ZKM

After a mildly harrowing night train ride from Vienna to Karlsruhe, we spent 3 days at ZKM centre for media art which is housed in an old ammunitions factory. This was my first visit to ZKM having heard about it for years and I was damn impressed... the scale both physically and the amount of exhibitions, art works and catalogues they generate is incredible... I saw three shows, Medium Religion, YOU_ser and Bit all of which were very interesting. We had a tour of Bit with curator Darko Fritz, just a stunning show. I'm posting 3 images: the robot bible-writer is from Medium Religion (beautiful, so delicate), the big light wall is an installation in the ZKM main foyer by Rosalie, and an image from ZKM from the outside. The glass cube building contains studios for the Music and Acoustics department....

heaven

Finally, bed, coffee and wireless, my idea of ....... The last few days have been a busy blur of traveling of being programed round the clock, hence the silence. So will try and catch up. First... THE LIGHT LAB. We took a visit to this very cool space at the Department of Building and Environment at Danube University. The lab is a dome made of lights that can be controlled to represent the exact lighting conditions of any time of year, any time of year, bright or overcast - where you can test what the interior lighting will be of a building. You make a scale model of your proposed building, put it in the middle of the dome, adjust the settings and hey presto. Aside from its general usefulness as a tool, for an installation artist its just a very interesting and unusual space!

Krems: things on buildings and a nice door

Krems

Todays's lecture with Slavko Kacunko was at the Krem's campus so we took the train from Furth Palt to Krems, and walked through the town to get to campus.

Print collection at Gottweig

The monastery has Austria's largest private collection of historical graphical art. The collection has over 20,000 pieces and dates back to the first reported acquisition in 1621. A digitization project is underway and many pieces are now available for view in an online database - and can also be ordered as beautiful reproduction prints! Get your orders in for Christmas!

University of the Danube, Austria

I'm here in Austria for my third module in the Media Arts Histories program which runs between two locations: the main University campus in Krems and the Gottweig Monastery in Furth. Yesterday and today we have lectures with Erkki Huhtamo from UCLA on a variety of topics related to media archeology. Lectures at the monastery involve a 30 minute hike!

Safely arrived in Cardiff, Wales. In the bosom of family.

traveling again...

After 6 days in Regina I am on my way again, this time to the UK for 2 days and then on to Austria for 2 weeks.... Currently in Calgary airport.

Apologies for the total lack of post over the last two weeks, I have been consumed with art making... Check out my show at:

http://uregina.ca/rvk/residencia_corazon.html