Opening of the Seasons of Media Arts 2020

On September 11, 2020 the Seasons of Media Arts Festival has begun in Karlsruhe. From September to December 2020 Karlsruhe’s public spaces are the stage for video, sound, and light installations, projections on building facades and streets, artistic interventions and experimental events by international and local artists, initiatives, and institutions. The artworks focus on global issues such as the climate crisis and democracy in the age of social media.

In 2019 the City of Karlsruhe, in collaboration with the ZKM, applied to join the UNESCO Creative Cities Network as UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts. The strategy is to foster creativity, diversity, and cooperation in a democratic balance by means of media technology and media arts. This is what the Seasons of Media Arts stand for. Karlsruhe was accepted and joined the UNESCO Network; the Media Arts Festival, curated by ZKM and the City of Karlsruhe, became an established event.

The artworks presented in the festival are on the one hand projects selected by a jury of experts from the new project funding program set up in 2020 by the City of Karlsruhe for media art, and on the other hand there are works by internationally renowned media artists selected by the ZKM.