Phenomenal Science & Art Festival
The Science & Art Festival Phaenomenale is a Wolfsburg- based festival that is dedicated to the connections between science, communication, art and music.
History of the Phenomenals
In 2007 the festival emerged from a cooperation between the Kunstverein Wolfsburg and Phæno . Various, changing cooperation partners were added later, such as B. the cultural work of the city of Wolfsburg. The festival events take place at various locations within the city. The festival was held annually until 2012; from 2013 it will be continued as a biennial. The event program aims to convey a changing main topic with current, socially relevant reference as comprehensively as possible. The festival works with various research institutions such as the ZKM Karlsruhe, the Technical University of Braunschweig, as well as internationally renowned artists such as B. Karl Bartos, Harun Farocki together. In 2013 the “Social Media Art Award”, endowed with € 10,000, was presented for the first time as part of the Phenomenale. This award is given to an artist for an artistic work that is based on activities in social networks or reflects and comments on these forms of communication and the production of meaning. In 2015, prizes were awarded in two categories: the Social Media Art Award and the Human Interface Award. Both prizes were each endowed with € 5,000.
The phenomenal
The topics of the last few years were:
- Phenomenal 07: Machines for everyone , including with Karl Bartos , robotlab , Katharina Sykora , Olav Val , Robert Pfaller , Anton Kaun , Lynne Marsh , Martin Gretschmann , Stelarc , Peter Fromherz , Robots In Disguise , Claus Pias , Jodi
- Phaenomenale 08: Things in motion with, among others: The Doors , Dennis Graef , Norman Tuck , Alexander Laner , Jacques Palminger , Thomas Bartels , Oliver Grau , Frau Kraushaar , Arthur Ganson , Nova Huta , Clemens Schwender
- Phenomenal 09: Dream ship spaceship with, among others: Die Sterne , Sonja Rohde , raumlaborberlin , Mars Patent , DJ Mooner , Hubert Zitt , Guy Allott , Mariko Mori , Rolf Nohr , Annette Tietenberg
- Phenomenal 10: Risk Unlimited? with among others: Harun Farocki , PeterLicht , Theater Aspik , Kathrin Röggla , Max Müller, Susanne Prinz , Stefan Hölscher , Rik Reinking , Andreas Bee
- Phenomenal 11: New friends, new enemies. The digital world: threat or opportunity? , among others with Philipp Geist , Hans-Dieter Huber , Adrian Sauer , Timm Rautert , Sascha Lobo , Aram Bartholl , Matthias Fritsch
- Phenomenal 13: Everyone is an inventor with Luther Blissett , Hans Scheirl , ricoloop , Puppetmastaz, among others
- Phaenomenale 15: The Secret, with Markus Beckedahl , Florian Mehnert , Aram Bartholl , Marc Lee , Scenocosme , Sebastian Schmieg and Silvio Larusso , among others
- Phaenomenale 17: Play - The world is playing, we are playing the world, including Petra Fröhlich , Prof. Dr. Angela Schwarz , Dr. Reiner Knizia , Dmitrij Kapitelman
Web links
- Phenomenal website
- Helmut Merschmann: Festival Phenomenal game console as a wooden toy . In: Spiegel Online (2007)
- Bettina Maria Brosowsky: New Media Festival Phaenomenale. The digital province . In: taz.de (2011)