Berlin
Reality Remixed
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.
Office Cleaning
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.
Us and that Darn Dialectic
Artist: Thomas Willis
Location: Berlin - Nightscreen-Gasometer
Apparently paradox situations out of the daily human life, a jittery in between, open and closed eyes: A non-linear stop-motion film made from opposing terms. They are randomly juxtaposed, and combined with portraits of people living in the Schöneberg neighbourhood.
Photographer: Sebastian Heise
www.batah.de/wirunddieverflixtedialektik
The Mood Gasometer
Artists: R. Wilhelmer, J. v. Bismarck, B. Maus
Location: Berlin - Nightscreen-Gasometer
The Gasometer is a megalomaniac barometer of the city: Hidden face-to-recognition cameras measure the average state of minds of passers-by. Their moods will light up above the city, transformed in colours, forms, and symbols.
www.fühlometer.de; www.richardwilhelmer.com; www.juliusvonbismarck.com;
Metamorphic Spirit
Artists: Yuka Oyama and Becky Yee
Location: Berlin - Nightscreen-Gasometer
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.
Animare
Artists: Wendela Loman, Benjamin Frenzel and Frederic Gmeiner
Location: Berlin - SAP facade
Interactive video projection for the shop-window of SAP Berlin. As people in the street passing by the windows, the actors inside the screens start to continue drawing paintings in correlation to the movements of the pedestrians.
Moving Memories
Artists: Yvonne Weber, Sabine Haerri, Holger Frei and Dennis Radtke
Location: Berlin - SAP facade
Saved impressions, culminations of occurrences from the media facade’s memory: They will be condensed into a subjective picture that is exposed to the process of forgetting. Four different interaction criteria control the photographic recordings of movement in the surrounding space.
Metamorphic Spirit
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.
Macht Nichts
The two simple German syllables 'MACHT NICHTS' appear on the screen. When reading them closely, an ambiguity of meaning shines through. A stunning German wordplay unfolds, a double meaning, which is staggering but hard to translate: on the one hand 'MACHT NICHTS' could mean 'it does not matter, it’s not so bad', on the other hand it could be the imperative 'don’t do anything' or 'do nothing'. However, these words could also just be the nouns 'power' (Macht) and 'nothing' (Nichts).
Nightscreen – Gasometer
Location
The Nightscreen-Gasometer is located in the south of Berlin. With an expanse of 660m² it is Europe’s biggest LED media facade. The LED net is attached to two top rings of the steel frame in an altitude of 80m, visible far beyond the Schöneberg district at nighttime. The orientation of the screen, operated by Megaposter, mainly is directed towards the city motorway interchange connected to the new regional and intercity railway station Berlin Südkreuz of the Berlin Circle Line (Ringbahn).
The listed Gasometer building is located in the Südkreuz area of the development programme “Urban Redevelopment Project West”, financed by the Federal and State governments. The steel construction can be seen from far away and is the landmark and striking symbol of the Schöneberg district. It is located in the former industrial estate of the Gasag among various railway tracks in the Rote Insel (Red Island) neighbourhood. The plan is to transform the Gasag-estate into a “European Energy Forum” with shops and office buildings, hotels, restaurants, a private university and a park.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rote_Insel
http://www.stadtumbau-berlin.de/Suedkreuz.1528.0.html
