Critical Art Ensemble
The Critical Art Ensemble (CAE) is a collective of five media-critical artists founded in the United States in 1987 by Steve Kurtz and Dorian Burr .
Works
Her public art , computer art , films, videos, research and publications overlap with scientific and political research and the development of critical theories on media and society with a focus on the criticism of modern technologies. Artistic events and theoretical presentations are combined with political actions such as the "Electronic Civil Disobedience". Numerous campaigns and publications deal with different areas of "tactical media" and biotechnology as well as genetic engineering . In doing so, they develop various forms of civil disobedience .
In Germany they are known for their publications on civil disobedience to electronic media, for an exhibition in the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt and for their publications “Molecular Invasions” on biotechnology and genetic engineering.
Exhibitions (incomplete)
- 1996 2nd Austrian Triennial on Photography, Graz
- 1998 Montreal Biennial
- 2003 Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
- 2004 apexart, New York
- 2005 Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin; Play - gallery for still and motion pictures, Berlin
- 2006 Whitney Biennale 2006 Whitney Museum, New York
- 2007 HALLE 14 , Leipzig: Germs of Deception
Publications
- 1997: The Electronic Disturbance
- 1998: Electronic Civil Disobedience & Other Unpopular Ideas
- 1998: Flesh Machine; Cyborgs, designer babies, eugenic conscousness
- 2001: Digital Resistance: Explorations in Tactical Media
- 2002: Molecular Invasion
- 2006: Marching Plague: Germ Warfare and Global Public Health
Publications in German
- Critical Art Ensemble: ELECTRONIC CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE. In: Nettime (ed.) / Netzkritik. (Edition ID archive). Berlin, 1997
- Critical Art Ensemble: The Molecular Invasion. Strategies against biotechnology in globalized capitalism. Translation by Oliver Leistert. Münster 2006. ISBN 3-89771-445-0
- Critical Art Ensemble: Cyborgs & Designer Babies. Flesh Machine: The biotechnological revolution (translated by Johanna Hofleitner). Passagen Verlag , Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-85165-315-7
- Critical Art Ensemble: Electronic Resistance . 1st edition. Passagen Verlag, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-85165-366-3 ( book preview at Libreka ).
literature
- Inke Arns, »Social Technologies«, in: The Open City - Application Models. Annual program of the Zollverein coking plant, Essen 2003.