2010

VIDEO PROGRAMME AT CHB BERLIN: MONDAY 30. AUG. - THURSDAY 2. SEPT.
Curator: Mirjam Struppek
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Students from Wilhelm-von-Siemens-Gymnasium have been collecting sounds and images inside Marzahn’s famous prefab concrete tower blocks, creating a media archive of their own reality. Using the tower blocks as an urban screen in combination with a multi-channel speaker system, this participatory community project turns the buildings themselves inside-out, culminating in an audiovisual performance lead by an MP3-player-based urban game. Reality Remixed serves as a platform for young people from Berlin-Marzahn to explore and challenge different perceptions of reality.

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Bit.Code (screen version) is a project made for low-resolution screens.

It is devoted to the coding and decoding process of information. Black and white pixels, the 1s and 0s of basic binary digital code, are fixed in a specific pattern on vertical lines. Scrolling the lines vertically up and down, recodes the information of the screen, to display frequently used key words taken from recent web feeds of current news sites.

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What would you like to see? If the Palace of Arts is blue? Or yellow with purple? You can change the color very easy way. With an online site you can choose 10 colors for changing the facade of Palace of Arts. You can play with the colors and change the "spirit" of the building.

Click here to change the color of the facade: http://mff.kibu.hu

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Blow a wave to the facade and change the hotel's color!
There is built a blowing-sensitive device which is connected to the facade of the Lanchid 19 Design Hotel. If you are blowing the device it starts to light and send a data to the facade. After few seconds you can see a wave on the facade that you made.

Location

The grounds of what used to be Linz’s tobacco processing plant will be the extraordinary featured venue of this year’s Ars Electronica Festival. The Tabakfabrik’s history goes back to 1850, when the Austrian State Tobacco Company began producing cigars and pipe & chewing tobacco here. The plant was expanded in stages and production stepped up over the years. The workforce grew rapidly; over 1,000 people (mostly women) were already working here by 1855.

Location

The new Ars Electronica Center in Linz is an ambitious architectural undertaking that went up in record time. A multilevel structure was built immediately adjacent to the existing facility. Subsequently the entire ensemble was wrapped in a glass shell: the AEC’s spectacular 5.100 m LED facade which consists of 1085 windows colored red, green, blue and white in size of 3x1 meters. The LED lights are attached in groups to the building‘s facade (horizontal and vertical). The colors and intensity of the lights can be changed group by group (RGB based colors). The media facade can be operated by a ‘Simulator’.

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Analogous to baroque trompe-l’oeil murals, the projection allows us to look into an illusory room behind the outer facade: a fictional window that draws the attention to hidden, but essential, activities that mostly occur out of public perception. A peephole is opening in the city night.

Video

tschk!talks is an event series hosted once a month in Berlin, Germany - A platform for ideas, projects and alternative concepts of life
tschk!talks combines two short talks with a friendly atmosphere in the heart of Kreuzberg. From film and photography to digital vandalism, from art and media to the history of beards – tschk! presentations cover a wide range of personal passions, professions and vocations.

www.tschk.de

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Stress, information overload, the capitalist way of life: How do we sustain our mental health? Animal masks out of recycled materials are created in a participatory dialog with neighbours, representing their individual survival strategies in the jungle of the city, and lighting up the sky to inspire confidence.