Mirjam Struppek works as urbanist, researcher and consultant in Berlin and a member of Public Art Lab, Berlin since 2007. With a background in Urban-
and Environmental Planning she has internationally lectured and published
essays with a special focus on the livability of urban space, public sphere
and its transformation and acquisition through new media. Mirjam has been
instrumental in building the Urban Screens community and in collaboration
with the Institute of Network Cultures, and Department of Art in Public
Space, Amsterdam she developed as curator and co-organiser the concept for
the first international Urban Screens conference in 2005. She is currently
working on further implementing this concept of utilising outdoor screens
for a sustainable urban society as conference coordinator and artistic
director of the multimedia program of Urban Screens Melbourne 2008. She is
as well curator of the Mediaachitecture Festival 2008, Berlin. Since 2002
she has developing the online-information-platform interactionfield about
the relation of interaction, new media and public space. In this context she
organizes since 2005 the monthly discussion evening ‘Urban Media Salon’. In
2003 she worked as Gallery Assistant in a gallery for still and motion
pictures in Berlin. Mirjam Struppek was specially selected member of the
ISEA 2006 – Interactive City Jury.
Struppek, M. (2007): ‘New Interventions in Urban Public Spaces’ in:
‘The Mobile Audience’, edited book by Martin Rieser, Rodopi
Struppek, M. (2007): ‘New Media, Interaction and Public Space’,
in the catalogue of the exhibition series ‘Under Scan’ by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
M. Hohl, S. Schuricht, M. Struppek (2006) ‘Freequent Traveller:
Interaction versus contemplation’ in the online journal of the London Consortium:
STATIC 4, Special issue on ‘Unaccommodated’
Mirjam Struppek (2006): ‘Urban Screens – The Urbane Potential of Public
Screens for Interaction’ in: intelligent agent Vol. 6 No. 2, Special Issue:
Papers presented at the ISEA2006 Symposium, August 2006
Mirjam Struppek (2006): ‘Research C – Media/ Communication’ in:
Philipp Oswalt (Ed.), Shrinking Cities- Complete Works 2 – Interventions,
Section: Commissioned Research, ARCH+ Verlag GmbH, Aachen, 2006
Mirjam Struppek (2006): ‘Interactionfield – public space in the digital age’ in:
Philipp Oswalt (Ed.), Shrinking Cities- Complete Works 2 –
Interventions,Section D: Organizing Retreat , ARCH+ Verlag GmbH, Aachen,
2006
M. Hohl, S. Schuricht, M. Struppek (2006) ‘Double Room:
An exploration ofpublic space with the Zen View’ in:
Proceedings of Participatory Design
Conference (PDC ’06 Vol II) (in press), Trento, Italy 2006
Struppek, M. (2006): ‘The social potential of Urban Screens’ in:
‘Screens and the Social Landscape’, Visual
Communication, Sage Publications, June 2006, Volume 5, No. 2, pp 173-188
Co-editor of the special issue of the peer-reviewed online journal First
Monday, Special Issue #4: Urban Screens: Discovering the potential of
outdoor screens for urban society (February 2006)
Struppek, Mirjam. (2006): ‘Migration and Internet – Communications with
Migrants’ in: ‘Shrinking Cities, Volume 2′, Hatje Cantz
Struppek, Mirjam (2005):’Kommunikation mit Weggezogenen’ in:
Shrinking Cities, Band 2, Handlungskonzepte, Hatje Cantz Verlag
Struppek, Mirjam (2005):’Video-Art invading the visual sphere of our public
spaces’ in: 3/2005 of Umelec, download the paper draft
Schuricht, S and Struppek, M. (2005): ‘New design in a complex world’ in:
tema celeste, July/August 2005.
Struppek, M. (2005): ‘Video-Art invading the visual sphere of our public
spaces’ in: Umelec, Issue 3/2005
Struppek, Mirjam (2005): ‘New Urban Screens’ in: ‘Space and Perception -
Symposium Reader’, Riga, S. 57-59
Struppek, Mirjam (2004): ‘Botfighters’ in: Playtime, Bauwelt, Heft 30/04,
S.13
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