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München , 20.1.2010

DLD Conference: Art and Science in dialog

A panel on interferences between visual arts, data design and science by Hans Ulrich Obrist

With great pleasure the DLD 2010 conference in Munich announces the multi-dimensional panel discussion "Maps for the 21st Century", moderated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director of Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Programmes at the Serpentine Gallery, London Munich, HVB Forum, January 25, 6.30 pm.

With regard to the multi-dimensional superstring theory, the panel conflates 11 extraordinary speakers to solidify cross-sections of visual arts, data design and science. "Maps for the 21st Century" is a call to artists, designers and scientists to showcase possible maps for the next decade. Evolving around the notion of "mapping", the panel condenses how artists, designers and scientists apply maps to intersect visual art concepts, storytelling, statistics, computer based design, and science.

The Internet increased the presence of maps in our thinking. It has become easier to make maps, to change them, and also to work on them collaboratively and collectively and share them (e.g. Google Maps and Google Earth). Depicting not mere geographical areas, these multidimensional maps express a vast area of interconnected ideas and issues in a world where maps and networks are evermore reticulated and interrelated. After the focus on social networks in the last couple of years- could the focus now be on location as a new key dimension?

Introducing Obrist’s new book "Maps fort he 21st Century" , published by Thames & Hudson, this ongoing project responds to an urgent need to chart this first decade of a century characterized by terms such as increasing displacement, migration and globalisation.

"Maps for the 21st century" (DLD version)

In addition, DLD and Hans Ulrich Obrist are delighted to announce the free poster project "Maps of the 21st Century" (curated by Obrist an Johannes Fricke Waldthausen). Featuring maps by artists, thinkers and designers such as Julieta Aranda, Rosa Barba, Ed Ruscha, Maurizio Cattelan, Rivane Neuenschwander, Simone Forti, Koo Joeng A, Anri Sala, Philippe Parreno, Qiu Zhijie, Pae White, Stamen Design San Francisco, Aaron Koblin (Google Creative Lab), and filmmaker Alexander Kluge, they will be on display at the conference and a free "take away" present for DLD's 2010 community.

Gray Area Foundation for the Arts (Gaffta.org)

The Gray Area Foundation for the Arts (Gaffta.org) will display digital artwork by Aaron Koblin (Google Creative Lab, Stamen Design and the MIT Senseable City Lab, Boston throughout the conference setting. Gray Area Foundation for the Arts is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to building social consciousness through digital culture.

background information :

Hans Ulrich Obrist is a museum director, curator, writer, art critic, cultural instigator, and professional conversationalist. Since 1991, Obrist has curated over 150 international exhibitions, including "do it", "Take Me, I'm Yours", "Live/Life", 1st Berlin Biennale, Manifesta 1, "Uncertain States of America", 1st Moscow Triennale, and 2nd Guangzhou Biennale. He is co-director of Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects at the Serpentine Gallery, London, and was previously curator of the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; curator of museum in progress, Vienna; and founder

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Pae White, "Gebrochenes Weiss" (2010)

Philippe Parreno, "Untitled" (2010)

Aaron Koblin, Flight Patterns (2008)