ONGOING EXHIBITS & INSTALLATIONS

Forum Expanded at Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art
Feb. 9-19, daily noon-19:00; Thursdays till 21:00

News From House/News from Home
Amos Gitai, 2006
A 20-monitor digital-video installation relating to Gitai's Forum-selected film "News From Home/News From House" comprising filmed episodes of material he shot over 25 years. Part of a work begun in 1982.

Muhheakantuck -- Everything Has a Name
Matthew Buckingham, 2005
History meets cartography in this film installation portraying the colonization of the Hudson River and the resulting destruction of Indian culture.

Berlin Remake
Amie Siegel, 2005
Double-screen video projection of scenes of Berlin from old East German feature films overlaid with the artist's own newly filmed material -- a collision of architecture and history, reality and cinema.

Zur bauweise des films bei Griffith
Harun Farocki, 2006
Video installation manipulating material from D.W. Griffith's 1916 spectacle "Intolerance."

Forum Expanded at the Atrium of the Sony Center
Feb. 10-19, daily noon-24:00

Hobby Keller
Room installation by Berlin artist Megge Scheider representing a suburban home with living room, front lawn and basement game room. With games.

Black Box
Three film and video installations by artist Jenny Perlin dealing with the connections between spacial realities.

Berlin Film Museum
Tues.-Sun. 10:00-18:00; Thursday till 20:00

Many interesting and well-laid-out exhibits including films of the Nazi era, the Ray Harryhausen collection and all of Marlene Dietrich's clothes (and some very bitchy correspondence) and featuring an exhibit on '50s German Dream Girl Hildegard Knef.

Transmediale at the Akademie der Kunste Hanseatenweg 10, Berlin Tiergarten
Feb. 3-March 19, daily 10:00-22:00

Smile Machines
25 pieces by various international artists
An "emotional vending machine," utopian news, robots and various satirical deconstructions of videogames, advertising slogans, Tito, Hitler and Wonder Woman. Works by Dara Birnbaum, Michael Snow, Les Levine, Nam June Paik, William Wegman and a host of others deal with the theme of humor in the digital age.