Mediafacades Berlin 2008
Infos & Application:
http://www.mediaarchitecture.org/mediafacades2008/
Application Deadline: 15. April 2008
Media Architecture is looking for creative people such as artists, media producer, interaction designer, filmmakers, software developer, architects, urbanists and digital poets to develop site-specific contents for four media facades in urban areas of Berlin. The works will be presented to a broad expert audience and the Berlin public from 18.10. - 3.11. 2008 during the main activities of the Media Facades Festival Berlin 2008.
The Four Media Facades in Berlin
1. SAP media facade in the Rosenthaler Straße in Mitte
2. O2 World media facade in Friedrichshain
3. Night screen at the Gasometer in Schöneberg
4. The fourth facade will be announced soon
For details and description of locations and technology see under facades.
The Workshop and Urban Screenings
A three day workshop in July for selected participants will be organised to prepare for the two production phases. We will discuss the cultural, political, social, but also commercial role and the particular character of the four different urban screens. Each participant will then develop one specific project for one of the four facades. The first results will be tested by the participants for feasibility in an early test screening.
Experiences and observation of the audience’s reaction during the final screenings will publicly be discussed in a panel discussion during the Art Forum Berlin and will be summarised in a publication.
Criteria
Participants should show interest in exploring this new medium in public space in terms of content, form, spatiality and local relation. Application as a team is possible yet counts as one participant. The goal of the 3-day workshop is to discuss the hurdles and the potential of the medium and to further examine the locations as well as the interests of those concerned. Submission should be in the line of the curatorial framework of the Festival. Applicants should have a base in Berlin and have to be present during the key dates. Each of the up to 16 selected participants will get an overall budget of 1000 Euros. The operators of the selected facades have assured special technical advice and support concerning their facade infrastructure.
Due to possible uneven selections of preferred facades, you might have to accept to adjust your project idea to another facade.
Timeline
15. April 2008 / Deadline
23. April 2008 / Jury meeting
2.-4. July 2008 / Workshop (3 days)
July/August 2008 / First development phase
Beginning of Sept 2008 / Test screenings on the four facades (1 day)
Sept-Oct 2008 / Second development phase
18. Oct 2008 / Vernissage of the urban screening during the conference
18. Oct–3. Nov 2008 / Screenings on the four media facades (16 days)
Beginning of Nov 2008 / Discussion and presentation at the Art Forum Berlin
Jury
Results of the jury meeting will be announced shortly after 24. April.
Kathrin Becker – Videoforum NBK (New Berlin Art Association)
Thomas Bendig – Research coordinator, Fraunhofer IuK-Gruppe, Berlin
Tim or Jan Edler – Architects, realities united, Berlin
Eva Emenlauer-Blömers – Senate Department of WTF, Project Future Berlin
Monika Fleischmann – MARS Fraunhofer Institut, eCulture Factory, Sankt Augustin
Bettina Heinrich - Senate Chancellery – Cultural Affairs, Berlin
Horst Hörtner – Ars Electronica Center, Future Lab, Linz
Stephen Kovats – Artistic Director Transmediale, Berlin
Mischa Kuball – Artist / Professor of media art, Academy of Media Arts, Cologne
Susanne Prinz – Exhibitor Relations & Artist Projects Curator, Art Forum Berlin
Joachim Sauter – Art+Com/ Professor of digital media design UdK, Berlin
Maria Vedder – Prof. für Medienkunst, Universität der Künste (UdK), Berlin
