With the premiere of 93% Human (2023) by the Sequenza 9.3 Vocal Ensemble

On the initiative of the EIT (European Institute of Innovation & Technology) Culture & Creativity in cooperation with the Media Solution Center Baden-Württemberg (MSC), the Goethe-Institut Paris hosts the exhibition designed by the ZKM | Center for Art and Media, dedicated to the theme of future-oriented spheres of knowledge.

How does art transform when it uses new technologies and accesses scientific methods of acquiring knowledge? What are the impulses for change that go beyond the realm of art? Scientific media art opens space for new sensibilities and imaginative forces.

Peter Weibel (1944–2023), ZKM president, curator, media artist and media theorist, is the initiator of this event. He designed the Renaissance 3.0 exhibition. A base camp for new alliances between art and science in the 21st century (presented from March 2023 to February 2024 at the ZKM). An adapted version of this exhibition is now travelling to the Goethe-Institut in Paris. It will combine extracts from works shown in Karlsruhe with a new selection specially made for Paris. The objective is to illustrate the logics and practices of media art, technology, and science as collaborative work on the project of “making the invisible visible”, through models.

The Next Renaissance is an EIT Culture & Creativity initiative to raise awareness of innovations at the intersection of culture and science in Europe – beyond the boundaries of each discipline. All with the aim of strengthening a community of change actors, who achieve transformations through unprecedented cooperation between culture and science.