Works by the ZKM | Hertz-Lab for the Exhibition Open Codes

A woman stands in front of the artwork YOU:R:CODE that consists of large screens
Type of publication
Brochure
Author / Editor
ZKM | Hertz-Lab (ed.)
Year
2018
Content

The Hertz-Lab operates as a transdisciplinary research and development platform at the interface of media arts, science and society. The newly established Hertz-Lab unites the Institute for Visual Media and the Institute for Music and Acoustics in order to expand the existing fields of action in close transcultural exchange with international institutes and research centers and to explore the artistic possibilities of expression and design in the age of rapidly accelerated technological progress and digitization.

The Hertz-Lab focuses on artistic production and media technology research. At the laboratory, contemporary artistic-scientific concepts – for example, extended reality in AR and VR applications, artificial intelligence, immersiveness, or sensor-supported environments as well as research into artistic options within the electromagnetic field – are reflected across media and genres, examined for artistic applicability and realized in productions.

The title of the Hertz-Lab is dedicated to the scientist Heinrich Hertz, who proved the existence of electromagnetic waves in his famous spark experiments at the University of Karlsruhe in 1886. He is regarded as the founder of radio technology, the wireless transmission of information – and is thus the model for the innovation center within the ZKM, the Hertz-Lab. For the first time, the activities of the Hertz-Lab are manifested in the exhibition Open Codes, for which artists and scientists of the ZKM have created new works which reflect the digital development critically.

Language
German and English
Description
72 pp., 49 Ill., 15 x 21 cm, brochure
ISBN
978-3-928201-56-8
Production / Corporation / Exhibition
ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe
Organization / Institution
ZKM | Hertz-Labor
Team

project management: Yannick Hofmann, Lisa Bensel

design: 2xGoldstein (2xGoldstein, Sascha Fronczek, Erik Schöfer)