[spectre] "Verstreute Momente der Konzentration", HMKV Dortmund, May-July 2005

[Inke Arns]

(German version available at www.hmkv.de under "Press/e")


Verstreute Momente der Konzentration
Urbane und digitale Raeume
PHOENIX Halle Dortmund, Germany
May 14 - July 17, 2005

A project of Hartware MedienKunstVerein
In the framework of medien_kunst_netz dortmund

curated by
Inke Arns


Opening
Friday, May 13, 2005, 7 p.m.

Welcoming Speeches
Joerg Stuedemann (City Councillor, Councillor for 
Culture, Sports, Leisure of the city of Dortmund)
Klaus Steenweg (Director of Communications Sparkasse Dortmund)
Udo Mager (Executive Director of Business Development Dortmund)

Introduction
Dr. Inke Arns, Artistic Director of Hartware MedienKunstVerein

Live Act
Daniel Pflumm, Kotai (elektro music department, Berlin)

Opening hours
Wed 11 - 17
Thu - Sun 11 - 20
closed on Monday and Tuesday
(open on Whit Monday, May 16, 2005, 11-20)

Exhibition venue
PHOENIX Halle Dortmund
Hochofenstr. / Ecke Rombergstr.
Dortmund-Hoerde (NO postal address!)

Partners and supporters
In cooperation with Kulturbuero Stadt Dortmund, 
dortmund-project, Wirtschafts- und 
Beschaeftigungsfoerderung Dortmund, PHOENIX, LEG, 
Dortmund fuer das Ruhrgebiet - Kulturhauptstadt 
Europas 2010; supported by Sparkasse Dortmund and 
the Ministerium für Staedtebau und Wohnen, Kultur 
und Sport des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen - 
Deutsch-Polnisches Jahr 2005 / 2006; AFAA/Bureau 
des Arts Plastiques / French Embassy, Polish 
Institute (Düsseldorf), medienforum.nrw / Cologne 
Conference (Cologne)

Visit the 17th medienforum.nrw and the 15th 
Cologne Conference from July 3-5, 2005 in 
Cologne. Further information can be found at 
www.medienforum.nrw.de and 
www.cologne-conference.de.

Catalogue
A bilingual (German/English) catalogue will be 
published by Revolver - Archiv fuer aktuelle 
Kunst, Frankfurt/Main, with contributions by 
Susanne Ackers, Inke Arns, Lev Manovich and 
Thibaut de Ruyter (128 p., partly in colour, ISBN 
3-86588-125-4), www.revolver-books.de

Contact
Hartware MedienKunstVerein
Guentherstr. 65, 44143 Dortmund, Germany
T +49 - (0)231 - 823 106, F +49 - (0)231 - 88 20 240
info at hmkv.de, www.hmkv.de




Real and virtual, urban and digital spaces are 
growing increasingly closer together. When 
walking or driving through the city we are at the 
same time moving through digital data spaces, 
which lie like immaterial structures over 
physically constructed spaces. Mobile telephones, 
GPS receivers (Global Positioning System), 
personal digital assistants (PDAs) and other 
handheld devices, as well as the screens attached 
to the facades of buildings make it possible for 
us to inhabit real and digital data spaces 
simultaneously in real-time. Lev Manovich has 
termed this real-space, permeated with 
information to such an extent, "augmented space".

The exhibition Dispersed Moments of 
Concentration. Urban and Digital Spaces addresses 
the effects of new communication technologies on 
urban spaces. How do these technologies, with 
which we can log into the data stream at (almost) 
all times and in (almost) all places, change our 
perception of these urban spaces? How does this 
information that is available at (almost) all 
times and in (almost) all places alter our 
behaviour in spaces that have been "augmented" to 
such an extent? What is the nature of these data 
spaces that are spread over physically 
constructed architecture? And who makes use of 
these immaterial structures, and for what 
purposes?

Our surroundings do indeed increasingly consist 
of programmed structures that nonetheless remain 
invisible, as they are imperceptible to the 
senses. This performative programme code has 
direct and also political consequences for the 
virtual and real spaces in which we move: As this 
code determines what is possible in these spaces 
and what is not, it alternatively mobilises or 
immobilises those who use it. In this way Code 
becomes Law, or, according to Lawrence Lessig, 
Code is Law.

In the exhibition Dispersed Moments of 
Concentration. Urban and Digital Spaces twelve 
international artists are represented with a 
total of 18 works: Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil (F), 
Osman Bozkurt (TR), Büro für Bildangelegenheiten 
(D), Christoph Keller (D), Dariusz Krzeczek (PL), 
Bettina Lockemann (D), Nicolas Moulin (F), 
Elisabeth Neudörfl (D), Chris Oakley (GB), Daniel 
Pflumm (D), Jozef Robakowski (PL) and Heidi 
Specker (D). The artists examine the material and 
immaterial communication infrastructures of 
digital and urban spaces, dedicate themselves to 
creative ways of dealing with these spaces, 
analyse material, architectonic form(ula)s as 
well as the immaterial flow of information and 
refer to the ambivalent relationship between 
localisation and control. Their central theme is 
the technological / social developments occurring 
both on a global scale, as well as locally in the 
Ruhr region - a place that serves as a prime 
example of a dispersed moment of concentration.



List of artists and works

Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil (F, *1968)
GPS, wall painting, 2005
Code International Sol/Air No. 14 (“Besoin armes 
et munitions"), flower field, 2005
Paris Mabuse Visit Tour, bus tour through Paris 
1999/2000, video documentation, 2001

Osman Bozkurt (TR, *1970)
Auto-Park / Highway-Parks in Istanbul, video projection, 2003

Buero für Bildangelegenheiten (D, since 1995)
Deltaville, video projection, 2004

Christoph Keller (D, *1967)
Tokyo-Station, Rundum-photography, 2002-2004

Dariusz Krzeczek (PL, *1971)
LUUKKAANKANGAS, updated, revisited, video installation, 2004

Bettina Lockemann (D, *1971)
Fringes of Utopia, b/w large format photographic series, 2003

Nicolas Moulin (F, *1970)
Pole, slide installation with sound (by Bertrand Lamarche), 1998-2001
A333, large scale photo installation, 2001

Elisabeth Neudoerfl (D, *1968)
der Stadt, interactive CD-ROM, 1998

Chris Oakley (GB, *1971)
The Catalogue, video, 2004

Daniel Pflumm (D, *1968)
Paris, video installation, 2004
Stuttgart, video installation, 1997
Without title, light box, 2002

Józef Robakowski (PL, *1939)
From my window 1978-1999, video installation, 2000

Heidi Specker (D, *1962)
Teilchentheorie, photographic series, 1998
Concrete, Universitaet Koeln, photographic series, 2002



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Dr. Inke Arns * Kuenstlerische Leiterin / 
Artistic Director * hartware medien kunst verein 
*  Guentherstrasse 65 * D-44143 Dortmund * 
Germany * T ++49 (231) 823 106 * www.hmkv.de * 
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