NEWS

On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, our new Connecting Cities partner, Streaming Museum in New York, will present the video ‘Breakthrough’ (1990), by artist Edwina Sandys, at the subway station Friedrichstraße in Berlin on Sunday, 9th November 2014 at the U-Bahn-Station Friedrichstraße in Berlin. In cooperation with WALL 'Breackthrough' will be shown every ten minutes. ‘Breakthrough’ is a monumental historic work, which was cre...

19 - 22 November 2014 Connecting Citites and Public Art Lab will attend the Media Architecture Biennale in Aarhus, Denmark. Architects, designers and artists meet with academia and industry, when the world’s premier media architecture event takes place on 19-22 November in Aarhus, Denmark, with a pre-event in Copenhagen. Across professions and nationalities, participants will create and discuss the media architecture of the future. And they will investigate how media ar...

As part of the Media Architecture Biennale 2014 in Aarhus, Denmark, Connecting Cities presents Human Futures. Human Futures includes the installation Smashy Face by Michel de Broin, a wall installation in the form of a 16 by 16 grid, containing 256 incandescent light bulbs. This is used as the canvas for an exhibition, where a smiley face is drawn by smashing some of the light bulbs. In this way the installation will not be in the need of external power to smile. Human Fut...

Understanding Media Studies: 'Urban Screens as Community Platforms' The School of Media Studies presents a discussion with Susa Pop, Director, Public Art Lab, Berlin at the New School in New York City. The New School was founded in New York City nearly a century ago as an institution dedicated to intellectual and artistic freedom. Today it is a leading urban university offering some of the nation's most well respected degree, certificate, and continuing education pro...

Im Rahmen der Veranstaltung 'frei RAUM kultur' stellt Public Art Lab das Projekt 'Connecting Cities' vor. Der Kulturförderpunkt Berlin widmet sich am 1. Oktober 2014 im Podewil in Berlin-Mitte ab 18:00 Uhr dem Thema Freiräume in Berlin.  Unterschiedliche Projekte werden vorgestellt, die auf innovative Weise Räume zur Produktion und Präsentation von Kunst und Kultur nutzen. Das sind z.B. Projekträume, die auch im Netzwerk freier Projekträume und dem in 2014 erstmals dur...

International Forum of Media Arts City 2014 “Aesthetics of Mediation: Creativity in an Age of Social Media” In November 2013, Sapporo became a member of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network as a "City of Media Arts". A media arts city senses the breath of the city and arbitrates the challenges of the future. The aesthetic, sensing the city, is a vital organ in relation to our recognition and communication. Sapporo Media Arts Lab (SMAL.jp), new partner of Connecting Citi...

In several workshops from the 11 - 13th September 2014 the Connecting Cities Artists are going to analyze how the inhabitants can be included in participatory processes through media art. The Workshops are embedded in a rich programme within the 'Connecting Cities: Urban Reflections' Programme, with Symposium, Light Parcours and a Stadt Picknick (Urban Picnic) Find all Workshops below and please register under: contact@connectingcities.net Workshop 1 // ‚Urban Alphabe...

Connecting Cities will make the neighborhood shine! You are invited to explore artistic strategies and cultural potentialities of media facades & urban screens. Public Art Lab and SUPERMARKT will turn Northern Brunnenstrasse in the Wedding-district into a boulevard of prototypes and projections during the Kulturfestival Wedding-Moabit! Wedding, an area in Berlin, is known for its cultural diversity and density of cultures. This year’s Connecting Cities Event i...

Media Facades Festival Europe 2010 BERLIN * BRUSSELS * BUDAPEST * HELSINKI * LINZ * LIVERPOOL* MADRID A project by Susa Pop of Public Art Lab / Berlin In cooperation with iMAL / Brussels, m-cult / Helsinki, FACT / Liverpool, Ars Electronica Futurelab / Linz, Medialab-Prado / Madrid, Kitchen Budapest. www.mediafacades.eu The Networked Possibilities of Urban Screens and Media Facades MEDIA FACADES FESTIVAL EUROPE 2010 (MFF2010) is an urban media pilot pr...

Saturday, 14. June 2014 / 16-18.30h Sunday, 15. June 2014 / 15-17h In the framework of the ‘Long Day of CityNature‘ (14.-15. June 2014) Public Art Lab offers two Connecting Cities Workshops in the urban gardens of Prinzessinnengarten: In the workshop ‘Street Rights Map: Urban Nature’ the artists Myriel Milicevic (DE), Mira Thomsen (DE) and Ruttikorn Vuttikorn (TH) will survey and map the rights of the different members of the street community and urban nat...

Friday, 9 May 2014, Language: German Venue: Supermarkt, Brunnenstrasse 64, 13355 Berlin On May 9 Public Art Lab organizes a preview workshop with students of theLeuphana University to prepare the Connecting Cities-event during the Wedding Moabit Festival in September. During the workshop entitled ‘Feel, Read and Interact with the Brunnenkiez’ students spread out to meet the Kiez, collect impressions, ideas and stories according to three urban strategies: Feeling...

On Februar, 11th the European Union presents the new programme „Creative Europe“ for the Creative Sector and the Culture sub-programme. To showcase and open the debate on the relevance of European Culture Programmes and its fundings Connecting Cities is invited on the Panel as one of the best show cases of translocal communication and intercultural exchange. Susa Pop, Initiator and Artistic Director of Connecting Cities, is speaker on the opening debate next to Jan...

Public Art Lab as a platform for Urban Media Art Projects invites local and international actors to come together during transmediale Vorspiel and transmediale Festival from 23.1 until 1.2.2014 CONNECTING CITIES @ transmediale Vorspiel, 23. – 28. January 2014 Venue: Public Art Lab,Brunnenstr. 72, 133555 Berlin – Wedding Come together at our transmediale Vorspiel at Public Art Lab: We open doors on Thursday, 23. Jan with the Urban Media Kitchen. Local and internati...

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...

Symposium: 30 September - 1 October 2013 Festival: 30 September - 6 October 2013 Various locations Mexico City, Mexico MUTEK_LAB unites international speakers, experts and actors from the cultural, design, and urban planning to discuss from 30 September 30th to October 1st under the topic of ‘Creativity In The Public Space’. On October 1st (12.45pm - 1.30pm) Mike Stubbs / FACT Liverpool, Susa Pop / Public Art Lab Berlin, Patricia Dominguez Larrondo / Medialab-Prad...

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 1...

23 August - 1 September 2013 Youth Centre & Multimedia Cultural Centre, Split, Croatia Topic: Designing Interactions in the Networked City The UrbanIxD Summer School is an interdisciplinary, workshop-style event with a line up of inspirational speakers and experienced atelier leaders. At the end of the week, the work created by the participants will be presented to the people of Split as an open exhibition. While the call for participation is closed now, you can ...

International Videomapping and Facade Projection Festival Workshops: 5 - 9 August 2013 Symposium: 9 - 11 August 2013 Festival: 9 - 11 August 2013, projections daily from 8pm to 11pm Weimar, Germany In 2013, festival Genius Loci Weimar will expand in space and time as on three evenings three historical facades will invite to a screening parcours. The festival offers additionally a symposium, workshops, an exhibition and a networking get-together. Susa Pop will pre...

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 ...

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. Find more pictures of the Connected Cultures urban media a...

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 col...

With the three day event Illuminations of Wedding the creative resource center SUPERMARKT will explore the notion of neighborhood with a particular focus on the district Wedding and its impact on the local community, artistic processes and works. The event consists of a workshop, a panel and an exhibition, the latter featuring amongst others a site-specific facade mapping by AUTO64 and an LED-Throwie installation by the renown Graffiti Research Lab. Both projects serve as cas...

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 Messeh...

Susa Pop was invited to curate the facade of the SP_URBAN DIGITAL FESTIVAL in Sao Paulo and hold a lecture on Wednesday, the 4th December 2012 about urban media facades, its risks and potentials for cultural use. Thereby pointing out main challenges: the technical part of how to connect facades from city to city but also how to integrate suitable, site-specific and interactive cultural content from a curatorial point of view. The lecture shows best cases and innovative method...

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 ...

The retune conference is a hands-on platform for the creative culture of innovation. From the 26th until 28th October, artists, hackers, designers, architects and engineers proved how experimenting, breaking up old paradigms and open-mindedness can change the world. Our Connecting Cities Network fully supports that approach and was hence one of the cases presented by Susa Pop. See full programme: http://retune.de/programm  

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 participatin...

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 Is...

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 ...

MUTEK Lab : 30th May 2012, 14:45h – 16.15h Together with some of our international project partners, Susa Pop was invited to introduce the European Urban Media Network for Connecting Cities, aimed at creating a network of urban media facades to circulate creative and social content, at MUTEK Fetival 2012. From 2012 to 2016, the network will test this infrastructure through three Connecting Cities events: the Networked City, the Participatory City and the Visible City in ...

2nd May, from 17:15 pm @ STATION Berlin On 2nd May, the first day of the three days conference re:publica, Germany’s biggest conference for Social Media & digital society, we will organise a programme on Urban Media & Smart Cities. Our programme starts at 17.15 h at Stage 4 with a keynote by Tim Edler from realities:united, the Berlin based studio for art, architecture and technology. In a panel we will further pursue the question how urban media as temporary com...

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. ...

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...

Im Rahmen des Digitalen Think Tank: Fresh Ideas, Future Technologies, Art and Design, des Internationalen Medienkongress’ (05./06.September 11) wird Susa Pop zum Thema ”Beyond Public Viewing. Urban Screens and media facades” referieren. Dies ist eine große Chance um ‘unser’ Thema öffentlichkeitswirksam mit einem Fachpublikum und Fachinteressenten zu diskutieren, wozu wir Sie alle herzlich einladen. Dienstag 06. September 2011, 14 – 15:30 Uhr | ICC Berlin, W...

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 g...

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...

In the pilot Wheelpedia course, the digital media approach will be served through the Mobicases, designed by Public Art Lab. 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 the Wheeling EU journey in May/June 2011, organized by the European Public Law Organization. The journey will connect...

Round TableThe Round Table Ukraine will accompany the cultural management project of the European Cultural Foundation throughout the region and will be the site of meetings, discussions, performances and international gatherings of the cooperation project in the Ukraine. The Round Table has the form of the Ukraine and gives the program a popular image. The general idea behind the project is: new space concepts open new thinking spaces. The Round Table is 8 meters in length a...

Media Facades Festival Europe 2010 is announced as one of  “Selected Landmarks” in the contest “365 Landmarks in the Land of Ideas” 2011. Our day will be the 25 May 2011. http://www.land-of-ideas.org/

BERLIN * BRUSSELS * BUDAPEST * HELSINKI * LINZ * LIVERPOOL* MADRID A project by Susa Pop of Public Art Lab / Berlin In cooperation with iMAL / Brussels, m-cult / Helsinki, FACT / Liverpool, Ars Electronica Futurelab / Linz, Medialab-Prado / Madrid, Kitchen Budapest. The Networked Possibilities of Urban Screens and Media Facades MEDIA FACADES FESTIVAL EUROPE 2010 (MFF2010) is an urban media pilot project that interconnects seven European cities through the exis...

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 gatheri...

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-...

Media Facades Festival Europe 2010 is announced as one of  “Selected Landmarks” in the contest “365 Landmarks in the Land of Ideas” 2011. Our day will be the 25 May 2011. http://www.land-of-ideas.org/

MFF2010 video documentation is now online. Thanks to our partners and their contribution and Maxi Strauch / duckfilm productions who directed and produced the documentation. [vimeo 17897651]