Exhibition in Kunstbezirk
31. Stuttgarter Filmwinter

Leonhardsplatz 28
70182 Stuttgart

Fr, 09.02.2018, 7 – 9 PM
Sa, 10.02 .2018, 3 – 7 PM
Su, 11.02.2018, 3 – 7 PM

Guided tours: Sa & Su, 10. & 11.02.2018, 3 PM

Lecture „expanded power point” by Daniel Burkhardt, Christian Faubel, Luis Negron van Grieken Sa, 10.02.2018, 5 PM

Agustina Andreoletti, Manuel Boden, Friedrich Boell, Beatriz Malgenia Cortes, Paul Leo, Florian Liesenfeld, Dawid Liftinger , Andreas Niegl , Marko Salapura, Camilo Sandoval, Hye Young Sin, Nikolai Szymanski, Seongmin Yuk, Karen Zimmermann

The exhibition’s title suggests a paradoxical negation: what is left of a film once you subtract the film?

The seminar of the same name, held during the winter semester 2017/18 at Academy of Media Arts Cologne, was dedicated to this question. Initiated by Daniel Burkhardt, Christian Faubel and Luis Negrón (all academic staff at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne), the students were asked to reply to the abstract question with concrete artistic works. To do this, they were allowed to use the whole range of kinetic, hydraulic, thermodynamic, algorithmic or performative methods of image and sound creation. Only the recourse to common time-based recording and storage media was to be explicitly avoided or they were to be made audible and visible in an unusual fashion.

The intention behind these block-outs was to stimulate a renewed reflection on the various kinds of “black boxes” such as cameras, projectors and computers which surround us in our media-oriented daily life as a given. It was important to become aware of the basic functional principles and to obtain divergent forms and new possibilities of understanding through playful approaches of imitation and misuse but also through breaking up and hacking.