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13.07.10 | 10:15 – Congratulations to Freya Hattenberger!!! Her work „Videorêve“ was nominated to win the Mediartwork- & and audio prize called “Techno fossil”

The Bayrischer Rundfunk BR (public TV and radio station) iniciated this new competion dedicated to media of communication that usually disappear behind of what they express: music, sounds, pictures. «Techno fossil» is concentrated on artfacts that are not created by the artist but by the machine itself. What happens when the machine refuses working properly?
Distorted pictures, noisy sounds, diffuse and disparate signals testify

to the independent existence of the old apparatus. By using…

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09.07.10 | 13:20 – Swimming artwork in the North of France

The french artist, Elsa Tomkowiak, is participant of this year’s first art-festival «Imaginez maintenant» (1st-4th of July 2010) in Amiens. Her new installation «structure flottante» – «floating sculpture» is flexible and moves day by day to a different place of the hortillonages – beautiful floating gardens in the Picardy region of France.
The artist planed to show her colourful artwork till the end of Summer 2010. http://www.imaginezmaintenant.com/fr-a…… read more

07.07.10 | 16:24 – How does it feel to be kissed by winter in summer?

«Sommerfrische» // «summer breeze» is the title of a new project showing artistic interventions in the outside of Düsseldorf (D).
The artist, Heike Weber, build a snowman (in summer) out of 2,5 tons of artificial snow. Time by time the little 2,80 meter white man began to melt, all what remains after his existence is reminiscence.

The intervention «Sommerfrische» refers to the vanitas theme: the transient nature of earthly life. In the Arts common vanitas symbols include skulls, which are a reminder… read more

05.07.10 | 11:01 – One of our partner-institutions in North Rhine Westphalia: The Städtische Museum Abteiberg in Mönchengladbach (D)

In 1972 the famous Austrian architect Hans Hollein designed the Museum Abteiberg in close cooperation with the museum director of the time Johannes Cladders. The establishment for modern and contemporary art was opened in 1982. It led the great boom in new museum buildings of the 1980s and 1990s and set standards in every respect. Johannes Cladders implemented an internationally sensational exhibition programme featuring: Hans Arp, Joseph Beuys, Daniel Buren, Marcel Broodthaers, Hanne Darboven,…

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