Futuresonic 2009 and the Social Technologies Summit

Futuresonic 2009 and the Social Technologies Summit will take place 13-16
May 2009, featuring world premieres of astonishing artworks, an explosive
city-wide music programme, and visionary thinkers from around the world. The
festival has four strands – Art, Music, Ideas and EVNTS – and occupies the
orbits of art, performance, music, design and digital culture. Now in its 14th
year, Futuresonic is the UK’s leading festival for digital culture, and this
year was nominated for the prestigious Lever Arts Prize. An urban festival
experience, it is anticipated that over 50,000 festival visitors will engage
with 300 artists and 100 events across 30 venues.

No. 7: Narcist's CUP

A cup in your hands, a plug in your ear and a top on your laps – »cocooning« is a common social behaviour, e. g. in the commuter trains. To immerse yourself even more into your own ego – this CUP idea can help you.

*Part of the exhibition “100 CUPS” showing 100 transformed paper cups.

Deconstructed and Remade

Leo Kesting Gallery in New York is showing an intersting artist: David Meanix. The artist tears photographs and collages them back together. The portrait has been taken and is ripped apart to then be remade representing a fresh look at our personal identities. Meanix plays with the implification of truth and definitiveness a picture is limited through. By opening and destroying the final structure he is able to reinterprete the meaning of the whole picture.

His artwork is shown in company to paintings of Beka Goedde.

March 20 – April 6, 2008
Opening Night Reception: Thursday March 20, 7:00 – 10:00 pm
812 Washington St (at the corner of Gansevoort) New York, NY 10014

Viel Spaß in der Ausstellung!

Audi Design Award: and the winner is… the Jury!

Admittedly it is always complicated to describe more or less abstract objects visually. And it is hard to combine arts and industry. When done so, many people understand the outcome as »design«. So it happened with the Audi design award for the eastern region of Germany where the task was to create a sculpture.

From three design schools – the Hochschule Wismar, the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and the Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau – only 8 concepts participated. A rather small competition. Task was to create a sculpture that is connected to the Corporate Design of Audi. The winner sculpture would be handed out on special occasions of Audi in the eastern region (of Germany – yes it is still in the heads…).

Winner of the competition with a prize money of 2.000 Euros is Sandra Huxoll. Not her fault is the wish-wash statement of the jury: »The design convinced the jury by its modern and at the same time timeless style. The model has a high design