BÄM

The creative space of the Museum Communication

Our BÄM room with many kids, that are standing around the tables.
Duration
2023

The Museum Communication stands for innovative and interdisciplinary art education and functions as an interface between the ZKM and its visitors.

With the increasing merging of the worlds of art and science and the movement towards a maker culture which is also evident in the ZKM exhibitions, the staff from ZKM | Museum Communication wants to convey these contents on a sustainable and exciting basis as part of a dialog with the visitors. Since November 20, 2015, a special space has been available at the ZKM for this very purpose: BÄM.

Interdisciplinarily
BÄM is a participatory workshop in the midst of the ZKM exhibitions. A space for you, for digital and analog »making«, creative thinking, acting, developing and trying out!
Experimental
BÄM is a place that breaks new ground in mediation and promotes media competence: BÄM – Be A Maker – Brain Action Media – Bildung Ändert Meinung [Education Changes Opinion] – Be A Mediaartist... Be part of #zkmBÄM!
Informative
With the increasing fusion of art and science as well as the movement of society towards a maker culture, BÄM wants to convey these contents in a sustainable and exciting dialogue with our visitors.

BÄM: Be A Maker – Brain Action Media – Building Advances Meaning – Be A Media Artist – ...

… these just a few definitions that describe the space that has been created especially for the program. BÄM is a kind of open workshop and invites you to »make things« on a digital and analog basis. The space is open to new contents and target groups, it adopts new methods of learning, and it helps to develop expertise for new artistic media. It is a place where children, youngsters and young adults are inspired and invited to engage in creative thinking, to take action, to develop their skills and to try out new things in the midst of the exhibitions and the works of art.

The creative space of the Museum Communication

BÄM is a maker space, an »open workshop«, a place where you are creative together, create something... digital and or analog – the perfect combination of art, science and technology.

Exhibitions / Events

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Open Gallery
  • A passage, on whose wall is a blackboard
    BÄM, the new room of the ZKM | Museum Communication, Opening: 20.11.2015
  • Books and postcards on a table
    BÄM, the new room of the ZKM | Museum Communication, Opening: 20.11.2015
  • In front of a camera several people standing.
    BÄM, the new room of the ZKM | Museum Communication, Opening: 20.11.2015
  • A wooden table on which a lamp and a drill stands
    BÄM
  • On a table lay various blotters. In the background: a network of green yarn, on it papers are hanging.
    BÄM
  • Two little robots that are made out of junk are sitting next to each other, one is black and has 3 eyes and one is made out of a bin with 2 eyes out of bottle caps, that are placed on the open mouth resp. lid of the bucket.
    BÄM-workshop »Junkrobotsumo«
  • A kid works on a little automated construction, that it has equipped with a wheel, that is going to be rotated by a rubberband and a small motor.
    BÄM-workshop »Evolution-automata«
  • One can see a hand, that is leaning on a table on which - taped to a sheet of paper - green LEDs are glowing.
    Workshop »pimp your paper @BÄM«
  • A fly, brazed together from electronic waste
    BÄMlab: Braze artist
  • A copper coin and a zinc wire have been thrusted into an apple. Someone is holding a jack connector to both metallic items, that can now carry electricity.
    BÄMlab-workshop: »The acid battery«
  • Winding around some wire that sticks inside a log, some bizarre looking flowers out of plastik are growing upwards. They are made out of PET-bottles in green, yellow, clear and black.
    BÄM-workshop »too-early-flowering«
  • A diy guitar out of thin wood and a tin can is standing upright next to a speaker. A bright light is shining on the instrument from behind.
    BÄM-workshop »current from sound«
  • On a timber there are standing two little robots that are soldered together out of electronic scrap.
    BÄMlab-workshop: »SolderArt«
  • You see a car with a fantasy "Maker" figure inside
    Das Essential für deinen Wicht! BÄM @ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien 2016
  • Various speaker boxes are illuminated by a desk lamp.
    BÄMlab-workshop: »Strom aus Ton«

Images

Overview
  • A passage, on whose wall is a blackboard
    BÄM, the new room of the ZKM | Museum Communication, Opening: 20.11.2015
  • Books and postcards on a table
    BÄM, the new room of the ZKM | Museum Communication, Opening: 20.11.2015
  • In front of a camera several people standing.
    BÄM, the new room of the ZKM | Museum Communication, Opening: 20.11.2015
  • A wooden table on which a lamp and a drill stands
    BÄM
  • On a table lay various blotters. In the background: a network of green yarn, on it papers are hanging.
    BÄM
  • Two little robots that are made out of junk are sitting next to each other, one is black and has 3 eyes and one is made out of a bin with 2 eyes out of bottle caps, that are placed on the open mouth resp. lid of the bucket.
    BÄM-workshop »Junkrobotsumo«
  • A kid works on a little automated construction, that it has equipped with a wheel, that is going to be rotated by a rubberband and a small motor.
    BÄM-workshop »Evolution-automata«
  • One can see a hand, that is leaning on a table on which - taped to a sheet of paper - green LEDs are glowing.
    Workshop »pimp your paper @BÄM«
  • A fly, brazed together from electronic waste
    BÄMlab: Braze artist
  • A copper coin and a zinc wire have been thrusted into an apple. Someone is holding a jack connector to both metallic items, that can now carry electricity.
    BÄMlab-workshop: »The acid battery«
  • Winding around some wire that sticks inside a log, some bizarre looking flowers out of plastik are growing upwards. They are made out of PET-bottles in green, yellow, clear and black.
    BÄM-workshop »too-early-flowering«
  • A diy guitar out of thin wood and a tin can is standing upright next to a speaker. A bright light is shining on the instrument from behind.
    BÄM-workshop »current from sound«
  • On a timber there are standing two little robots that are soldered together out of electronic scrap.
    BÄMlab-workshop: »SolderArt«
  • You see a car with a fantasy "Maker" figure inside
    Das Essential für deinen Wicht! BÄM @ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien 2016
  • Various speaker boxes are illuminated by a desk lamp.
    BÄMlab-workshop: »Strom aus Ton«

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