[rohrpost] SOMMERCAMPWORKSTATION 2009 - Labor fuer Kunst und Medien
Berlin
carsten stabenow
carsten at garage-g.de
Son Jun 21 14:39:10 CEST 2009
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[1] SOMMERCAMPWORKSTATION 2009 - Labor fuer Kunst und Medien Berlin
[2] SOMMERCAMP - Workshop-Programm
[3] NEWSLETTER
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[1] SOMMERCAMPWORKSTATION 2009 - Labor fuer Kunst und Medien Berlin
sommercamp+workstation=2009 soll ein praktisches Beispiel fuer die
Realisierbarkeit eines Labor fuer Kunst und Medien in Berlin geben und
schliesst an die Aktivitaeten des 2007 geschlossenen TESLA an. Auftakt
des viermonatigen Projekts ist das sommercamp vom 10. bis 16. August -
ein Arbeits- und Ideenfindungsmodul mit zehn offenen Workshops und
einer abschliessenden zweitaegigen Praesentation am 15./16. August
2009 im Haus der Kulturen der Welt und einem Auftakt am 14. August
2009 im radialsystem. Der zweite Teil des Projekts ist die
workstation, eine Produktionsfoerderung mit drei kuenstlerischen
Projektresidenzen und einem Vermittlungsstipendium, die in enger
Vernetzung mit lokalen und internationalen Partnern produziert werden.
Vom 13.-15. November 2009 wird ein diskursives Wochenende mit den
eingeladenen Kuenstlerinnen/Projekten und Experten aus Wissenschaft
und Technologie im general public/Berlin in Kollaboration mith DISK/
ctm stattfinden.
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[2] SOMMERCAMP - Workshop-Programm - jetzt anmelden!
Auftakt des Projekts ist das sommercamp vom 10. - 16. August 2009 im
Foyer und in den Studios im Haus der Kulturen der Welt mit einer
Vielzahl unterschiedlicher offener Workshops. Workshops eignen sich
hervorragend, neue Ansaetze zu skizzieren, interdisziplinaere Bruecken
zu schlagen und vor allem die Grenzen zwischen Kuenstler, Denker und
Macher auf der einen Seite und einem 'passiven' Publikum auf der
anderen Seite aufzuweichen. Workshops sind 'Suchgeraete' zur Erprobung
neuer Arbeits- und Vermittlungsmodelle, Katalysatoren von Ideen und
Indikatoren fuer deren Relevanz und Akzeptanz. Die eingeladenen
einzelnen Workshops/Kuenstler/Theoretiker stehen exemplarisch fuer
ganz unterschiedliche Zugaenge zu Kunst und Technologie, individuelle
Aneignungs- und Arbeitsmethoden, Vermittlungsansaetze und
Organisationsstrukturen.
sommercamp gliedert sich in 3 workshop cluster:
A] World as Representation: systems and simulation.
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Dieser Workshop praesentiert konstruktive Ansaetze von Messbarkeit,
Beschreibung und Modellierung von "Real-World"-Systemen bis zu urbanen
und oekologischen Interventionen. "Welt" laesst sich mit Karten,
Diagrammen, Geschichten, Schaltkreisen und Software beschreiben.
Beschreibungen und Repraesentationen entwickeln eigene autopoetische
Systeme, generieren komplexe Oekologien; Bechreiben wird zum
Konstruieren. Die Workshops reichen von Erkundungen spektraler,
elektromagnetischer Oekologien (Stadt und Land) ueber Einbindung
chaotischer Systeme in analoge Elektronik bis zu neuen Ansaetzen
konstruktiver Pflanzenbiologie.
Die einzelnen Workshops:
1] Simulation of complex/chaotic systems in analogue circuits and
software with Jessica Rylan (US)
2] Overlap of systems simulation with plant sensing data and growth
systems with FOaM/Nik Gaffney and Dave Griffiths (B)
3] Long-term data forensics and urban EM interventions with Martin
Howse/xxxxx (UK/D) and Julian Oliver (E)
Details: http://www.sommercampworkstation.de/?page_id=111
B] Re:Discovering Sound - an Instrument-building Workshop
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Der Prozess von Instrument-Erfindung (und Bau) steht in direktem
Gegensatz zur Instrument-Virtuositaet. Anders als bei der Bindung
indivduellen kuenstlerischen Ausdrucks an die vordefinierte Form und
Funktion eines "klassischen" Instruments koennen neue Ansaetze gedacht
und in Form gebracht werden. Wie Neanderthaler oder Kinder koennen wir
von einem gerade von uns selbst "erfundenen" oder produzierten Ton
fasziniert sein. Diese Reihe drei paralleler Workshops - DEERHORNS,
HALLDOROPHONES und ACOUSTIC LAPTOPS - untersucht die Nutzung von
Radiowellen, den Elektromagnetismus des menschlichen Koerpers, Saiten
unter Spannung, die Resonanz hohler Strukturen und diverser
Fundobjekte, um neue Instrumenten-Typen zu entwickeln. Jeder der drei
sehr individuellen Zugaenge existiert ausserhalb musiktheoretischer
Verpflichtungen und sucht nach akustischer sowohl visueller
Ueberraschung.
Die einzelnen Workshops:
1] DEERHORNS with Ciat Lonbarde/Peter Blasser (US)
2] HALLDOROPHONES with Halldor Ulfarsson (F)
3] ACOUSTIC LAPTOPS with Tore Honoré Bøe (N/E)
Facilitation by Derek Holzer (US/D)
Details: http://www.sommercampworkstation.de/?page_id=114
C] Ways of Doing. Approaches, Manuals, Tactics, Strategies and the
Operational Art
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Dieser Workshop-Cluster erkundet verschiedenste Fragen, Probleme und
Moeglichkeiten kultureller Produktion und Organisation. Jeff Wallbank
vermittelt die Erfahrungen bei der Gruendung des Ledia-Labs "Access
Space" (Sheffield) und zeigt, wie sich diese Erfahrungen in einen
anderen Kontext und individuelle Praxis uebertragen lassen. Adam Hyde
stellt mit dem FLOSS Manual eine hoch effektive Form des
kollaborativen Produzierens vor und untersucht neben einem konreten
Manual Projekt die Moeglichkeiten einer erweiterten Anwendung des
FLOSS Prinzips in sozialen Produktionsprozessen. In einem weiteren
theoretischen Ansatz schlaegt Jordi Clarmonte die Untersuchung der
operativen Ansaetze verschiedener kultureller Projekte unter
Beruecksichtigung taktischer und strategischer Handlungsmuster vor.
Die einzelnen Workshops:
1] A Media Lab in Berlin (Keeping It Real) with James Wallbank (UK)
2] Culture Wars and viceversa with Jordi Claramonte (E)
3] FLOSS Manuals. Ogg Theora Book Sprint with Adam Hyde (NZ)
(organised by Medialab Prado, Madrid)
Details: http://www.sommercampworkstation.de/?page_id=116
Ausfuehrliche Informationen zu den Workshops und Anmeldeformular hier:
http://www.sommercampworkstation.de/?lp_lang_pref=de&page_id=10
Die einzelnen Workshops sind oeffentlich zugaenglich (mit Anmeldung -
siehe workshop cluster). Im Anschluss an die einwoechige Workshop-
Phase findet am 15. + 16. August 2009 eine zweitaegige Praesentation
der Workshop-Ergebnisse im HKW statt.
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[3] NEWSLETTER
Der sommercampworksation Newsletter kann hier aboniert werden:
http://www.sommercampworkstation.de/?page_id=58
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((English version))
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[1] SOMMERCAMPWORKSTATION 2009 - laboratory for art and media Berlin
[2] SOMMERCAMP - workshop series
[3] NEWSLETTER
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[1] SOMMERCAMPWORKSTATION 2009 - laboratory for art and media Berlin
sommercamp+workstation=2009 is meant as a practical example of the
feasibility of a "laboratory for art and media in Berlin" carrying on
the idea of TESLA - medialab. The starting point of the four-month
project is the sommercamp from 10 to 16 August - a module to work and
generate ideas, with ten open workshops and two days of final
presentations on 15/16 August 2009 at the House of World Culture and a
kick-off on 14 August 2009 at the radialsystem. The second part of the
project is the workstation - intended as project production support -
with three two-month project residencies and a curatorial grant that
are produced in close collaboration with local and international
partners. A discursive weekend will take place from 13 to 15 November
2009 with the invited artists/projects and experts from science and
technology at Berlin based general public, in collaboration with DISK/
ctm.
Please have a look at our website :
http://www.sommercampworkstation.de/
Sommercampworkstation is funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
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[2] SOMMERCAMP - workshop series - now open for registration
The project will kick off with the sommercamp from 10 to 16 August
2009 in the foyer and the studios at House of World Culture with a
number of different open workshops. Workshops are an ideal form to
sketch new approaches, to build interdisciplinary bridges and above
all to soften the borders between artist, thinker and practitioner on
the one side and a passive audience on the other side. Workshops are
"detectors" to test new working and communication models, catalysts of
ideas and indicators for their relevance and acceptance. The invited
workshops/artists/thinkers are exemplary for very different approaches
to art and technology, for individual working methods, communication
models and organisation structures.
sommercamp is devided in 3 workshop clusters:
A] World as Representation: systems and simulation.
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The simulation-led workshop cluster presents constructive approaches
to measurement, description and modelling of real world systems
ranging across urban and ecological interventions. The world can be
described by way of maps, diagrams, fiction, circuits and software.
Desciptions, or representations, take on their own life as autopoetic
systems, creating complex ecologies; describing becomes constructing
(growing your own world). Workshops will range across the examination
of spectral, electromagnetic ecologies (in city and forest), embedding
of chaotic systems within analogue electronics, and novel approaches
to constructive plant biology.
workshop nodes:
1] Simulation of complex/chaotic systems in analogue circuits and
software with Jessica Rylan (US)
2] Overlap of systems simulation with plant sensing data and growth
systems with FOaM/Nik Gaffney and Dave Griffiths (B)
3] Long-term data forensics and urban EM interventions with Martin
Howse/xxxxx (UK/D) and Julian Oliver (E)
Details: http://www.sommercampworkstation.de/?page_id=111
B] Re:Discovering Sound an Instrument-building Workshop
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The process of instrument creation sits in direct opposition to the
that of instrument virtuosity. Rather than bend one's artistic
expression around the rigid, predefined form of a traditional music
instrument, imagination takes flight and new possibilities are
created. Like Neanderthals or small children, we are astounded that
the sounds we have invented are actually our own.
This collection of three simultaneous workshop nodes-DEERHORNS,
HALLDOROPHONES and ACOUSTIC LAPTOPS-explores the use of radio waves,
the electromagnetism of the human body, strings under tension, the
resonance of hollow structures and various found objects to invent
new types of sound instruments. Each of these deeply personal
creations is free to live in ignorance of any musical theories, thus
having the potential for both sonic and visual excitement.
workshop nodes:
1] DEERHORNS with Ciat Lonbarde/Peter Blasser (US)
2] HALLDOROPHONES with Halldor Ulfarsson (IS/F)
3] ACOUSTIC LAPTOPS with Tore Honoré Bøe (N/E)
Facilitation by Derek Holzer (US/D)
Details: http://www.sommercampworkstation.de/?page_id=114
C] Ways of Doing. Approaches, Manuals, Tactics, Strategies and the
Operational Art
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In this workshop cluster we will explore different approaches to the
question of how we can make a cultural project like a media lab
possible. We will discuss with James Wallbank about how valuable
experiences like Access Space (Shefield) can be transfered to other
contexts. We will defend the importance of the FLOSS approach as a
good basis for a free media lab, through the actual collaborative
production of a new FLOSS Manual with the coordination of Adam Hyde.
On a more theoretical approach, Jordi Claramonte proposes to analyse
different cultural projects through the operational approach, that
connects the tactical and the strategical ways of doing.
workshops nodes:
1] A Media Lab in Berlin (Keeping It Real) with James Wallbank (UK)
2] Culture Wars and viceversa with Jordi Claramonte (E)
3] FLOSS Manuals. Ogg Theora Book Sprint with Adam Hyde (NZ)
(organised by Medialab Prado, Madrid)
Details: http://www.sommercampworkstation.de/?page_id=116
more infos on the workshops and registration form here:
http://www.sommercampworkstation.de/?lp_lang_pref=en&page_id=10
The single workshops will be open for public (with registration).
After the one-week-workshop phase two days of final presentations will
take place on 15 and 16 August 2009 at the House of World Culture.
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[3] NEWSLETTER
To stay updated on the project, please subscribe our newsletter here:
http://www.sommercampworkstation.de/?page_id=58
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