Honorary Mention for Annie Rüfenacht
HKB alumna Annie Rüfenacht and Sandra Schmid (video) are awarded an "Honorary Mention" for their video installation "Kataklasit" at the Giga-Hertz Award 2020 for Electronic Music of the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (ZKM).
According to a press release from Bern University of the Arts (HKB), the work explores "visual and acoustic aspects of stones". Rüfenacht and Schmid's "meticulous approach bordering on the scientific" uses a microscopic process to show recrystallization processes in a highly abstract resolution. The result is a visual surface that traces changes in the structure of the stones, as well as an acoustic surface that illustrates the subliminal nature of oscillation.
The jury was impressed by Cataclasite because of its fine, harmonious and atmospheric overall appearance.
Annie Aries (Annie Rüfenacht), born in 1988, is a composer and musician living in Bern. She studied music and media art in Bern and is currently completing her degree in musicology at the University of Bern. In 2017 she studied at the Humboldt University in the program Popular Music History & Theory.
