The installation bit.fall transforms cascading water into language and text: Words appear on a curtain of waterdrops as if by magic. They are only readable for the fraction of a second and dissolve during their fall. The words are filtered from the internet in real time by an algorithm and visualize for a brief moment what is happening around us in the digital world.
In this two-day workshop we produce our own fandubs and re-synchronise film and video characters with our own voice!
This event is held in German only, please see the German section of this website for details.
The seminar explores the potential of film synchronisation for teaching and group projects.
This event is held in German only! Please see the German section of this website for details.
Within the framework of the exhibition HIS MASTER'S VOICE: On Voice and Language, the HMKV presents two performances by Swedish artist Erik Bünger: The Empire Never Ended and The Third Man.
The artist Caspar Walbeck will use open source software to create new and mashed up Youtube-Videos and Radionews. Workshop for teenagers aged 12 to 14. The Workshop will be held in German only.
HUMAN BROWSER is a search engine in human
form. Via a headset the performer receives search results in real time.
S/he shares these results with the bystanding visitors by announcing
them loudly. The speech flow is confusing but makes reference to the
context time and again. An irritating, surprising and quite amusing
encounter!
During a one-day workshop the participants try to evaluate how to deal
creatively with the news. Workshop for teachers and educators. The workshop will be held in German only.
Record and modify your own voice in the HMKV Sound Studio!
Children can join the event at any time during the opening hours
and participate in a paper chase to get to know the exhibition in a
playful way.
HIS MASTER'S VOICE: On Voice and Language is an exhibition on the
performativity of voice and language, the inauthenticity and uncanniness of
speaking, voice as a political speech act, and language as performative utterance.
In this workshop we produce funny, crazy and musical short films in
which characters from the book "Shockheaded Peter" awake into life.
Workshop held in German only.
fm-scenario is a project by Eran Schaerf that examines the construction of mass media and the production of space in the digital era. It consists of a website that allows users to create new narratives with audio bits from an archive of listeners’ calls, various features and news. One such narrative provides the scenario for the artist’s work at HMKV (6th floor of the Dortmunder U), an installation that blurs the boundaries between fact and fiction, broadcaster and audience, user and author.
The
only feature film by John Cage, One11
and 103
is based on the effects of light in an empty room. Directed by
Henning Lohner, it was completed shortly before the composer’s
death in 1992.
On the occasion of John Cage's 100th anniversary and the 60th anniversary of the premiere of his famous "silent piece" HMKV shows 42 (mostly contemporary) references to 4'33'' from the fields of art and music as well as works that deal with general questions of e.g. perception of silence or sound ecology.
It
only takes 40 minutes
of your time to activate and take part in this performance. Created
by Jens Heitjohann to be part of the exhibition Sounds
Like Silence,
it takes participants on an aural journey through the cityscape.
During
the exhibition, families with children can pick up a paper
chase flyer from the main desk which lets our younger visitors
discover the artists and their works in the exhibition in a playful
manner.