Groups and Companies
For groups, team outings and private events, we offer individual workshops and exhibition tours on a date of your choice. This can be combined with a catering offer from the Bistro ela, whether this be an Apéro, meal or coffee and cake. Our event room in the basement, workshop room and foyer with an outdoor area can also be rented out for your meetings or celebrations.
We are delighted to develop a tailor-made program for your group.
Are you looking for an exceptional location for your company event? Our spaces can be rented for events of all kinds. The costs depend on the size and duration of the event. We would be happy to quote you with a customized offer.
Guided tours
We offer guided tours tailored to the particular interests and needs of any private group or company. Tours can be scheduled for a time that suits you during the day or in the evening.
On a tour of the exhibition you explore its major themes and/or discuss broader issues in the world of media art today. Tell us something about your interests in advance and we will devise a tour accordingly. Maximum group size per guided tour is 20 persons. For larger groups, we gladly offer several parallel or successive tours.
On this 75-minute tour, you’ll track down digital artworks that are spread all around the city. Augmented reality (AR) technology brings the digital artworks to life – both visually and audibly – in real spaces. From Münsterplatz to Basel Old Town to Totentanz – huge floating mushrooms, colourfully illuminated jellyfish that react to your singing and shapes floating in the sky bring the city to new life. You’ll be introduced to artworks by contemporary artists and learn more about the background to them. You can even download your own 3D give-away artwork or take a selfie among the sonorous and floating virtual shapes.
On the tour, you use your own smartphone and the ARTour app, which you can download via the link below before you start. iOS and Android versions of the app are available for free from the store. Once you’ve opened the app, it also works without an internet connection.
The ARTour was developed as an art project by Roche – as part of its 125th anniversary celebrations – together with the HEK (House of Electronic Arts) in Basel and Basel Tourism. The artworks – developed especially for the ARTour by national and international artists – highlight the theme of “Celebrate Life” from different perspectives.
Workshops
We are happy to organize private workshops on behalf of any private group or company. If you let us know your interests and requirements, we will devise a special workshop accordingly. Workshops are combinable with guided tours.
«Live Coding» is the programming of electronic music in real time. The computer becomes a musical instrument that is then played live.
In the workshop, we work with the text-based programming environment SonicPi and learn the basic concepts of electronic music. After a short introduction to the principles of sound generation (synthesiser) and working with samples, you work in pairs on a melody or a rhythm and experiment with sound and code. Finally, we play your music on our sound system and you can download it to your mobile devices.
Information and booking
vermittlung[at]hek.ch
+41 (0)61 283 60 51
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