Hartware Medienkunstverein

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The Hartware Medienkunstverein ( HMKV ; spelling: Hartware MedienKunstVerein ) is a registered association that is dedicated to the production, presentation and communication of contemporary media art . In addition to international thematic group exhibitions and experimental solo exhibitions, the HMKV program also includes film, video, music and performance programs, workshops, lectures and conferences. The focus is on projects that use artistic means to deal with current social, political, economic or ecological contexts.

The HMKV was founded in 1996 by the curators Iris Dressler, Hans D. Christ and Jan-Peter ER Sonntag in Dortmund . Since 2005 it has been led by Inke Arns (artistic director). Susanne Ackers was managing director from 2005 to 2010. In 2010 Frauke Hoffschulte took over the management.

history

Numerous international media art exhibitions and events have taken place since the association was founded. For example, in 1998 the exhibition “Reserves of Longing” in the former Union brewery in the city center of Dortmund. This gave rise to the idea of ​​converting the former brewery cooling tower into the Dortmund U - Center for Art and Creativity, which was opened in May 2010 as part of the RUHR.2010 - European Capital of Culture . Since then, the Dortmunder U has been the main venue for the HMKV's program of exhibitions and events in Dortmund.

2000 to 2009

After an exhibition project in Dortmund's public space (“Plan B - Art Space City”), Hartware curated projects in Rotterdam, Duisburg, Amsterdam and Copenhagen in 2000 and 2001. From 2001 to 2002 various exhibitions took place in the 400 m² exhibition space on Güntherstrasse in Dortmund. B. “Control fields” (2002). At the beginning of 2003, the HMKV showed the first comprehensive international retrospective of the Spanish media artist Antoni Muntadas , who was awarded the Spanish National Prize in 2005, in the Dortmund Museum on Ostwall . In 2004 the exhibition "games" (2003), sponsored by the Kunststiftung NRW and the Kulturstiftung des Bundes, was awarded the innovation prize of the Socioculture Fund. The German section of the international art critic association AICA described "games" as a "special exhibition of the year 2003" in addition to the exhibition Art in the GDR in the New National Gallery in Berlin.

From 2003 to 2010 many exhibitions were shown in the 2,200 m² Phoenix Hall built in 1895 , including a. 2004 the “Nam June Paik Award” of the Kunststiftung NRW (2004), “vom Verschorben” (2005), “reckon with everything” (2006, together with the Museum am Ostwall), “The Wonderful World of irational.org” (2006 ), “History Will Repeat Itself” (2007), “Anna Kournikova… Art in the Age of Intellectual Property” (2008) and “Only the ghosts are awake” (2009).

The Phoenixhalle in Dortmund-Hörde, September 2007

2010 to 2012

Since May 2010 the exhibitions of the Hartware Medienkunstverein have been on view on the third floor of the Dortmunder U, the former fermentation and storage tower of the Dortmund Union brewery. In alternation with other institutions, the changing exhibition area on the sixth floor is also used for large-scale exhibition projects.

With “Agents & Provocateurs” the HMKV opened the first exhibition in the new Dortmund U in mid-May - two weeks before the official opening. Other exhibitions in the Dortmunder U were “Building Memory” and “inter-cool 3.0”. The exhibition "Arctic Perspective" in the Phoenixhalle, funded by the European Commission, was named one of the "Best Exhibitions 2010" by the American art magazine Artforum . At the same time, Arctic Perspective was the (for the time being) last event of the HMKV in the Phoenixhalle.

As part of ISEA2010 RUHR, the exhibition "Electronic Atmospheres" took place in the Museum for Art and Cultural History Dortmund and other locations in the city. Internationally, in 2010 the HMKV presented the exhibitions “Only the Spirits are Awake” (Poland) and “Building Memory” in Łodz (Poland) and Tel Aviv (Israel).

The HMKV also organized four international conferences: the ISEA2010 RUHR, the “16th International Symposium on Electronic Art” in Essen, Dortmund and Duisburg, the “E-Culture Fair” in the Dortmunder U, “Satellite / Border / Footprint” as part of “ GrenzGebiete Ruhr ”and the“ Arctic Perspective Open Space Conference ”in the Phoenixhalle Dortmund. In addition, the HMKV offered numerous workshops for children and young people with media artists and photographers.

In 2011, the HMKV received the annual sponsorship award for art associations of the Kunststiftung NRW for its achievements in the production, presentation and communication of contemporary (media) art.

With “Barbara Breitenfellner: Dream of an Exhibition”, a solo presentation by a young artist was shown on the third floor of the Dortmunder U for the first time.

The “Gone to Croatan” project, in cooperation with the Center of Contemporary Art “Znaki Czasu” from Toruń (Poland), continued the tradition of large international group exhibitions and provided the first display of the temporary exhibition area of ​​the Dortmunder U (6th floor) by the HMKV The “Japan Media Arts Festival” and the “Proto Anime Cut” show from July to October were a thematic focus within the HMKV 2011 program. In November 2011, the HMKV, in cooperation with the Kulturstiftung des Bundes and Suhrkamp-Verlag, presented fifteen contemporary artistic positions as part of the international group exhibition "The Oil Show", which dealt with the geopolitical, social and ecological consequences of dependence on oil. The exhibition was accompanied by a supporting program with film screenings, workshops, artist talks and a multimedia discussion event.

The HMKV program in 2012 initially includes three solo exhibitions by the British artist Suzanne Treister ("HEXEN 2.0"), the German artist Francis Hunger ("History has left the building") and the Polish artist Artur Zmijewski ("Democracies"). ). In August the international group exhibition “Sounds like Silence” opened on two floors. On the occasion of the 100th birthday of John Cage and the 60th anniversary of the world premiere of his famous "silent piece", the exhibition was dedicated to Cage's work as a starting point and showed 40 contemporary and current artistic and musical references to 4'33 ″ and those that deal with more general questions of sound ecology. There was an event program in the context of the exhibition. In addition, the publication of the same name "Sounds Like Silence" was published, which contains theoretical essays and artistic works that relate to the work of John Cage. The book also includes scores and variations by the composer, versions, derivatives and updates of the “silent piece” from 1962 to 1992.

The Dortmunder U: The HMKV uses the 3rd floor

2013 to 2015

The year 2013 began the HMKV with the solo exhibition Eran Schaerf's “fm-scenario”, in order to then dedicate itself to the performativity of voice and language in the international show “His Master’s Voice” curated by Inke Arns.

From September 2013 to March 2014 the "New Industries Festival" initiated by the HMKV took place in the Dortmunder U. It dealt with the past and the future of industry. In this context, HMKV organized the exhibitions “Requiem for a Bank” and “INDUSTRIAL (Research)”. In Sunday matinées, guests were invited to put on records with commentary, to artist talks, lectures and film screenings on the subject of industrial. Three performance projects realized with Urbane Künste Ruhr by machina eX, Invisible Playground and Jens Heitjohann played on and explored urban spaces in Dortmund's Unionviertel , the immediate vicinity of the Dortmunder U. The HMKV festival program concluded in January with a film program curated by Florian Wüst and the interdisciplinary New Industries conference entitled “Money and Debt in the Post-Industrial World”.

In 2014, a new format found its way into the HMKV program: parallel to the temporary exhibitions, current video works by international artists have been presented on a monthly basis in the “Video of the Month” series since March 2014.

With "World of Matter" an international research, exhibition and web project was hosted by HMKV, which deals with the global interrelationships of raw materials and their complex ecologies and, following the exhibition in the Dortmund U, to partner institutions in New York, Montreal , Minneapolis and Stockholm wandered on.

Two HMKV exhibitions are dedicated to current and historical phenomena of net culture: “Now I help myself” brought together the best video tutorials from the net in the exhibition room on 100 monitors and projections. From July 2015 the follow-up project "Digital Folklore" was on view.

"Bad Clowns" brought together international positions from contemporary art and pop culture on the uncanny facets of clowns. With the participation of Dortmund citizens, the video work “The Village's Biggest Loser” by Abner Preis was created in the exhibition rooms of the HMKV, and a new work by the net artist Constant Dullaart was commissioned in coproduction with the media art center Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris.

With the exhibition "The Mechanical Corps", a takeover from Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin) , the HMKV set out in spring 2015 on the trail of Jules Verne and the steampunk aesthetic.

Networks

The HMKV was involved in the founding of various networks in Dortmund and North Rhine-Westphalia : The Medienwerk NRW, to which various institutions from NRW that deal with media art and cultures have come together, has existed since 2001 and has had its office since 2006 located at the HMKV. Another network that HMKV was involved in in 2001 was the “medien_kunst_netz dortmund”, an amalgamation of the cultural office of the city of Dortmund, the University of Dortmund , the Museum am Ostwall and the HMKV, which had set itself the goal of creating the infrastructure for To strengthen media art in Dortmund. The HMKV is also actively involved in the state of NRW through its participation in various funding bodies in the state with which young artists are promoted (promotion of young artists from the Kunststiftung NRW; sponsorship award of the state of NRW in the field of media art) and through the support of the state of NRW scholarship for media artists from NRW Cultural policy of the country.

Awards

  • 2003: "Special exhibition" for games (AICA)
  • 2010: "Best exhibition" for Arctic Perspective (Artforum)
  • 2011: JUMP annual sponsorship award for art associations from the Kunststiftung NRW
  • 2012: "Special Exhibition" for Sounds Like Silence (AICA)
  • 2013: ADKV-ART COLOGNE Prize for art associations: Honorable recognition
  • 2017: ADKV-ART COLOGNE Prize for art associations

Exhibitions 2005–2018

  • Computer Grrrls in memoriam Nathalie Magnan , Oct 27, 2018 - Feb 24, 2019
  • Storming the Winter Palace - Forensics of an image , until April 8, 2018.
  • Afro-Tech and the Future of Re-Invention , Dortmunder U, October 21, 2017 - April 22, 2018.
  • Hito Steyerl: Factory of the Sun , Dortmunder U, June 5, 2016 - August 28, 2016.
  • Whistleblowers & vigilantes. Figures of digital resistance , Dortmunder U, April 9, 2016 - August 14, 2016.
  • (Artificial Intelligence) Digital Dementia , Dortmunder U, November 14, 2015 - March 6, 2016.
  • Digital folklore , Dortmunder U, July 25, 2015 - September 27, 2015.
  • The Mechanical Corps. In the footsteps of Jules Verne , Dortmunder U, April 11, 2015 - July 12, 2015.
  • BER-DTM-HNL - Fast your seatbelts! , Dortmunder U, December 4, 2014 - January 11, 2015.
  • Evil clowns , Dortmunder U, September 27, 2014 - March 8, 2015.
  • Now I'm helping myself - The 100 best video tutorials from the net , Dortmunder U, July 5, 2014 - August 31, 2014
  • World of Matter - About the global ecologies of raw materials , Dortmunder U, March 1, 2014 - June 22, 2014
  • Axel Braun - In favor of a society of tomorrow, for which we are already building today , Dortmunder U, September 14, 2013 - January 26, 2014
  • Requiem for a bank , Dortmunder U, September 14, 2013 - January 26, 2014
  • INDUSTRIAL (Research) - Research Department , Dortmunder U, September 14, 2013 - January 26, 2014
  • HIS MASTER'S VOICE: Of Voice and Language , Dortmunder U, March 23, 2013 - July 28, 2013
  • Eran Schaerf: fm-scenario - broadcast language - covert operation - announcement - error , Dortmunder U, February 16, 2013 - April 1, 2013
  • Sounds like Silence (Cage - 4'33 ″ - Stille / 1912 - 1952 - 2012) , Dortmunder U, August 25, 2012 - January 6, 2013
  • Francis Hunger: History has left the Building , Dortmunder U, April 21, 2012 - July 22, 2012
  • Artur Zmijewski: Democracies , Dortmunder U, April 21, 2012 - July 22, 2012
  • Suzanne Treister: HEXEN 2.0 , Dortmunder U, April 21, 2012 - July 22, 2012
  • Kerstin Ergenzinger: Rotes Rauschen , Dortmunder U, January 28, 2012 - February 19, 2012
  • The Oil Show , Dortmunder U, November 12, 2011 - March 18, 2012
  • Japan Media Arts Festival , Dortmunder U, September 10, 2011 - October 2, 2011
  • Proto Anime Cut - Spaces and Visions in Japanese Animated Film , Dortmunder U, July 9, 2011 - October 9, 2011
  • Gone to Croatan - Strategies of Disappearance , Dortmunder U, June 4, 2011 - August 14, 2011
  • Barbara Breitenfellner: Dream of an Exhibition , Dortmunder U, March 12, 2011 - June 5, 2011
  • Inter-cool 3.0: Jugend Bild Medien , Dortmunder U, September 17, 2010 - November 28, 2010
  • ISEA2010 Ruhr - "Electronic Atmospheres" , Museum for Art and Cultural History, August 19, 2010 - September 5, 2010
  • TRUST , Dortmunder U, July 30, 2010 - September 5, 2010
  • Arctic Perspective , Phoenixhalle Dortmund, June 18, 2010 - October 10, 2010
  • Building Memory - Four films about architecture, monuments and community , Dortmunder U, May 29, 2010 - August 15, 2010
  • Agents & Provocateurs , Dortmunder U, May 14, 2010 - July 18, 2010
  • Martin Brand: Eyes Wide Shut , Dortmunder Kunstverein, Hansastr. December 4, 2008 - February 1, 2009
  • "Only the ghosts are awake" - About ghosts and their media , Phoenixhalle Dortmund, May 16 - October 18, 2009
  • Anna Kournikova Deleted By Memeright Trusted System - Art in the Age of Intellectual Property , Phoenixhalle Dortmund, July 19 - October 19, 2008
  • Waves - The Art of the Electromagnetic Society , Phoenixhalle Dortmund, May 10 - June 29, 2008
  • Thomas Köner : PNEUMA MONOXYD , Dortmunder Kunstverein and foyer of RWE Westfalen-Weser-Ems AG, Dortmund, Dec. 5, 2007 - Feb. 1, 2008
  • History will repeat itself. Strategies of reenactment in contemporary (media) art and performance , Phoenixhalle Dortmund: June 9 - September 23, 2007
  • The Wonderful World of irational.org: Tools, Techniques and Events 1996-2006 , Phoenixhalle Dortmund, August 30th - October 29th, 2006
  • Glamor and globalization: football, media and art , Phoenixhalle Dortmund, May 5 - July 16, 2006
  • Expect everything. Media art from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania , Museum am Ostwall, May 16 - July 23, 2006
  • From disappearing. World losses and escapes from the world , Phoenixhalle Dortmund, Aug. 27 - Oct. 30, 2005
  • Scattered moments of concentration. Urban and digital spaces , Phoenixhalle Dortmund, 14 May - 17 July 2005

literature

Publications of the HMKV
  • Inke Arns: World of Matter , Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Sternberg Press, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-956790-83-6
  • Inke Arns, Thibaut de Ruyter: INDUSTRIAL (Research) , Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Revolver Publishing by VVV, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-95763-111-4
  • Fabian Saavedra-Lara: Requiem for a bank , Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Verlag Kettler, Bönen 2014, ISBN 978-3-86206-361-1
  • Axel Braun, Fabian Saavedra-Lara: Axel Braun - In favor of a society of tomorrow that we are building today , Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Verlag Kettler, Bönen 2013, ISBN 978-3-86206-330-7
  • Inke Arns: HIS MASTERS`S VOICE , Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Verlag Kettler, Bönen 2013, ISBN 978-3-86206-279-9
  • Inke Arns, Thibaut de Ruyter: INDUSTRIAL on Tour , Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Revolver Publishing by VVV, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86895-276-6
  • Inke Arns, Dieter Daniels: Sounds Like Silence , Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Spector Books, Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3-940064-41-7
  • Inke Arns, Dieter Daniels: CD - Sounds Like Silence , Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Gruenrekorder 2012, ISBN Gruen 116 / LC 09488
  • Inke Arns: History has left the building , Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Spector Books, Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3 940064-50-9
  • Inke Arns, Daniel Muzyczuk, Robert Rumas: Gone To Croatan , Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Revolver Publishing by VVV, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86895-188-2
  • Inke Arns: THE OIL SHOW , Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Revolver Publishing by VVV, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86895-189-9
  • Stefan Riekeles for HMKV, Bunka-cho: Japan Media Arts Festival Dortmund 2011 , Hartware MedienKunstVerein, 2011
  • Stefan Riekeles (Les Jardins des Pilotes): Proto Anime Cut Archive , Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86828-253-5
  • Inke Arns, Barbara Breitenfellner: Barbara Breitenfellner: Dream of an Exhibition , Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Revolver Publishing by VVV 2011, ISBN 978-3-86895-157-8
  • HMKV, Satellite, Border, Footprint , Hartware MedienKunstVerein, 2011
  • Michael Bravo, Nicola Triscott; Series Editors: Inke Arns, Matthew Biederman, Marko Peljhan , Nicola Triscott: Arctic Perspective Cahier No. 2: Arctic Geopolitics & Autonomy , Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, Dec. 2010, ISBN 978-3-7757-2681-8
  • Hartware MedienKunstVerein: E-Culture Fair 2010 , Hartware MedienKunstVerein
  • Andreas Müller; Series Editors: Inke Arns, Matthew Biederman, Marko Peljhan, Nicola Triscott: Arctic Perspective Cahier No. 1: Architecture , Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7757-2679-5
  • Andreas Broeckmann, Stefan Riekeles, Thomas Munz: TRUST , Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86828-158-3
  • Stefan Riekeles, Andreas Brockmann: ISEA2010 RUHR Exhibition Exhibition , Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86828-157-6
  • Judith Funke, Stefan Riekeles, Andreas Broeckmann: ISEA2010 RUHR Conference Proceedings , Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Revolver Publishing by VVV, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86895-103-5
  • Inke Arns, Thibaut de Ruyter: Only the ghosts are awake - About ghosts and their media. Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Revolver Publishing by VVV, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86895-041-0
  • Inke Arns, Francis Hunger: Anna Kournikova Deleted By Memeright Trusted System - Art in the Age of Intellectual Property. Hartware MedienKunstVerein, DruckVerlag Kettler, Bönen / Westphalia 2008, ISBN 978-3-941100-26-8
  • Armin Medosch, Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits, Inke Arns: Waves - The Art of the Electromagnetic Society. Hartware MedienKunstVerein, DruckVerlag Kettler, Bönen / Westphalia 2008, ISBN 978-3-941100-00-8
  • Susanne Ackers, Inke Arns, Hans D. Christ, Iris Dressler: HMKV Hartware MedienKunstVerein 1996-2008. Hartware MedienKunstVerein, DruckVerlag Kettler, Bönen / Westphalia 2008, ISBN 978-3-939825-90-6
  • Susanne Ackers, Inke Arns, Christoph Kivelitz, Thomas Köner: PNEUMA MONOXYD - Thomas Köner. Revolver Publishing by VVV, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-938847-11
  • Inke Arns, Gabriele Horn: History Will Repeat Itself. Strategies of reenactment in contemporary (media) art and performance. Dortmund and KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Revolver Publishing by VVV, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86588-402-2
  • Susanne Ackers, Inke Arns, Francis Hunger, Jacob Lillemose: The Hartware Guide to irational Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Revolver Publishing by VVV, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-86588-299-4
  • Susanne Ackers, Darija Simunovic: Peripherie 3000 - Strategic platform for networked centers. Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Revolver Publishing by VVV, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-86588-364-8
  • Inke Arns, Kurt Wettengl: “ Reckon with everything” Media art from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania. Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Revolver Publishing by VVV, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-86588-253-6
  • Inke Arns, Ute Vorkoeper: About the disappearance. World losses and escapes. Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Revolver Publishing by VVV, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-86588-173-4
  • Scattered moments of concentration , Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Revolver Publishing by VVV, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-86588-125-4
  • Nam June Paik Award 2004 , Kunststiftung NRW, medien_kunst_netz Dortmund, Revolver Publishing by VVV, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-86588-005-3
  • The way things are. scene: Schweiz in NRW , Hartware MedienKunstVerein, medien_kunst_netz Dortmund, Revolver Publishing by VVV, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-937577-63-7
  • Tilman Baumgärtel: Games. Computer games by artists , Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Revolver Publishing by VVV, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-936919-77-1
  • Reserves der Sehnsucht , Kulturbüro Stadt Dortmund, Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Kultur Ruhr GmbH, Klartext Verlag, Essen 1998, ISBN 3-88474-697-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In 2017 the ADKV-ART COLOGNE Prize for Art Associations in Dortmund went to the Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV). Press release of April 12, 2017. Accessed on May 16, 2017.