2009
In 2009 HMKV organised the following events:
- Martin Brand: Eyes Wide Shut, panel discussion with Martin Brand (Cologne), Kathrin Becker (Berlin) and Dr. Inke Arns (Dortmund) at Dortmunder Kunstverein, Saturday, January 17, 2009, 17:00
- Martin Brand: Eyes Wide Shut, solo show of Cologne-based video artist, cooperation between HMKV and the Dortmund Kunstverein, venue: Dortmunder Kunstverein, 5 December 2008 - 1 February 2009
- „Awake Are Only The Spirits" - On Ghosts and Their Media, PHOENIX Halle Dortmund, 16 May – 18 Oct 2009, opening: Friday, 15 May 2009, 19:00 --> more
- Super A: Man Is Meant to Live, Not Just Survive! Lecture about 'Cargo Cult' in the context of transversale, Friday, 5 June 2009, 18:00 --> more
- Let's build a robot orchestra! Workshop for girls and boys with Karl Heinz Jeron, 6+7 June 2009 --> more
- Phoenix-West awakens good spirits, event with Heinrich Kürtelkämper, 21 June 2009, 15:00 - 19:00
- Extraschicht, 27 June 2009, 18:00 - 02:00 (exhibition open until 02:00 a.m.)
- Build your own computer game! Workshop for girls and boys with Thomas Wappler and Olaf Val, 4+5 July 2009 --> more
- Guided tour with the curators and catalogue launch, 11 July 2009, from 17:30 --> more
- Alles "U"? Panel discussion about the "creative industries", 14 July 2009, 19:00 --> more
- Guided tour with the curators Thibaut de Ruyter and Inke Arns, 25 July 2009, 14:00
- Synoptic, presentation of workshop results with participants from DE, HU, NL, 22 Aug 2009, 18:00 --> more
- Laptoporchester Berlin (Endliche Automaten), 28 Aug 2009, 20:00 --> more
- 8. Dortmunder DEW21 Theaternacht, 29 Aug 2009
- Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag: Warden Sprites (lecture), 4 Sep 2009, 18:00
- Living on Mars, workshop for girls and boys with Dagmar Lippok & Jens Sundheim, 5+6 Sep 2009 --> more
- 9. Dortmunder DEW21-Museumsnacht, 26 Sep 2009, 16:00 - 01:00, short guided tours through the exhibition „Awake Are Only the Spirits“ at the full hour
- Become a spirit yourself! Photo workshop for kids with the artists Kathryn Baingo, Etta Gerdes and Jens Sundheim, 26 Sep 2009, from 17:00
- Presented by Audiodigitale: Ghosts in concert, with Scanner (GB), Tim Hecker (CA), Carl Michael von Hausswolff (SE) & [multer] (DE), 2 Oct 2009, doors open 20:00 --> more
- Who is dreaming of Phoenix? (org. by Etta Gerdes, Jens Sundheim, Kathryn Baingo), photo exhibition, 8 - 18 Oct 2009, opening: 8 Oct 2009, 17:00-20:00 --> more
- Phoenix West awakens good spirits, event with Heinrich Kürtelkämper, 11 Oct 2009, 16:00 - 18:30
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- Agnes Meyer-Brandis, media art grant of the Land NRW 2009, presentation, 17 Oct 2009, 18:00 --> more
- Guided tour with the curators of "Awake Are Only The Spirits" Thibaut de Ruyter and Inke Arns, 18 Oct 2009, 16:00
- Susanne Weirich, media art grant of the Land NRW 2008, presentation, 18 Oct 2009, 18:00 --> more
- Free guided exhibition tours each Sunday at 16:00, each Sunday at 16:00 HMKV offered free guided tours through the exhibition "Awake Are Only the Spirits" - until 18 October (last guided tour: 18 Oct).
2008
In 2008 HMKV realised a total of nine exhibitions: four exhibitions in Dortmund - Thomas Köner: Pneuma Monoxyd (Dortmunder Kunstverein, HMKV, RWE Westfalen-Weser-Ems, Museum Bochum, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl), Waves – The Art of te Electromagnetic Society (HMKV at PHOENIX Halle), Anna Kournikova Deleted By Memeright Trusted System – Art in the Age of Intellectual Property (HMKV at PHOENIX Halle Dortmund), and Martin Brand: Eyes Wide Shut (Dortmunder Kunstverein) – while three of HMKV’s exhibitions travelled to five venues in Germany and abroad: History Will Repeat Itself. Strategies of Reenactment in Contemporary Art (KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw; Goethe-Institute Hong Kong, Hong Kong Film Archive and Videotage, Hong Kong), Glamour and Globalisation: Soccer, Media and Art (PROGR - Zentrum für Kulturproduktion, Bern, CH), and The Wonderful World of irational.org: Tools, Techniques and Events 1996-2006 (The Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad). Within the exhibition History Will Repeat Itself (KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin) HMKV organised an accompanying film program at Kino Arsenal, Berlin. In the context of scene:österreich in nrw HMKV organised various film and video screenings with historical and recent productions from Austria. In 2008 HMKV hosted three workshops in the context of Waves (Martin Howse, Derek Holzer, Eva Trischak), and four hands-on workshops for kids (with the artists Karl Heinz Jeron, Olaf Val, Dagmar Lippok, Jens Sundheim, Etta Gerdes, Kathryn Baingo). HMKV organised two conferences (Where do you walk today? and Creative Work and Copyright) and hosted a new electronic music festival (Audiodigitale 08, initiated by sternschaltung/Martin Juhls). In 2008 HMKV was nominated for the second time for the Prize for Kunstvereine of ART COLOGNE and the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Kunstvereine (ADKV).
In 2008 HMKV has organised the following events:
- History Will Repeat Itself – Film program, Freunde der Deutschen Kinemathek, Kino Arsenal, Berlin, a cooperation between Kino Arsenal, KW and HMKV, curators: Stefanie Schulte-Strathaus, Annette Lingg (Kino Arsenal, Berlin) in cooperation with Inke Arns (HMKV, Dortmund), with films and videos by Lenka Clayton, GB, Sergej M. Eisenstein, UdSSR, Harun Farocki, D, Dora García, E, Jill Godmilow USA, Romuald Karmakar, D, Frédéric Moser & Philippe Schwinger, CH, Rithy Panh, Kambodscha/F, Anri Sala, AL, Peter Watkins GB/F (2 – 12 January 2008)
- Thomas Köner: „Der müde Tod" (Fritz Lang, D, 1921), live soundtrack by Thomas Köner, Jazzclub domicil, Dortmund, in the context of the solo show Thomas Köner. Pneuma Monoxyd (2007-2008) (5 January 2008)
- Arbeit 2.0: Urheberverträge im digitalen Zeitalter, panel discussion during Transmediale.08, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, with Till Jäger, D, Marcus Lindemann, D, Annette Schindler, CH, und Matthias Spielkamp, D, Moderation: Inke Arns, HMKV, D, Volker Grassmuck, iRights.info, D (3 February 2008)
- History Will Repeat Itself. Strategies of Re-enactment in Contemporary Art, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warschau; an exhibition by HMKV and KW, Concept: Inke Arns, Curators: Inke Arns, Gaby Horn, Co-Curator: Katharina Fichtner. (16 February – 13 April 2008)
- Waves - The Art of the Electromagnetic Society, HMKV in the PHOENIX Halle Dortmund; Concept: Armin Medosch; curated by Armin Medosch, Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits and Inke Arns - in the framework of scene:österreich - 39. internationale kulturtage der stadt dortmund (10 May - 29 June 2008)
- Demons in the Aether - an active, artistic research of the electromagnetic material within a constructed environment, Workshop with Martin Howse (GB), as part of „Waves - The Art of the Electromagnetic Society“, PHOENIX Halle Dortmund (9 - 11 May 2008)
- Field Amplification - a Street Radio Application by Hive Networks (GB); three radio transmitters broadcast on various frequencies the radio play "Die Zone" (The Zone) by Werner Poeschko, as well as audio works by artists of the "Waves" exhibition, HMKV at the U-Turm (former Union brewery), as part of „Waves - The Art of the Electromagnetic Society“ (11 May - 29 June 2008, 24 hours a day at the Dortmund U - Brinkhoffstr. / corner Rheinische Str.)
- Tonewheels, Workshop with Derek Holzer (US), as part of „Waves - The Art of the Electromagnetic Society“, PHOENIX Halle Dortmund (29 May - 1 June 2008)
- Abstracts of Syn - Edition Medienturm, as part of „Waves - The Art of the Electromagnetic Society“, PHOENIX Halle Dortmund (30 May + 1 June 2008)
- Glamour and Globalisation. Soccer, Media and Art, PROGR - Zentrum für Kulturproduktion, Bern; curated by Inke Arns (7 June - 6 July 2008)
- Filmavantgarde und aktuelle Videos aus Österreich: Filmavantgarde in Österreich - Programm 1 (1956-1985), Filmavantgarde in Österreich - Programm 2 (1996-1998), Manu Luksch: Faceless, 2007, im Rahmen von „Waves - The Art of the Electromagnetic Society“, PHOENIX Halle Dortmund (13. Juni 2008)
- Filmavantgarde und aktuelle Videos aus Österreich: Peter Weibel, VALIE EXPORT, Martin Arnold, im Rahmen von „Waves - The Art of the Electromagnetic Society“, PHOENIX Halle Dortmund (14. Juni 2008)
- History Will Repeat Itself. Strategies of Re-enactment in Contemporary (Media) Art and Performance, after the successfull presentation at the Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, the exhibition "History Will Repeat Itself", a cooperation between HMKV Dortmund and KW Berlin, will be presented at the Goethe-Institute, the Hong Kong Film Archive and Videotage in Hong Kong from June 20, 2008. For this occasion a second edition of the catalogue has been printed - with a Chinese cover! Goethe-Institut Hongkong, Hong Kong Film Archive, Videotage; an exhibition by HMKV and KW, Concept: Inke Arns, Curators: Inke Arns, Gaby Horn, Co-Curator: Katharina Fichtner. (21 June – 20 July 2008)
- 5107: Dortmunder Stadtexpeditionen entlang der GPS-Matrix, GPS-Workshop mit Evamaria Trischak (AT), im Rahmen von “Waves - The Art of the Electromagnetic Society", PHOENIX Halle Dortmund, 21. - 22. Juni 2008
- Anna Kournikova Deleted by Memeright Trusted System - Art in the Age of Intellectual Property, HMKV in the PHOENIX Halle Dortmund, curated by Inke Arns and Francis Hunger (19 July - 19 October 2008)
- Mein kleiner Roboter lernt sehen, two-day workshop with Berlin-based media artist Karl Heinz Jeron for participants between 11 and 14 years, 26 + 27 July 2008, daily 10:00-15:00
- Mignon Game Kit Werkstatt, two one-day workshops with the Kassel-based media artist Olaf Val for participants between 11 and 14 years, 2 + 3 August, daily 10:00-16:00
- GAMESHOW_ Tony Hawk meets Lara Croft on PHOENIX, workshop for girls and boys from 14 years onwards, Aug 30+31, 2008 - details
- Where do you walk today? symposium, Sep 20-21, 2008 - details
- Creative Work and Copyright, conference (in German), Sep 26-28, 2008, please register at info(at)hmkv.de - details
- Christian von Borries: we play what we want, a live music action with students of the Musikschule Dortmund (Premiere), Friday, Sep 26, 2008, 20:30 - details
- PHOENIX Dream, photo project with pupils of schools from Dortmund-Hörde, PHOENIX Halle, Oct 15, 2008, 17:00 - details
- Audiodigitale - festival for electronic music and visual arts, organised by sternschaltung, PHOENIX Halle, Oct 17 + 18, 2008, 20:00 - 01:00 - admission free! - details
- The Contemporaneity of Media Art - a Medienwerk NRW event in Berlin, Vertretung des Landes NRW and Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin, Nov 3, 2008 - details
- Martin Brand: "Eyes Wide Shut", first solo exhibition of the Cologne-based artist;Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dec 5, 2008 - Feb 1, 2009 - details
2007
In parallel to Documenta 12 (Kassel) and Skulptur.Projekte Münster HMKV showed the comprehensive international media art exhibition History Will Repeat Itself - Strategies of Re-enactment in contemporary (media) art and performance at PHOENIX Halle Dortmund. Cooperation partner are the KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin - the exhibition with 22 works will be on display there from November 18, 2007 - January 13, 2008. In addition, in 2007 HMKV 'exported' the 'irational' exhibition which was on display at PHOENIX Halle in late 2006 ("The Wonderful World if irational.org") to the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow, Great Britain. The exhibition will travel further on to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Novi Sad in 2008. In the autumn of 2007 HMKV organised the exhibition Sie nennen es Realität ('They call it reality') with 14 works by (post-)graduates of the Studiengang Medien&Kunst, Vertiefung Neue Medien, of the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (in the framework of the CROSSKICK project by ADKV which was supported by Kulturstiftung des Bundes). In parallel, HMKV presented at PHOENIX Halle the media art grant of the State of Nordrhein-Westfalen 2006 - Anne Pöhlmann („Walkthrough“). A rich variety of accompanying events was organised in parallel to the exhibitions at PHOENIX Halle. In 2007 HMKV was nominated for the Prize for Kunstvereine of ART COLOGNE and the Arbeitsgemeinschaft deutscher Kunstvereine (ADKV).
In 2007 HMKV has organised the following events:
- History Will Repeat Itself. Strategien des Reenactment in der zeitgenössischen (Medien-)Kunst und Performance,
international exhibition with 23 artists (Guy Ben-Ner IL/D,
Walter Benjamin US, Irina Botea RO, C-Level US, Daniela Comani IT/D,
Jeremy Deller GB, Rod Dickinson GB, Nikolai Evreinov (RU), Omer Fast
IL/D, Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard GB, Heike Gallmeier D, Felix
Gmelin S, Pierre Huyghe F, Evil Knievel US, Zbigniew Libera PL,
Korpys/Loeffler D, Robert Longo US, Tom McCarthy GB, Frédéric Moser /
Philippe Schwinger CH, Collier Schorr US, Tabea Sternberg D, Kerry
Tribe US, T.R. Uthco & Ant Farm US, Artur Zmijewski PL), PHOENIX
Halle Dortmund (9 June – 23 September 2007)
- irational.org. Tools, Techniques and Events 1996 – 2006, HMKV's exhibition (2006) was shown at the CCA: The Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow (16 June - 21 July 2007)
- Löten und Programmieren: Mignon Game Kit,
Workshop for kids from ten years onwards, with the media artist Olaf Val
(Kassel), PHOENIX Halle Dortmund (30 June- 1 July 2007)
- Balaklava Odyssey,
presentation of the Balaklava festival by Sebastian Kaiser, with
Joulia Strauss (Berlin), Natasha Poloka (Moscow), Dmytro Fedorenko
alias Kotra (Kiev), Svetlana Kazarina (Sevastopol), Hendrik Schumacher
(Berlin), Aleksander Janicki (Krakow), PHOENIX Halle Dortmund (7 July 2007)
- Satellite Voyeurism. Satellite images, geo data and art, workshop with 25 international participants, organised by Francis Hunger, PHOENIX Halle Dortmund (20 – 22 July 2007)
- Martin Kippenberger, reading by Susanne Kippenberger, PHOENIX Halle Dortmund (August 2007)
- Evil Knievel: Think Positive / Postgraduate Me, workshop mit 20 participants in the context of History Will Repeat Itself, PHOENIX Halle Dortmund (1 – 2 September 2007)
- Thomas Köner: Pneuma Monoxyd, exhibition by Hartware MedienKunstVerein at [plug.in], Basel/CH (7 September 2007 - 14 October 2007)
- Löten und Programmieren: Mein kleiner Roboter, workshop for boys and girls with the Berlin-based media artist Karl
Heinz Jeron, PHOENIX Halle Dortmund (15 - 16 September 2007)
- Sie nennen es Realität: Der Studiengang Medien & Kunst der ZHdK zu Gast im HMKV, exhibition in the framework of CrossKick, Curator: Inke Arns, in cooperation with Francis Hunger (with Alex Antener, CH, Thomas
Comiotto, IT/CH, Luca Degunda, Rodrigo Derteano, Peru, André Gwerder,
CH, Marc Lee, CH, !Mediengruppe Bitnik und Sven König, CH/D, Mario
Purkathofer, CH, Roland Roos, CH, Annina Rüst, CH, Fabian Voegeli, CH,
Valentina Vuksic, CH, Marc Widmer, CH), (6 – 21 October 2007)
- Sie nennen es Realität: Performances during the opening:
Marc Lee, CH: Breaking the News, Sven König, D/CH: music to observe
electronic sheep to, PHOENIX Halle Dortmund (5 October 2007)
- Sie nennen es Realität: Fabian Voegeli, CH: Talk im Orakelraum: «Realität/KK43 vs. Fiktion/CSI»,
Andreas König (Polizeipräsidium Dortmund, Direktion K - KI 4 - KK 43,
Sachverständiger für Daktyloskopie), PHOENIX Halle Dortmund (6 October
2007)
- Sie nennen es Realität: Presentation of the Studiengangs Medien & Kunst, Vertiefung Neue
Medien, der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK), with Prof.
Christian Hübler (Knowbotic Research), Prof. Yvonne Wilhelm (Knowbotic
Research), presentations of individual projects and commented exhibition tour; panel discussion on the notion of „Medienkunst – wo geht die
Entwicklung hin und wie reagieren Kunsthochschulen?“ with Prof. Matthias
Müller (Professor für Medienkunst, Kunsthochschule für Medien, Köln),
Prof. Christian Hübler / Prof. Yvonne Wilhelm (Leitung Neue Medien,
Studiengang Medien & Kunst, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste), Prof.
Ovis Wende (Professur für Kunst im öffentlichen Raum (FB Design), FH
Dortmund), Florian Cramer (Course Director Media Design, Piet Zwart
Institut der Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam), moderated by Dr.
Inke Arns (HMKV Dortmund), PHOENIX Halle Dortmund (6 October 2007)
- Anne Pöhlmann: Walkthrough, solo show of the stipend for media art of the State of NRW 2006, PHOENIX Halle Dortmund (6 - 21 October 2007)
- Euroquast 07, Video/Performance zur Preisverleihung des Euroquast 07, PHOENIX Halle Dortmund (7 October 2007)
- History Will Repeat Itself. Strategien des Reenactment in der zeitgenössischen Kunst,
international exhibition with 23 artists (Guy Ben-Ner IL/D,
Walter Benjamin US, Irina Botea RO, C-Level US, Daniela Comani IT/D,
Jeremy Deller GB, Rod Dickinson GB, Nikolai Evreinov (RU), Omer Fast
IL/D, Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard GB, Heike Gallmeier D, Felix
Gmelin S, Pierre Huyghe F, Evil Knievel US, Zbigniew Libera PL,
Korpys/Loeffler D, Robert Longo US, Tom McCarthy GB, Frédéric Moser /
Philippe Schwinger CH, Collier Schorr US, Tabea Sternberg D, Kerry
Tribe US, T.R. Uthco & Ant Farm US, Artur Zmijewski PL), KW
Institute für Contemporary Art, Berlin (18. November 2007 – 13. January
2008)
- Thomas Köner: Pneuma Monoxyd, solo show organized and hosted by Hartware MedienKunstVerein and the Dortmund
Kunstverein in cooperation with RWE Westfalen-Weser-Ems, Museum
Bochum and Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl (5 December 2007 – 1 February 2008)
- Tom McCarthy (GB): Maybe nothing ever happens and is finished: Re-enactment in Western Literature from Cervantes to Ballard, moderated by Dr. Inke Arns, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (15 December 2007)
2006
In 2006 the activities of HMKV increased in size and velocity: The year kicked off with a grandiose cooperation project between HMKV, Zagreb Cultural Kapital of Europe 3000 and relations, wittily entitled Peripherie 3000. It was the first project in the Ruhr area to deal with the Cultural Capital of Europe 2010 only one day after the announcement that Essen & the Ruhr area would be Cultural Capital of Europe in 2010. This year saw no less than four international media art exhibitions dealing with Glamour and Globalization, Soccer, Media art from the Baltic States, and the artists’ collectives UBERMORGEN and irational. In the context of these exhibitions, HMKV organized performances, workshops (one of them dealing with RFID technology that’s being developed in Dortmund), talks, video screenings, and a series of electronic music events. HMKV hosted the 3rd International Recorder Race (www.rekorderrennen.de) which proved to be an amazingly popular event with almost forty ingenious racing teams (and about six TV crews) participating. It is said that for many people the Irational Action Weekend – consisting, amongst others, of free climbing tours through the inner city of Dortmund – turned out to be the secret highlight of the year.
Here’s a detailed list of all the projects have taken place in 2006:
- Rosa Barba: Printed Cinema, solo exhibition of the media art grant of the State of NRW 2005, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund (9 - 23 April 2006)
- Peripherie 3000 – Strategic Platform for Networked Centers, project in cooperation with Zagreb Cultural Kapital of Europe 3000 and relations, at sissikingkong, domicil, mex at Künstlerhaus, public space, PHOENIX Halle Dortmund (21-23 April 2006)
- Glamour and Globalization. Soccer, Media and Art, international media art exhibition by HMKV with 14 participating artists, PHOENIX Halle Dortmund (4 May – 16 July 2006)
- Fanshop of Globalization. Soccer, Space and Economy, a project by the Federal Center for Civic Education and raumtaktik agency, in front of PHOENIX Halle Dortmund (5-9 May 2006)
- face the unexpected. Media art from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, a cooperation between HMKV and Museum am Ostwall; Museum am Ostwall and PHOENIX Halle Dortmund (14 May - 23 July 2006)
- Solar Radio Station, an Installation by RIXC (Riga) and radioqualia (NZ/AUS/GB/NL), in the framework of the exhibition „mit allem rechnen. Medienkunst aus Estland, Lettland und Litauen“ (20 May – 16 July 2006)
- Elektronik Baltikum: Electronic Music and Visuals from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, organized by Sternschaltung/Dortmund, in the framework of the exhibition „mit allem rechnen. Medienkunst aus Estland, Lettland und Litauen“, Museum am Ostwall (19 May 2006)
- How I learned to love RFID, public lecture series and a workshop, a cooperation between HMKV (Dortmund) and RIXC (Riga), in the framework of the exhibition „mit allem rechnen. Medienkunst aus Estland, Lettland und Litauen“, PHOENIX Halle Dortmund (20-22 May 2006)
- Solar Radio Station – Live Performance, DJ Clausthome (Riga), VJ Martins Ratniks (Riga) performing in r a d i o q u a l i a / RIXC's installation, PHOENIX Halle Dortmund (20 + 21 May 2006)
- UBERMORGEN.COM: ART FID [F]original - Authenticity as Consensual Hallucination, the first solo exhibition of the Swiss-Austrian artists' group, a cooperation between HMKV, Dortmund, plug.in, Basel and overgaden, Copenhagen; PHOENIX Halle Dortmund (27 May – 16 July 2006)
- Elektronik Baltikum: Electronic Music and Visuals from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, organized by Sternschaltung/Dortmund, in the framework of the exhibition „mit allem rechnen. Medienkunst aus Estland, Lettland und Litauen“, PHOENIX Halle Dortmund (27 May 2006)
- Rekorderrennen / Recorder Race 2006, PHOENIX Halle Dortmund (3 June 2006)
- Extraschicht, in front of PHOENIX Halle (17 June 2006); in this context: Marketenderin. Giveaways and Performances, Finissage of the project by Dagmar Lippok (Hagen) – with Klara Hobza/Trish Maud (New York), Anny Öztürk (Frankfurt/Main), Robert Barta (München), Paole Anziché (Frankfurt/Mailand), Jan Jakub Kotik (Prag), Aneta Mona Chisa & Lucie Tcakova (Prag/Bratislava), Yvonne Diefenbach (Wiesbaden), Dagmar Lippok (Hagen), Sandra Mann (Frankfurt/Main)
- Soccer Films: Die Todeself, in cooperation with VHS Dortmund, PHOENIX Halle Dortmund (24 June 2006)
- Soccer Films: Wie der Fußball nach Georgien kam, in cooperation with VHS Dortmund, PHOENIX Halle Dortmund (1 July 2006)
- Short films and videos from the Baltic States (Jaan Toomik, Deimantas Narkevicius, Laila Pakalnina), Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen in cooperation with HMKV and Museum am Ostwall Dortmund (14 / 15 July 2006)
- Awarding of the two grants of the State of NRW for media artists (f) for Anne Pöhlmann (Düsseldorf) and Rena Tangens (Bielefeld) (June 2006)
- The Wonderful World of irational.org. Tools, Techniques and Events 1996-2006, exhibition of the irational collective with Daniel G. Andujar (E), Rachel Baker (GB), Kayle Brandon (GB), Heath Bunting (GB), Minerva Cuevas (MEX), Marcus Valentine (GB) (30 August - 29 October 2006)
- Irational Action Weekend (15-17 September 2006); Show me your OSS, Tour de Fence, International Tree Climbing Day, Superweed Garden, Towards Death, Actions of the Mejor Vida Corporation, 10 years HMKV Party with DJs Irational Soundsystem (Bristol, London, Valencia, Mexico City), HMKV Soundsystem (Copenhagen, Dortmund), Carsten Helmich (Dortmund)
- PHOENIX Safari with Klaus-Juergen Conze, biologist and animal ecologist (Essen) (1 October 2006)
- Handlungsräume der Medienkunst, international workshop (28 October 2006)
- On the Interpretation of Institutionen (kh, hmkv, wkv), talk by Iris Dressler and Hans D. Christ (28 October 2006)
2005
In 2005, two major international media art exhibitions took place in the spectacular venue of PHOENIX Halle Dortmund, a former steel production plant: Dispersed Moments of Concentration. Urban and Digital Spaces, and On Disappearance - Loss of World, Escaping from the World. Additionally, HMKV at PHOENIX Halle hosted various accompanying video screenings, a festival for electronic pop culture, a one-day symposium on the perspectives of net art and the 4th International Readme Festival on Software Art and Culture (Readme100: Temporary Software Art Factory). In 2005, several catalogues were published by HMKV.
Here’s a detailed list of all the projects have taken place in 2005:
- Dispersed Moments of Concentration. Urban and Digital Spaces (May-July 2005), international media art exhibition featuring 12 artists, HMKV at PHOENIX Halle Dortmund
- Dispersed Moments of Concentration. Urban and Digital Spaces, video program during four weekends (June - July 2005), HMKV at PHOENIX Halle Dortmund
- ubermorgen: (F)original - Authenticity as Consensual Hallucination,
collaborative project with (plug.in), Basel and overgaden/artnode,
Copenhagen; solo exhibition of the artists' group ubermorgen at
(plug.in) during the ArtBasel, June 2005 (follow-up project scheduled
for Dortmund in 2006)
- Perspektiven der Netzkunst / Perpectives of Net Art, one-day symposium with Cornelia Sollfrank, Matthias Weiss, Golo Föllmer, July 17, 2005
- On Disappearance - Loss of World, Escaping from the World, international media art exhibition featuring 17 artists, HMKV at PHOENIX Halle Dortmund
- Unbestimmtes Gelände / Terrain Vague,
catalogue presentation, "plant archaeology" - botanical tour of the
PHOENIX area, panel discussion, film programme (Oct 14/15, 2005)
- Klangraum PHOENIX 05, Festival for Electronic Pop Culture, organised by sternschaltung & klangkabel, HMKV at PHOENIX Halle Dortmund (Oct 21/22, 2005)
- Readme100: Temporary Software Art Factory (4th International Readme Festival on Software Art and Culture, HMKV at City and State Library Dortmund (Nov 4/5, 2005)
- Re-development of art.net.dortmund (until mid-December 2005); presentation of the overall media art activities of the city of Dortmund between 1995-2005
2003 - 2004
After two years of continuously using the spaces in Guentherstr., the
projects of the Hartware MedienKunstVerein – in the framework of the
medien_kunst_netz dortmund – are taking place again in various
locations. For example, Hartware conceived, curated and realised the
exhibition Muntadas. On Translation: Das Museum for the Museum am
Ostwall. The international conference 404 Object Not Found dealing with
the problems of conserving media art took place in the Westfälisches
Industriemuseum Zeche Zollern II/IV in Dortmund.
Since October
2003 Hartware uses the PhoenixHalle measuring 2200 sqm – the former
spare parts storage on the area of Phoenix West, a former steel mill in
Dortmund-Hörde.
In 2003 and 2004 the exhibitions Games.
Computerspiele von KünstlerInnen (2003), so wie die dinge liegen and
the Nam June Paik Award (both 2004) took place here.
2001 - 2002
In 2001 and 2002 Hartware mainly used the 400 sqm large space of the
Center for Music and Culture of Dortmund located in Guentherstr. 65. An
annual program was conceived which included exhibitions, film and video
programs, conferences and workshops for teenagers.
External
curators, networks like the serverfestival and associations like MeX
(association for intermedia and experimental music) were invited to
present their projects.
Beyond that, students of the
University of Applied Sciences (FH) and the University of Dortmund were
invited to use the space for presenting their diploma works.
Parallel to the annual program in Guentherstr. Hartware curated several exhibitions in Duisburg, Amsterdam and Copenhague.
In cooperation with the artist Daniel Garcìa Andùjar Hartware MedienKunstVerein initiated the net art platform art.net.dortmund.de in 2001 which was commissioned by the city of Dortmund.
Another network which was co-founded by Hartware in 2001 is the Medienwerk NRW which consists of several NRW-based institutions dealing with media art and cultures.
On the local level the medien_kunst_netz dortmund was formed in 2001,
which consists of the Hartware MedienKunstVerein, the Museum am
Ostwall, the Cultural Office of the City of Dortmund and the University
of Dortmund. The aim of this network is to strengthen the structures
for media art in Dortmund.
1998-2000
In 1998 Hartware MedienKunstVerein organised and curated the much
acclaimed international media art exhibition Reservate der Sehnsucht in
the so-called „U“ – the former Union brewery in Dortmund. Until 2000
the exhibitions and events organised by the Hartware MedienKunstVerein
took place in different locations, such as the German Museum for
Occupational Safety (DASA), the abandoned Union brewery or empty
buildings in the center of Dortmund.
1996
The hartware medien kunst verein (since 2005: Hartware
MedienKunstVerein) was founded in Dortmund/Germany in 1996 by the
curators Iris Dressler and Hans D. Christ.
Hartware is conceived as an open platform for the production,
presentation, and the discourse of contemporary art, and especially
media art.
Hartware works in regional as well as international networks and
organises exhibitions, film and video screenings as well as workshops
and conferences. The association also supports the production of new
works. In addition to this, since the year 2000 Hartware organises the
grant for women media artists from North Rhine Westfalia, initiated by
the Ministry for Urban Development, Housing, Culture and Sport of North
Rhine-Westfalia.
The curatorial activities of Hartware MedienKunstVerein are focused on
international group exhibitions which deal with different topics of
media art. The intersections between media art and other forms of
contemporary art production play an essential role in this context.
