curating & social networking
Coming from a media art background to organise own projects and media networks I have always understood as a part of my artistic practise. The same rings true for the curating of festivals and other social events. As it all begun as an intriguing opportunity to meet face-to-face with the collaborators, who one has been remotely working with online, as well as other interesting and inspiring people.
• From Seed to Scene (AAIS)
• Crash! Boom! Bau!
• Mediate Europe
• Utopia Construction Site
• radical connector(s) 01
• Raste_02 – “Distributed by… – how do I get to the music and how does the music get to me?”
• Media above & beyond .. (strategic media deployment conference)
• ping in progress
From Seed to Scene (AAIS)
SEEDS OF CREATIVITY FLOURISH IN A DERELICT COVENT GARDEN BUILDING THANKS TO NEW AA SCHOOL PROJECT
- Project website: Seed to Scene Salon (AAIS)
Two weeks of unprecedented and unexpected collaborations within the creative industries FREE events include dance performances by New Movement; a debate organised by New Deal of the Mind (NDotM) and a “Pecha Kucha” style event for young creatives to pitch their ideas to a range of experts
The Architectural Association’s Interprofessional Studio (AAIS) will take over a derelict building in the heart of Covent Garden for a highly unusual two-week long programme of genre-defying events, talks, and performances. Part architecture, part performance, part social and political debate, Seed to Scene (S2S) takes place from 18 – 31 May, and is inspired by the scalability of creative processes, from a seed of an idea which germinates to form ground-breaking and experimental collaborations. The aim of the project is to create new ways of bringing people together to form new and unexpected ideas and outcomes. S2S will showcase live and active practice of an emerging professional terrain operating between disciplines.
Now more than ever the creative industries need support and encouragement to ensure they continue to flourish and survive in difficult economic times. The creative industries are worth in excess of £50 billion a year to the UK economy and within four years are expected to employ more people than financial services. S2S will play a key role in providing networks, advice and most importantly, inspiration to the next generation of young creative talent from all disciplines, not just architecture.
Among the highlights of S2S will be a discussion of the importance of risk in creative innovation; a debate hosted by NDotM (www.newdealofthemind.com) relating to their recent report Creative Survival in Hard Times; a dance performance from New Movement, a collective of choreographers with a long history of unusual collaborations and a careers surgery enabling young creative individuals and businesses to seek advice from established professionals.
To produce S2S, the AAIS will collaborate with many professional individuals and companies including renowned film producer Rosa Bosch; Ben Wolff & Andy Dean, Grammy award- winning music producers (Music Technology Ltd); NDotM which is a coalition of artists, entrepreneurs and policy makers which seeks to create new possibilities of work and employment for the creative industries and c/o pop, the organisers of Europe’s biggest conference for the creative industries in Cologne.
The AA Interprofessional Studio (AAIS), which was launched in January 2009, is creating a new field of activity for the AA. Working on the margins of art, architecture and performance, the AAIS can reach professions, create partnerships and stimulate students that would not usually have the possibility of working with, or within, the AA. AAIS welcomes students from a very broad range of backgrounds and disciplines including artists, filmmakers, scenographers, architects, urban planners, landscape architects, engineers, product designers and graphic designers as well as managers, teachers and communicators. S2S is part of AAIS’s commitment to creating interdisciplinary projects which involve professionals from all kinds of backgrounds, and which support creative industries.
S2S Details
Venue: 1- 5 Dryden Street, London, WC2E 9NB
Dates: 18 – 31 May 2010
AAIS Staff 2010
Programme Director: Theo Lorenz
Studio Master: Tanja Siems
Studio Tutor: Jan Hendrik Brueggemeier
Crash! Boom! Bau!
“Scenography Now!” presents the contemporary scenography festival: Crash! Boom! Bau!
.Jan Hendrik Brueggemeier curated together with Janek Mueller the Crash! Boom! Bau! Festival from May 1st – 17th 2009 at Theaterhaus Jena.
During the course of the festival we showcased 101 artists in a diverse range of formats from theatre productions, installations in public space, interactive games, panel discussions and music performance (see the programme).
Check out the video showcase of 7 selected festival productions.
New! New! New! Crash! Boom! Bau!
At the Bauhaus, »New« was the word of the hour. One wanted to change the world to the better, with all perfection: new cities, new tea pots, new man, and certainly also: a new theatre!
The stage workshop at the Bauhaus was an unique laboratory of the performative. With great complexity, Bauhaus-master László Moholy-Nagy described, what it was all about: »The sensible demand for today is: a true organization of form and motion that is deemed equally important and on the same plane with the acoustic and optic (electric) phenomena we can currently produce, not one abusing motion as a medium for literary and emotional events.«
Quite complicated, but: new!
One experimented with space, with apparatuses, with machines, and mechanisms. Walter Gropius: »Every art wants to shape space!« Oskar Schlemmer presented a »Figural Cabinet«, Kurt Schmidt a »Mechanic Ballet«, and Moholy-Nagy a »Light-Space-Modulator« – for the first time in 1923 as a »Mechanic Cabaret« at the theatre in Jena.
The Crash! Boom! Bau! Festival celebrates 90 years of the Bauhaus with a new and up-to-date theatre, guest performances and own productions, with artistic installations and workshops. All projects focus on the a special way of dealing with space, with the stage, with the relation between action and perception, and with interdisciplinary approaches between stage design, media art, and architecture. The festival as a laboratory!
And: we expand! In collaboration with the Architectural Association London, a temporary structure is created on the public square in front of the theatre building – a new place for play and encounter, to expand our theater. This addendum calls: come on in, here is something new!
New! New! New! Crash! Boom! Bau!
The festival Crash!Boom!Bau! is funded in context of the project “Scenography Now!” by the German Cultural Foundation and in the context of the project “bauhaus lab” by the EU culture program.
For more information please on the festival and the participating artists and programming follow this link (archived website).
Tags: architecture, art, Bauhaus, city, collaborations, communication, contemporary, conversation, crash, networks, new media, performance, performer, scenography, temporary, theatreVideo Show Case (Crash!Boom!Bau! festival)
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Crash!Boom!Bau! festival
bauhaus lab project
Video showcase of 7 selected festival productions
Mediate Europe
The New Media panel of the final HERMES conference (5-8 Oct 2006): Heritage and New Media – Contributing towards Integration and Regional Development.
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Programme:
The background of this workshop is the evaluation of the concrete work of the “Heritage Radio Network” over the passed two years.
Main concerns of this workshop are:
- What are possible models of online journalism on a European level?
- Which coalitions can be shared in the cultural field?
- If there are modes for a European journalism, how does one address a European target group?
- Which media, which formats and which languages are favored here?
The Panel is conceived and organised by Jan Hendrik Brueggemeier, coordinator of the Heritage Radio Network.
website: www.heritageradio.net
The Heritage Radio Network is a part of the EU-project HERMES. “HERMES” stands for Cultural Heritage and New Media for sustainable Develpoment. It was funded by the Interreg III B (Cadses). The Classic Foundation Weimar has been the HERMES leadpartner. website:
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WORKSHOP SESSION
Anna Riepe (policy consultant, Brussels / B)
EU cultural politics as a black box? Some insights to policies and funding
Douglas Arellanes (Media Development Loan Fund // CAMP, Prague / CZ)
Criteria and examples of sustainable (new) media work in Europe
Thorsten Schilling (German Federal Agency for Civic Education, Berlin / D)
European Journalism for journalists and who else?
~~ first resume and short coffee break ~~
Pierre-Yves Tribolet (European Broadcasting Union, EBU)
Cultural bridges built by Public radios. How does it work backstage?
Uta Thofern (Deutsche Welle, Bonn / D)
Deutsche Welle in the age of Internet and new media
Hatto Fischer (Poiein kai Prattein, Athens / GR)
From ‘GO ON’ to Heritageradio – a simple reflection of the development of audiences via Internet
~~ second resume and short coffee break ~~
Dirk de Wit (Initiative for Audiovisual Art, IAK, Brussels / B)
What is the next level? – evaluation of the HRN
~~ final discussion round ~~
Construction Site Utopia
In 2005 Jan Brueggemeier was the curator of the “Utopiebaustelle”.
The “Utopiebaustelle” utopia construction site, a temporary building on the Theaterplatz in Weimar, acted as a contemporary art and theory platform for the Cops&Robbers festival from 09.05.2005 to 11.06.2006.
200 years after the death of the poet Friedrich Schiller, the Cops & Robbers festival aimed to find a contemporary approach to his classical works in a dialogue between young artists and theoreticians.
“Cops&Robbers” is the name of the childhood game which represents the situation in the adult world and also contains a reference to three decisive works by Schiller: the infamous “Die Räuber” (The Robbers) (1779/80), the famous “Über die ästhetische Erziehung des Menschen in einer Reihe von Briefen” (On the Aesthetic Education of Man in a series of Letters) (1793/94) and the widely unknown fragment of a drama “Die Polizey” (The Police) (ca. 1799-1804).
Two excerpts from the programming:
.# 01 Utopia Reversed
Disappointed by the French Revolution, Friedrich Schiller turned to the aesthetic, hoping to find a better world through aesthetic education. Matteo Pasquinelli, a media theoretician from Bologna, will transport the question of utopia and how it can be approached into the 21st century. Under the title of “Neurospace”, he described where art, critical reflection and responsible behaviour start. Serpica Naro, for example, will report from her medial activist coup at the Milan Fashion Show this year. André Gattolin from the “Liberation” French daily paper will present a French collective called “AntiPub”, which looks into the dominance of advertising in public spaces. Andrea Natella and Sara Massaccesi from Rome will offer an introduction to the modus operandi of “guerilla marketing”. Paolo Pedercini, a computer game developer from Milan, will present his work “molleindustra” which has already been described as a “political computer game” by the BBC.
Thursday, May 26, 20-22h
Introduction and presentations with Matteo Pasquinelli, Bologna/London: An Assault on Neurospace: New forms of art and activism hitting the global mind; Paolo Pedercini, Milan: Molle Industria: Gaming as a new radical language; André Gattolin & Robert Johnson, Paris: The Antipub movement: From underground to “no ground”
Friday, May 27, 20-22h
Presentations and final debate with: Alex Foti, Milan: San Precario: The Italian icon of flexible revolt; Zoe Romano, Milan: Serpica Naro: Subvertising the fashion industry; Alex Foti + Zoe Romano: May Day 005: Euroradicals fighting precarization across Neuropa: Sara Massaccesi, Rome: Guerriglia Marketing: brand economy encounters social conflict
# 02 Blaulicht by Cornelia Erdmann / inauguration Construction Site Utopia
Cornelia Erdmann’s “Blaulicht” installation created an unmissable publicity action, attention grabber and landmark for the opening and all other police festival events. The container castle was transformed into a real utopia construction site scenario: covered with hundreds of blue lamps, the festival head-quarters pulsed in a flickering blue glow like Las Vegas. The rotating lights in police style can be found on every construction site.
website: www.schillerfestival.com (offline)
The Utopia Construction Site was financed by the government appointed representative for culture and media.
radical connector(s) 01
with the friendly support of the
Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Erfurt
the student union, Bauhaus University Weimar
Or what means autonomy today? And how do protest movements (de)form in the 21st Century?
radical connector(s) 01 – a discourse and media-art festival in Weimar, Germany, from October 21st – 24th and October 28th – 31st 2004
abstract
worldwide telecommunication is permeating almost all facets of our daily life. the telecom-munications-multi sony ericsson revised its forecast of this year sold mobile-phones worldwide from 550 mill to 600 mill devices.
media let spatial borders between private and public become transient. one’s cellular turns the public space of the subway into a super-private realm while the web cam makes the sleeping-room somewhat public. with the ongoing transition of working routines in communicative situations the office and the factory are leaving their former abode – the factory hall.
the production mode is entering the common sphere of everyday communication. although communicative interconnectedness is constantly expanding the user tend to become more isolated. the mobile-phone and its direct addressability introduce a social practise that stresses more the personal than the impersonal relationships.
we receive a situation, where on one hand the technical capability of media-production has reached the consumer-level, but is used only in a private context. on the other side the active area of the general media public is left to a few corporations monopolising the global mediascape and are effectively forming public conception.
How do social and artistic movements face such situation, and what does it mean for political and artistic autonomy?
radical connector(s) 01 is meant as a survey on social and artistic movements of the last 30 years, which stand out through their very own and unique media-practises. current projects will be introduced, as well as exchange with local initiatives is wanted.
Outdoor screening sessions throughout the events
projected from car trunks
and vacant store windows
radical connector(s) 01 schedule
Thursday 21/10/2004
17:00 – 18:00 reception and overview an all planned activities
18:00 – 19:30 Christian Goerg (lecture): on new and newest social movements -transformations of political protests
20:00 – 22:00 Erick Arellana-Bautista (presentation /screening): multimedia-proletaria Bogota, Colombia
Friday 22/10/2004
16:00 – 17:00 Regina Bittner (lecture): between appropriation and disappropriation of public space in post-socialism
17:30 – 18:30 Mirijam Struppek (presentation): public space – interaction – digital media
19:00 – 20:00 Claudia Reiche (lecture): (De)information – on the Politics of Fictional Figures in Fictitious Times
Saturday 23/10/2004
14:00 – 15:00 Wolfgang Bock (lecture): social movements in transformation
15:30 – 16:30 Roger Behrens, testcard (lecture): pop and politics – a critical review
17:00 – 18:00 Lloyd Dunn (presentation): plagiarism thanks you for interacting
20:30 – 22:00 Franco Berardi, telestreet (lecture): what means autonomy today?
succeeding screening: Telestreet
Sunday 24/10/2004
12:00 -13:00 Matthias Niendorf, University Erfurt (lecture): TO All! – russia, the revolution und radio (1895-1945)
14:00 – 16:00 final-panel:
how do protest movements (de)form in the 21st Century?
17:00 – 18:00 Alexander Klosch, subsignal.org: from tech to polis? – about community networking in current technologies
Part II:
Thursday 28/10/2004
16:00 – 17:00 Diana McCarty, reboot.fm (presentation): what means free media today? – an example: reboot.fm berlin
17:00 – 18:00 T03K,DFM rtv Int (presentation): free (new) media – Amsterdam Skool
18:00 – 19:00 Filmgruppe Chaos (presentation): underground, home movies, independent distribution
20:00 – 22:00 screening of Filmgruppe Chaos’ works
Friday 10/28/2004
10:00 – 20:00 preparation of outdoor intervention in public space
20:00 – 22:00 public screening
Saturday 10/30/2004
10:00 – 20:00 preparation of outdoor intervention in public space
20:00 – 22:00 public screening
Sunday 10/31/2004
10:00 – 18:00 preparation of outdoor intervention in public space
20:00 – 22:00 performance/outdoor screenings
22:00 – 23:00 final discussion
23:00 party
location
the conference took place at: Herderplatz 03 – 99423 Weimar > radical connector(s) 01
It takes place in the context of the lecture series City & Protest organised by the alternative_lectures at the Bauhaus-University Weimar with friendly support of the Friedrich Ebert-Foundation (Thuringia), department of the political education of the student union of the Bauhaus-University Weimar, Theaterhaus Weimar e.V., the Experimental Radio-Department of Bauhaus-University Weimar, the media-platform “pingfm” and the cultural initiative “Salon K”.
Tags: autonomy, city, communication, media activismRaste_02 – “Distributed by… – how do I get to the music and how does the music get to me?”
In 2004 Jan Brueggemeier was one of the core organisers and curator of Raste_02.
Raste_02 is a festival of new electronic music and audio art which opened in Weimar for the second time that year. It dealt with this question.
For the three days from 12th to 14th June 2004 in Weimar and Frankfurt am Main, Raste_02 combines readings and discussions with the experience of live, new, electronic music and audio art.
Raste_02 creates a forum for budding and established musicians and artists to present music concepts using an electronic sound space and its audio-visual implementation.
Raste_02 aims to be a communicative platform which discusses changes in the relationship between artist, market and audience resulting from digital media.
website: www.raste.org
“Distributed by… – how do I get to the music and how does the music get to me?”
How do I get to the music – and how does the music get to me?
How can you find the music you really like?
Does technology always change music?
Is there any music which is not influenced by the fact that it can be recorded and copied?
Does music live through its continuous reproduction?
How can the value concept of music as a product be developed in a digital musical system?
Are physical storage media being increasingly marginalised?
Is there a digital pendant to a 500 series vinyl record?
Is the only thing of value something that cannot be copied?
Who founds a label and why?
Do labels act as a compass in the overgrown data jungle?
How does the label landscape change?
Are small labels more adventurous, more entertaining and more patient?
Does financial success spell creative disaster?
Can musicians cope with the new economic model of making music?
Is music driven out of its own studio so quickly that no file-sharing client can keep up?
Can music be sold in such attractive packaging that the purchase is easier than copying it?
Will self-publishing of music by the artist become the best form of publicity because an increasing number of people will go to concerts of those musicians, who keep their music in circulation?
Will live presentation of music become more popular?
Are there too many laptop artists?
Can electronics arbitrate between experts, hobbyists and independents?
How will the relationship between creative and interpretive art develop?
Will pure music agents with their networks and talent scouts become more and more important as the real artists of distribution?
What does the future look like for musicians?
What does a musician live from?
You can be sure the presentations, discussions and moderations during Raste_02 will reveal more questions. But maybe some answers can also be found without carrying on the powerful discourse bubble in the context of electronic music.
Saturday, June 12th 2004, Weimar
20.15 Uhr Senking (Cologne)
22.00 Uhr Robert Lippok (Berlin)
DJing Ushi Hupe (Berlin)
DJing Kazi Lenker (Berlin)
Sunday, June 13th 2004, Weimar
17.00 Uhr Reading: Thomas Meinecke (Munich)
18.00 Uhr Panel
20.00 Uhr pingfm (Weimar)
21.00 Uhr L.O.S.D. (Amsterdam)
22.00 Uhr Frank Bretschneider (Berlin)
DJing Peter D. (Amsterdam)
Monday, June14th 2004, Frankfurt
20.00 Uhr Frank Bretschneider (Berlin)
21.00 Uhr L.O.S.D. (Amsterdam)
22.00 Uhr pingfm (Weimar)
23.00 Uhr Robert Lippok (Berlin)
24.00 Uhr Senking (Köln)
Raste_02 made possible by
Media above & beyond .. (strategic media deployment conference)