Open Codes
Open Codes enters its second round under the title "Open Codes II: The world as a data field!"
Under the title "Open Codes II: The world as a data field", the development of digitalization and its effects on everyday life are highlighted. Instead of a classic museum atmosphere, visitors can expect a mixture of laboratory and lounge.
At small tables, on sofas, in bunks and at high-tech workstations between palm trees, visitors will be invited to look, experience and work scientifically with around 120 works of art. "The large number of electronic interfaces such as smartphones, computers, television, radio, display panels in offices, airports, stock exchanges and train stations that surround everyone in the western world every day clearly shows that navigation using the sun, moon and stars has long since been replaced by satellite-based navigation and
other instruments. Man in the digital world
From cell phone codes to genetic codes and the notation of music to sign language - "Codes are the key to entering the world of today," said Weibel. That is why it is important for the general public to understand them.age is guided by available mobile phone masts, visible satellites in the sky and is guided to its destination by algorithms. Today's migrants travel with smartphones instead of passports: in a world managed by codes, it is the passport of the twenty-first century. After the coded world, the exhibition
now provides an insight into this digital world dominated by data." (Peter Weibel, artistic-scientific
director of the ZKM)
The ZKM has found a number of research partners for the show, including the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). The drugstore chain dm is also taking part - it wants to place the topic prominently in its 2,000 stores.
New large-scale installation: atrium becomes data hub
Lichthof 8 presents the new installation The World as a Data Field (idea and concept: Peter Weibel; programming and realization: Christian Lölkes), which confronts us in an exaggerated way with data on the numerous screens that accompany us around the clock, from the airport to the train station to the stock exchange, at home and on the move.
Data fields are omnipresent: which planes are in
our airspace, what is the network weather like, how much data
is currently flowing through the fiber optics in the house: all this information is collected on over 40 screens in the atrium, which thus becomes a data central station.
Extension of open codes until June 02, 2019
In order to link this historical perspective with the current educational policy experiment Open Codes, the exhibition Open Codes will be extended until June 2, 2019. From February 23, Part I of Writing the History of the Future will open on the second floor, in the immediate vicinity. This will make it possible to build a bridge between "life in digital worlds" and the history of electronic and digital art, between exhibition and collection practices that have been following common lines for 30 years.