From Sparks to Pixels

This large 3,200 sq.m. exhibition in the Martin Gropius Building in Berlin presented top international artists, known for their large-scale, technically advanced interactive and digital media works, and focused on the relationship between current forms of art and technological energy. Using the medium of art, the exhibition presented the pixel as the cell of electronic images and the electronic image as the carrier of an energy form which no longer bears the characteristics of fossil fuels, and demonstrated how pixels and electronic images have radically called our ideas of controlling energy into question. In addition to commissioning several new works, this exhibition also brought many large-scale and highly complicated, technical installations to Germany for the first time, making it a world-class art event in Berlin. The Berliner Festspiele and curator Richard Castelli demonstrated that Berlin has caught up with the international development of high-technological contemporary art which was previously at home only in Tokyo, Boston, Korea and Israel.

Artistic director: Richard Castelli
Artists: Dumb Type (J), minim++ (J), Studio Azzurro (IT), Romy Achitiv (IL), Jean Michel Bruyère (F), Olafur Eliasson (DK), Kai Fuhrmann, Doug Hall (USA), Nam June Paik, Jeffrey Shaw (AUS), Saburo Teshigawara (J), James Turrell (USA), and others

Venue: Martin Gropius Building, Berlin: 28 Oct. 2007 - 14 Jan. 2008