ISEA2010 RUHR will stretch out across the whole Ruhr region, moving from Essen, to Dortmund and Duisburg-Ruhrort.

The programme in Essen

The first weekend of the festival on 20-22 August at Zollverein focuses on performance and explores the relationship between new media and the body on a number of levels.

ISEA2010 RUHR Performance Programme: Synchronous Objects, reproduced by Norah Zuniga Shaw, What Makes an Event Keynote Brian Massumi, Xavier Le Roy: Le sacre du printemps, Mette Ingvartsen: evaporated landscapes, Christopher Salter Just Noticable Difference, Motion Lab, Wet Sounds, Conference.

The programme in Dortmund

In Dortmund ISEA 2010 RUHR puts forward the full range of its broad programme from 23 to 25 August.

ISEA2010 RUHR Exhibitions: ISEA2010 RUHR, TRUST, Heavy Matter, E-Culture Fair 2010, Agents 2.0, A Day Without the Mobile Phone, Arctic Perspective
Keynotes: Margaret Morse, Peter Weibel with Jens Hauser, Roy Ascott with Dieter Daniels

ISEA 2010 RUHR Concerts: Kontakt der Jünglinge, Hildur Guðnadóttir & Keiichiro Shibuya, Mudboy, Fennesz, Naldjorlak I, II, III by Éliane Radigue

ISEA2010 RUHR Club: i8u, Halldór Úlfarsson, Paul Prudence, Monolake Live Surround, evala, döbereiner & morimoto, Infinite Livez, One Man Nation, Tarek Atoui, Blevin Blectum, Festicumex Lunatica, momus

ISEA2010 RUHR Conference Programme: 51 Panels with over 230 speakers

ISEA2010 RUHR Workshops: Experimental Electronics, Hackteria, diy makeaway

ISEA 2010 RUHR Excursions: Museum Ludwig Köln, Edith Russ Site for Media Art Oldenburg, Heinz Nixdort Museumsforum Paderborn, Tour Ruhr, kitev Oberhausen und Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, Animax, Bonn, Tour Eindhoven & Brabant

The programme in Duisburg-Ruhrort

In the second weekend of ISEA2010 RUHR on 28 & 29 August artists, realists and utopians convene under the motto After the Crisis for a meeting full of courage, scepticism and hope.

After the Crisis Programme in Ruhrort: Keynote Geo-crisis with Harald Welzer and Marko Peljhan, Keynote Global Islands: Ruhrort, Tokyo and the Shepards of the World with David d'Heilly and Fernando García Dory, Light Installation Reale Formulierungen by Siegrun Appelt, Film Welt am Draht by Rainer Werner Fassbender, Workshop Herbologies/Foraging Networks, Workshop UPLAY ISEA2010, Concert Charlemagne Palestine, Conference Programme, Picnic.