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Midsummer’s Night Berlin Art Exiles BBQ / August 5th 2010 @ Skulpturenpark

Thursday, August 5th at Skulpturenpark Berlin from 19:00 - 00:00
The park is located between Alte Jakobstrasse / Kommandantenstrasse / Seydelstrasse in Berlin-Mitte. Public Transportation: U2 Spittelmarkt / U6 Kochstrasse
http://www.skulpturenpark.org

On 5 August 2010, Upgrade! and transmediale arrange this year’s Midsummer’s Night Berlin Art Exiles BBQ in the Skulpturenpark in Berlin-Mitte. Featuring Somaya Langley, Daniel Massey and Philip Pocock as speakers, the Upgrade! Summer BBQ edition is a chance to get together with this year’s Berlin art summer guests and to meet up friends, parters and collaborators from transmediale and the Upgrade! network.
Everyone is invited to bring along snacks and drinks.


Christoph Ziegler: Camp Exodus, Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum 2009 (Photo Nici Wegener)

SHORT BIOS:

Somaya Langley:
Somaya Langley is a sound and media artist whose arts practice focuses on embodied and immersive experiences mediated by technology, to initiate socio-political dialogue. She has worked in the field of digital preservation and online delivery for organisations including the National Library of Australia and the Australian Music Centre. She was Production Manager of the 2010 International Society of Contemporary Music World New Music Days festival and was a Director of the 2008 and 2009 Electrofringe festival in Australia. More infos here: http://www.criticalsenses.com/

Daniel Massey:
Daniel Massey is a media artist based out of San Francisco, CA. His projects take on varied forms, from immersive installations and web-based work, to live visuals and music. Daniel earned his MFA in Digital Arts & New Media from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He was part of the Yahoo! Design Innovation Team and is a recent resident artist at Gray Area Foundation for the Arts. More infos here: http://www.oddsympathy.com

Philip Pocock:
Philip Pocock is a Canadian artist and researcher. For the past decade he has developed projects collaboratively at the ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, most recently installing “Aland: Scopic Regimes of Uncertainty” at the Seville Biannual, Spain, and the Nam June Paik Art Center, Seoul, South Korea. His network-based sculpture and cybercinema pieces have been widely exhibited, such as  the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (”Arctic Circle”), The Banff Center, Canada (”Unmovie: Exit Gallery”), the Museum of Modern Art, Paris (”Humbot”), Venice Biannual, Italy, (”Black Sea Diary”), Documenta X and Art Cologne (”A Description of the Equator and Some Øtherlands”)  and the ZKM (”Spaceplace: Art in the Age of Orbitization”. More infos here: http://datatecture.blogspot.com/

More infos about Skulpturenpark:
Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum is located on an urban wasteland, part of which was formerly the ‘Mauerstreifen,’ the military zone within the Berlin Wall. It remains vacant to this day. With approximately 5 hectares of open lots, it offers a vast space and unique history to host various socio-cultural activities. Skulpturenpark often rents spaces in adjacent buildings in order to provide a different perspective of the park.

With special thanks to the team of transmediale and Skulpturenpark!

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Upgrade! Berlin & MMX presents: Media Facades Festival Europe 2010 Preview

22.07.2010, 20h – 24h
MMX Open Art Venue e.V.
Linienstr. 142/ 143, 10115 Berlin-Mitte

22.07.2010, 20h – 24h
MMX Open Art Venue e.V.
Linienstr. 142/ 143, 10115 Berlin-Mitte

Upgrade! Berlin is glad to present the makers and a preview of the artworks of the upcoming Media Facades Festival Europe 2010: From 27 August to 12 September 2010, seven European cities will be connected through the medium of urban screens and media facades.
MEDIA FACADES FESTIVAL EUROPE 2010 (MFF 2010) is a pilot project for artists and media designers. It will employ the networked urban screens infrastructures in ‘Joint Broadcasting Events’ throughout Europe for transnational circulation of artistic and cultural exchange.  A project initated by Public Art Lab Berlin, in cooperation with Ars Electronica Futurelab / Linz, FACT / Liverpool, iMAL / Brussels, m-cult / Helsinki, Medialab-Prado / Madrid and Kitchen Budapest.

http://www.mediafacades.eu

Programm of the evening:

21:00-21:15 - Ela Kagel introduces the guests and the idea of the festival.
21:15-22:00 - Susa Pop, artistic director of MFF 2010, will talk about the curatorial concept, the strategies and the artworks that will be presented from August 27th on.
22:00-00:00 - Screenings, videoworks, drinks and conversations at the bar and in the MMX garden.

You will also have the opportunity to talk to some of the artists who will present their works during the Media Facades Festival in August.

More infos about MFF 2010:

MEDIA FACADES FESTIVAL series reflects the worldwide increasing presence of massive-infrastructures with digital visual elements in urban public space. As a counter movement against the primary commercial use of urban screens and media facades, the festival focuses on content in the context of the reinvention of public sphere based on a wellbalanced mix of functions. Representing the idea of the resident as an active citizen instead of a well-behaved consumer, it zooms into the cultural and participatory potential of digital moving images as a new urban communication format.

Let‘s reclaim the Screens - as a new urban communication format for the creation and exchange of culture, strengthening local creative economies, and providing local identity! Let‘s create Vision Panels between the virtual and real public spaces based on new cooperation models between sociopolitical, cultural, architecturally aesthetic and economic

Interests. Please visit http://www.mediafacades.eu for the full festival program.

More infos about Upgrade! Berlin:

Upgrade! Berlin was initiated in Berlin by Public Art Lab in 2006. This event series is part of a large international network of different nodes in various countries in Europe, the United States, South America and Africa. The Upgrade! International network exists since 2009, with the aim of showcasing and producing artistic projects which reflect on media arts and digital culture. Upgrade! Berlin is organized as a nomadic event series, hosted by different venues. Each event is a unique opportunity to meet a broad range of people, get to know latest developments in media arts and discovering new and exciting places in the city.

Upgrade! Berlin is organised by Ela Kagel - with the support of the transmediale Festival for Art and Digital Culture.

http://www.upgrade-berlin.net

http://www.transmediale.de

With special thanks to the MMX team: http://www.mmxberlin.com/

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FAT Lab presentation & Artzilla “Skate the Web” opening / Oct 31st.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31st 2009, 8pm at BETAHAUS Berlin, Prinzessinnenstrasse 19-20, directly at Moritzplatz.

On our Upgrade! Helloween edition Aram Bartholl and Tobias Leingruber will present The Free Art and Technology (F.A.T.) Lab.

FAT Lab is an organization dedicated to enriching the public domain through the research and development of creative technologies and media. Release early, often and with rap music. This is Notorious R&D. The entire FAT network of artists, engineers, scientists, lawyers, musicians and Bornas are committed to supporting open values and the public domain through the use of emerging open licenses, support for open entrepreneurship and the admonishment of secrecy, copyright monopolies and patents.

FAT Lab is nominated for the transmediale award 2010.

Aram Bartholl and Tobias Leingruber are both members of the FAT Lab collective and will talk about their own artistic practice, too.

On the same night Tobias Leingruber will present Artzilla.org including the opening of his “Skate The Web” solo show at Betahaus.

Artzilla.org is dedicated to the development of experimental browser software. The platform collects and exhibits creative works, shares code and tutorials, and publishs news from the scene.
Internet artists, street artists and skateboarders are using public architecture in ways, the creators didn’t expect it to be used. Artzilla.org is a collection of browser modifications which challenge our online society by pointing out cultural clashes, remixing existing structures in uncommon ways, and using public online services to create art work. Let’s SKATE THE WEB!

Artzilla was presented at WORM Rotterdam and ROFL-Con New York.

Aram Bartholl:
Aram has been working in Berlin since 1995. In his art work he thematizes the relationships between net data space and every day life. “In which form does the network data world manifest itself in our everyday life? What returns from cyberspace into physical space? How do digital innovations influence our everyday actions?” His artworks have been shown at international art festivals such as Ars Electronica, Transmediale Berlin and Futuresonic Manchester. He has also participated in exhibitions at TENT Niederlande, VOORUIT Belgium, Eyebeam New York, Enemy Gallery Chicago, Total Museum of Contemporary Art Seoul, Australian Centre for Photography Sydney, eARTS Shanghai, LABORAL Spanien and Videotage Hong Kong. Aram Bartholl has presented his work in more than 30 lectures and workshops at conferences and universities.

More about Aram’s work can be found here: http://www.datenform.de

Tobias Leingruber:
Tobias is a diploma student at the New Media programm of the Merz Akademie in Stuttgart (Germany).  He is a designer and programmer, in love with the internet - It’s culture, technologys and endless creative possibilities. In 2008 he spent one semester at the Eyebeam Art & Technology Center in New York. Tobias is part of the artist collective Free Art and Technology Lab ( F.A.T. Lab) and he used to hang out as an Intern at the Rocketboom internet video start up. He did an exchange semester at the Piet Zwart Institute for Media Design MA in Rotterdam, and he is a scholarship student of the German Student Foundation. At the moment Tobias is travelling with his latest project artzilla.org, a platform for experimental browser software.

And here is more information on Tobias: http://tobi-x.com/

About Betahaus Berlin:
Betahaus Berlin will host this event. Betahaus is a unique place dedicated for creative people and new ways of collaboration. Active since 6 months only, the Betahaus team around Christoph Fahle and Tonia Welter have already managed to create a place which is alive and kicking.
Come and see for yourself.

About the program of the evening:
20:00 Upgrade / Betahaus Welcome
20:15 Presentation “Release early, often and w/ Rap Music” by FAT Lab (Aram Bartholl, Tobias Leingruber, Evan Roth (Skype))
21:00 Presentation “Skate the Web” by Tobias Leingruber + Jamie Wilkinson (Skype)
21:30 Schmuse’n'Booze with FAT Tunes (presented by DJ TBX)

Free entry.

This event is a cooperation with the transmediale festival for art and digital culture in Berlin.

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Upgrade! Berlins remote appearance in Vienna

© Medwed 2009

Ela Kagel, curator of Upgrade! Berlin, is speaking at the opening of the Vienna node on September 12th 2009. Congratulations, Ursula and Rosa who started Upgrade Vienna!

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Upgrade! Berlin Summer BBQ at Skulpturenpark / Monday 27th July

Upgrade! Berlin’s Summer BBQ @ Skulpturenpark takes refuge within Christoph Ziegler’s ‘Camp Exodus’. Featuring Drew Hemment (artist, curator, weather forecaster / Manchester), Amanda Steggell (artist / Oslo), Perry Bard (artist / New York) and Elena Veljanovska (curator, Upgrade! Skopje), the Upgrade! summer BBQ edition is a chance to get together with this year’s Berlin art asylum seekers.

Monday July 27, 19.00 @ Skulpturenpark. Everyone is invited to bring snacks and drinks.

And here is how to get to Skulpturenpark: http://www.skulpturenpark.org/
‘Camp Exodus’ is located between Seydelstrasse & Beuthstrasse. Public transportation: U2 Spittelmarkt


Short Bios:

Drew Hemment - Director FutureEverything / Manchester
- Drew is Director and founder of the FutureEverything festival (previously named Futuresonic), Associate Director of the ImaginationLancaster research lab at Lancaster University, and one of
the founders of the The Pervasive and Locative Arts Network. His artistic work includes Loca: Set To Discoverable, an artist-led interdisciplinary project on mobile media and surveillance, and
Environment 2.0, which has explored participatory mass observation on the environment, biodiversity and local climate, by which Drew has recently adopted a new role as artist and weather forecaster.
http://www.drewhemment.com/
http://www.futureeverything.org/

Amanda Steggell - artist/ Oslo
- Amanda has a background in dance and choreography and has worked with digital and communications technologies since 1995. She founded the Motherboard Project (1996-2008) with Per Platou to explore the potentials of the net as a creative, mediating and modulating instance in performance, installation, social, site specific work and live art happenings. For the Upgrade! she will describe her practice by weaving a web of connections between some seemingly disparate solo and collaborative works that appeared in the ocean, dark room, desert and city square.
www.liveart.org
http://ajsteggell.wordpress.com/

Perry Bard - artist / New York
- Perry is a multi-disciplinary artist based in New York, with a practice exploring media and urban interventions. Her current web and public space project “2008: Man With A Movie Camera” is a
participatory global remake of Vertov’s 1929 classic where people can upload their own unique footage to become part of a worldwide montage.
http://dziga.perrybard.net/
http://www.perrybard.net/

Elena Veljanovska - curator / Skopje, Macedonia
-Elena Veljanovska is an art historian and independent curator. Elena has curated several projects focusing on the urban topics and different aspects of documenting the city dynamics in the period of 2006 – 2007: exhibitions, lectures and a workshop, and has published texts for artist’s exhibitions. Since 2006, she is a co-founder of Line Initiative and Movement (www.line.org.mk), platform for new media art and technology related arts, based in Skopje, Macedonia. In 2008, she was the program coordinator of the “Chain reaction”, 3rd meeting of the Upgrade! International.
Currently working as a guest- curator at the Stefreund gallery in Berlin (www.stedefreund-berlin.de) and as a co-curator of the Macedonian pavilion of the 53rd Venice Biennial
http://www.line.org/mk
http://www.theupgrade.net

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Upgrade! Berlin meets Upgrade! Skopje

On Sunday, April 26th 2009, Upgrade! Berlin and Upgrade! Skopje will host a dinner together. Elena Veljanovska from Line Initiative and Movement runs the program of Upgrade! Skopje. During the dinner, she will present various projects that have been realized by Upgrade!Skopje over the past two years, both on a local and international basis.

Everyone who is interested and seeks an opportunity for collaboration is invited to join!
Just send a mail to: info [at] mobile-studios.org, to confirm your presence!
Depending on the weather, the dinner will be either in the Weinbergspark (Berlin-Mitte), starting from 7 pm or at a private location. We will send you all the information via mail additionally.
Looking forward to seeing you there!

Elena Veljanovska is an art historian and independent curator. In order to reach all her interests, she always makes a balance between the need for individual development and working in a collective. Consequently, Elena has curated several projects focusing on the urban topics and different aspects of documenting the city dynamics in the period of 2006 – 2007: exhibitions, lectures and a workshop, and has published texts for artist’s exhibitions. Since 2006, she is a co-founder of Line Initiative and Movement (www.line.org.mk), platform for new media art and technology related arts, based in Skopje, Macedonia. In Line, she is responsible for the overall program development and coordination. In 2007 she co-curated the educational project Consumer vs. User; in 2008, she was the program coordinator of the “Chain reaction”, 3rd meeting of the Upgrade! International, held in Skopje in September, 2008.

Currently working as a guest- curator at the Stefreund gallery in Berlin (www.stedefreund-berlin.de) and as a co-curator of the Macedonian pavilion of the 53rd Venice Biennial.

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Upgrade! Berlin and jonCates@Gallery Art Claims Impulse

Gallery Art Claims Impulse hosted this Upgrade! artist talk with jonCates, new media artist, organizer and educator from Chicago:

Saturday, March 21st 2009 // 8pm // free entry

jonCates makes, organizes and teaches experimental New Media Art. His projects have been presented internationally at various events in locations such as Beijing, Madrid and Mexico City; nationally in Chicago, New York and Boston and are widely distributed online. Art Games, video, experimental Machinima, Computer Witchcraft, digitalPunk and Noise music are some of the unstable categories that his work playfully moves through.

jonCates teaches in the New Media path of study of the Film, Video & New Media Department at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His research and writings are on Media Art Histories and related subjects. In 2007, he initiated the Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive to archive and freely distribute the Media Art work of Phil Morton and associated research. He writes on these topics for Furtherfield.org as well as in other online and offline publications.

For more information about Jon please see here: http://systemsapproach.net/

ART CLAIMS IMPULSE is a gallery and a label specialised in video-, performance- and multi-media art. The galerists Melanie Zagrean and Pierre Wolter are interested in art pieces that follow an uncommon approach, that are innovative in terms of content, technique, or aesthetics, and that stimulate discourses.
Please find more information here: http://www.art-claims-impulse.com/en/index_en.html

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