On International Museum Day, the HMKV is offering an exciting programme for young and old. What would you do if you were standing opposite one of the giant machines? Create short, funny comics. Short guided tours of the current World of Matter exhibition are offered every full hour. Or would you like to explore our exhibitions on your own? Our children's rally is waiting for you at the entrance!

A research project by Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV) which looks at the use, the adaptation and (re-)invention of (new) technologies in three African countries. Check out our live travel blog!

Once a month, the Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV) invites visitors to a guided tour with interpreters for German sign language.

On selected Sundays, the interpreters accompany a tour through the international media art exhibition World of Matter. The exhibition focuses on our use of the earth's raw materials: water, sugar, oil, cotton, rice and many more. It documents the changes to the environment that humans are making in order to access these raw materials ever more quickly and effectively. Pictures, videos, room installations and murals show the artists' research. The guided tour invites deaf and hearing-impaired people in particular on a journey around the world: from Brazil, Canada, India and Nigeria to Egypt.

The guided tour is included in the entrance fee to the exhibition. Up to 15 people can take part. Please register (at least 7 days in advance) at info@hmkv.de. Duration: approx. 45 minutes.

Duration: about 45 mins.

Dates:
Sun, 09 March 2014, 4 pm
Sun, 13 April 2014, 4 pm
Sun, 11 Mai 2014, 4 pm
Sun, 01 June 2014, 2pm (family tour)

Registration and details at: info@hmkv.de

The art historian and former park ranger Emily Eliza Scott takes visitors on two expeditions through the exhibition, exploring the various locations and topics of World of Matter in the specific context of the Ruhr.

The last INDUSTRIAL Matinée will be the occasion to dive into some of the documents on the table of INDUSTRIAL (Research) but, also, to share a few new discoveries, presented by Thibaut de Ruyter, one of the two curators of the exhibition.

From Industry to Industrial presents a series of historic and contemporary promotional, documentary and experimental films and videos on industry. Among the subjects it addresses are oil, coal and steel as historic drivers of modernisation, the relationships between men and machines, the capitalisation of cities and the artists’ take on the rise and fall of western industrial societies.

For the project UTOPIA STOCK EXCHANGE we are appealing to inhabitants of Dortmund and its environs. We are looking for utopias of any kind. Anyone with a good idea that has the potential to be developed may take part. UTOPIA STOCK EXCHANGE asks: What would you do if for once money, time and feasibility didn’t matter? What should Dortmund look like if everything were possible? What would be different in a perfect world?

The four-day NEW INDUSTRIES CONFERENCE examines the global financial crisis, the consequences of de-industrialisation, and the emergence of new forms of industry. A science slam on ‘New Industries’ will round off the programme.