Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV) was founded in 1996 in Dortmund and serves as a platform for the production, presentation, education on and contextualisation of contemporary and experimental media art. Through its strong commitment to the field of media art over the past ten years HMKV has developed into a unique organisation in Germany.
However, media art is not understood as a technical genre. Rather, media art, which is a heterogenous field, is characterised by a specific contemporaneity which includes a broad range of different (electronic, digital, but also analogue) media. It is the topical and conceptual discussion of our contemporary world based increasingly on media and technological structures that makes for the contemporaneity of media art. HMKV’s exhibitions are characterised by their broad definition of media art and by positioning the field of media art very consciously in the broader context of contemporary art.
