Must-See Art Exhibitions in Zurich, Basel and Karlsruhe in museums that shape the scene of digital art!
Here is a list of 3 museums that shape the scene of digital art through their shows, commissions and acquisitions, as well as the promotion of innovative methods of curation and new forms of display and interaction with the public.
If you are currently in Europe or planning a trip to any above cities, make sure not to miss these cool art exhibitions!
Raven Kwok @ MUDA in Zürich, Mar 7, 2020 – Jul 19, 2020
Artist, animator and programmer, Raven Kwok researches aesthetics generated by algorithms and software processes.
Flying in all the way from Shanghai, artist and metal music lover Raven Kwok will give an exclusive guided tour through his wonderful exhibition at the Opening event on Mar 7, 2020 at 17:00!
Inspired by the likes of Yugo Nakamura and Eric Jordan, he taught himself how to program in ActionScript and started to create Flash animations in his teens. In 2008, Raven was introduced to Processing, which would become his preferred tool to build intricately layered systems.
In his first solo-show in Europe, the 30-year-old artist will display six mostly interactive installations alongside algorithmically generated objects.
More info can be found at the following link: https://muda.co/ravenkwok/
Algorithmic experiment on Inkee Wang’s Spaghetti
bauhaus.film.expanded @ ZKM | Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, 08.02.2020 - 17.05.2020
The exhibition »bauhaus.film.expanded« takes up the idea of total theater, which Bauhaus director Walter Gropius had designed for Erwin Piscator in 1926/1927. With the help of more than a dozen film projectors, he intended to »set the space under film«.
Such multiple projections on different screens contain the visionary idea of extended forms of films. The projection in the cinema hall is 'extended' and enables immersion in a virtual, cinematic environment. The exhibition »bauhaus.film.expanded« uses large-scale projections to experience the spatial effect of the extended form of film practiced at the Bauhaus. The films of different lengths run in loops and – placed side by side and opposite each other – always play through new, different interrelations. An homage to the moving imagery of the Bauhaus!
As one of the bravest image designers of the 20th century, Bauhaus professor László Moholy-Nagy programmatically placed technical vision with the aid of photography and film at the center of his reflections on »New Vision« – he spoke of painting with light instead of pigment. The many approaches developed at the Bauhaus range from abstract, absolute films, dance films and essayistic studies to reformist architectural and political documentaries, light projections, feature films in the theater, and cinema architecture.
More info here: https://zkm.de/en/exhibition/2020/02/bauhausfilmexpanded
bauhaus.film.expanded @ ZKM | Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe
Last but not least, at HeK - House of Electronic Arts Basel do not miss the show
Making FASHION Sense
open until March 8th, 2020The Making FASHION Sense exhibition focuses on the fundamental transformation of creative processes in fashion through technology, as well as the artistic efforts towards more sustainability: fashion that makes sense.
Robotic arms and mixed reality, holograms and drones have long appeared on the international catwalks. Hyperfunctional materials that monitor our biometric data are part of everyday life - especially in the field of sports. Making FASHION Sense deals with the radical transformation of fashion through technology.
The exhibition explores technology as a transformative instrument for artists and designers who design clothing as well as for the wearer. Because clothes can encourage, cheer, comfort, or cause physical discomfort. Garments can reinforce uniformed monotony or stimulate artistic imagination. On show are artists and designers who develop experimental “augmented fashion” objects that stimulate a new perception of our environment, human interaction, and thought.
How do programmable garments express our bodies? Does fashion technology change not only our movements, our well-being and our perception of our fellow human beings, but also our creative perspectives? Can fashion technology protect us from and in a dystopian future - or does it distort our perception of the world? Artists and designers show fashion that technology not only changes silhouettes, but also production systems. Based on sustainable production ethics, they develop new, more meaningful fashion semantics.
Artists and designers: Alfatih, Salome Asega, Robbie Barrat, BioBabes, Hussein Chalayan, Carole Collet, Clara Daguin, Charleen Elberskirch, Clara Escalera, Ying Gao, Christope Guberan, Adam Harvey, Jun Kamei, Kazuya Kawasaki, Flora Miranda , Yuima Nakazato, Freya Probst, Ling Tan, TheKnitGeekResearch, Giulia Tomasello, Iris van Herpen.
Curators: Sabine Himmelsbach and Katharina Sand
More info on HeK website
Yuima Nakazato, Harmonize Collection, 2018, photo: Shoji Fujii