Art and sustainability - Sessions at DLD12 Yoko Ono as guest of honor / Extensive art-sessions and exhibitions

München (ots) - For the eighth time the "Digital-Life-Design"
Conference takes place from January 22nd until January 24th in
Munich. The name says it all as the dialogue about art and design is
strongly connected with an interdisciplinary exchange. With this
aspiration in mind DLD presents a series of discussions, organized
and presented by the co- director of the Serpentine Gallery London,
Hans Ulrich Obrist. The prelude on January 22nd is a conversation
with artist, musician and film maker Yoko Ono. Her credo is "Imagine
Peace" which makes her an exceptional personality and an icon of the
peace movement. Together with John Lennon she held the legendary
"Bed-In for Peace" at Amsterdam's Hilton Hotel.

"Connect the Unexpected" and interdisciplinary relations - this is
DLD's philosophy. The amount of creative potential will be released
during the high-quality round "Lights of Africa" on January 23rd on
the subject of 'ecopreneurship'. Hans Ulrich Obrist moderates the
discussion with Jamie Drummond, Executive Director of Bono's ONE.org
organization, artist Olafur Eliasson, who is well known for his
stagings with light and electricity, Google-Chief Joseph Mucheru who
is responsible for sub-Saharan Africa and Kenya and Arthur Itotia
Njagi, program manager of IFC-Initiative "Lighting Africa". Economic
growth in Africa is strongly depended on electricity access. DLD will
therefore deal with how to accomplish this goal, the necessity of
entrepreneurial spirit, the importance of ecological sustainability,
solar technique and "off-grid" energy and the role of fine arts.

The second DLD Arts Session will deal with new digital art forms.
"Ways Beyond the Internet" addresses especially new digital art
forms: how and where does art emerge with the Internet's logic that
the information society experiences through increasing digitalization
and new ways of image productions and how is this reproduced within a
non-digital reality? Artists and "Digital Natives" as Cory Arcangel
(New York), Karen Archey (New York), Ed Fornieles (London)
Keller/Kosmas (Berlin), Oliver Laric (Berlin), John Nash (London),
Rafael Rozendaal (Amsterdam/Rio) will talk about their work and
"Post-Internet" projects. The artists expose their work together with
Ryan Trecartin, Helen Marten and Timur Si-Qin in the DLD12 exhibition
"Ways Beyond The Internet", realized by Hans Ulrich Obrist and
Johannes Fricke Waldthausen.

Further information can be found at: www.dld-conference.com

For further information:
Michael A. Pries
Corporate Communications
Hubert Burda Media
Tel.:+49 89 9250-3784
Mail: michael.pries@burda.com