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Knowbotic Research

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Knowbotic Research (Yvonne Wilhelm, Christian Huebler, Alexander Tuchacek) was established in 1991, and has experimented with formations of information, interface and networked agencies. Their more recent projects present artistic practices in an attempt to find viable forms of intervention in translocal spaces and economies (www.translocal-practices.net).
Since 1998, Knowbotic Research has a professorship and carrying out research in the Art and Media Department at the University of the Arts Zurich, Switzerland

Knowbotic Research has exhibited in major exhibitions including: 48th Biennale Venice, Austrian Pavillon, "Open Fields of Action" , New Museum NY, "Open_Source_Art_Hacking"; Institiuto Cultural Barcelona; "; ZKM Karlsruhe, "net_condition", Art Basel, "Liste2001"; Kunstverein Hamburg "Aussendienst, Hongkong Videotage, Seoul Biennale..
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Their projects have received major awards including: the Hermann Claasen Prize for Media Art and Photography 2001; the international Media-art award, ZKM, Karlsruhe, 1997 and 2000; August Seeling-Award of Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum 1997; Prix Arts Electronica, Golden Nica 1994 and 1998.

Knowbotic Research (Yvonne Wilhelm, Christian Huebler, Alexander Tuchacek) arbeitet seit 1991 als Künstlergruppe an den Schnittstellen zwischen Kunst, Medien und Gesellschaft. Themen wie Urbanität, die Konstruktion von Wissen, immaterielle Arbeit und Probleme der politischen Repräsentation werden von krcf in langfristig angelegten Projektreihen entwickelt. Die Arbeiten bieten offene und komplexe Handlungsanlagen, die eine experimentelle Auseinandersetzung und Teilnahme des Publikums ermöglichen. Die Gruppe hat in Zürich eine Professur am Studiengang Kunst und Medien der Zürcher Hochschule fder Künste, ZHDK.

Selected (E)Exhibitions, (P)resentations, (Per)formances
2008

(E) "Synthetic Times", NAMOC Beijing
(P) Kunsthof Zurich
(E) Marks Blond Bern
(P) WRO Art Center, Wroclaw
Centre for Contemporary Art Laznia, Gdansk (PL)
(E) Center of Contemporary art, Tenerife
(E) "Surveillance and Control" 2, Centre of Art La regenta, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
(E) "Conspire", Transmediale Berlin
(E) "Glanz und Verderben", Kunsthaus Mürzzuschlag
(E) Montevideo Amsterdam
2007 (E) Hongkong Shenzen Biennal
(E) (P) SHIFT Festival, Basel
(E) BLACK BENZ RACE - Big Wash, E:VENT Gallery London
(E) INVISIBLE INVICIBLE, Curators without Borders Berlin
(P) Translocal Practices, Kunsthalle Zurich, Conference/Workshop, June
(P) Donau Universität Krems, Zentrum für Bildwissenschaften, May
(Per) BlackBenzRace-Inauguration Parade, DEAF-RO Theater, Rotterdam
2006

(E) Skuc Gallery, Ljubiljana, "Room for Maneouvre", solo exhibition
E) Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, "Was ist Plastik? Das Jahrhundert moderner Skulptur"
(E) Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, "Designing the Truth"
(E) Akzente Duisburg, "PubliCity"
(E) "BlackBenz Race", Zürich-Pristina-Tirana

2005 (E) Kunsthalle St. Gallen, "Mapping New Territories"
(E) Transmediale Berlin, "Naked Bandit v3.0"
(E) ICC Tokio, "Open Nature"
(E) Puls5 Zürich, "lateshift"
2004

(E) TENT, Witte de With Rotterdam, "Tracer"
(E) MOCA Taipeh, Taiwan
(E) "10 years SONAR", Madrid
(E) ITAU Sao Paulo: ART.FICIAL EMOTION
(E) ArchiLAB Biennale, Orleans
(E) Ciberart Festival Bilbao, 'Evident Traces'
(P) Conference Ciberart Festival Bilbao, 'Synaptic Cartographies'
2003 (E) Palacio Virreina, Instituto Cultura Barcelona, "El banquete", installation
(P) DEAF Rotterdam, Open Territories
(P) Shopping the virtual, Art Basel
(P) Ars Electronica, CODE Symposium
(E) Videotage Hongkong, MIMAR
(P) Lissabon Biennal, Mille Plateaux
(P) Third International Image and Electronic Arts Festival, Medellin
(E) “The Conquest of Ubiquity”, Murcia, net.exhibition
(E) Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Madrid
2002

(E) Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul media art biennale, "Luna's Flow", installation
(E) Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains, ""Sans commune mesure", web-project
(E) New Museum of Contemporary Art New York, "Open_Source_Art_Hacking", installation
(E) Barcelona, HAMACA; "miralles", web.project
(E) Alda Fendi Foundation Rome, "De Re Publica", solo-exhibition
(P) Walker Art Center, Summer Lectures on Information and Architecture
(P) Austrian Cultural Forum New York, Symposium: "mediations: archaeologies and tranformations in the electronic sphere"
(P) Koelnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, performance lecture
(P) Urban Drift Conference, Berlin
(P) ELIA Conference, Dublin, European League of Institutes of the Arts
(P) New Museum, New York, panel on Open Source, Art Hacking 
(P) Institute for Media Theory Basel, conference on netculture
2001

(E) Fondation Beyerle, Basel “Abstraction and Ornament”
(E) Bauhaus Dessau,” Paradiese der Moderne”
(E) LISTE Basel, “anonymous databody muttering
(E) Borderhack 2.0; "Defining Lines, Breaking down borders", online-exhibition
(A, P) Biennale for Architecture and Media, Graz, "Infospheres"
(P) Institute for Contemporary Arts, Praha, "Excavating the Future"
(P)Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam, "Transurbanism"
(P) Transmediale Berlin, “netbased participation and social software”
(P) Arteleku Bilbao, „cell culture“
(P) Royal Institute of British Architects, London, “E_Futures”

2000 (E) Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle Bonn, "Heute ist Morgen"
(E) Museum Ludwig, Köln, "Kunst mit Fotografie und und andere mediale Eskapaden"
(E) Kunstverein in Hamburg, "Aussendienst"
(P) Jan van Eyck Academy Maastricht, "What is enlightment?"
(P) Bauhaus Dessau (
P) ZKM Karlsruhe, "Sciences of the Interface"
(P) ISEA Paris
1999 (E) Biennale Vendedig (Österr. Pavillon), "IO_lavoro immateriale"
(E) Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, "Connected Cities"
(E) ZKM Karlsruhe, "net_condition"
1998 (A, P) DEAF 98, Rotterdam, "The Art of the Accident")
(E) Arco Electronico,Madrid, "The best of the 2 Worlds"
(E)Ars Electronica, Linz, "Infowar"
(P)" schau Vogel schau", Leipzig
(P) Hamburger Woche der Bildenden Kunst, Umzug ins Offene
(P) BLAST, NY, artistic practice in the networks
1997 (E) Steirischer Herbst Graz, on dis/place/ment
(E) Fabrica Europa, Florenz, Anonymous Muttering,
(E) Artlab Tokyo, I0-DENCIES
(P) Dokumenta Kassel, Konfigurationen zwischen Medien und Kunst
(P) Civic Gallery of Contemorary Art Torino, Shadows of the Networks
1996 (E): Henie Onstad Kunstsenter Oslo, Electra
1995 (E): Hamburger Kunstverein, Interface;
(E): Kunstraum Vienna, mobil.machung
(E)ARTEC Biennale, Nagoya City Museum;
1994
 (E)Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, ISEA;
(E): Karl- Ernst Osthaus Museum Hagen, Platons Höhle;

bibliography
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 - Mapping new territories. Schweizer Medienkunst international = Art media suisse international = Swiss media art international. Basel: Christoph Merian Verlag, 2005
- Aminima, volume12, new media actual art, Barcelona 2005
- SchnittStellen Herausgegeben von Schade, Sieber, Tholen. Basel 2005.
- aRt&D; Research and Development in Art, Ed. Anne Nighten, V2 Rotterdam, 2005
- Under Fire.2: The Organization and Representation of Violence, Ed. Jordan Crandall, Rotterdam: Witte de With, 2005
- Sarai READER 05: BARE ACTS, Editors: Monica Narula, Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Jeebesh Bagchi + Geert, Lovink Guest Editor: Lawrence Liang; Delhi, 2005 [cc] Aminima, Madrid Naked Bandit, - - - - - Transcoding the sovereign, knowbitic research, Eigenverlag 2005
- "CODES BAD GUYS SPACE" in Transurbanism, ed. V2/NAI, Rotterdam 2002
- "Connective Force Attack", in Aussendienst, Hg. Kulturbehörde Hamburg, Modo Verlag Freiburg, Deutschland, 2002
-"Urban Agency- Making Interfaces inflammable" in Designing for a digital World, ed. Neal Leach, Wiley-Academy, London Royal Architecture Institute 2002
- Interaction-artisctic practice in the network, ed. Eyebeam Atelier, Jorden Crandall, NY 2001
-"Für eine künstlerische Praxis mit Medien", in Kunst und Interkontextualität, Ed. Bühler, Koch, Salon Verlag Köln, 2001
-"IO_dencies" in net_condition, Ed. Druckrey/Weibel, MIT Press 2001
-IO_dencies, questioning urbanity, CD_ROM, ed. KR/HGKZ Zuerich
- "slamming" in: Medien, Kunst, Interaktion (80-er, 90-er Jahre), Ed. Frieling, Daniels; ZKM Karlsruhe, Goethe Institut; 2000;
-"Wirksamkeitskonstruktionen", mit Andreas Broeckmann in: Heute ist Morgen, Ed. Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 2000
-"IO-lavoro immatriale" in: Offene Handlungsfelder, Open Practices, Ed. Peter Weibel, Ecke Bonk; DuMont Verlag Koeln, 1999;
- Knowbotic Research in: Art at the turn of the Millenium; Riemschneider, Grosenik (Hg), Taschen Köln 1999
-"IO_Ruhrgebiet" in: Connected Cities, Kunstprozesse im urbanen Netz, Lehmbruck Museum; Hantje Cantz Verlag, 1999 (Ausstellungskat.)
-" IO_dencies, questioning urbanity" in "Virtual Dimension-Architecture, Representation and Crash Culture", Princeton Architectural Press, Ed. J. Beckmann 1998
- "IO_dencies, questioning urbanity" , Artlab Tokyo,1998 (Ausstellungskatalog)
- C. Hübler, Sprache und Wahrnehmung an Schnittstellen zwischen Maschinen und Menschen Gespräch;
in: Sinn der Sinne, Schriftenreihe Forum der Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle Bonn (Hg), 1998;
- 'Dialogue with the Knowbotic Souith, in : Jenseits von Kunst, Peter Weibel (Hg), Wien 1997
- 'Non-Locations / Event: Under Construction', in: Interfacing Realities Hrsg: V2, Rotterdam 1997
- 'The Urban as a Field of Action'; in: Technomorphica, hrsg: V2, Rotterdam 1997
- Discovering Cyber Antarctic, in: Digital Delirium, hrsg: A. und M-L. Kroker, 1997
- 'Computer Aided Natur'- Knowbots und Navigationen Hans Ulrich Reck und KR,; in: Lab 2, hrsg: KHM Köln 96
- 'Postorganic Immortality', in: 'die Zukunft des Körpers' ,Kunstforum Bd 133, 1996
- 'Virtuality and Subjektivity (mem_brane)', in: Revue virtuelle, Centre George Pompidou 1996
-'Der Trick des Descartes'; Klaus Peter Dencker und Knowbotic Research, in: Medienkunstpreis, ZKM 95
-'Co-realities', in: Nonlocated Online, Medien.Kunst.Passagen 4/94, Knowbotic Research (Hrsg), Passagen Verlag Wien 1994