public lectures: Sat, May 20, 2006 / 10 am. - 6 pm. at PHOENIX Halle - in English - Admission: 4 Euro, reduced 2 Euro (including admission for the exhibition "Glamour and Globalization" and "Solar Radio Station") The series of lectures brings together approaches and projects that artistically and critically deal with Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Technology – a technology that is significantly being developed and advanced by companies and research institutes in Dortmund. This technology which at first glance seems to be a simple further development of the bar code (well known from the supermarket) is much more powerful that the good old bar code technology. RFID tags are passive radio transmitters, which upon receiving a minor wireless energy impulse are sending back the information stored on their memory. Today, this information can be read already at a distance of six meters – without the process getting noticed. In addition, with its unique identification numbering system, this technology will allow for a precise identification of every object worldwide. What will it be like to live in a world where all the objects constantly will be talking to each other?

Doors open 20:00 in cooperation with HMKV and Museum am Ostwall, in the framework of the exhibitions "face the unexpected. Media art from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania", "Glamour and Globalization", "Solar Radio Station" and "UBERMORGEN.COM" DJ Walkman (Lit), Mirage (Lat), Joel Tammik (Est) Kriipis Tulo (Lat), Fusedmarc (Lit), VJ No_Joy, VJ Tencu, VJ Wickies, VJ Syrtha

at Sissikingkong, domicil, Künstlerhaus, PHOENIX Halle Dortmund, 21.-23. April 2006 Together with the Ruhr Region, Essen is bidding to be named European Capital of Culture for 2010. But why? The essential things, so the project Periphery 3000 – Strategic Platform for Networked Centers, no longer take place in the national capitals but, for some time now, wherever peripheral positions facilitate a perspective on social and cultural foundations. The periphery, and not the center, is a position of productive uncertainty.

Klangraum Phoenix, the event for electronic pop culture at the Dortmund Phoenix Halle, is presented now for the second time after its successful edition in Mai 2004. This time Klangkabel and Sternschaltung in cooperation with the Hartware Medienkunstverein present a compact festival weekend with a rich program consisting of DJs, electronic live-acts and visuals. The two evenings reflect the interplay of men and machine on different levels.

FRIDAY, July 8, 2005, 8 p.m. Hartware MedienKunstVerein in the PHOENIX Halle Dortmund Sound - Space - City A Film and Audio Program Part 1: City Sound / City Image curated by Dieter Daniels (HGB Leipzig) Duration: ca. 130 min. Films, audio pieces and manifestoes in which the city becomes the protagonist. Predecessors of contemporary audio art are presented as an audio visual program of the early avant-garde - with a prospect on the video camcorder revolution.

FRIDAY, July 1, 2005, 8 p.m. corporate world videos by Daniel Pflumm (D/CH) Curated by Inke Arns (Hartware, Dortmund) Hartware MedienKunstVerein in the PHOENIX Halle Dortmund Duration: 97 min. Daniel Pflumm (CH/D, *1968) operates with the beautiful veneer of glossy surfaces: He removes logos and advertising clips from their context, dissects them into their structural elements - he eliminates all text or rasterises it until it become unrecognizable -, and creates with them endless video loops of an almost unbearable fast pace. His videos thus reconstruct the corporate world to form new (anti-) narratives. The programme collects the most important video works by Daniel Pflumm which have been created between 1998 and 2004. In the show, three works by Daniel Pflumm are exhibited (among them: "Paris", 2004, 24 min.).

A selected video program takes place during the exhibiton "Verstreute Momente der Konzentration" on the weekends (24./25.Jun 1./2.Jul 8./9.Jul 15./16.Jul) at 8 p.m. at the PhoenixHalle Dortmund.

"Heimatwechsel" is an interdisciplinary 4-week workshop for students specialising in the areas of design, visual communication, art, media and culture sciences. The tutors of the workshop are three internationally renowned artists from the USA, Spain and Germany: Antoni Muntadas, Daniel García Andújar and Bettina Lockemann.

A performative Installation for three-channel high-solution digital video, two-channel digital sound and two actors