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Munich, 13.01.2012

Art and sustainability - Sessions at DLD12

Yoko Ono as guest of honor / Extensive art-sessions and exhibitions
For the eighth time the “Digital-Life-Design” Conference takes place from January 22nd until January 24th in Munich. The name says it all as the dialogue about art and design is strongly connected with an interdisciplinary exchange. With this aspiration in mind DLD presents a series of discussions, organized and presented by the co-director of the Serpentine Gallery London, Hans Ulrich Obrist. The prelude on January 22nd is a conversation with artist, musician and film maker Yoko Ono. Her credo is “Imagine Peace” which makes her an exceptional personality and an icon of the peace movement. Together with John Lennon she held the legendary “Bed-In for Peace” at Amsterdam’s Hilton Hotel.
 
“Connect the Unexpected“ and interdisciplinary relations – this is DLD’s philosophy. The amount of creative potential will be released during the high-quality round “Lights of Africa” on January 23rd on the subject of ‘ecopreneurship’. Hans Ulrich Obrist moderates the discussion with Jamie Drummond, Executive Director of Bono’s ONE.org organization, artist Olafur Eliasson, who is well known for his stagings with light and electricity and Google-Chief Joseph Mucheru who is responsible for sub-Saharan Africa and Kenya. Economic growth in Africa is strongly depended on electricity access. DLD will therefore deal with how to accomplish this goal, the necessity of entrepreneurial spirit, the importance of ecological sustainability, solar technique and “off-grid” energy and the role of fine arts.
 
The second DLD Arts Session will deal with new digital art forms. “Ways Beyond the Internet” addresses especially new digital art forms: how and where does art emerge with the Internet’s logic that the information society experiences through increasing digitalization and new ways of image productions and how is this reproduced within a non-digital reality? Artists and “Digital Natives” as Cory Arcangel (New York), Karen Archey (New York), Ed Fornieles (London) Keller/Kosmas (Berlin), Oliver Laric (Berlin), John Nash (London), Rafael Rozendaal (Amsterdam/Rio) will talk about their work and “Post-Internet” projects. The artists expose their work together with Ryan Trecartin and Timur Si-Qin in the DLD12 exhibition “Ways Beyond The Internet”, realized by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Johannes Fricke Waldthausen.
 
Further information can be found at: www.dld-conference.com
 
 
Hintergrundinformation:

DLD (Digital - Life - Design) is a global conference network on innovation, digital media, science and culture which connects business, creative and social leaders, opinion-formers and investors for crossover conversation and inspiration. Chairmen of DLD are publisher Hubert Burda and serial digital investor Yossi Vardi. DLD has been founded by Stephanie Czerny and Marcel Reichart. Previous DLD speakers included Olafur Eliasson, Thomas Demand, Tino Seghal, Taryn Simon, Ai Wei Wei, M/M Paris, Carsten Höller, Anri Sala, Pae White, Stuart Brand, or designers like Konstantin Grcic,Yves Behar, John Maeda and Ross Lovegrove, Zaha Hadid and Lord Norman Foster, author Paolo Coelho, photographer Olivieri Toscani, Carlo Ratti from the MIT, French film director Luc Besson, futurologist John Naisbitt, Tate Modern´s Chris Dercon and MoMA´s Design Curator Paola Antonelli.

 

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