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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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Myths and Potentials of Media Architecture and Urban Screens

Media Facades Festival Berlin 2008 by Public Art Lab Berlin and the Media Architecture Group Wien.

Myths and Potentials of Media Architecture and Urban Screens:

Exhibition: October 16 - December 12 2008
Conference: October 17 - 18, 2008
Urban Screenings: 17. October - 3. November 2008
Discussion at the Art Forum Berlin: 1. Nov , 15:00
Opening party: 18.10.2008 / 19:30 at the CHB

http://www.mediaarchitecture.org/mediafacades2008/

The MEDIA FACADES FESTIVAL BERLIN 2008 is an innovative project, engaging a wide range of stakeholders with distinctive interests in the public space. Through round tables, a workshop, panel sessions, lectures, urban screenings on media facades and an architecture exhibition the event promotes a multi-disciplinary action research approach to technology, architecture and media art in modern cities.Exhibition at the German Architecture Centre (DAZ)

This exhibition explores the integration of moving images into the building facade as a communicative element, and its effect on Urban Space. A selection of innovative projects that have been realized in various cities will demonstrate possible connections between architecture and screens and highlight different artistic and architectural strategies. Practical technical information give architects a deeper insight into the challenges and possibilities of utilizing new media in architecture.

Conference at the DAZ

The conference is featuring and exploring media architecture as urban screens, a relevant issue for experts as well as for the concerned general public. Architectural issues and visions will be discussed especially in the context of the interconnected issues of content, infrastructure and financing/cooperation models. Considered reflections shall help prevent the emergence of a visual overload of our future cities. The conference fosters face-to-face contact and deepen the theoretical background of the issues addressed in the exhibition and workshop.

17.10.2008 – 18.10.2008 at the Deutschen Architektur Zentrum (DAZ)

Urban Screenings at five Media Facades in Berlin

Media facades are a new kind of exhibition format. Media artists and interaction designer gain temporary use of four media facades and one interactive city terminal in Berlin and explore their cultural, political and social roles. These screenings serve as a demonstrative test platform for the public. They invite a wider audience to get hands-on experience in this special connection of content, format, and site-specificity, and to take part in a new interactive infrastructure. The  O2 World, SAP facade, Gasometer, CHB window and one multimedia terminal in central Berlin will serve as test areas for creative contents.

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Upgrade! Berlin presents: Mader | Stublic | Wiermann

Friday, April 25th 2008
8 pm

REDESIGN DEUTSCHLAND
SYSTEM LÜFTUNG
Torstrasse 94
10110 Berlin
http://www.redesigndeutschland.de

Heike Wiermann, Holger Mader and Alexander Stublic are a Berlin-based media art group with a focus on video art installations, media facades and art in the public sphere.
Their latest projects cover for example the spectacular media facade design (”twists and turns”) of the Uniqua tower in Vienna, where they have managed to transform the structure of the architecture into an ever-changing, fluid state of transition.
Furthermore, they co-initiated OSRAM’s new light platform Seven Screens, which they launched with their LED-piece “Reprojected”. This installation focuses on the shadows of computer-simulated people.
The group engages in a site-specific and medium-specific way with visual perception.

Upgrade! Berlin is currently also involved in the development of the media facades festival Berlin and is thus taking the opportunity to invite Alexander Stublic and Holger Mader for a public talk about their media facades and other collaborative works in the public sphere.

More infos on Mader | Stublic | Wiermann here: http://webblick.de

Our host for this Upgrade! talk is REDESIGN DEUTSCHLAND / aka System Lüftung - the association for the collective decimalisation of Germany. You will find the video interview with the curators of this place soon on this site!

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Upgrade Berlin presents: Alice Miceli - images of the invisible

Friday, January 18th 2007

REDESIGN DEUTSCHLAND
SYSTEM LÜFTUNG
Torstrasse 94
10110 Berlin
http://www.redesigndeutschland.de

Brasilian artist Alice Miceli is currently based in Berlin, where she works on the “Chernobyl project”.
Over the last years, Alice has been working on new approaches to re-visualise the memory of places which have an extreme history, such as the former prison of Phnom Penh / Cambodia or Chernobyl. According to Giselle Beiguelman, author of the Essay on Miceli’s work, she deals with poetics that lies in the realm of the “unportrayable” and rethinks our strategies for dealing with memory. Her work has been shown at exhibitions and festivals around the world.
During the Upgrade! talk, Alice will give an overview of her work, with a focus on her current project in Chernobyl.

More infos on Alice Miceli here:

http://www.jblog.com.br/chernobyl2.php
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2007/08/-your-first-vis.php
http://www.transmediale.de/site/en/programm
http://artnet.dortmund.de/artnet/project/assets/template7.jsp?smi=5.0&tid=66314

Our host for this Upgrade! talk is REDESIGN DEUTSCHLAND / aka System Lüftung - the association for the collective decimalisation of Germany. You will find the video interview with the curators of this place soon on this site!

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Upgrade! Berlin presents: Ursula Endlicher’s website impersonations


Upgrade! Berlin presents:
Ursula Endlicher’s Website Impersonations

Friday, September 20th 2007
8 pm

Gallery Tristesse Deluxe
Wallstrasse 15
10179 Berlin / Germany
U Maerkisches Museum
http://www.galerietristesse.org

Website Impersonations: The Ten Most Visited is a live performance series, which utilizes Web code as choreography. In this performance - #4 - Ursula is taking on the “character” of the Website “www.youtube.com - with its logo and color scheme - and perform its html code, which is fed in from the Web “on the fly”. During each of the performances the source code of the website is immediately translated into an ongoing scrolling of images, which each representing an html tag. Every image shows a movement sequence. Images derive from the html-movement-library, an online database of user-submitted movement suggestions. The audience on location is also invited to participate in the html dance. The series is presented in a multiple-media approach of live performance, real-time web-feed, and installation set-up.

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Upgrade Berlin field trip to Gallery Tristesse Deluxe

Upgrade! Berlin Field Trip to Gallery Tristesse Deluxe

Thursday, August 9th 2007
6 pm

Karl-Marx-Allee 137
10243 Berlin / Germany
U Frankfurter Tor
http://www.galerietristesse.org

In German

Galerie Tristesse is an interdisciplinary discourse platform, which was launched by the Berlin artist Nelja Stump. It is a gallery and a project space at once, focussing mainly on social & urban structures in intercultural exchange.
Upgrade! Berlin brings an audience of artists, curators and other interested people to the public get-together at Tristesse on August 9th.

If you want to join us on this field trip, please send us a note in advance.

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Upgrade! Berlin presents: Iliadohomero from Brasil

Upgrade! Berlin presents
Iliadahomero from Curitiba / Brazil

Friday, June 8th 2007
8 pm

Studiobühne
Ritterstrasse 12-14
10969 Berlin / Germany
U Prinzenstrasse
http://www.studiobuehne-ritterstrasse.de/

Brazilian composer & director Octavio Camargo from Curitiba shows together with Claudete Pereira Jorge an interpretation of the first chant of the Iliade, the epos of Homer. The Iliade is known as the most ancient oeuvre of occidentail literature. The 50-minutes monologue reveals the impact of this text as the source code of European culture.
The performance will be in Portuguese, but the underlying semiotics of this piece can be grasped beyond any language restraints. And that’s exactly the intention of this play: Homer is used here as a media and a vehicle for interaction in different platforms of language, thus projecting different translations to different idioms.
“I see language as a code” says Octavio Camargo, “and with this dramatic piece, we want to share this code with our audience. I believe that the texts of Homer can provide a deep understanding of the modern human condition.”
Indeed, the Iliade is a veritable semiotic knot of the European culture and still, after 2500 years, provides a broad array of the most important archetypes and topoi of the occidental thinking.

Interpretation: Claudete Pereira Jorge | Director: Octavio Camargo | Translation: Odorico Mendes

Claudete Pereira Jorge is a popular actress from Brazil, who has been working on many different theatre and film stages for more than 30 years now.
Octavio Camargo is a composer and theatre director, and has been teaching Aesthetics and Harmony at the University of Arts in Parana (EMBAP), Brazil, since 1992.

Some Links to Octavios works:

http://organismo.art.br/blog/?p=2026
http://organismo.art.br/blog/?p=2015
http://www.errantbodies.org/camargo.html
http://errantbodies.blogspot.com/

Iliadahomero is currently guest at the Thessaloniki Biennial http://www.thessalonikibiennale.gr/ and will continue its travels throughout different European cities of the Upgrade! network http://theupgrade.net