Ikono.tv

LR = Germany

Ikono.tv is a multinational provider of his program as a digital special interest channels with the program main component of art. The ikono.tv Limited is registered in the UK in Birmingham. For Germany, there is an entry in the Commercial Register at Amtsgericht Charlottenburg. Ikono.tv presents works of art from antiquity to contemporary art as visual narratives in image sequences without additional comments or accompanying music. With the means of film language and in collaboration with curators and artists, the plurality and richness of international works are displayed: video, film, painting, drawing, print, sculpture, photography and architecture.

Program

Ikono.tv is the first sending in Germany channel, which has become quite the topic prescribed art. The program is already being broadcast entirely in HD standard. Content, it is composed of a concatenation of short films whose transmission period is between three and ten minutes. Individual clips are a compilation of various exhibitions and artists dar.

Ikono.tv also has a project channel for joint projects with partners such as the Art Dubai, the Venice Biennale, Air France or the format BAUHAUS TV. Since mid-2010 offers ikono.tv also a webshop for downloads of movies and exclusive designer wallpaper.

Transmitter

Ikono.tv had its first broadcast in Germany in early July 2006. Until June 2007, from 22:00 clock clock was sent to 24:00, in part, on the frequencies of other stations such as JobTV24 or as a component of the program, as in Anixe HD to other broadcast times. In May 2007, the station had a potential audience of 12 million households. This corresponds to about 32 million people.

The end of 2010 started ikono.tv on a satellite of Arabsat ( BADR -5, 11785 MHz) HDTV transmitter ikonomenasa broadcasting a specially curated program for the region around the Mediterranean. Arabsat has a reach of 16.5 million households from the Arabian Peninsula over North Africa to the south of Spain and Portugal. For this purpose, the signal 2010 is captured by providers in Asia, Europe and Russia and fed into various cable television channels.

Ikono.tv Since December 1, 2011 in Germany belongs to the IPTV platform Telekom Entertain.

The transmitter is still a young company that was founded on 6 June 2005 by Elizabeth Markevitch. The company has set itself the goal to make as much art free of charge.

Art institutions

It will include works by the following artists and institutions shown (selection):

  • Arte
  • Beyeler Foundation, Switzerland
  • Dahesh Museum, USA
  • Fabrica, Italy
  • George Ortiz Collection, Switzerland
  • Grey World, United Kingdom
  • Guggenheim, USA
  • Louvre Museum
  • MoMA, USA
  • Museum Barbier- Mueller, Switzerland
  • Musee de l' Elysee, Switzerland
  • Pietre Dure Opificio delle, Italy
  • RMN, France
  • The Bridgeman Art Library, UK
  • Akim Monet, Switzerland,
  • Annett Bourquin, Germany
  • Closky Claude, France
  • David Reed, USA
  • Edward Burtynsky, Canada
  • Seydou Keita Estate, Mali
  • Hans Hemmert, Germany
  • Hiroko Tanahashi, Japan
  • Lawrence Beck, United States
  • Malekeh Nayiny, Iran
  • Michael Najjar, Germany
  • Ralph Gibson, USA
  • Roberto Cabot, Brazil
  • Samuel Fosso, Cameroon
  • Santeri Tuori, Finland
  • Shadi Ghadirian, Iran
  • Sophie Ristelhueber, France
  • Young Hae Chang, Korea

Reception options

At the moment Ikono.tv no longer sends via satellite. Works of art you can still view them on the website. Ikono.tv but to receive via T-Home Entertain.

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