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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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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! 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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