CCN @ OCT-LOFT CREATIVE FESTIVAL 2013 in Shenzhen / China

We are excited to announce the upcoming Connecting Cities exhibition at OCT-LOFT Creative Festival 2013. Public Art Lab will present the Connecting Cities Network, and Berlin-based design and art collective VR/Urban will present the protyping of the SMSlingshot.

Further Exhibitions include the Design Academy Eindhoven, Sandberg Institute, ZKM, Chelsea College of Art & Design, Central St. Martin’s College of Art and Design, Zuerich Academy of Art and Design, and Geneva University of Art and Design.

Join us at the Opening Ceremony with the SMSlingshot performance by VR/Urban on 08/12/2013 from 17:30 pm – 18:30 pm!

The Connecting Cities Events are city-to-city live interventions which will happen from August to November 2013 under the curatorial topic of Networked City. The CC Events are embedded in local programmes like the Media Facades Festival in Helsinki, Ikono On Air Festival in Berlin, Bauhausfest in Dessau, Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Amber Festival in Istanbul, Nuit Blanche in Brussels etc.

The urban media art projects of the 2013 CC Events have been produced by our 18 partner institutions and will circulate within the Connecting Cities Network on an interconnected infrastructure of urban screens, media facades and projection walls.

Soon our website will be re-launched with a live stream of the art projects, so if you cannot come to any of our venues, go to www.connectingcities.net and become part of the events!

You can find information on the CC Events in Berlin and Dessau below. The full schedule of the CC events in August and September in all cities is published at www.connectingcities.net. Information on the events coming in October and November will be published soon on the same website and via our next newsletter (subscribe here).

Picture: Concept visualisation of ‘Binoculars’ by Mar Canet & Varvara Guljajeva

CC EVENT : 6 – 7 September 2013
BERLIN*DESSAU*ISTANBUL*LINZ*LIVERPOOL*MADRID*MELBOURNE*RIGA

Public Art Lab teamed up with Foundation Bauhaus Dessau and ikono to present our selection of works at the same time at the Bauhausfest in Dessau and on the media facade of the Collegium Hungaricum in Berlin.

In Dessau, our Connecting Cities Event is integrated in the yearly Bauhausfest, an event that has its origin in the 1920s and that is at the same time excentric and extremely popular. At Bauhausfest 2013, Connecting Cities will show the artworks ‘Ready to Cloud’ by The Constitute, ‘Binoculars’ by Mar Canet & Varvara Guljajeva, ’Master / Slave Invigilator System’ by Jeremy Bailey, ‘Saving Face’ by Karen Lancel & Hermen Maat, ‘Internet Jam’ by Prof. Alexander Carôt and a series of videoclips produced by ikono and especially curated for CC.

Information on locations and time schedules in Dessau are on the Bauhausfest website!

In Berlin, we meet again at Collegium Hungaricum – which had already been our venue for the Media Facades Festival 2010 – to show ‘Binoculars’ by Mar Canet & Varvara Guljajeva.

Where: .CHB’s media facade at Dorotheenstrasse 12, Berlin
When: 6-7 September, from 8.30pm to 10pm

The title of our ‘Connecting Cities’ event is to be taken literally, as the presented artworks not only connect Dessau and Berlin (in the case of ‘Binoculars’), but also create (live/remote) connections to our international partner cities. Be prepared for a vibrant intercultural exchange with the citizens of Liverpool, Madrid, Linz, Riga and Melbourne!

Picture: ‘Master / Slave Invigilator System’ by Jeremy Bailey

 

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Public Art Lab hosts transmediale reSource event, 3rd June 2013

On Monday, 3rd June Public Art Lab is hosting the 9th Meeting of Technology Based Art Spaces and Curators in Berlin. The reSource event is a meeting platform of the Berlin based media art network.

Besides introducing Public Art Lab and its international projects, the meeting will focus on fostering an interdisciplinary discussion on urban media art from different points of view.

reSource is a initiative to foster the dialog on media art throughout the whole year and is hosted every month by a different local space in Berlin.

Find more information about the event on Facebook and in this article on transmediale.

 

More pictures of the event on flickr.

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DOCUMENTATION
Germany + Brazil: Connected Cultures

Connected Cultures is running until 9 June on the Galeria de Arte Digital SESI-SP, Avenida Paulista 1313, Sao Paulo

To the right: ‘Shadows’ by Super Uber, Picture by Bia Ferrer

Find more pictures of the Connected Cultures urban media artworks on flickr

13 May – Opening of Germany + Brasil 2013-14

With speeches by Jochaim Gauck, President of Germany, and Marta Suplicy, Minister of Culture of Brazil. Cultural highlights where the illumination of Sao Paulo’s Teatro Municipal by Hamburg artist Michael Batz and the performance of the Young Euro Classic Brasil-Alemanha Orchestra.

 

15 May – Opening of Connected Cultures

With speeches by Walter Vicioni Gonçalves, Regional Director of SENAI-SP and Prof. Dr. h.c. Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, President of Goethe Institute. An Introduction was given by the two curators of Connected Cultures: Marilia Pasculli from Verve Cultural Sao Paulo and Susa Pop from Public Art Lab Berlin.
Pictures of the opening on flickr

16 May – Connected Cultures Workshop: Looking Behind the Facade

With presentations by the curators and by the four artist groups of the Connected Cultures Programme: Super Uber (BR), Rachel Rosalen (BR), Pfadfinderei + The Constitute (DE) and Mader Stublic Wiermann (DE).
Pictures of the workshop on flickr

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Germany + Brazil: Connected Cultures

15 May – 9 June 2013
Galeria de Arte Digital SESI-SP, Avenida Paulista 1313, Sao Paulo

Susa Pop from Public Art Lab Berlin together with Marilia Pasculli from Verve Cultural Sao Paulo curate an artistic programme for the SESI/FIESP building’s media facade in Sao Paulo. The programme ‘Brasil-Alemanha: Culturas Conectadas’ will run from 15 May to 9 June in the frame of the event Germany + Brazil 2013-14.

For the media facade’s opening in November 2012, Marilia Pasculli who initiated the Galeria de Arte Digital SESI-SP together with João Frugiuele, had already invited Susa Pop to present a data visualisation programme for their SP_Urban Digital Festival, with ‘City Sleep Light’ by Antoine Schmitt and ‘Rhythm of Sao Paulo’ by Mar Canet and Varvara Guljajeva.

For the Germany + Brazil 2013-14 programme, the curators will present the German artist groups Pfadfinderei + The Constitute and Mader Stublic Wiermann as well as the two Brazilian artists Super Uber and Rachel Rosalen to open the media facade as a living sculputure for intercultural encounter and dialogue.

Picture: ‘all ready made’ by Mader Stublic Wiermann. The work has a specially composed soundtrack that can be accessed at www.all-ready-made.com.

On May 16, interested professionals can participate in a workshop with the German and Brazilian artists. You can find more information on the event website (in Portuguese) and on the website of the Goethe Institute Sao Paulo (in German).

The project is realised with support from SESI/FIESP and the Goethe Institute Sao Paulo.

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‘Videopainting: The Bridge’ – interactive installation at Goethe Institut Conference ‘Reclaiming Public Space’, 22. – 23. April 2013

The artist’s project ‘Videopainting: The Bridge’ by Blake Shaw is shown in the frame of the Goethe Institut’s Conference ‘Reclaiming Public Space’ at the Akademie der Künste on Monday 22. April 2013.

Find pictures of the installation on flickr!

‘Videopainting: The Bridge’ combines portraits of Israeli and Palestinian citizen, seen in their daily environment in the public space and merges them through an artistic process in an overlaying multimedia collage. Where the physical is unaccessible, the virtual opens doors to organize and reclaim what is considered by most in the west a fundamental human right. Blake Shaw is a new media artist currently building a new telecommunication art initiative to facilitate real-time communication between such individuals, starting in the Palestinian Territories. Through the digital possibilities of video painting Blake Shaw creates a virtual place for encounter, beyond physical borders.

‘Videopainting: The Bridge’ is curated by Public Art Lab and showcases the main idea of ‘Connecting Cities’ where cities will be connected to create an exchange between their citizens via large digital screens and media facades.

© Sweatshoppe

Find more information on the conference website, including an interesting blog article on the potential of urban media by Verena Schwarz from Public Art Lab.

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VERTICAL GARDENS in Bildern

Bei eisigen Temperaturen sorgte VERTICAL GARDENS auf der Grünen Woche Berlin, für Aufsehen. Tagsüber traten die Besucher eifrig in die Pedale, um die Wand zum Blühen zu bringen, und auch noch Nachts pilgerten die Fans interaktiver Videoinstallationen für Erinnerungsfotos zum Messegelände.

Wir danken den Gärtnern unserer digitalen Landschaft, dem gesamten Team, Maxi Strauch von duckfilm productions für das erwärmende Video und Ruthe Zuntz für die wunderschönen Bilder der Aktion.

Mehr Bilder findet ihr bei Flickr.
Und hier geht’s zum begleitenden Video.

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VERTICAL GARDENS – interaktive Medieninstallation von Public Art Lab
vom 17. bis 19. Januar 2013 in Berlin

Anlässlich der Grünen Woche haben wir für die Niederländische Botschaft eine interaktive Medieninstallation konzipiert, bei der ihr den Frühling vorzeitig nach Berlin bringen könnt!

Eröffnung am Donnerstag, 17. Januar 2013, 16.30 Uhr
Messegelände Berlin, Holland-Halle (18)
Hammarskjöldplatz (vis-à-vis des Haus des Rundfunks an der Masurenallee)

Zur diesjährigen Grünen Woche herrscht nicht nur in der Holland-Halle Frühlingsstimmung – auch vor der Messehalle sprießen bunte Blüten. Mit der interaktiven Medieninstallation VERTICAL GARDENS bringen die Niederlande den Frühling in die Stadt und die Idee eines ökologisch nachhaltigen Lebensraumes zur Diskussion. In den Niederlanden sind Stadtgärten bereits weit verbreitet und auch in Berlin setzt sich die urbane Gärtnerkultur immer mehr durch – man denke nur an den Prinzessinnengarten am Berliner Moritzplatz.

Vor der Messehalle 18 erwartet euch eine Videoprojektion, die ihr im Sattel eines Hollandrads interaktiv mitgestalten könnt. Außerdem könnt ihr eure ganz persönlichen Frühlingsgrüße in den Stadtraum schicken und schon mal eigene Gärtnerprojekte vorbereiten… lasst euch überraschen!

Public Art Lab hat das künstlerische Konzept von VERTICAL GARDENS entwickelt und die Projektleitung der Installation übernommen. Unsere Projektpartner sind YUKIJUNG (Design und Motion Graphics), Memetics GmbH (Interaktive Anwendung und Pogrammierung), tonwelt professional media GmbH (Sound) und Gahrens + Battermann GmbH (Produktionstechnik).

VERTICAL GARDENS kann vom 17. bis 19. Januar 2013 jeweils mit Beginn der Dunkelheit (ca.16.30 – 21.00 Uhr) vor der Halle 18 aktiv elebt werden. Eine Eintrittskarte zur Messe benötigt ihr dafür nicht.

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Connecting Cities Network Conference @ MAB 2012

November 15-17th – Aarhus, Denmark

After the Connecting Cities Network’s kick off workshop in Helsinki during the Media Facades Festival 2012, we all met again for  next internal workshop which took place during the Media Architecture Biennale 2012 in Aarhus!
The focus of the workshop was put on the pre-selection of the artists for our first project period “Networked City 2013”. The final selection will be done in December and the selected artists will be invited to our next artists’ and curators’ workshop which will take place in Marseille in the beginning of February 2013.

In this context we also organized our first public conference and workshop and discussed the launch of the Connecting Cities Network with a very mixed audience including architects, urban planners, cultural producers, artists and researchers from all over the world. Key topics were the technological infrastructure, audience development and digital urban planning. We would like to thank all the participants for their excellent input!

For more information have a look at www.connectingcities.net or click here.

 

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CALL FOR PROPSALS
Networked City 2013

Submit your artist’s work for the Networked City 2013. In 2013 the Connecting Cities Network will discuss the question of how urban media facades can become a catalyst for shared encounters in an identity-building temporary field of interaction across the borders of time and distance. The curators of the Connecting Cities Network will select 9 artist projects for the ‘Networked City 2013’. These projects will be presented on the urban media facades of the participating cities and open live windows to the cities. The main challenge of Networked City will be to identify contents with relevance on an international level and to develop technology standards by comparing the different local and national circumstances and production conditions.

- Application deadline: November 2nd, 2012
- Curators selection deadline: November 17, 2012
- Artist work production will finish by April, 2013
- Artist’s work will be shown within live events between May and November 2013.
- Mail:

 

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OPEN CALL
Connecting Cities Network Logo

The  Connecting Cities Network invites all designers to create the network’s visual appearance. Submit your ideas and be part of a collaborative design process.

The Network is initiated by Public Art Lab Berlin in collaboration with international media art Institutes, as Ars Electronica Linz, iMAL Brussels, FACT Liverpool, m-cult Helsinki, Medialab-Prado Madrid, Media Architecture Institute Vienna, Riga 2014, Videospread Marseille, BIS Body Process Arts Association Istanbul und das Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, supported by the University of Aarhus, Marseille-Provence 2013 and MUTEK, Montréal and is funded by the Programme Culture of the European Union.

Through the crowd-sourcing platform jovoto (http://www.jovoto.com) creative talents all over the world can work together, submit and develop their ideas for our umbrella brand “Connecting Cities”.

For more information visit: http://connectingcities.jovoto.com/

 

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EUROPEAN URBAN MEDIA NETWORK FOR CONNECTING CITIES launched

We are excited to announce the launch of the Connecting Cities Network, a project with which we aim to create a networked infrastructure of urban screens and media facades to circulate artistic and socially relevant content. From July 2012 to 2016 our partners and us will set up and test this infrastructure through a series of events focusing on the Networked City, the Participatory City and the Visible City. The Connecting Cities Network was initiated by Public Art Lab and will be further developed and realised together with our co-organisers Ars Electronica GmbH Linz, iMAL Brussels, FACT Liverpool, m-cult Helsinki, Medialab-Prado Madrid, Media Architecture Institute Vienna, Riga 2014, Videospread Marseille, BIS Body Process Arts Association Istanbul, The Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb.We are also delighted that MUTEK Montreal, Marseille Provence 2013 and Aarhus University will accompany the project as associated partners. Additional partners will enrich the project throughout the years with their expertise.

The Media Facades Festival Helsinki, presenting present media and electronic art projects in the public space, organised by our partner m-cult, offers the perfect frame for our kick-off event. The festival takes place from August 23-26, 2012.

A Connecting Cities online platform is currently in progress. As a pool and database of experience and knowledge the site will provide a forum for the discourse of Urban Media Facades and keep you up to date about project results, events and artist calls.

With the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union.

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URBAN MEDIA NETWORK launched

Following a series of events in the previous years, including the Media Facades Festivals, the Innovation Forum Urban Screens and the publication Urban Media Cultures, we recently launched the Urban Media Network together with ten other partners from the field of ICT – SMEs, global enterprises and research institutions. The Urban Media Network is funded by the Federal Ministry of Economy in the frame of the ZIM-NEMO programme and managed by newthinking communications GmbH. Our mutual motivation is to consult a sustainable mediatisation of the urban space by providing innovative interfaces and making accessible socially relevant content, aiming to realise and support the research, optimisation and development of urban media technologies. We all believe that urban media can offer a real added value for the local community and are excited to collaborate with the partners in order to actively design this novel market.

Partners: Asperado GmbH, dan pearlman Markenarchitektur GmbH, Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, ICT Innovative Communication Technologies AG, Memetics GmbH, NEC Display Solutions Europe GmbH, Public Art Lab e.V., Quality and Usability Lab (TU Berlin / Deutsche Telekom Laboratories), SRH Hochschule Berlin.

For more information please visit our temporary website on newthinking.de and our facebook profile. A project website will be launched in the next weeks.

 

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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.

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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