Sabine Himmelsbach, Director of House of Electronic Arts Basel to visit India
Sabine Himmelsbach to talk at CeC 2016 in Shillong and at Experimenter Kolkata and Shrishti School of Art and Design, Bangalore.

Sabine Himmelsbach, Director of HeK, will be in India to deliver a talk at CeC 2016 in Shillong and at Experimenter Kolkata and Shrishti School of Art and Design, Bangalore.

Kolkata  | 24 February 2016 
at Experimenter Kolkata
Entry open to all

Shillong | 26 - 28 February 2016 
On the occasion of the tenth edition of Carnival of e-Creativity 
at NEHU (North Eastern Hill University) |Meghalaya Department of Arts & Culture, Shillong

Bangalore | 3 May 2016
at Srishti Institute of Art, Design & Technology
Entry open to all

Data Cultures. Artistic Practise in a Data-driven Society
Examples from the program at HeK (House of Electronic Arts Basel) 
The presentation will focus on works from the field of media arts that reflect life in a world increasingly controlled by data and that raise questions on the societal, political, cultural and social effects brought about by a data driven society. Works shown and discussed are devoted to the potentials offered by the use of the media technology to design sustainable and livable digital and material conditions. Artists raise questions about the importance and position of the individual within our technologically linked society and offer alternatives to a standardized data world. They show new possibilities and opportunities to design our own networks and help us to shape the future of our data society.

Specific strategies explored by artists shown in the presentation include DIY, hacking, sampling, immersive and technologically innovative environments, and the use of algorithms for a generative development of visual material. Examples will come from exhibitions from Himmelsbach's curatorial practice at the HeK (House of Electronic Arts Basel). 

Partners: The Academy of Electronic Arts, Experimenter Kolkata and Srishti Institute of Art, Design & Technology