Re-Vision
Sampling as a cultural strategy

November 25, 2006 - February 4, 2007
Opening: November 24, 2006, 8 pm

Christoph Girardet / Matthias Müller, Manual, 2002

Artists:
J. Tobias Anderson, ASCII Art Ensemble, Craig Baldwin, Dara Birnbaum, Mark Boswell, Lenka Clayton, Maureen Connor, Christoph Girardet / Matthias Müller, Christian Marclay, Tatjana Marusic, Julia Müller, M+M


Julia Müller, Views, 2006

Re-Vision is an exhibition that addresses the growing importance of methods of appropriation and recycling of existing visual data from the media. Current artistic production showcases the recycling of images as a creative process. The massive visual output of the media society serves as the point of departure for generating new readings from globally available mass media images and subjecting media images to critical examination. An aesthetic of repetition recycles film images used in other contexts for the artists' own production process. The recombination of data and visual information is presented as a cultural principle of reflecting media content to question the assumptions of perceptive habits and make possible a different view of widely known societal and cultural patterns.

The principle of 'found footage', the use of preexisting film material, proceeds from the viewer's visual experience. The very circumstance that the original footage is recognisable demonstrates the semantic shift intended by the artists in manipulating and transforming this material. Recycling images calls attention to the pictures themselves and refers to the cultural visual memory of a society in which everything is accessible at all times and sampling is not just a digital technology but has indeed become the dominant lifestyle of an era.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a media education programme, which will transpose the issues addressed to the practical plane with adolescents and young adults. The pro-gramme accompanying the exhibition will consist of film screenings to explore the issues dealt with by the exhibition in more depth and elucidate them.

Events:
Saturday, November 25
Workshop and Party
M+M
Fifty-Fifty, Workshop, 12-6 pm
A batman's trip with DJ Bülent Kullukcu, Party, 10 pm

Thursday, November 30, 8 pm
Filmscreening
Craig Baldwin
Spectres of the Spectrum

Thursday, December 7, 8 pm
Filmscreening and artist talk
Christoph Girardet / Volker Schreiner
Fiction Artists

Friday, December 8, 8 pm
Intersite_Paris
Urban Space as Media Location
Presentation with the Ecole d'Achitecture Paris-Malaquais, Vera Doerk, Paula von Sydow, Prof. Uli Seher and students

Thursday, Dezember 14, 8 pm
Presentation and artist talk
ubermorgen.com (Hans Bernhard)
Amazon Noir - The Big Book Crime and other projects

Friday, January 19, 2007, 8 pm
Presentation
Dorkbots in Oldenburg
people doing strange things with electricity

Thursday, January 25, 8 pm
Presentation and artist talk
Annina Rüst
Rock'n'Scroll

Open hours:
Thursday - Friday 2pm - 5 pm
Saturday, Sunday 11 am - 5 pm

Tours:
Every Sunday, 3 pm
Group Tours upon request

Admission:
2,50 / 1,50 EUR

Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst
Edith Russ Site for Media Art
Katharinenstraße 23
D-26121 Oldenburg
Tel.: +49 (0)4 41/ 235 32 08
Fax: +49 (0)4 41/ 235 21 61

Press Photos

The exhibition is kindly supported by: