[spectre] HMKV Program 2007: Welcome Back!

[Inke Arns]

Dear friends of HMKV,
dear colleagues,

March 2007 is only beginning, and we already have 
four good news which we would like to share with 
you:

1. Hartware MedienKunstVerein has been nominated 
for the ADKV-ART COLOGNE Award for Art 
Associations (Kunstvereine) 2007

2. Fresh from the printing press: the catalogue 
of the exhibition “The Wonderful World of 
irational.org. Tools, Techniques and Events 
1996-2006" which took place in late summer 2006 
at PHOENIX Halle Dortmund has just been published!

3. Together with the Berlin-based online portal 
iRights.info HMKV has developed the project 
“Arbeit 2.0" (Work 2.0) which receives funding in 
the framework of the new programme of the Federal 
Cultural Foundation “Arbeit in Zukunft" (Work in 
the Future)

4. the program of Hartware MedienKunstVerein at 
PHOENIX Halle Dortmund for 2007 is available

Many greetings from Dortmund,
the HMKV team


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1. HMKV has been nominated for the ADKV-ART 
COLOGNE Award for Art Associations (Kunstvereine) 
2007

We feel very honoured to have been nominated for 
the Award for Kunstvereine (Art Associations) 
2007. The Award for Kunstvereine (Art 
Associations) will be given for the second time 
in 2007 as a cooperation between 
Arbeitsgemeinschaft deutscher Kunstvereine (ADKV) 
and Art Cologne. 20 people from the art and 
culture field in Germany have each nominated a 
Kunstverein. Around 250 German Kunstvereine are 
organised in ADKV. The Prize is worth 10.000 Euro 
and is awarded for the innovative work and 
exhibition practice of a Kunstverein. The Award 
will be given on 21 April 2007 at Art Cologne in 
Cologne, Germany.


2. THE HARTWARE GUIDE TO IRATIONAL

Fresh from the printing press: the Hartware Guide 
to the exhibition “The Wonderful World of 
irational.org. Tools, Techniques and Events 
1996-2006" which took place in late summer 2006 
at PHOENIX Halle Dortmund has just been published!

Irational is a loose grouping of six 
international net and media artists who came 
together around the server irational.org, founded 
by the British net artist Heath Bunting in 1996, 
going on to make decisive contribution to early 
net art from the mid-1990s onward. They include 
Daniel Garcia Andújar / Technologies to the 
People (E), Rachel Baker (GB), Kayle Brandon 
(GB), Heath Bunting (GB), Minerva Cuevas / Mejor 
Vida Corporation (MEX) and Marcus Valentine (GB).

irational formulates an art of movement through 
space which is intended to expand the subject's 
possibilities of action - in the sense of a 
tactic of individual empowerment.

The Hartware Guide to irational documents the 54 
works included in the exhibition “The Wonderful 
World of irational.org" as well as the actions of 
the irational action weekend.

Susanne Ackers, Inke Arns, Francis Hunger, Jacob 
Lillemose (eds.): The Hartware Guide to 
irational. Catalogue of the exhibition The 
Wonderful World of irational.org. Tools, 
Techniques and Events 1996-2006 (Dortmund 2006)

Revolver - Archiv fuer aktuelle Kunst, Frankfurt 
am Main 2006, 136 pages, s/w illustrations, ISBN: 
3-86588-299-4, 3 cards, 1 folder with colour 
illustrations documenting the exhibition at 
PHOENIX Halle and the irational Action Weekend 
(Sep 2006)

With contributions by Susanne Ackers, Inke Arns, 
Matthew Fuller, Francis Hunger, Jacob Lillemose, 
Darija Simunovic

Languages: English, German

18, 00 ¤ (plus postage)
The catalogue can be ordered via inke.arns at hmkv.de


3. ARBEIT 2.0 (2007-2008) receives funding from the Federal Cultural Foundation

Together with the Berlin-based online portal 
iRights.info HMKV has developed the project 
“Arbeit 2.0 - kreatives Schaffen in der digitalen 
Welt" (Work 2.0 - Creative Labour in the Digital 
World) which - together with 12 other projects - 
receives funding in the framework of a new 
programme of the Federal Cultural Foundation 
“Arbeit in Zukunft" (Work in the Future). "Arbeit 
in Zukunft" deals with and researches the 
cultural consequences of the changing of the term 
and the context of labour. On 28/29 Sep 2006 the 
jury selected 13 applications out of a total of 
87. “Arbeit 2.0" consist of an online portal 
(2007-2008) and an exhibition dealing with 
appropriaton, detournement and remixing in the 
age of digital media which will be presented at 
PHOENIX Halle Dortmund in the summer of 2008.


4. EXHIBITIONS by HMKV at PHOENIX Halle Dortmund 2007

HISTORY WILL REPEAT ITSELF
Strategies of reenactment in contemporary (media) art and performance
==> HMKV at PHOENIX Halle Dortmund: 9 Juni - 30 
September 2007; opening: Friday, 8 June 2007, 
19:00
==> KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin: 27 
October 2007 - January 2008; opening: Saturday, 
27 October 2007

SIE NENNEN ES REALITAET
The Studienbereich Neue Medien of the Hochschule 
fuer Gestaltung und Kunst (HGK) Zuerich at 
Hartware MedienKunstVerein Dortmund
==> PHOENIX Halle Dortmund: 6 - 21 October 2007
Opening: PHOENIX Halle Dortmund, Friday, 5 October 2007, 19:00
(in the framework of the project “Crosskick - 
Europaeische Kunsthochschulen an deutschen 
Kunstvereinen" by the Federal Cultural Foundation)

ANNE POEHLMANN: WALKTHROUGH
Presentation of the Media art grant of the State of NRW 2006
==> PHOENIX Halle Dortmund: 6 - 21 October 2007
Opening: PHOENIX Halle Dortmund, Friday, 5 October 2007, 19:00

THOMAS KOENER
Cooperation between Hartware MedienKunstVerein and Dortmunder Kunstverein
==> September 2007 at (plug.in), Basel: Solo 
exhibition of Dortmund-based media and sound 
artist Thomas Koener
==> from November 2007, various venues around the 
Ruhr valley: Dortmunder Kunstverein, Hartware 
MedienKunstVerein Dortmund, PACT Zollverein 
Essen, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Skulpturenmuseum 
Glaskasten Marl


A comprehensive programme of accompanying events will be announced soon.


Venue

Hartware MedienKunstVerein
at PHOENIX Halle Dortmund
Hochofenstr. / corner Rombergstr.
Dortmund-Hoerde

Opening hours during the exhibitions
Thu + Fri 11 - 22 h
Sat + Sun 11-20 h
Mon - Wed closed


Contact

Hartware MedienKunstVerein (office)
Guentherstr. 65, 44143 Dortmund
T +49-231-823106, F +49-231- 882 02 40
www.hmkv.de, info at hmkv.de


HMKV Team

Dr. Inke Arns (Artistic Director)
Susanne Ackers (Managing Director)
Uwe Gorski (Exhibition Architecture and Technical Director)
Francis Hunger (Junior Curator)
Darija Simunovic (Project Coordinator and project management)


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Dr. Inke Arns
Künstlerische Leiterin / Artistic Director
Hartware MedienKunstVerein
Güntherstrasse 65 * D-44143 Dortmund
T ++49 (0) 231 - 823 106
F ++49 (0) 231 - 882 02 40
inke.arns at hmkv.de
www.hmkv.de
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