DORTMUNDER U – art & creativity
07.10.2010
If you want to, you can be anything on the internet: a photographer, a filmmaker, a writer, a radio programmer… And that is a good thing. At the ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic Art), Peter Weibel has a conversation with 2010LAB.tv.Among other topics, the media artist, media
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28.09.2010
It hasn’t been exactly a decade, but for some years, I’ve been excluded from the youth culture scene – it started when I was sitting next to my BMX in a skate park and someone asked me what time it was... He addressed me in the German „Sie“ mode which is reserved for
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28.09.2010
Well, unfortunately, it’s over. I’m just back from a tour of Dortmund’s Kreuzviertel – I visited six studios / galleries and eleven artists: ARTgenossen, a loose group of circa a handful of studios in this southern part of downtown Dortmund, had opened their premises for
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27.09.2010
A creative quarter is planned in the western part of Dortmund – in the shadow of the U building. An anticipation of things to come is the Salon-Atelier, an open room in which eight young artists create and exhibit their works. A corner shop with blurry window panes. In it, you find colour
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24.09.2010
So what makes The Young Generation tick? What are their wishes, aims, and dreams? The Shell study seems to shed some light on that now, but are its statistics really representative, do they really reveal something? Prof. Dr. Birgit Richard doesn’t think so. The professor for new media at
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03.08.2010
„Trust in me“, sings Kaa the snake in the Jungle Book and rolls her eyes. The topic is trust in the new exhibition in Dortmund’s “U” – another opening there, on third floor, still a construction site. It is the beginning of ISEA - International Symposium on
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21.06.2010
Maybe, one day the “U” building in Dortmund will be called the last of the magnificent monumental buildings of the Bonner Republik era. A republic which has disappeared almost 20 years ago, but still being kind enough to postpone its economical end for quite a while... But now, among a
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16.06.2010
Workshop with Lisa Parks (UCSB), Dortmund/Germany, Jul 31 – Aug 2, 2010 proposed by Francis Hunger, Leipzig
Participants will be asked to walk through the city and locate different signs, technologies, objects, screens indicating the presence of satellite, wireless and media technologies and
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01.06.2010
The „U“ building in Dortmund and its appeal is supposed to make investors eager to set foot in this region, so even an intense and diligent renovation wouldn’t have been sufficient enough. The finally realised reanimation of the building epitomises the new values of the Ruhr
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01.06.2010
On time for the opening, the Dortmund „U“ building is relieved of its scaffolding. Adolf Winkelmann gives his video installations „Die Reise ins U“ (the trip into the U) and „U-Turm Bilder-Uhr“ (the U tower picture clock) the final touch, followed by the
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