NEW PUBLICATION: URBAN MEDIA CULTURES 
Eds. Susa Pop (Public Art Lab), Ursula Stalder (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Lucerne), Mirjam Struppek (Interactionfield) and Gernot Tscherteu (Media Architecture Institute)| avedition, April 2012 | Design: +Ruddigkeit
Presentation dates:
18 April 2012 @ Media Facades Summit (Light & Building), Städelschule Frankfurt
02 May 2012, appr.19 h @ re:publica „Urban Media Lounge“, STATION Berlin
End of April sees the launch of our publication Urban Media Cultures which evolved from the long-term collaboration of its editors Susa Pop (Public Art Lab), Ursula Stalder (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Lucerne), Mirjam Struppek (Interactionfield) and Gernot Tscherteu (Media Architecture Institute) mainly for the Media Facades Festival Berlin 2008 and Europe 2010 and most lately the Innovation Forum Urban Screens 2011. About 40 authors from an international network comprising media artists, screen operators, architects, developers and cultural institutions discuss in three chapters – Urban Media & City Development, Technologies, Marketing & Media Scenography – how high-resolution displays, computer-animated light installations or mechanical media screens, briefly urban screens and media architecture, shape our modern lives and change the face of our cities and consider the risks and potentials of our increasingly digitalised cities development in its spatial and social context. With numerous examples this book illustrates current trends in interactive media structures.
Authors (selection): Nina Colosi (Streaming Museum New York), Nerea Calvillo (Medialab-Prado), Thorsten Bauer (URBANSCREEN), Geraldine McCullagh (BBC Birmingham), M.Hank Haeusler (University of New South Wales), Michael Badics (Ars Electronica), Dr. Jörg Müller (Telekom Innovation Labs), Emily Dufner & Paula Longato (Arup Lighting Design), Tim Edler (realities:united) With the kind support of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Lucerne, Wall AG, Berliner Fenster
€ 39,90 (D), US $ 56.00 | ISBN 978-3-89986-169-3
Now available for pre-orders on Amazon and in your local book shop.
DIE KREATIVAKADEMIE BRANDENBURG
Ein Exzellenz-Coaching-Angebot für Kreative im Land Brandenburg | Dezember 2011
Teil 1, Sa 10.12. : Markterschließung für Kreative
Teil 2, Sa 17.12.: Akquise für Kreative
In den vergangenen Monaten haben das Kompetenzzentrum Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft des Bundes und Public Art Lab e.V. mit der Free Culture Incubator Workshopreihe elf Veranstaltungen für Kreative und Kulturunternehmer aus Berlin und Brandenburg durchgeführt. Die erarbeiteten Ergebnisse und gesammelten praktischen Erfahrungen aus dieser Reihe bildeten die Grundlage für zwei Intensiv-Coaching-Tage unter dem Titel Kreativakademie Brandenburg für Freiberufler und Kleinstunternehmen der Branche mit Wohnsitz oder Betriebsstätte im Land Brandenburg. Mehr auf der Website der Kreativakademie.
INNOVATIONSFORUM URBAN SCREENS 2011
Supported by the Ministry of Science and Education
http://www.unternehmen-region.de/de/5133.php
The Innovationforum will research the technological, economical and scientific potential of urban screens for the region Berlin-Berlin Brandenburg as a pilot project for Germany. In the framework of this Innovationforum Public Art Lab is organising 5 expert workshops (urban screens infrastructure, technology, content, urban development / city marketing and media cross marketing). The workshops will be evaluated and presented in a 2-day congress in May 2011.
!!! MORE INFORMATION ON: http://innovationsforum.publicartlab-berlin.de
MOBICASES – EU WHEELING TOUR 2011
The idea behind the Mobicases is to facilitate feedback processes by various audiences, enable new forms of documentation and data visualization and to evaluate group processes from many difference angles. The Mobicases will accompany 25 public law students from 16 Universities located in cities of the South and South Eastern Europe to explore the issues about EU enlargement on a journey to Italy, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey, Greece, Macedonia, Albania with a final presentation in Athens. The EU Wheeling journey will take place in May/June 2011, organized and initiated by the European Public Law Organization.
ROUND TABLE UKRAINE 2011
The Round Table Ukraine will accompany the cultural management project initiated by the European Cultural Foundation in cooperation with Robert-Bosch Foundation and Culture Action Europe throughout the region and will be the performance and communication platform of meetings, discussions, interventions and international gatherings of the cooperation project in the Ukraine.
The Round Table has the form of the Ukraine and is the landmark of the programme. The general idea behind the project is: new space concepts open new thinking spaces. A helium balloon floats above the table, with a projection screen for urban screenings and live streamings.
MEDIA FACADES FESTIVAL EUROPE 2010 (MFF2010)
Berlin – Brussels – Helsinki – Liverpool Budapest – Linz – Madrid
The format of the MEDIA FACADE FESTIVAL reflects on the increasing presence of massive-infrastructures with digital visual elements in public spaces while investigating their communicative function in the urban environment.
MEDIA FACADES FESTIVAL EUROPE 2010 will explore the networked possibilities of urban screens and media facades via internet and the new technologies on a European level. The festival encourages art projects that create a dialogue to connect the local public virtually with the other places through the networked infrastructure of digital screens and media facades. It aspires to share dreams of the different cities and report about local issues and exchange peoples’ stories and ideas in Europe-wide ‘Joint Broadcasting Events’ starting on 27 August 2010.
The media facades will be transformed into local stages and open a global window for cultural and societal processes throughout Europe.
Its long-term vision is to be a catalyst for the creation of a sustainable and transportable structure where artists, cultural professionals, arts organizations, cultural institutions, governmental bodies, private and commercial businesses, media and the general public, within Europe and beyond, can interact through the development of a new cultural communication format in the public space.
Public Art Lab organised the Media Facades Festival Berlin 2008 to explore the cultural potential of Berlin based urban screens and mediafacades in a special developed urban screening programme. The exhibition and conference was organised in cooperation of the Media Architecture Institute Vienna – supported by Haupt stadtkulturfonds and Senate for Economy, Women and Technology / Project Future Berlin.
Public Art Lab is organiser of Upgrade! Berlin, a monthly gathering on art, technology and culture. Public Art Lab was also co-producer of the Upgrade! Chain Reaction festival. Chain Reaction explored issues of cultural development and growth in the local region as well as within digital networks. With exhibitions, workshops and presentations from over 20 cities across the world, this event proofed to be a catalyst for dialog, future collaborations and new cultural understanding.
Public Art Lab / Upgrade! Berlin participated with the MOBICASES project. These mobile documentary units functioned as user interface for the city of Skopje throughout the festival and enabled a live sampling of the city and the festival events.
From September 11th to 14th we documented the festival and its events, happenings and debates. Please have a look at our documentation website: http://www.chainreaction-community.net.
The Mobicase project was supported by the German Embassy in Skopje and the Goethe-Institut Skopje .
The Mobile Studios project was presented at many conferences throughout the last years, among them the Europe Asia Satellite Meeting in China, the mobile.home Conference in Helsinki or the Kultur MACHT Europa- Conference in Berlin. During the ‘European Year of Workers’ Mobility’ the project was featured as one of the best mobile projects by the Fondazione Fitzcarraldo.
Public Art Lab (PAL) realises international nomadic art projects which create artistic processes and public awareness in temporary urban settings.
Thus nomadic communities like Mobile Studios (2006) and Mobile Museums (2004) provide the opportunity for local audiences to participate and experience their daily environment from a different perspective.
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