HYBRID – Arts in the Digital Age
HYBRID – Arts in the Digital Age
At the beginning of the 20th century, HELLERAU was founded as a joint project of industry, research and art and as a response to industrialisation and changes in working and living conditions. More than 100 years later, a new international platform, a laboratory, experimental and discursive space for the arts in the digital age and critical phases of global transformation processes is being established at HELLERAU with HYBRID.
For the launch of HYBRID, a joint festival of digital art and electronic music was presented for the first time in cooperation with MUTEK: HYBRID – CUTTING EDGE CANADA. Originally, this event was planned for March 2020, but due to circumstances it could only take place in 2021 and almost exclusively online. For four days, from 11 – 14 March 2021, audiovisual performances on virtual stages, an interactive gallery and a listening room with a non-stop programme from the archives of the MUTEK Festival in Montreal, as well as a virtual after-show party at objekt klein a were presented to thousands of international online guests.
HYBRID box will be a new modular gallery in front of the Festspielhaus Hellerau presenting experimental and interdisciplinary art in the digital age by local as well as international artists and at the same time accompanying the beginning reconstruction of the original east wing of the barracks.
HYBRID biennial will take place for the first time in HELLERAU from 20-30 October 2022. Based on HELLERAU as a free space in which artistic forms of expression can always be developed in new and speculative ways, HYBRID biennale builds bridges between “analogue” and “digital” or even performing and visual arts. The concept of the hybrid is to be understood not only in its technological, but also in its political and social dimensions, in the principle of kinship, encounters and differences as well as the potentials of diversity.
HYBRID box is a project in cooperation with HELLERAU – European Centre for the Arts and PYLON, powered by GRAFT. Funded within the framework of the Alliance of International Production Houses by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
HYBRID biennale is supported by the Federal Cultural Foundation and the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony. This measure is co-financed by tax funds on the basis of the budget passed by the Saxon State Parliament.
HYBRID Pre-Shows 10. – 12.03.2022
Hardly any other phenomenon is currently changing the arts as fundamentally as digitalisation – with the help of AI and algorithmic processes, not only are new aesthetics emerging, but scenarios beyond the human imagination can also be imagined. HYBRID Biennale, a new festival series on art in the digital age, will focus on the concept of the hybrid in its technological as well as political and social dimensions, in the principle of kinship, encounters and differences as well as the potential of diversity in various performative, installative and musical projects from 20-30 October 2022 in HELLERAU.
HYBRID Biennale // Pre-Shows will present the first themes of the Biennale from 10-12 March: Julian Charrière “An Invitation to Disappear” (in cooperation with ZIMMT), Shiva Feshareki “The Torus of Revolution”, Lecours/Toninato “Inner Seas” (in cooperation with MUTEK) as well as current projects by Artificial Museum, THE CONSTITUTE, SUPERRR Lab and others.
On 10 March, in cooperation with the Landesverband Bildende Kunst Sachsen and the Saxon State Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the “Future Workshop – Art in the Periphery?” will open with talks and discussions highlighting the potential and perspectives of art in the regions as well as questions of visibility and presence in the digital age.
The event “Torus of Revolution” takes place within the framework of the focus BLACKBOX, which was originally planned for November 2020. BLACKBOX is funded by Musikfonds e.V. with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. – The event “An Invitation to Disappear” by Julian Charrière will take place as part of the festival TONLAGEN – 30th Dresden Days of Contemporary Music, funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation and the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony. – HYBRID Pre-Show and HYBRID Box are funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the Alliance of International Production Houses.
