guest post / media culture / what is...?
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!
events / guest post / media culture
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.
exhibition / guest post
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.
guest post / interview
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.
exhibition / for schools / guest post / what is...?
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.
exhibition / guest post
Maya Man was elected by the Friends of HEK 2023 community to create a solo exhibition on HEK’s online exhibition space, virtual.hek.ch. In this blog post, Man gives insights into the conceptual background of the exhibition, exploring Danish fairytales, the online shopping platform, depop, and red shoes as objects of desire.
guest post
Marina Nething of nextmuseum.io/ Museum Ulm (DE) reflects on the first months of HEK’s blockchain-based extended circle of friends, Friends of HEK.
for schools / guest post / media culture
Can you find the cat hidden in the hill? Can you understand what the flowers in the forest are discussing? Who lives in the mushrooms that grow in the caves? In the water world, who is watching over the sparkling crown? Which couriers deliver food to the floating cloud village? Do you see the great rice cake planet in outer space? A guest article by Andrea Fortmann.
