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Guest Post: After the Dataset — An Introduction by Gazelli Art House
Selected by the Friends of HEK community, After the Dataset by Gazelli Art House explores how AI shapes cultural memory and visual knowledge. In this guest post, curator Pegah Hoghoughi introduces the exhibition, opening Friday, 17.04.2026 at 17:00 (CEST) on virtual.hek.ch.
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The Ocean in Your Lungs: Why Plankton Matter
What connects the air in your lungs with glowing oceans and towering cliffs? Artist and researcher Anthea Oestreicher explores how microscopic plankton shape our world – from oxygen and climate to stone and memory. Experience it live at her TechBrunch on August 10 at HEK, during the “Other Intelligences” finissage weekend.
Braiding Interdependent Redários: Part One: Nets of Net-Resting
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.
Entanglement – an Space of Knowledge
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.
Quantum Magic with Libby Heaney
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.