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A Look Back: Holiday Pass Workshop – A Week of Minecraft
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.
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Portals into Digital Worlds – Surfing on the «WEK» Planet
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.
Denise Blickhan in conversation with Boris Magrini
Boris Magrini, curator and head of Program at HEK, interviews artist Denise Blickhan. Blickhan’s work, MEDUSA Cycle 2022, is exhibited at HEK as part of the «Performing Traces – Regionale 23» exhibition.
Meme Reading List by Harley Aussoleil
Harley Aussoleil of COVEN Berlin looks back on the topic of memes, proposing a reading list that encompasses some of the important themes covered in the “Complainers and Killjoys: Criticizing the Art World through Memes” workshop as well as “Media Culture A-Z: Memes”.
Medienkultur A-Z: Memes
For this edition of Medienkultur A-Z we are doing a deep-dive into the world of memes with meme-researcher Idil Galip who will be joined by Harley Aussoleil and Lorena Juan from queer art collective, COVEN BERLIN.