The House of Electronic Arts in Basel / Switzerland is dedicated to exploring art that employs media technology and reflects on the social, economic and political aspects of our daily use of “electronics”. The inaugural exhibition, curated by Raffael Dörig, is titled “Together in Electric Dreams. Absent Presence”. The show features the artists !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Stefan Baltensperger & David Siepert, Kit Galloway & Sherrie Rabinowitz, Jonathan Harris & Sep Kamvar, Esther Hunziker, Markus Kison, Oliver Laric, Marc Lee, Unsworn Industries. The exhibition runs through September 18, 2011.
The House of Electronic Arts (Haus für elektronische Künste) is the successor to plug.in Art & New Media, and Shift – Electronic Arts Festival. The House of Electronic Arts combines the previous activities of plug.in and Shift and its new agenda under one roof.
Opening of the inaugural exhibition of the House of Electronic Arts in Basel / Switzerland, May 27, 2011. Video by Karolina Zupan-Rupp and Geoff Gilmore.
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