Guest Artists & Guest Scholars

BEYOND MATTER is an international, interdisciplinary project to revive past, groundbreaking exhibitions and to disseminate documentation alongside contemporary artworks in an innovative way. The project enjoys the partnership of organisations from a variety of European countries – from almost all regions of the continent – and foresees the collaboration of various other organisations with a wide range of experience in areas such as the preservation of digital art, the digitisation of tangible and intangible heritage, exhibitions of contemporary and new media art, and experimental museology.

Aim of the residency initiative »bangaloREsidency-Expanded« of the Goethe-Institut in Bangalore is to establish a long-term artistic exchange between India and Germany in order to create new approaches to the artistic practice of the two cultures. In the context of an open call earlier this year, Indian artists were invited to apply for a residency at the ZKM | Hertz-Lab. An Indian-German jury selected two outstanding project proposals by Sultana Zana and Yashas Shetty, which will be realized from September 2020.

Inspired by computer music à la Curtis Roads, media artist Sultana Zana has experimented in recent years with techniques for micro sound synthesis and composed fractal soundscapes based on granular sound particles. At the Hertz-Lab, Zana will develop a space-filling sound composition, for which she will first explore different forms of non-human sound perception and then transfer the gained insights into generative audio patches and new codes.

Yashas Shetty is an Indian artist, biohacker and musician who creates art, music and musical instruments by using scientific materials such as biotechnology, visual programming languages and interactive media. For his media art work »The Nine Billion Names of God«, Shetty has already received an award at the ZKM in 2017 during the competition »Was hört das Netz?«. As part of the »bangaloREsidency-Expanded«, Shetty will develop interface prototypes at the Hertz-Lab for dynamic interactions with sounds in space.

Supported by the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore

The ZKM is a partner of the Fellowship program #bebeethoven, which is aimed at developing new ways of producing and playing music in the spirit of Beethoven. #bebeethoven promotes courage to take artistic risks and testing completely new methods, e.g. in production, performance, distribution and communication of »art music«.

The fields of activity include composition, concert design, interpretation, performance, international as well as music and technology.

As part of the Giga-Hertz Award, the Hertz-Labor the ZKM offers guest artist scholarships of several months. 

As part of »The Intelligent Museum«, a variety of approaches to AI-powered digital art will be used to critically examine and explore the socially relevant topic of AI from a variety of perspectives.

International sound and video artists develop compositions for the multi-channel sound system developed by ZKM.

Composers, sound designers, musicians and directors work on innovative research projects at the Hertz-Lab. 

OPEN CALL: ZKM/ SAT/ IRCAM's Artistic Research Residency

The High Performance Computing Center in Stuttgart (HLRS) has founded the Media Solution Center (MSC) together with the ZKM, the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg and the Stuttgart Media University. As part of the MSC program, Dr. Fabrizio Tamburini has received a scholarship to study the quantum theory of light and its application to terrestrial frequencies.

To further devlop the app »MyCity, MySounds«, ZKM is implementing residencies as part of the EU project »INTERFACES«.

As part of the »on-the-fly« project, the call will award eight grants to develop artistic live coding projects.

With the »Three Rooms« project, the ZKM, together with the Nam June Paik Center in Yongin (South Korea) and the Chronus Art Center Shanghai (China), supports young media artists. 

Three artists from China, Germany and Korea are selected to present their work in exhibitions in each of the three institutions. The group exhibition opens at the Nam June Paik Art Center on July 12, 2018, followed by an exhibition at the Chronus Art Center in China from November 11, 2018 to January 20, 2019 and finally an exhibition at the ZKM | Karlsruhe from June 29 to October 27, 2019. 

In cooperation with the Paris Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/ Musique (IRCAM), the Hertz-Lab of the ZKM Residency Program offers. As part of the EU research project VERTIGO, the institutes are jointly realizing various artistic research stays for artists working at the interface of information and communication technology.