Stewart Smith, * 1981 in New York (US), lives and works in London (UK), Robert Gerard Pietrusko, * 1979 in Philadelphia (US), lives and works in Boston (US), Bernd Lintermann * 1967 in Düsseldorf (DE), lives and works in Karlsruhe (DE)

trans_actions: The Accelerated Art World 1989–2011, 2011

The ZKM | Institute for Visual Media, in cooperation with the GAM project team, has for the first time commissioned a work that depicts the dynamic temporal and spatial development of the biennial system and the global art markets in a cinematic projection on the PanoramaScreen. A wealth of statistical data (places, prices, the presence of artists, and the career itinerary of curators) was processed in such a way that it could be visualized. Clare McAndrew, an international expert on the art market, participated in this project along with a research group working on the GAM project, and they evaluated the extensive material available at the ZKM (some two hundred biennial catalogs) and established contacts to various biennial organizations. The visualization of this data on the PanoramaScreen conveys a direct impression of the process of globalization that can be followed year by year. At the same time it presents a picture of the dense network that these newly established art worlds have spanned across the globe.