Within the frame of the Vienna Art Week, quartier21 organizes the Digital Tuesday (DiDi-Day) dedicated to the topic “Digital Memories” on November 20. Therefore EIKON dishes up a broccoli soup and moreover you will receive a poster of the current exhibition at EIKON SchAUfenster by Martin Osterider as a starter!

When: Tuesday, November 20, 2012; 6 pm
Where: EIKON SchAUfenster, Electric Avenue, quartier21, MQ, 1070 Vienna

On November 23, EIKON invites to the presentation of both the latest issue EIKON #80 as well as the latest Edition EIKON by Simona Rota at the Leopold Museum.

This time with Artist Pages on Candice Breitz, Simona Rota, Michael Strasser, Borjana Ventzislavova and Käthe Hager von Strobele. In Forum, we present part two of our series “Aperture,” and in addition, we have an interview with Walter Moser, the new head of the photography collection at the Albertina. In our Art Market section prominent photography collectors give tips dealing with this subject. Wolfgang Tillmans in Zurich, Chuck Close in Salzburg, William Klein and Daido Moriyama in London are only a few of the exhibitions featured in this issue.

When: Friday, November 23, 2012, 6 pm
Where: Leopold Museum, MuseumsQuartier, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna

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With the series “Ostalgia”, currently on show at Architekturzentrum Wien, the Rumanian-Spanish artist Simona Rota draws up a typology of architectural demonstrations of power in the former Soviet republics and their successor states. We are looking forward to offer all photography collectors an outstanding work of this noteworthy series in a limited edition.

Simona Rota, Yerevan, Armenia, Fountain at the Yerevan Sports and Concerts Hall, from the series “Ostalgia”, 2011/2012 … order now!

In the frame of Eyes on – Month of Photography Vienna, the European Society for the History of Photography (ESHPh) and MUSA invite to a one-day photography symposium:

The consequences of the “digital turn” (internet, virtual reality, social platforms, etc.) for the concept of the material in photographic image systems and how the specific structures, mechanisms and intentions of materiality-immateriality will be articulated in photographs in future is the subject of this congress. The transdisciplinary event, in which science will be confronted with photographic practice and statements, is aimed at all with a special interest in contemporary photography, especially theoreticians, photo historians, artists, and scholars in the cultural and social sciences.

Entrance is free! Please register under: musa@musa.at

When: Saturday, November 24, 2012, 9:30 am – 5 pm
Where: MUSA Museum Startgalerie Artothek, Felderstraße 6-8, 1010 Vienna