SCRIPT FILMS. Script as Image in Movement
Hezraelah 2 November 16, 2013–January 12, 2014 SCRIPT FILMS. Script as Image in Movement An exhibition at the ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art Opening: Fri, November 15, 2013, 7 p.m., admission free! Through multiple digital possibilities, script can go beyond its function in the mediation of information and is increasingly gaining an autonomous, aesthetic status. Analog or digitally based films or film fragments are referred to as script films, whereby moving, animated, graphically designed and, above all, script set to sound play the main role. The exhibition “SCRIPTFILMS” leads to places in which we encounter moving script: artistic productions, but also feature films, advertising, music videos or media facades in cities. The project “SCRIPTFILMS” represents an attempt to compile, typologize and publically present classical popular as well as lesser noticed and frequently difficult to access script films from twenty countries dating from 1895 to the present. The exhibition enables visitors interactive access to script films: they can select the films and the kind of performance themselves. The exhibition is arranged as a mobile archive. The presentation at the ZKM provides insights into cultural and media developments, offers retrospectives and diagnosis of the present, but also outlooks into the media future, not least in the interactive media. The project “SCRIPTFILMS” is collaborative project between the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe and the Experimental Media Lab (xm:lab) at the Saar Academy of Fine Arts, FACT Foundation for Art and Creative Technology Liverpool and Goethe Institutes worldwide. The project was sponsored by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes. Curators: Prof. Dr. Bernd Scheffer, Dr. Christine Stenzer, Dr. Soenke Zehle, in cooperation with Prof. Peter Weibel Artists: Marc Adrian, David Alexander Anderson, John Baldessari, Lesley Barnes, Saul Bass, Yann Beauvais, Bessere Werbung, Kevin Blanc, Claus Blume, Mark Boswell, Stan Brakhage, Andreas Brehmer, Marcel Broodthaers, Egon Bunne, Alexander Chen / Philip Stockton, Chic & Artistic, Chorus, Tony Cokes, Kyle Cooper, Ian Cross, Cryptoburners, Das Werk, Silvie und Chérif Defraoui, Dellbrügge & de Moll, Klaus Peter Dencker, Dog!film, Marcel Duchamp, Anna Duquennois, eachfilm, Thomas Alva Edison, Sergei M. Eisenstein, Simon Ellis, Harald Emami / Alexander Sturm / Nils Krieger, Expanded Gramophone Project, Pablo Ferro, Victor Fleming, FluXus Heidelberg, Focus, Förderverein Pro Asyl e.V., Hollis Frampton, John Franz, Jochen Gerz, Terry Gilliam, Paul Glabicki, Peter Göltenboth, Anna Gollwitzer, Ian William Gouldstone, Andrew Gribble, Stephan Groß, Charly Gutierrez, H5, Orla Mc Hard, Oliver Harrison, Bertram Haude / Jens Volz, Dirk Hensiek, Kylie Hibbert, Gary Hill, Jonathan Hodgson, Jenny Holzer, Imaginary Forces, Isidore Isou, Jonas & François, Eduardo Kac, Dieter Kiessling, Jakob Kirchheim, Klub Zwei, Clemens Kogler, Tom Konyves, Florian Krautkrämer, Andreas Krein, Ferdinand Kriwet, Fritz Lang,...