1989 wurde das ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien mit der visionären Idee gegründet, die klassischen Künste ins digitale Zeitalter fortzuschreiben. Deshalb wird es gelegentlich auch als »digitales Bauhaus« bezeichnet. Mit seinen künstlerischen Produktionen, Ausstellungen, Veranstaltungen und Publikationen zeigt es, welche neuen Wege Kunst und Gesellschaft beschreiten können, wenn sie neue Medien ästhetisch erproben und kritisch diskutieren. /// The ZKM | Center for Art and Media was founded in 1989 with the visionary idea of continuing the classical arts into the digital age. This is why it is occasionally referred to as the »digital Bauhaus«. With its artistic productions, exhibitions, events and publications, it shows what new paths art and society can take when they aesthetically test and critically discuss new media.
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Blind Date With A Book: »Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht / Light Art from Artificial Light«
Blind Date with a Book | Book presentation
With over seven hundred color illustrations of works by all of the important light artists – a new standard work on the subject.
More than almost any other medium, electric light has revolutionized and democratized our world. Today we live in cities and gardens of light, and for almost a century, artists have been working with light bulbs, fluorescent and neon light, glowing LEDs, and powerful spotlights. This comprehensive publication offers a broad overview of the development of this genre, from the pioneers of light art in the 1920s and the immersing and interactive environments of ZERO, GRAV, Gruppo T, and Gruppo N, to the early light artists from Europe and North and South America. Outstanding contemporary productions – with their profound illuminated spheres, ironic cross-references, and fascinating plays of filigreed light – complete this glowing spectrum of explorations of artificial light.