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The selected artists and their projects
We are happy to announce the selected Artists and their projects:
Download: mff_artist_projects_overview.pdf
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Artists: O2 World
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The city square as a space of public communication, inspired by Tai Chi practices and the Muezzin’s calls for prayers: The facade engages the observer through textual instructions and graphics of relaxation
and gymnastic exercises to communicate through motions.
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MATT JAKOB DAL POZZO
www.mattjakob.com/O2.html
“Pong”
A gigantic game of Pong this minimalistic is begging for pure, naive fun: It could be playful communication between two people, but behind the scenes an algorithm that simulates artificial intelligence. On the Marquee Signs we see a person caught on the screen, stripped of language and sound. The attempt to communicate with the passersby about her situation and feelings.
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HEIKO DAXL, INGEBORG FUELEPP
www.mediainmotion.de
“City Dreams”
ASCII codes, Morse codes and film leaders representing the data streams of media and information. The Marquee Signs become a complex system of multi-layered movement, controlled by data from the environment, while Nietzsche is talking to us via O2 World: „Glattes Eis, ein Paradeis, für den, der gut zu tanzen weiss.”
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GEORG KLEIN
www.georgklein.de
“Sonic Parole” –Think different, Be yourself, Join the revolution!
Political messages yesterday, ‘radical chic’ advertising today. The project Sonic Parole collects advertising jargon and projects it back onto the media facade as isolated messages. The messages are ‘acoustically’ transformed according to their intonation. It’s meaning is lost, dissolved in it’s literal representation, and becomes pure visual ornament.
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ROBERT SHAW, ANNA HEILGEMEIR, VERONIKA STEININGER
GASTPERFORMER: CLAAS HOFFMANN, DANIEL HYATT
www.bewirbdudich2.de
“Bewirb du dich 2- BDD2 Agency” – Ads for everyone and everywhere
BDD2 transforms the city into an advertising screen for everyone: You too should apply!? Actively create your surroundings. To advertise and to be advertised to. The BDD2 Screenmobil is on it’s way to you to produce and broadcast your ads on the spot. Your slogans, too, could be visible on the O2 World Fassade!
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Artists: Gasometer
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DOMINK EGGERMANN
www.rendergallery.com
“FormsOfTime” - Systems are transformable
Media facades as interface: The space as program generates fractal patterns and an interplay of color and pixels. Digital information transformations of visual and dramaturgical elements from the surroundings lighten up Berlin-Schöneberg at night.
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RICHARD WILHELMER, JULIUS VON BISMARCK, BENJAMIN MAUS
“The Mood Gasometer” - How is Schoeneberg doing today?
The Gasometer is a megalomaniac barometer of the city: Hidden face-recognition cameras measure the average state of minds of passersby. Their moods will light up above the city, transformed in colors, forms, and symbols.
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THOMAS WILLIS
www.thomaswillis.de
“Us and that darn dialectic”
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 neighborhood.
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YUKA OYAMA, BECKY YEE
www.derayuka.com, www.beckyyee.com
“Methamophic Sprit” - Which fragile animal are you?
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 neighbors, representing their individual survival strategies in the jungle of the city, and lighting up the sky to inspire confidence.
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ROBERT SHAW, ANNA HEILGEMEIR, VERONIKA STEININGER
GASTPERFORMER: CLAAS HOFFMANN, DANIEL HYATT
www.bewirbdudich2.de
“Bewirb du dich 2- BDD2 Agency” – Ads for everyone and everywhere
BDD2 transforms the city into an advertising screen for everyone: You too should apply!? Actively create your surroundings. To advertise and to be advertised to. The BDD2 Screenmobil is on it’s way to you to produce and broadcast your ads on the spot. You, too, can occupy the Gasometer and send your spot into the night!
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Artists: SAP Facade
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WENDELA LOMAN, BENJAMIN FRENZEL, FREDERIC GMEINER
wendelaloman.blogspot.com
“Animare” - Passersby as the leading force
Become a source of energy for an artistic fantasy world: Virtual beings are working in front of you, on the other side of the window, on the design of your very personal world of images. They are representing the broad spectrum of the people living in Berlin. But in order to finish the artwork, the you need to interact with the artists.
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YVONNE WEBER, SABINE HAERRI, HOLGER FREY, DENNIS RADTKE
www.movingmemories.ch.vu
“Moving Memories” – The memories of a media facade
Saved impressions, culminations of occurrences from the 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.
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ERNEST EDMONDS
“Cities Tango” – A colour dance between Berlin and Melbourne
Two cities, communities in Melbourne and Berlin, will interact across continents and time zones. In each location the work will pick up sound from the screen location and react to it. The analysed image information will form the other cities work’s behaviour. Stripes of ‘night and day colours’ will be segments of images of the remote location at different times of the day mixed with real time snap shots of the remote site.
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Artists: Collegium Hungaricum Berlin (CHB)
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FUSS!: TIMO DAUM, RAUL MARCO, GUILLERMO LOPEZ
www.ambientador.de
“Ambientador” - Urban construction and destruction
AMBIENTADOR, is a participatory sampling machine that computes, in real-time, associative chains out of sound and images for the public space: The community can step into a dialog with the audiovisual performance through a web interface, and can influence the content through their own submissions.
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FRANK HUELSBOEMER
www.frankhuelsboemer.de
“PhotoKinetik”
“PhotoKinetik” is a collage of the series “change indicator”, “how B became A”, “quarter revolution” and “the tennis speed of life” zusammen. A wiring und looping of a photographic flip-book of kinetic objects. Geometric forms of mirrors, reflections and paper serve as metaphor of the “human condition”.
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ID22 / EXPERIMENTCITY: RACHEL LEE, STEPHAN KODURA, DR. MICHAEL LAFOND
www.id22.de, www.experimentcity.net
“Streetmedia” – Protest against the end of public culture.
Projected graffiti messages transform aesthetic architecture into an ideological statement: A collective, participatory experiment that opens an urban space for dialog. Being a medium for communication, the media facade interprets current debates about citywide issues.
KATRIN SCHOOF
www.gabi-berlin.de
“Paradies Panorama”
‘Paradiese Panorama’ can be abstractly described as the intertwining of both spatial and physical expansion, made visible by a piece of nature” (Caspar David Friedrich and Art at the beginning of the 19th century) – Using the Romantic Movement as inspiration, it investigates landscape as a “space of desires”. Through opulent images of both real and virtual landscapes, a contemplative journey into paradise unfolds..
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N-SOLAB: JAN-PETER SONNTAG, THOMAS PLOENTZKE
www.sonarc-ion.de
“AREyeM” - What does a building do when it is sleeping?
It is dreaming in phases about the past day of it’s inner and external experiences: The media facade, the twitching eye of the Collegium Hungarium, is simulating the building’s REM phase, and projects this in ever changing combinations into the city. In reference to the abstract experiments by László Moholy-Nagy.
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NIKA RADIC
www.nikaradic.com
“Office Cleaning” – A view of the other side
Analogous to baroque trompe-l’oeil, the projection allows us to view an illusory room behind the outer facade: A fictional window that draws the attention to hidden, but essential, activities that mostly occur outside of public perception. In the night of the city a peeking hole is opening itself.
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HIROKO TANAHASHI, MAX SCHUMACHER MIT YOANN TRELLU
www.posttheater.com
“Fight Club: A Chorus” - who is allowed to know what and when
Inside and outside / secret and public / art and non-art are coming together: Employees in the Staatsoper’s Magazin are becoming “pixel performers” that can be observed on the public facade. Guerilla promotion or a networked live-stream performance?
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Artists: Wall City-Terminal
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CHRISTOPH FAULHABER
“Live Mobile Broadcasting” - anywhere, anything, anyway
Participating mobile and live at the Media Facades Festival 2008. Technically, the project is oriented at Brecht’s demand to dissolve the hierarchy between sender and recipient. Everyone who owns a
contemporary mobile phone has the freedom to actively and immediately influence the programming on the screen, and to participate via video telephony.
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PATRICK FISCHER, THILO HOFFMANN, CHRISTIAN ZOELLNER, RASIM KORKOT
www.christian-zoellner.com
“VR/Urban” – »We are urban !«
… an experimental Speakers Corner and Agora for Berlin: Anyone can leave news and commentary via a touchpad panel. A Spread.gun will then catapult them into the city space, while immediate feedback will be guaranteed through a large scale projection in the public space.
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WOLFGANG KEMPTNER
“Watching uTUBE together”
Now it’s your turn: Slam together for the best posting. Decide and vote for the best video blog at the uTUBE evening events. Then choose your favorites from this collaborative video library at the City Terminal and beam it hyper dimensional into the urban space.
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ROBERT SHAW, ANNA HEILGEMEIR, VERONIKA STEININGER
GASTPERFORMER: CLAAS HOFFMANN, DANIEL HYATT
www.bewirbdudich2.de
“Bewirb du dich 2- BDD2 Agency” – Ads for everyone and everywhere.
BDD2 transforms the city into an advertising screen for everyone: You too should apply!? Actively create your surroundings. To advertise and to be advertised to. The BDD2 Screenmobil is on it’s way to you to produce and broadcast your ads on the spot. During opening night, it stops at the Collegium Hungaricum Berlin. All of the spots created here will be archived in the City Terminal and can later be accessed individually.