The Italian artist Marco Brosolo creates multi-faceted projects that span visual works on paper and video, soundtracks for theatre and silent film productions as well as self-made experimental, electronic instruments, and even singing.
Jürgen Reble has been making films, installations and performances that engage and address the materiality of film for more than 30 years. His high quality works involving the chemistry and mechanics of cinematography have been exhibited in major art institutions worldwide.
Thomas Köner's is a media artist and musician who focuses on combining visual and auditory experiences. His sound works, released on labels such as Mille Plateaux and Barooni, are densely layered, and subtle, encouraging intensive and physical listening.
Swiss artist Pe Lang uses the kinetics of sound for intricate aural explorations involving different sets of devices and objects as his triggers. His body of work could be experienced as part of numerous international festivals and exhibitions.
Dewi de Vree is a Dutch artist creating sound installations and performances with electricity. Together with Rachida Ziana she developed Elektrolab, a series of sound installations and performances based on electrochemical principles.
Rachida Ziani is a French artist creating sound installations and performances with electricity. Together with Dewi de Vree she developed Elektrolab, a series of sound installations and performances based on electrochemical principles.
artificiel is a digital arts group based in Montreal, featuring Alexandre Burton and Julien Roy and a number of regular collaborators. Together, they manipulate concepts and articulate the results via new media, music, and video, the results often appearing in the form of performances and installations.
Julien Roy is a musician and composer who forms the core of the Canadian digital arts group artificiel together with Alexandre Burton. He makes and produces music that ranges from serious music to more danceable rhythms.
Alexander Burton forms the core of the Canadian digital arts group artificiel together with Julien Roy. In addition to this Burton also makes solo projects and art in other collaborative contexts. His work is regularly presented in international new media and music events.
La Chambre Des Machines gives a new context to old alarm clocks and the Intonarumori – originally developed by Italian futurist Luigi Russolo at the beginning of the 20th century – through meticulous and highly original playing techniques.
aaajiao (Xu Wenkai) is one of China's foremost digital artists, bloggers and free culture developers. In 2006 he founded the Chinese take on the blog we-make-money-not-art: We Need Money Not Art. Born in 1984 in Xi'an City, he now resides in Beijing.
Having been invited to Documenta in 1997 and 2002, Feng Mengbo is recognised as one of China's leading media artists. As well as expressing socio-political critiques Mengbo's work negotiates intensely personal subject matter. His aesthetics are defined by the style, content and cultural implications of video games.
The experimental artist and musician Benjamin Laurent Aman is founder of the acclaimed label Razzle Dazzle and belongs to the duo Crystal Plumage. He currently lives and works in Berlin.
Originally from North England, Lord Cry Cry moved to Berlin almost 10 years ago setting up a small music studio in Kreuzberg. He has recently released a precious 7'' on Blunt Force Trauma Records, and writes and produces scores for film and documentary.
The composer and musician Charlemagne Palestine is closely affiliated with the minimalist music scene of the 1960s. And yet, his role is of a particular distinction since he is also one of the world's few trained carillonneurs. His pieces evolve gradually, wrapping up their listeners in hypnotic flows and rhythms.
Today Ben Huang is one of the most in-demand DJs in China. After training as a dancer, Huang began to pursue his music career sometimes in the 1990s when club scenes just started to come alive in Peking and Shanghai. Though self-taught he quickly managed to set crucial impulses for these scenes.
FM3 are active members of the Beijing music scene and considered pioneers of electronic music in China. FM3 produce mysterious, meditative and minimalist soundscapes, while subtly adding elements of Chinese folk tradition into a universe abundant in micro-sounds and synthetic glitches.
Martin Messier has a diploma in jazz percussion and a BA in Electroacoustic Composition. Based on strong aptitudes for rhythm, Martin’s aesthetics can be defined as a complex, leftfield and happily strange sound amalgamate constantly playing with construction and deconstruction.
In audiovisual performances and installations Andrea Lange explores the meaning of technologies in relation to our fragile world. She studied Fine Art at the University of the Arts in Berlin with Rebecca Horn.
Ryoji Ikeda’s visual works are emblematic of a future defined and visualised through the lens of digital technologies. In this large-scale audiovisual installation – shown for the first time in Germany – Ikeda makes the imperceptible sea of data that permeates our world, dramatically visible through digital projection.
Julius von Bismarck grew up in Germany and Saudi-Arabia. Considered one of the most innovative young artists in the field he received the 2008 Ars Electronica Golden Nica, for the Image Fulgurator.
Ryoji Ikeda is one of the world’s finest and most acclaimed electronic artists and composers, authoring stunning performances, audiovisual installations and seminal music.
New York based visual artist Žilvinas Kempinas creates installations in which invisible forces of gravity and air circulation reshape architectural spaces into totally new environments. In 2009, he represented Lithuania at the 53rd Venice Biennale.
Puerto Rico born artist and filmmaker Yvette Mattern’s performances, videos, public art works and sculptures explore the concept of ‘liminality’ as a metaphysical and subjective conscious state of being.
Gebhard Sengmüller is an artist who is best known for his installations which focus on the history of electronic media, such as Vinyl Video and Very Slow Scan TV having shown work at Ars Electronica and the Venice Biennale among other major venues.
Coincidence Engines I and II – [The User] (ca) 31 January – 28 February > Long Night of the Museums: Saturday 30 January 2010, 18:00 – 02:00 > Artist Talk by [The User]: Thursday 4 February, 12:45 – 13:30 .CHB, Dorotheenstraße 12, 10117 Berlin, hungaricum.de
Opening times: daily 10:00 – 19:00
Chapter I: The Discovery – Félix Luque Sánchez (es) 31 January – 7 February > Long Night of the Museums: Saturday 30 January 2010, 18:00 – 02:00 > Artist Talk by Félix Luque Sánchez: Wednesday 3 February, 12:45 – 13:30 Instituto Cervantes Berlin, Rosenstr. 18-19, 10178 Berlin, cervantes.de
Opening times : 31 Jan – 7 Feb 12:00 – 18:00 & weekends 12:00 – 17:00