[rohrpost] Relaunch netzspannung.org today, 24 June 2004

[Katja Heckes]

Relaunch of http://netzspannung.org on 24 June 2004

 

- Internet platform for digital art and culture: new content, improved
navigation, innovative interfaces

 

How do artists work with digital media? What new ways and means does the
computer provide for teaching culture and visualizing knowledge? How can
school pupils and students at college or university be introduced to
practical artistic work with the new media? Today the Internet platform
http://netzspannung.org is relaunched in a new form, offering extensive
information and examples on these themes. netzspannung.org is designed and
developed at the MARS Exploratory media lab of the Fraunhofer Institute for
Media Communication and is sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of
Education and Research (BMBF). 

 

netzspannung.org is a knowledge space for medial presentation, artistic
production and intermedial research. As an interface between media art,
media technology and society, it is a pool of information for everyone
working with digital media. For artists, media designers and computer
scientists, the platform represents an expert forum as well as a public
presentation and publication environment, enabling and supporting an
exchange between these specialists. 

 

An extensive online video archive in the area "Positions" with lectures on,
for example, the significance of images or on new knowledge technologies
allows users to participate in scientific/scholarly discourse. The area
"Media Art Research" showcases projects dealing with topics such as
"Knowledge Discovery" and "Cultural Heritage", so as to keep artists,
curators, academics and decision makers in culture and commerce informed
about the latest developments and important new initiatives. 

 

Online documentation of the college/university competition "digital sparks"
provides students and professors with a detailed insight into teaching at
German-speaking institutions of higher education and departments of media
art, media design and media information technology.

 

The area "Media Art Learning" provides art teachers with teaching examples
and suggestions as to how schoolchildren and college/university students can
be introduced to practical artistic work with the new media. All the
examples combine art and technology, and are descriptively elaborated and
illustrated step by step. With its interdisciplinary focus, media art
teaching not only promotes aesthetic-artistic skills and fosters critical
media capabilities, but also develops social skills. After all, media art is
teamwork.

 

The Hypermedia Tele-Lecture is another innovative application at
netzspannung.org, which shows how the Internet can be used for teaching.
While the video recording of a lecture is playing, the recipient is able -
synchronously with individual passages - to invoke other images, videos or
texts that supplement the passages with more detailed information. (Only
available in German.)

 

All the content can be researched online in the archive and explored with
specially developed, innovative, knowledge-discovery tools. These tools
graphically visualize the content of the archive according to different
criteria, e.g. in temporal or semantic terms, permitting the user to
discover new connections and content.

 

 

Links:

Homepage: http://netzspannung.org/en

Media Art Learning:  http://netzspannung.org/learning/en

Media Art Research: http://netzspannung.org/media-art/en

netzspannung.org Archive: http://netzspannung.org/archive/en

knowledge-discovery tools: http://netzspannung.org/about/tools/en

Positions/Lectures: http://netzspannung.org/positions/lectures/en

digital sparks competition: http://netzspannung.org/digital-sparks/en

Hypermedia Tele-Lecture: http://netzspannung.org/learning/lectures/daniels/

Open channel: netzspannung.org/community/en

 

Contact:  <mailto:info at netzspannung.org> info at netzspannung.org