Ever found yourself deep in YouTube nightschool, soaking up knowledge while the rest of the world sleeps? memeclassworldwide (mcww) dives into the world of tutorials, exploring how these everyday "how-tos" can empower or limit us. Curious? Read the full blog post to dive deeper!
Find and download the pixel art you made at the Emoji-Pixel-Party at HEK and Atelier Mondial's 10 year anniversary on the Freilagerplatz!
Learn how to make simple pixel art images and GIFs with Piskel!
When youngsters play Minecraft together for a week, a lot of surprising things happen... Here’s a look back at the one-week Minecraft workshop, which took place in the summer of 2024 as a children’s holiday activity at HEK.
This guest post series by Juan Pablo Garcia Sossa accompanies his installation in the Tools for Change exhibition at HEK. The artist explores alternative network concepts like "Redários"—networks as hammocks that balance and support each other. This first post challenges the extractive logic of data and reimagines digital systems, especially in tropical contexts. More posts will follow over the duration of the exhibition.
US artist Claudia Hart has given the Tinguely Fountain a feminist twist with her virtual female figures. She had a conversation at her home on Staten Island in New York City with Susanna Petrin about the work.
Entanglement is a space of knowledge that was created as part of the exhibition «Libby Heaney: Quantensuppe» (23.3 - 26.5.2024) at the HEK (House of Electronic Arts) as a semester project by Samuel Trümpy at Bern University of the Arts. The website presents different access points to Libby Heaney's exhibition and the themes dealt with therein. The individual chapters are intended to enable new contexts and perspectives by linking and juxtaposing them.
Sabine Himmelbach, Director of HEK and curator of the current exhibition «Libby Heaney: Quantum Soup» and artist Libby Heaney give us insights into the slimey, soupy and fluid world of quantum. Together, they unravel Heaney's unique visual language, explore the intriguing landscape of quantum mechanics, and reflect on Heaney's remarkable journey from quantum physicist to artist.