Installation at the Edith-Russ-Haus lights up in the evening hours
In January, the Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art will once again be presenting a new project in its experimental exhibition format “Aquarium”: from January 13 to 24, students from the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg will be showing their work in the form of a collective video room, which can be seen in the evening hours in the outdoor area of the Edith-Russ-Haus. There will be a short introduction to the exhibition project at the opening on Wednesday, January 13 at 7 pm in the presence of the students.
The project was developed by students on the Masters of Education and BA Art and Media courses under the artistic direction of lecturer Anke Fischer. Together, they composed a spatial installation of video works, which are now displayed on the window front of the Edith-Russ-Haus with the help of projections and monitors. Under the title “das selbe ist nicht das selbe” (the same is not the same), the students have put together a collection of rhythmic videos. The video compositions are the subject of an agglomeration analysis, a method for discovering similarity structures in computer science. Daily routines and the diversity of end devices in the media landscape form the cornerstones of the investigation of differences in the appearance of media images.
The following are involved in the exhibition project: Lena Kristin Ammersken, Sonja Behmann, Annika Buschen, Mareike Cohrs, Jana Dietl, Rosalie Gloistein, Johanna Hackmann, Christoph Hörnschemeyer, Shahab Ibrahim, Anna Ketz, Irina Langolf, Julia Pertenbreiter, Raphaela Rehbach, Jan Claas Paul Tholen and Marit Eileen Winter.
About the Aquarium exhibition format
With the Aquarium exhibition format, which was launched in spring 2015, the directors of the Edith-Russ-Haus want to open a window onto the urban space in the truest sense of the word. The seminar room of the Edith-Russ-Haus, whose windows look out onto Katharinenstraße/corner of Peterstraße, is used for this purpose. The changing installations in the windows thus shine into the street space and bring media art into the city. On the one hand, installations by international artists are shown in the Aquarium. The exhibition format also offers young and local artists – such as students from the University of Oldenburg – a forum to communicate directly with the city in a playful, experimental and flexible way.