Lutz Dammbeck at the Sprengel Museum

Re_Re-Education

is the title of the exhibition at the Sprengel Museum in Hanover, Germany. Dammbeck’s films will also be screened during this exhibition. Among them is THE NET, available here on realeyz.tv.

Lutz Dammbeck (born 1948) came to film from the fine arts and discovered animation as a means of expression and source of experimentation in the early 1970’s. In 1982 he began making the ‘Herakles Konzept’ in which he incorporates diverse media such as pictures, text passages, body language and dance in a permanently evolving art work. He continues to work on the ‘Herakles Konzept’ today. (more…)

Lutz Dammbeck: New Installation/Film Screenings

Media artist and film director Lutz Dammbeck is showing some of his older films in a new installation specially designed for the Sprengel Museum in Hanover.

Lutz  Dammbeck’s documentary THE NET is available on realeyz.tv.

Lutz Dammbeck: Re_Re-Education Films from 1979-2003   Sprengel Museum Hanover   May 19 - September 26, 2010 (more…)

DIRECTOR LUTZ DAMMBECK about DAS NETZ

Interview With Lutz Dammbeck

“A cabin in the woods in not an escape”

When did you decide to make a film about the Unabomber?

The idea came about during my work on research into the themes of art and technology.  About 10 or 15 years ago, terms like multimedia, virtual, etc. began appearing in a fine arts context. I had been “socialized” at the time of Expanded Cinema and multimedia so these terms were of great interest to me. As I went in search of protagonists for the film, I happened upon the American literary agent John Brockman. He is a great communicator and has connections that reach from the field of neurophysiology and Harvard, to the banking world and the art scene in New York and even had contact to the LSD scene.  I was fascinated by this man and read all the interviews with him that were available on the net. (more…)

Das Netz: WHO IS WHO

From the “Unabomber-Manifesto”:“The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. (…) We therefore advocate a revolution against the industrial system.(…)There has been a consistent tendency,(…) for technology to strengthen the system at a high cost in individual freedom… Technology advances with great rapidity and threatens freedom at many different points at the same time (crowding, rules and regulations, increasing dependence of individuals on large organizations, propaganda and other psychological techniques, genetic engineering, invasion of privacy through surveillance devices and computers, etc.)(…)It would be hopeless for revolutionaries to try to attack the system without using SOME modern technology. If nothing else they must use the communications media to spread their message. (…) Nature makes a perfect counter-ideal to technology. (…)So if [the system] is to break down it had best break down sooner rather than later. (more…)