The first Media Architecture Biennale took place October 7th-9th in Vienna. It brought together an exhibition, a conference and a series of workshops, with over 200 international participants from the fields of architecture, informatics, design, lighting, and others. The theme of the Biennale 2010 was „Urban Media Territories; the re-stratification of urban public spaces through digital media.”
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Our BoxLed Installation can currently be seen at the ig architektur in Vienna, 1060 – Gumpendorfer Straße 63!
The Siemens Building Technologies Division headquarters’ car park is a bright new addition to the attractiveness of Zug, Switzerland, and an innovative architectural highlight for the city. To meet the requirements set by Siemens, lighting designer HEFTI.HESS.MARTIGNONI partnered with Traxon Technologies and e:cue due to its numerous international project references in this field, as well as professional expertise. To enhance the parking structure’s façade, 1,230 customized Traxon Liner XB RGB fixtures were installed on the building’s exterior. Equipped with 25,900 high-power LEDs, the individually controllable fixtures of standard and customized lengths perfectly adapted to this challenging surface, accentuating the car park’s architectural design. Despite the large number of LEDs, the operating expenses are low and the lighting solution is environmentally friendly, thus serving as a symbol of sustainable development and renewable energies. All lighting fixtures are controlled by an e:cue lighting control system consisting of four Butler, two Lighting Control Server (LCS1), and the Lighting Application Suite.
by/via: ecue.de, traxontechnologies.com
Call for Participation
CHI 2011 Workshop on Large Displays in Urban Life – from Exhibition Halls to Media Facades
Submission DL 14th of January 2011
http://largedisplaysinurbanlife.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/
The movie „Luminous walls: From clerestory windows to pixelated planes“, is a shortened version of the lecture that was presented at the Cornell University in the Department of Design and Environmental Analysis in Ithaca/USA (Oct. 18th, 2010) and at the Columbia University in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation in New York (Oct. 26th, 2010).
The timeline depicts different international lighting approaches from backlit clerestory windows for spiritual enlightenment to changing pixelated planes based on LED technology. Embedded videos for some projects enable a vivid understanding of dynamic installations. More text information is available on YouTube.
via: Thomas Schielke – arclighting.de
Mr Helmut Bien initiated the Luminale back in 2000 and realized the festival for the first time in 2002. The Luminale – Biennial of Lighting Culture is an international festival of lighting culture taking place every two years in Frankfurt am Main and the entire Rhine-Main region.
1. Mr. Bien, the Luminale is already a well established institution in the area of light art. Can you tell us about the origins of the festival? In 2000 the lighting industry tradeshow moved from Hannover to Frankfurt. Michael Peters from Messe Frankfurt asked me for an event concept that should connect the city of Frankfurt with the new tradeshow called Light + Building. For the days of the fair Frankfurt should become the meetingplace for the whole world working with light. Not only the specialists and the industry but also the creative people, the architects, designers and artists and also the inhabitants and normal consumers should be involved. The idea was to create a transdisciplinary festival about lighting and energy and the qualities of urban living. Frankfurt should become a laboratory to see a wide range of approaches with light. 2. How did you personally came in touch with light art and what motivates you to take all the effort to organise such an event? In the late 80ties i worked in Berlin as a curator (Berliner Festspiele) and in this time i made my first professional experiences with light, the scenographic power of lighting. The idea to realize an exhibition about lighting followed me since these days. Luminale was the chance to show this power of light to change atmospheres and to re-organize spaces. I am a little bit romantic in the classical sense of the poet Novalis. He explained that the romantic idea is to give normal things a new and higher meaning. Lighting design gives us the possibities to enchant the world. My friends of the scenographic agency Skertzò in Paris called themselves 'engineers of dreams'. That is also my personal motivation. And on this way i am enjoying it to discover people, engineers, designers, artists who are working on the same project. That creates the spirit of Luminale. 3. Compared to other light festivals, what do you think makes the Luminale a unique event? Since 2002 when we started the first edition of Luminale, it is a great success. A lot of people tried to copy the concept of the festival. Some of these festivals are important for the local people, some are made to promote the tourism, but the unique position of Luminale is the combination with the most important trade fair of the lighting industry. Luminale is the festival for the specialists and the local people. Luminale is well-known in the worldwide community of lighting enthusiasts and specialists. So Luminale is a pole position for careers of younger designers and artists. There are some festivals much bigger than Luminale. But at the end of the day you have to count the heads not the legs. Also Luminale is very popular but not a mass consumption event with coloured buildings looking like sad clowns. The unique combination with the trade fair gives Luminale the possibility to try new technologies and approaches and to give a chance to the un-known. The Media Facades Summit was such a project within Luminale. 4. What are your plans for the Luminale 2012 in terms of content and size. Is it still possible to top 2010? The digitization of light is a fascinating subject. The storytelling with light is a never ending challenge. Media Facades, Vjing, Projections are great themes. On the other hand the questions of energy reduction, recycling and sustainability. The third dimension is the development of the urban life. The skyline and nightlife of Frankfurt are the stages of Luminale. 5. What are your biggest wishes and dreams for the long term development of Luminale The biggest wish is that Frankfurt and the whole region accept light as one important dimension of its identity so that we can realize projects not only for the short time of the festival. A masterplan for the whole region with landmarks, light art, a green "balancity" which produces and consumes energy in a way that enrichs the qualities of life.
Dieses Buch von Christoph Kronhagel richtet sich an Architekten, Designer, Kommunikationsspezialisten und engagierte Bauherren – kurz an alle, die sich dafür interessieren, wie sich physische Lebensräume konkret und sinnvoll mit medialen Lebenswelten verbinden lassen. Hauptthema ist die Gestaltung von:
Medienfassaden und medial gestaltete Räume.
Christoph Kronhagel, Architekt und selber seit fast 20 Jahren mediatektonisch arbeitend, präsentiert hier einen Bogen der verschiedenen Methoden medialer Inszenierungen. Dazu haben die bekanntesten Protagonisten aus dieser neuen Szene ihre Erfahrungen und Visionen anhand ihrer Projekte beschrieben.
Es entstand eine Skizze, welche grundlegenden Transformationen die Architektur in einer Zeit macht, in der der öffentliche Raum durch den Einfluss der Medien völlig neu verhandelt wird. Die daraus entstehenden Fragen und Herausforderungen werden durch Interviews und Beiträge von ganz unterschiedlicher Theoretiker und Gestaltern angesprochen.
Den Rahmen für die bewusst gewählte Gegenüberstellung von Theorie und Praxis setzt Christoph Kronhagel durch eine Reihe eigener Beiträge, persönlicher Reflektionen und Projekte.
Das Buch erschien im Springer Verlag, hat 450 Seiten mit vielen großformatigen Projektpräsentationen, die durch die Verlinkung (QR-Codes) der Artikel mit Videoclips auf Youtube ergänzt werden.
Deutsche Ausgabe lieferbar bei Amazon
via:Christoph Kronhagel – kronhagel-mediatecture.de and Facebook
The timeline depicts international media facades with their different artistic, social or brand messages up to interfaces like iPhone Apps or brain sensors for public participation. The movie is a shortened version of the lecture, „The semiotics of media facades – When buildings start to twitter” that was presented at the Parsons The New School for Design in New York.
via:Thomas Schielke – arclighting.de
The Media Architecture Biennale Exhibition is documented in a catalogue with 140 pages. It documents all the exhibited projects with pictures and a technical appendix. Moreover it contains introductory theoretical texts by the curators.
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Media Facades Catalogue
