Director Bernd Scherer on the program March/April

Dear Guests,
Now that the HKW year has been rung in with the Opening Days of our new program The New Alphabet, we will continue to explore alphabets, algorithms, and archives, musically with the Find the File festival, in literature with The New Weird in March, and artistically and discursively in April on Life Forms in our technologically interwoven world.
The Bauhaus is another focus in its centenary year: The exhibition bauhaus imaginista removes any doubts about whether the Bauhaus was a political place. “Even if Walter Gropius claimed that there could be apolitical art, art is always political, even and especially in troubled times.” I wholeheartedly agree with this assessment by Deutschlandfunk and am looking forward to having spirited discussions with you.

Online Documentation

Mississippi. An Anthropocene River: Kickoff

How can planetary Anthropocenic transformations become graspable at a local scale? At the inaugural symposium in Minneapolis, key collaborators of the project gathered to introduce their specific regional approaches to this question by presenting the methodologies of their model projects. (Photo: USGS/NASA/Landsat 7)

• To article on anthropocene-curriculum.org
• More about “Mississippi. An Anthropocene River”

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Online journal

100 Years of Now Journal

The journal explores ideas generated during the course of the transdisciplinary project 100 Years of Now (2015-2019) in greater depth. Artists, scientists, and observers will throw new light on global political conflicts, supposed side scenes of history, and on the planetary entanglement of technological, human, and natural forces.

• journal.hkw.de
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bauhaus imaginista Journal

The online scientific publishing platform bauhaus-imaginista.org is home to details of the research processes and results of bauhaus imaginista.

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Online magazine

Technosphere Magazine

Research pieces, essays, artistic and experimental approaches to the technosphere: Which are its organizing principles? How is it inscribed into individuals and how does it shape entire societies?

• technosphere-magazine.hkw.de
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Online journal

Hubert Fichte: Love and Ethnology

The international exhibition project Hubert Fichte: Love and Ethnology is being accompanied by the web journal projectfichte.org. It offers insights into the writing of Hubert Fichte (1935 –1986) in German, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Wolof and English. The writer and ethnologist is considered a poetic and documentarian realist precursor for new disciplines in Germany such as Queer Studies and Postcolonial Studies.

• projectfichte.org
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Website

Anthropocene-Curriculum.org

As a collaborative experiment the Anthropocene Curriculum explores the novel epistemic, aesthetic, and educational challenges of the age of humankind. Its online platform Anthropocene-Curriculum.org gives voice to an evolving worldwide network of researchers, artists, and local communities, while inviting engagement and participation in transforming our common knowledge baselines.

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Blog

Afro-Sonic Mapping

What musical patterns have been preserved in the sounds of the African Diaspora, thus defying time and forced migration? Satch Hoyt follows their traces in today’s metropolises Luanda, Kinshasa, Salvador de Bahia, and Lisbon. He documents his research in an English-language blog.

• More about the project