This is the website of the sound and media artist Anke Eckardt.
Since 2008 her work encompasses sculptures, installations as well as workshops and a theoretical discourse
on the topic of the phenomenology of sounds.
The aesthetic experience can be considered as the foundation of the world.
It is in its nature, that this experience is a social and a political one at the same time.
Between | You | And | Me - multisensory installation by Anke Eckardt receives a
HONORARY MENTION in the “DIGITAL MUSICS AND SOUND ART” CATEGORY OF PRIX ARS ELECTRONICA 2012.
BETWEEN | YOU | AND | ME is a wall of light and sound.
Like any other wall, it redefines an existing architectural space. Instead of stone, this wall consists of dynamic, ephemeral media: beams of light within the air and ultrasound. Unlike countless separative and immaterial walls in society BETWEEN | YOU | AND | ME is a wall people can walk through.
BETWEEN | YOU | AND | ME - Multisensory Installation by Anke Eckardt (2011)
Concept/Realisation: Anke Eckardt
Composition: Anke Eckardt, Henry Koch
Programming: Peter Votava, Yvan Volochine
Truss Construction: Zolle
Thanks to: Douglas Henderson
Photo by Anke Eckardt
The exhibition program of CTM.12 approaches the festival theme SPECTRAL by exploring the phantom effects of our perception, the bad vibes of sonic weaponry, and the truthful or artificial mysteries that are embedded in technological memory storage.
The series with works by Nik Nowak, Anke Eckardt, Chris Salter, AUDiNT, Felix Kubin, Ursula Bogner, Alexander Christou and Laura Lòpez Paniagua takes us beyond the safe ground of clear cause-and-effect relationships, and project us into the uneasy "interzones" between the promises, traumas, and fuzzy logic of ubiquitous technology.
Date: 27 January - 5 February 2012
Adress: Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin, Germany
I was invited to present my ongoing research project "SONIC BEAM ))) - ON THE PERCEPTION OF ULTRA-DIRECTED ACOUSTIC RADIATION." at the "CONFERENCE ON PRACTICE.BASED RESEARCH IN ART AND DESIGN" at the Bauhaus-Universität in Weimar.
‘BETWEEN | You | AND | ME’ (multi-sensory installation by Anke Eckardt, 2011) is a wall of light and sound. The enhanced version was presented for the first time.
The 15th edition of the CYNETART festival for computer-based art is very much characterised by the essence of the Festspielhaus Hellerau that opened 100 years ago. Between November 16th and 26th 2011 the building designed by Heinrich Tessenow especially for the proclaimed “Body Liberation“ movement will be transformed into a space laboratory where cultural, artistic and academic as well as technological dimensions of contemporary and future body perception can be experienced. Visitors are invited to explore various experimental setups at the interface between naturalness and artificiality and thus to experience their corporeality in new and different ways.
I gave a workshop for 10 participants at the CYNETART-Festival on the topic of
"Working with sound in space".
The participants came from such different backgrounds as Visual Arts, Stage Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Music and Radio Broadcasting.
I was invited by Prof. Werner Jauk to present my artistic work at a panel discussion to the topic of "PLURAL REALITIES. VARIABLE MULTISENSORY SPACES. " The panel was part of a larger program with the same name, which took place at the Haus der Architektur Graz and was a co-production of steirischer herbst & Haus der Architektur. (in cooperation with the Institut für Musikwissenschaft der KF-Universität Graz, pop / musik + medien / kunst & Institut für Raumgestaltung, Fakultät Architektur, TU Graz)
Date: 6 October 2011, 7pm
Adress: Haus der Architektur Graz (House of Architecture Graz), Mariahilferstraße 2, A-8020 Graz, Austria
Participants from left to right:
Urs Hirschberg, Institut für Architektur und Medien, TU Graz
Erwin Fiala, Institut für Philosophie, KF Universität Graz
Anke Eckardt, Sound and Media Artist, Berlin
Werner Jauk, Institut für Musikwissenschaft, KF-Universität Graz, pop / musik + medien / kunst
Andreas Lichtblau, lichtblau.wagner architekten, Wien; Institut für Wohnbau, TU Graz
Irmgard Frank, Architektin, Wien; Institut für Raumgestaltung, TU Graz
Moderation: Franziska Hederer, Institut für Raumgestaltung TU Graz
Photo: Georg Kaulfersch
My sound sculpture was awarded the Artist-In-Residence Grant of the Saxon State Ministry for Higher Education, Research and the Fine Arts 2011 by the CynetArt-Jury. This grant is awarded in co-operation with City of Dresden.
|||| SHORT INTERVIEW FOR EVERYDAY LISTENING / SONIC INSPIRATION
After the presentation of my SOUND SCULPTURE ‘ ! ’ MULTICHANNEL at the TODAYSART festival 2010 in The Hague, NL, Hugo Verweij, who runs the very inspiring website EVERYDAY LISTENING / SONIC INSPIRATION (click on link) reviewed my piece and asked me for a short interview within his series FIVE SOUND QUESTIONS TO ... I felt very much honoured to take part and you can find the short interview, which just came online on Friday, Octobre 22, here:
link (click)
|||| VIDEOINTERVIEW at TODAYSART FESTIVAL
There is another video-interview I gave at the TODAYSART FESTIVAL itself in The Hague on 25 September 2010. To see the 2:44min video please follow the
link (click)
