of the project is to implement an AI-supported exhibition concept.

Within the framework of the school project »NS in Karlsruhe«, pupils have gone on a search for clues in Karlsruhe. Their exhibition »How much history is in you?« can be seen until April 24, 2020 in the Karlsruhe General State Archive. Results and thoughts on the project are recorded in the anniversary brochure, which is hot off the press.

Unter dem Titel »As We May Speak« hatte das ZKM dazu aufgerufen, Ideen für ein Chatbot-Interface zu entwickeln, das im ZKM installiert werden soll. Der erste Preis in Höhe von 2.000 Euro geht an das Projekt »Blank Page«, das von Studierenden der Hochschule Pforzheim entwickelt wurde.

A great sense of happiness in Karlsruhe: The city joins the international UNESCO Creative Cities Network – the first german city in the category of Media Arts. The announcement was made by the Director-General of UNESCO in Paris. 

»Just don't call it a museum«, the New York Times wrote about the ZKM. For 30 years, the ZKM has been presenting risky ideas, promoting, collecting and exhibiting digital art – long before most major museums did. Read more in the article »Celebrating 30 Years Ahead of the Curve in Art«.

After successful exhibition stations in Mumbai, Karlsruhe and Shanghai, »Open Codes« can now be viewed in the Baden-Württemberg State Representation to the Federal Government in Berlin. The exhibition and educational project will be shown from October 2 to 17, 2019. The travel version of the exhibition presented by the ZKM focuses on technological developments in Baden-Württemberg.

The research project digilog@bw explores the three central themes of digitization – autonomy, knowledge and participation. What influence does digitization have on people? What societal changes will emerge? These are the questions that the interdisciplinary research network is investigating.

In the period from 2014 to 2019, the ZKM | Karlsruhe has received approval for six applications each for funding of cooperation projects by the European Union. This means that the ZKM has been granted the most cooperation projects in a German comparison.

From July 20 to October 7, 2019 the exhibition and educational project »Open Codes. Connected Bots« is on display at the Chronus Art Center in Shanghai.

Karlsruhe wants to become the first German UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts. The city has applied for admission to the UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN) with the recommendation of the German UNESCO Commission. The application is supported by the website www.cityofmediaarts.de, which provides information on the city's media art projects.

A travel version of the exhibition »Open Codes« can be seen from June 13 to July 3, 2019 in the Kunstraum of Leuphana University Lüneburg. As part of a project seminar, students developed an exhibition concept that explores current technologies against the background of Enlightenment. 

From May 24–25, 2019, the ZKM will be represented with the game »Democracy Machine« at the »Bürgerfest« at Karlsruhe Schlossgarten. The »Bürgerfest« is part of the VerfassungsFEST, a festival with which Karlsruhe celebrates the 70th anniversary of the Basic Law in Germany. 

The Minister President of the State of Baden-Württemberg visited the »Open Codes« educational experiment on May 23. In an exclusive guided tour with Peter Weibel, socio-political, artistic and cultural issues of digitalization were addressed.

A recent New York Times' article on the exhibition »Snap+Share« at the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco highlights the leading role of the ZKM in media art and refers to the ZKM exhibition »Art in Motion«.

European elections are scheduled for May 26, 2019. With a poster designed by Gunter Rambow, the ZKM draws attention to this and calls on its visitors to actively participate in shaping democracy.

The Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection (BMJV) is showing a travel format of the »Open Codes« exhibition in Berlin until May 31, 2019.

From February 2–10, 2019 a travel version of the »Open Codes« exhibition was shown in Mumbai. The exhibition and numerous workshops inspired around 13,000 Indian visitors. 

160,000 visitors alone have visited the »Open Codes« exhibition since October 2017, a record number of visitors and a reason for us to extend the exhibition – with free admission, free drinks and snacks, free WLAN and electricity – until April 7, 2019.

How do we assert ourselves in the digital society? Which tools do we have to master, which skills do we have to learn? ZKM and Goethe-Institut provide answers.

The Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg supports the Chatbot project »As We May Speak. Kulturelle Wissensvermittlung durch Chatbots« [Cultural Knowledge Transfer via Chatbots] of the ZKM for two years as part of the program »Digitale Wege ins Museum II« [Digital Paths to the Museum II]. 

On the occasion of its 100th anniversary, the Society of Friends and Sponsors of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf has for the first time offered a visiting professorship for the winter term 2018/ 2019 at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.

From October 8–10, 2018 the ZKM will be represented with digital artworks at the largest innovation festival in Southern Germany. 

From October 10–14, 2018, the ZKM presents selected publications and installations at the Frankfurt Book Fair. 

The ZKM | Karlsruhe and the project »Algorithms that Matter« (ALMAT) call for submissions of works dealing with space and the spatiality of calculation processes.

From August 6–31, 2018, the exhibition »Open Codes. Living in Digital Worlds« is closed due to reconstruction.

On August 10, 11 and 12, all four shows that the Hungarian artist collective Maxin10sity has so far produced for SCHLOSSLICHTSPIELE will be presented at Karlsruhe Palace. 

From August 6–31, the educational experiment will be closed for reconstruction purposes. 

Ayurvedic Cooking, Yoga and Digital Embroidery

ZKM presents interactive garden installation in Berlin. 

On August 13, media artist and media scientist Monika Fleischmann and architect and artist Wolfgang Strauss will be honored with the Lifetime Achievement in the Arts Award at SIGGRAPH 2018.

The BIAN 2018 will be curated by Peter Weibel, artist, curator and director of the ZKM | Center for Media Art in collaboration with Alain Thibault, artistic director of the international digital art festival ELEKTRA in Montreal. 

Peter Weibel, artistic-scientific director of the ZKM | Center for Art and Media since 1999, was awarded the Austrian Art Prize 2017 in the category Media Art.

Until July 1, 2018, the ZKM calls on artists to submit new composition ideas and proposals for electroacoustic compositions resulting from the digital real-time interpretation of graphics and graphic notation.

ZKM has been active in India since January 2017. With its expertise in digital change, it is acting as a driving force, an idea platform and important communicator between culture and new technologies.

Fabrizio Tamburini, from Januar 2015 to December 2017 Scientist in Residence at the ZKM, has been invited by the Royal Swedish Academy and the Nobel Institute of Physics to give the Angström Lecture at Uppsala University.

The world's largest data base, »ArtsFacts.net« currently ranks the ZKM fourth – after the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Biennale di Venezia and the Centre Pompidou in Paris

Peter Deussen was a man of the first hour of the ZKM. As an important founding actor of the ZKM, he was a member of the Board of Trustees since 1992 and from 1998 also its deputy chairman for almost 20 years. The ZKM is deeply indebted to Prof. Dr. Peter Deussen.

As an experimental video artist and founder of the performance space »The Kitchen«, Woody Vasulka took a formative role in audiovisual art. His best-known work »The Art of Memory« can be seen in the exhibition »Writing the History of the Future«.