11 Feb 2013 – 17 Feb 2013

Frankfurter Kunstverein

Frankfurt/Main, Germany

‘The Rules’

NODE13's exhibition examined the rule sets of machines, humans and social interactions through a curated exhibition with works by international artists.

For one week Frankfurter Kunstverein became the home of a mixed media exhibition that critically assessed the role of rules in our lives. What are the transformatory effects computer rules have on our society? What is the interrelationship between the practical, aesthetical work with our computers and the alteration of our lived realities? How does this affect our ways of using digital tools?

Surrounding these questions, the exhibition opened up a dialogue and critical discourse for experts and the general public alike. The exhibited artworks rendered visible the manifold ideas of ‘The Rules’ as a design matter. One the one hand this was done through the creation of their very own rules within the realm of the artistic piece itself, whilst other artists took a critical stance at the existing rule systems in our society such as computer networks or conventions of the art world.

Artists

NODE13’s exhibition presented 17 international artists including

Memo Akten, Gabriel Hošovský, Rainer Kohlberger, Patrizia Kommerell & Gabriel Shalom, Geoffrey Lillemon, Marcin Nowicki & Katarzyna Nestorowicz (Noviki Studio), Rafaël Rozendaal, Robert Mathy, Kyle McDonald, Julian Oliver, Evy Schubert, Ivo Schüssler, Daniel Schwarz, Kathrin Stumreich and Elliot Woods.

Impressions

From analog to digital, from real to virtual, from static to dynamic. NODE13’s exhibition presented more than 15 works of international artists. Among others:

‘Simple Harmonic Motion’

Artwork

by Memo Akten

Memo Akten establishes an audio-visual rule book, which is executed until it comes to a full circle and closes in.

‘Humming, Fast and Slow’

Artwork

by Rainer Kohlberger

60 hertz, 24bit colours and a few million pixels create the illusion of a continuous event.

Artist talks

At NODE Forum for Digital Arts the exhibiting artists are active participants of the festival week. During the artist talks both, Frankurt’s public and the experts of the educational program, get their’s money’s worth.

Choreographed drones and generative design pattern

Talk

by Memo Akten

This was premium time with the man who knows how to make magic with code: Memo Akten.

‘Romance of Technology’

Screening, Talk

by Geoffrey Lillemon

Geoffrey Lillemon talked about his works of hallucinatory poetry that reach into the infinite depths of the subconscious where the real and the imaginary interact.

Eno Henze

Berlin/Frankfurt, Germany

Eno Henze is an artist, scenographer and designer based in Berlin and Frankfurt. His works examine how machines transform aesthetic reasoning and notions of the human. Combining theory with technology and computation, Henze creates images and spaces that oscillate between great complexity and clarity, between human and machine origin.

Andreas Broeckmann

Berlin/Lüneburg, Germany

Dr. Andreas Broeckmann is an art historian and curator who lives in Berlin and Lüneburg. He has been the Director of the new Leuphana Arts Program at Leuphana Universität Lüneburg since October 2011. He was the Founding Director of the Dortmunder U – Centre for Art and Creativity (2009-2011) and Artistic Director of ISEA2010 RUHR, the 16th International Symposium on Electronic Art in the context of the European Cultural Capital, Ruhr.2010.

Jeanne Charlotte Vogt

Frankfurt & Hamburg, DE

Jeanne is a dramaturge, curator and cultural producer. Since 2017, she is the artistic and managing director of NODE. Trained in management theory, working in arts and culture, she embodies the multidisciplinary perspective in the team. Her projects are working at the intersection between the digital arts, performance and technology, always aiming at spreading the means for the critical reflection and application of technology.