In her talk Art + Tech. A curatorial practice that reflects the impact of media technologies on society
Sabine Himmelsbach will speak on life in the digital condition and the complex relationship between humans and machines or
algorithmic systems by presenting examples from her curatorial practice at HeK, House of Electronic Arts Basel – from screen
based works, virtual reality, interactive installations to artificial intelligence.
Since March 2012, Sabine
Himmelsbach is the new director of HeK (House of Electronic Arts Basel). After studying art history in Munich she worked for
galleries in Munich and Vienna from 1993–1996 and later became project manager for exhibitions and conferences for the Steirischer
Herbst Festival in Graz, Austria. In 1999 she became exhibition director at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe.
From 2005–2011 she was the artistic director of the Edith-Russ-House for Media Art in Oldenburg, Germany. Her exhibition projects
include ‘Fast Forward’ (2003); ‘Coolhunters’ (2004); ‘Ecomedia’ (2007); ‘MyWar’ (2010) and ‘Culture(s) of Copy’ (2011). 2011
she curated ‘gateways. Art and Networked Culture’ for the Kumu Art Museum in Tallinn as part of the European Capital of Culture
Tallinn 2011 program. Her exhibitions at HeK in Basel include ‘Sensing Place’ (2012),‘Semiconductor: Let There be Light’ (2013),
‘Ryoji Ikeda’ (2014), ‘Poetics and Politics of Data’(2015), ‘Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Preabsence’ (2016), ‘unREAL’ (2017), ‘Lynn
Hershman Leeson: Anti-Bodies’, ‘Eco-Visionaries’ (2018) and ‘Entangled Realities. Living with Artificial Intelligence’(2019).
As a writer and lecturer she is dedicated to topics related to media art and digital culture.
https://www.hek.ch
