[rohrpost] Media Facades Festival Europe: connected cities until October 2nd

[Ela Kagel]

Dear all,

 

The Media Facades Festival Europe 2010 has started one week ago and will
present a broad range of exciting events in the following connected cities:
Berlin * Brussels * Budapest * Helsinki * Linz * Liverpool * Madrid

Media Facades Festival Europe 2010 presents:
Joint Broadcasting Events from 27 August – 2 October 2010
Media Facades Panel at Ars Electronica Festival - 6 September 2010
International Video Screening Conference 7-8 September 2010

A project by Public Art Lab / Berlin 
In cooperation with Ars Electronica Futurelab / Linz, FACT / Liverpool, iMAL
/ Brussels, Kitchen Budapest, Medialab-Prado / Madrid, m-cult / Helsinki

 <http://www.mediafacades.eu> www.mediafacades.eu

About Media Facades Festival Europe 2010
MEDIA FACADES FESTIVAL EUROPE 2010 (MFF2010) is an urban media pilot project
that interconnects seven European cities through the existing infrastructure
of urban screens and media facades sited in public spaces.
Artists and media designers will show especially developed art projects
Europe wide, through screenings and Joint Broadcasting Events, for the
circulation of cultural exchange. Media facades will be transformed into
local stages, connecting public audiences virtually with participating
places and opening a global window to create dialogue, to share dreams and
exchange ideas.

Curatorial Programme
The following main curatorial topics have been developed out of the
collaboratively selected screening projects. From 27 August to 2 October
2010 each festival day has a special focus on one of the following themes.

*	Connected Cities: Joint Broadcasting projects that happen
simultaneously and interactively across the borders
*	Urban Activism: Reclaim the Screens! An activist approach to opening
screens for the urban community
*	Human Screens: Human processes are visualised on media facades
*	Organic Cities: Public Data projects use information resources from
the environments and develop a real-time software programme for live
streaming
*	Public Playing: Games designed as an interaction catalyst for the
public audience
*	European Dialogue: Projects that especially support intercultural
exchange and connect the local scenes through the media facades
infrastructure of the participating cities
*	Citizens Journalism: Research and participatory projects of local
scenes
*	Recontextualise: A shared video platform on a central server to
create local screening programmes


Artists
Shervin Afshar (IR/AT) * Ulu Braun (DE) * Johanna Bruckner (AT/DE) * Mattia
Casalegno (IT/BE) * Hanna Haaslahti (FI) * Sini Haapalinna, Markku
Nousiainen, Pia Lindy, Matti Niinimäki (FI) * Lummo: Mar Canet, Carles
Gutiérrez, Javier Lloret, Jordi Puig (ES) * OiOi: Sami Kamppi, Antti
Onttonen, Antti Kaukinen, Tuomas Arokanto (FI) * Julian Oliver (NZ/DE) &
Danja Vasiliev (RU/DE) * Ann Oren (IL), Zevan Rosser (US) * Yuka Oyama
(JP/DE), Becky Yee (US) * Chris O’Shea (GB) * Gábor Papp, Agoston Nagy (HU)
* Julius Popp (DE/US) * Nika Radic (HR/DE) * Evan Roth (US/FR) * Antoine
Schmitt (FR) * Katrin Schoof (DE) * Heidi Tikka (FI) * Toxic Lesbian (ES) *
Emily C. Voelker, Alexandre R. Decoupigny  (DE) * VR/URBAN: Christian
Zoellner, Patrick Tobias Fischer, Thilo Hoffmann  (DE) * Dan Wilcox (US) *
Clemens Wilhelm (DE)


Screens Sites / Media Facades
BERLIN: Centrum Hungaricum, U6 Friedrichstrasse, Nightscreen Gasometer
BRUSSELS: Flagey Screen, iMAL Facade
BUDAPEST: Palace of Arts, KIBU Figs Facade, Lánchíd 19 Design Hotel
HELSINKI: City Wall / Lasipalatsi Square, Gallery Alkovi, City Tourist
Office      
LINZ: Ars Electronica Center, Tabakfabrik
LIVERPOOL: FACT Facades, BBC Big Screen
MADRID: Medialab-Prado Facade

MFF2010 is supported by the European Commission / Culture Programme 2007-13,
DKLB-Stiftung, Senate Department for Economy, Technologies and Women /
Project Future Berlin


Contact
Public Art Lab Berlin

Artistic Director: Susa Pop
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cartlab.com%27%3Esusapop at publicartlab.com%3C/a%3E> 
 <mailto:susapop at publicartlab.com> susapop at publicartlab.com
c: 0049 (0)163 391 22 92

Public Relations: Eva Woldrich
 <mailto:eva.woldrich at publicartlab.org> eva.woldrich at publicartlab.org
p: 0049 (0)30 896 318 12

 <http://www.publicartlab.org/> www.publicartlab.org
 <http://www.mediafacades.eu/> www.mediafacades.eu