CLOSE ENCOUNTERS #10: Echo Ho
In the 10th episode of CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, artist Echo Ho talks to Maria Wildeis. For Echo Ho the most important thing is to use material – and that includes all media – to materialize their ideas in order to communicate with the world. Whether with a cactus, a qin or a woven piece of fabric.
Podcast Behind the Screens – Behind the Scenes | A Data Set of Screams
A special episode of “Behind the Screens – Behind the Scenes”: Sophie Emilie Beha was in Cologne this time for a workshop that took place at the KHM in Cologne.
Attention, it gets loud in this episode! Sophie and the participants in the MELT workshop scream their heads off.
Podcast behind the screens – behind the scenes | Ambiguity and unpredictability
n the new podcast episode with journalist Sophie Emilie Beha, Turkish author, curator and activist Aylime Aslı Demir, researcher Eva Liedtjens and performer Julia Nitschke talk about the collaborative project Ambiguity and Unpredictability: On Forms of Resistance and the Archiving of Queer Narratives at the Institute for Art and Art Studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen.
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS #9: Nieves de la Fuente Gutiérrez
In the 9th episode of CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, artist Nieves de la Fuente Gutiérrez talks to media scientist Thomas Spies about her work and her creative process in digital and analogue space.
Podcast behind the screens – behind the scenes | I AM YOUR BODY
Sophie Emilie Beha talks to artist Marco Donnarumma about his project, which artistically and scientifically deals with the relationship between sound, artificial intelligence and the physical knowledge that lies within deaf and hard of hearing bodies.
Scholarship of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for female media artists
The Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia is awarding a scholarship for female media artists for the years 2024 and 2025. Apply now!
Podcast behind the screens – behind the scenes | Audience Participation Lab
In a shared kitchen in Berlin, Sophie talks to Maren and Lisa from STERNA | PAU about what theatre and gaming can learn from each other and what experiences they have had in the fusion of these two genres outside of classical dramaturgy.
Podcast behind the screens – behind the scenes | (RE)IMAG(IN)ING THE DIGITAL DOCUMENT OF DANCE
In an interview, artist Kiraņ Kumār, software engineer Matthias Härtig and theatre director Jens Heitjohann talk about their experiences from the project, which explores the understanding of dance as a universal form of movement.
Publication on media art fund and media art fellows
The projects from two years of the Media Art Fund and Media Art Fellows are presented in a publication. Order free of charge!
Podcast behind the screens – behind the scenes | Counting Feelings
In this episode Sophie Emilie Beha and MELT talk about Counting Feelings – an artistic research project that examines how and which data we implement in our data practices.
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS #8: Ani Schulze
In conversation with curator Haris Giannouras for CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, Ani Schulze talks about her artistic practice, in which the interplay of fact and fiction, in hybrid narratives, is playfully brought to light.
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS #7: Vesela Stanoeva
For a new episode of CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, Vesela Stanoeva and writer Esra Canpalat met at the exhibition “Nine Suns” to talk about Vesela’s work as a curator, artist and scenographer.
PEER TO PEER – A MONTH OF MEDIA ART IN NRW
Together with partners from all over NRW, this September, we will immerse ourselves in the spectrum of media art.
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS #6: Silke Schönfeld
Artists Silke Schönfeld and Winnie Herbstein get together at the Hafenkombüse, to talk about the work of the Dortmund filmmaker and about her relationship to the protagonists she films.
Recording Revisited: An evening on the history of experimental electronic music in the region
The recording of the panel and three live concerts is now available online for all those who could not join.
Podcast behind the screens – behind the scenes | Expanded Worlds
In Marl-Hüls, Olga experienced the digital exhibition project “Expanded Worlds” on site, taking an outside tour of media art works.
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS #5: sputnic
Above the rooftops of Krefeld, Klaas Werner talked to the sputnic collective about the use of analogue, digital and media technologies on stage and live animation cinema.
Podcast behind the screens – behind the scenes | Forms of Kinship
Media Art Fellow Kris Dittel talks about her research on more diverse kinship forms beyond the traditional nuclear family.
Podcast behind the screens – behind the scenes | TAB TALKS
The new episode is all about literary work, digital environments and writing as a craft.
Revisited: VIDEONALE.1 X Perspective #2
Together with the Videonale Association, the Office medienwerk.nrw invited curator Giorgi Spanderashvili to place works from the Videonale’s online video archive into a new context.
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS #4: ISABELLA FÜRNKÄS
Beate Scheder met with artist Isabella Fürnkäs at her childhood home in Cologne to learn more about recurring motifs in her performances, videos and drawings.
Revisited: Space as Method. Thoughts based on VIDEONALE.1 #essay
In her essay curator Katrin Mundt explores the history of the renowned festival Videonale and the challenges and claims towards art festivals to come.
Podcast behind the screens – behind the scenes | Sharing Space
In episode 4, Olga Felker talks to Fellow Fehime Seven and the fringe ensemble team about research on interactive performance design in Bonn.
Podcast behind the screens – behind the scenes | THE CASSETTE UNDERGROUND
Olga Felker visits the Inter Media Art Institute to talk about “The Cassette Underground” with Fellow Wouter de Romph and Director Linnea Semmerling.
Podcast behind the screens – behind the scenes | A MODEL WORLD
In this episode curators Juliette Bibasse and Julia Kaganskiy speak about Geo-engineering and their experiences as Fellows in the Ruhr area.
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS #3: Axel Braun
In conversation with Fabian Saavedra-Lara, the artist delves deeper into his working methods and thereby into man-made climate change.
Highly speculative review of the year 2022 by Anna Klapdor
How will we look back on the year 2022 in the future? In a writing experiment, author Anna-Lena Klapdor has devoted herself to this perspective.
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS #2.1: Nico Joana Weber
The artist talks to curator Kerstin Meincke about a joint trip to Nigeria and her work Tropic Telecom.
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS #2.2: VANJA SMILJANIĆ
In the studio, the artist talks with Nada Schroer about her artistic research on Past-Life Therapy and other projects.
REVISITED: ZONES OF DESIRE #essay
Daniel G. Andújar recalls his stay in Dortmund, a city in transition, where he was involved in the groundbreaking exhibition in 1998.
REVISITED: RESERVATE DER SEHNSUCHT #film
In the film “Just want you to be”, Ale Bachlechner visualises the results of her research on the exhibition by using private mobile phone videos.
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS #1: JANA KERIMA STOLZER AND LEX RÜTTEN
The artists talk to curator Marijke Lukowicz at the surface mine around Hambacher Forst.
THROWBACK 2017: Speculative Technologies | Workshop with Jaromil
In 2017, the Office medienwerk.nrw invited students, artists, hackers and makers to work on hardware and software solutions for alternative ideas of technology.