Berlin
Mediafacades
Artists
Johanna Bruckner was born in Vienna, Austria in 1984; she currently researches for a PhD, which explores Visual Cultures in interaction with artistic practice by examining performative urbanism through the screen in digitalized social environments. Her participatory installations/videos investigate new forms of social mobility in the fields of cyber migration, transient spaces, and inter-communication between spatial cartographies, working at the interface between art, society, urbanism and technology. In addition, Bruckner’s new trans-disciplinary work connects biotechnology, experimental architecture and electronic media. A current installation transforms measured energy of plants into a live-sound installation made up of a „quanta-organic” living room pyramid of eco boxes. Represented by Kuma Galerie Berlin; recent screenings: CCCB Centre Cultura Contemporania Barcelona; LOOP Video Art Festival 09; Venezia Contemporanea, 2009.
Nika Radic is an artist and works in different media. Her main topic is the limits of possible communication: what is it that we can really understand in everyday communication but also in art. She has done several works that used facades and walls in public space that opened the wall into an imaginary space beyond. This allowed the viewers to “peep” into the building and see something that is going on inside… even if it was only an illusion.
VR/Urban is a collective of public media interventionists founded in 2008. Since than they work together in the fields of interaction design and media art. The work of VR/Urban has been exhibited in Boston, Riga and several times in Berlin. The aim of all projects is to reclaim urban screens for the public. In tradition of situative art and graffiti culture, VR/Urban augments existing city structures with interventive and interactive media-art. The core persons behind the VR/Urban group are the media computerscien-/artist Patrick Tobias Fischer and the designer and design researcher Christian Zöllner. The team members are fluid elements of partners and friends in the fields of art, music, design, science and architecture.
Katrin Schoof has her own product and communication-design label 'gabi-berlin' (www.gabi-berlin.de). In addition to designing for both public and private clients, she continues to develop her work as an artist, using photography and projections as her medium. She has been the visual artist for many theatre & dance productions throughout Europe. "Paradise Panorama" was developed as part of a project with the choreogapher Thomas Lehmen in 2008.
Julian Oliver is a New Zealand born artist, teacher, writer and computer programmer based in Berlin, Germany. His work explores artistic game-development, virtual architecture, interface design, augmented reality, data forensics and open source development practices. In 1998 he established the art and games collective, Select Parks, and subsequently became a major figure within artistic game-development, creating several important works in this field, including qthoth (1998-1999), Fijuu2 (2006) and levelHead (2007-2008). His present work focuses on augmented reality as a platform for intervention, interaction and sculptural design. He has exhibited and taught extensively at major forums around the world, including at the Japan Media Art Festival in Tokyo, Ars Electronica in Linz, FACT in Liverpool, the Medialab-Prado, Madrid, FILE in Sao Paulo, Sonar in Bacelona, Tate Britain in London, Arnolfini in Bristol, CIANT in Prague, the Austin Museum of Digital Art in Texas, Lovebytes in Sheffield and PIKSEL in Bergen, amongst others. His work has received several awards in festivals including Ars Electronica, Transmediale, Laval Virtual and the New Zealand Open Source Awards.
Nightscreen – Gasometer
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 new regional and intercity railway station Berlin Südkreuz of the Berlin Circle Line (Ringbahn) and the city motorway interchange.
Collegium Hungaricum Berlin (CHB)
The CHB will be the main festival location in Berlin. It includes a 40m² large rear projection window and the Panorama Hall, which is clearly visible from the boulevard Unter den Linden. The restaurant behind the 15m² large front window below communicates with the public space and provides the possibility of live streaming on the projection windows.
Festival Berlin
Urban Screens and Media Facades – a new urban communication format
Ars Electronica Futurelab Linz
The Media Facades Festival Europe 2010 is co-organised by Ars Electronica Futurelab and curated by Stefan Mittlboeck, director of the Ars Electronica Futurelab’s department Media Art and Architecture. Stefan Mittlboeck contributes artists’ projects to the Joint Broadcasting Events and is responsible for the the implementation of the programme in Linz.
Stefan Mittlboeck-Jungwirth, trained electrician from Linz, studied Painting and Graphic Art at the University for Art and Industrial Design (Kunstuniversität Linz). He is director of the Futurelab’s department Media Art and Architecture.
Katrin Schoof
Katrin Schoof has her own product and communication-design label 'gabi-berlin' (www.gabi-berlin.de). In addition to designing for both public and private clients, she continues to develop her work as an artist, using photography and projections as her medium. She has been the visual artist for many theatre & dance productions throughout Europe. "Paradise Panorama" was developed as part of a project with the choreogapher Thomas Lehmen in 2008.
VR/URBAN
VR/Urban is a collective of public media interventionists founded in 2008. Since than they work together in the fields of interaction design and media art. The work of VR/Urban has been exhibited in Boston, Riga and several times in Berlin. The aim of all projects is to reclaim urban screens for the public. In tradition of situative art and graffiti culture, VR/Urban augments existing city structures with interventive and interactive media-art.
