Ten projects were selected as part of the new Medienkunstfonds and Medienkunstfellows funding programs. What they all have in common? A collaborative mindset and the ambition to use media art and digital culture to explore current issues and developments in the field of art, technology and society. Journalist Olga Felker wants to find out from the participants themselves what other thoughts and goals lie behind the projects of art and cultural institutions and initiatives from all over NRW. In the podcast behind the screens – behind the scenes she talks to artists, curators and scientists about the essence of their projects and about what knowledge media art and digital culture can contribute to current socio-political debates.

Folge 7: Expanded Worlds

In order to experience a special media art project on site – in an environment away from museum presentation areas – the journalist Olga Felker made her way to the northern Ruhr area for a new episode behind the screens – behind the scenes. In Marl-Hüls she experienced the digital exhibition project Expanded Worlds live and took her tablet on a tour of media art works. Ten works by young artists from NRW appear on billboards in the urban space for visitors, which can be experienced with the help of a free app and augmented reality. What you see live is precisely replaced on the tablet or smartphone display with new content such as artistic videos, animations or acoustic-visual experiments. The project participants Georg Elben, museum director of the Skulpturenmuseum Marl, and Anastasija Delidova from Kollektiv 42 as well as art mediator Fionnuala Maher-Riek welcomed Olga in Marl and talked to her about the concepts and concerns behind Expanded Worlds, about dealing with new technological methods of art mediation and about the opportunities this approach holds for the museum collection.

Ten projects were selected as part of the new Medienkunstfonds and Medienkunstfellows funding programs. What they all have in common? A collaborative mindset and the ambition to use media art and digital culture to explore current issues and developments in the field of art, technology and society. Journalist Olga Felker wants to find out from the participants themselves what other thoughts and goals lie behind the projects of art and cultural institutions and initiatives from all over NRW. In the podcast behind the screens – behind the scenes she talks to artists, curators and scientists about the essence of their projects and about what knowledge media art and digital culture can contribute to current socio-political debates.

Episode 6: Forms of Kinship

In the new podcast episode with Olga Felker we learn more about the exciting research of Media Art Fellow Kris Dittel (Rotterdam), who together with Aneta Rostkowska, director of Temporary Gallery, Center for Contemporary Art (Cologne), has launched the project Forms of Kinship. Kris and Aneta, as well as other invited guests, will approach diverse forms of kinship and social relationships beyond the traditional nuclear family in a variety of ways in a study group. In lectures and workshops with artists, thinkers, poets, and activists, they will not examine existing alternative models, but would like to collectively develop entirely new directions of thought. In the podcast, Olga, Aneta and Kris get into conversation and we learn about concepts like Family Abolition and how much the world we live in is based on structures that, among other things, are geared towards the privatization of care work.

Ten projects were selected within the framework of the new funding programmes Media Art Fonds and Media Art Fellows. What do they all have in common? A cooperative mindset and the ambition to use media art and digital culture to explore current issues and developments in the field of art, technology and society. Journalist Olga Felker wants to find out from the participants themselves what other thoughts and goals lie behind the projects of art and cultural institutions and initiatives from all over NRW. In the podcast behind the screens – behind the scenes, she talks to artists, curators and scientists about the essence of their projects and about the knowledge that media art and digital culture can contribute to current sociopolitical debates.

Episode 4: sharing space

The fringe ensemble, founded in Bonn in 1999, is exploring a new understanding of encounter and proximity in the theater space together with the fellow and game designer Fehime Seven. In the project sharing space, the ensemble uses technological possibilities such as virtual and augmented reality as well as motion capture technologies to explore new situations in which the audience can meet each other in a hybrid way and perceive themselves as a community. Olga Felker, journalist and podcaster of behind the screens – behind the scenes, met Fehime and the team of the fringe ensemble to learn more about the research on interactive performance design that has developed within the framework of a media art fellowship of the state of NRW. What strategies did the theater makers use and what interesting insights into audience, communication technologies and theater space were they able to discover in their research? All this and more is now available in the new episode.

Please note: After the intro, the language of the Podcast switches to English!

Ten projects were selected within the framework of the new funding programmes Media Art Fund and Media Art Fellows. What do they all have in common? A cooperative mindset and the ambition to use media art and digital culture to explore current issues and developments in the field of art, technology and society. Author Olga Felker wants to find out from the contributors themselves what other thoughts and goals lie behind the projects of art and cultural institutions and initiatives from all over NRW. In the podcast behind the screens – behind the scenes, she talks to artists, curators and scientists about the essence of their projects and about the knowledge that media art and digital culture can contribute to current socio-political debates.

Episode 3: The Cassette Underground

For the third episode of behind the screens – behind the scenes, journalist Olga Felker met media art fellow Wouter de Romph at the Inter Media Art Institute in Düsseldorf to learn more about the project The Cassette Underground, which is working intensively on this topic as part of a media art fellowship from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Foundation director Linnea Semmerling also has her say, and together with the musicologist and DJ invited by IMAI she talks about the special role of cassettes, the networks of the 1980s associated with them, and the Foundation’s conservational responsibility.

Ten projects were selected within the framework of the new funding programmes Media Art Fund and Media Art Fellows. What do they all have in common? A cooperative mindset and the ambition to use media art and digital culture to explore current issues and developments in the field of art, technology and society. Author Olga Felker wants to find out from the contributors themselves what other thoughts and goals lie behind the projects of art and cultural institutions and initiatives from all over NRW. In the podcast behind the screens – behind the scenes, she talks to artists, curators and scientists about the essence of their projects and about the knowledge that media art and digital culture can contribute to current socio-political debates.

Episode 2: A Model World

In the second episode of behind the screens – behind the scenes, Olga Felker talks to curators Julia Kaganskiy and Juliette Bibasse about their research project A Model World, which was developed as part of the new Media Art Fellows programme. Julia and Juliette’s fellowship was based at the Stiftung Zollverein (Essen). It focuses on techniques for changing the climate, commonly known as geoengineering. The curators presented their research at the New Now Festival at Zeche Zollverein and are still working on making results available to the public on their website.