Media Space – Media in Space/Space in Media Conference and event according to the relation of new media and space, architecture and information technology. November 15-18, 2001 at Stuttgart Filmhaus, Friedrichsstr. 23 A The media-space programme is a pilot project of Wand 5 of a future media space, which is used continually to connect online- and real-life-activities. The programme The media-space-programme examines the relations between architectural and social space, practice of exhibition and new media. It shows innovative projects, trying to experience online-activities in context of real space. At the four days of conference experts of the different fields of net-culture, architecture, exhibition-design, stage-set, music, exhibition-conception and information technology meet and give talks. November 15: Inscenated and dramatized architecture of media Media-Space-Host: Milla & Partner GmbH At the first day of the event there will be the focus on inscenated architecture and stage set as well as on mass projects. It will be shown, how architects and concepters of media are inspired by the paradox relationship between architecture and media. Aspects as projection and tracking, visualization of multiuser-projects in space and the realization of multitasking will be referred to. There will be also questions thematized in regard to stage settings – for example audiovisual concerts, media theatre… – and cyberspace. But also fundamental questions as for example the expansion of the definition of media should be thematized: So one of the lecturers, Prof. Michael Simon works as set-designer of Peter Greenaway and William Forsythe in the field of classical and new media. November 16: Information Architecture – The Shift of Architecture The traditional (built) architecture and its opening towards projected as well as medial spaces will be discussed and presentated at the second day of the event. In this context there is the phanomenon to be realized that bureaus of architecture get more and more to producers of media. The relationship between built and realized architecture and exclusively visualized architecture shifts more and more. But the architecture itself gets a medium, too. What is the function of architecture in connection between networks, information technology and telecommunication? The bureau for architecture and urbanism in Bruxelles LAB[au] works at the interface of vrituality and realized and built projects. With sPACE they introduce a VRML-project, to develop spaces within the internet, which come close to our intuitive perception of space and question them at the same time. At several levels LAB[au] elaborated different aspects into the interactive space: recombinant realities, differential gravity, navigable music and hypermedia. Further presentators are Datenflug from Berlin, propeller Z from Vienna and UN Studio from Amsterdam. November 17: Media Space as Art Space – The Museum as Medium Media-Space-Host: Atelier Brückner The third media-space-day thematizes the classical praxis of exhibition, confronted increasingly with online-projects. How do exhibition conceptioners react to the non-space of net art? How do they react to the final dematerialisation of the arts, as they already had searched a long time in the areas of film and video for adequate forms of exhibition. Already existing centres of media art like the Ars Electronica Centre in Linz should be introduced to show that in the meantime nearly any big city has got the possibility to use spaces of media art. Next to the specific spaces of media art museums should be shown, who integrated new media in their exhibition conception – for example KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki. New parameters of architectonical productions appear in relation to new questions of the representation of media art. November 18: Intervention of media in real space and the art of artificial reality Media-Space-Host: projekttriangle At the last day of the congress net art projects should be presentated, dealing with the relationship between real space and online activities. Forms of publications in public space will be elaborated as well as adequate forms of presenation of internet projects – projects which are not suitable to be shown in public – are questioned. The omnipresence of net works in public space, but also the invisibility and the ambivalent relationship between a private medium like the internet and public space inspired numerous artists to look into those partly diametrical questions. So the „Institute for Applied Autonomy" developed a „Graffity Writer" – a mobile which writes slogans at public space or public on ground. The „Graffity Writer" is a robot controlled teleoperatively and maybe an answer of an technological counterculture of the increasing technologisation of supervision. At the last day not only interventional projects are shown, which connect net- and real-space: Dr. Oliver Grau of the University of Berlin gives an insight into the cultural history of virtual reality and further artists introduce projects, which deal with the possibilities of cyberspace and create new designs of space, without repeating the common formulations of virtual reality. list of speakers: Manuel Abendroth, [LAB]au, Brussels; Olaf Arndt/BBM, group of artists, Hannover, Berlin; Maurice Benayoun, Künstler/artist, Paris; Frank Beuth, Q-Bus, Berlin; Roland Blach, IAO Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Stuttgart; Uwe Brückner, Atelier Brückner, Stuttgart; Datenflug, Berlin; Andrew Diye, Musiker/Musician, Manchester; Marton Fernezelyi, Zoltán Szegedy-Maszák, C3, Budapest; Joachim Fleischer, Künstler/Artist, Stuttgart; Monika Fleischmann und Wolfgang Strauss, MARS – Fraunhofer Gesellschaft für Medienkommunikation; Bonn; Orlando Fleury, plug in, Basel; Dr. Oliver Grau, Humboldt Universität, Berlin; Martin Grothmaak, projekttriangle/Etage 01, Stuttgart; Institute for Applied Autonomy, USA; Bernhard Kehrer, Pixelpark Interactive Environments, Berlin; Prof. Dr. Gottfried Korff, University Tübingen, Ludwig-Uhland-Institut; Johannes Milla, Milla & Partner, Stuttgart; Christian Muhr, propeller Z, Vienna; Charlotte Poeschhacker, artimage – Biennale für Medien und Architektur, Graz; Peter Cachola Schmal, Deutsches Architektur Museum, Frankfurt; Perttu Rastas, KIASMA, Helsinki; Prof. Michael Simon, HFG Karlsruhe; Tobias Walliser, UN Studio, Amsterdam. Events & Film Programme Aditional to the lectures and präsentations there will be music events, actions and film programmes. The soundresearcher, DJ and musician Andrew Diey/Black Faction will play his electronic soundscapes in the Ballroom of Filmhaus at 16th of November (start: 23 pm). Furthermore at Saturday, 17th of November, 20:30 p.m., there will be shown a programme of extraordinary and relevant architecture films – compilated by the festival „artimage – Biennale für Medien und Architektur" from Graz. Place The media-space-pogramme will take place at Stuttgart Filmhaus, which will - after the renovation in summer 2001 - represent media culture more intensively. A room specially equiped to show media projects will be used for the presentation (80 seats). Greater projects and performances will take place in the Ballrrom of the Filmhaus (400 seats). Excursions At each media-space-day there will be excursions to companies and institutions: At the first day (15th of November) participations of the media-space-event have got the possibility to visit the bureau for media conception Milla & Partner. At Friday there will be a visit of IAO the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, where cave-projects will be shown. Furthermore there is the possibility to visit the Weissenhof-housing estate, to get to know more about the planned virtual Weissenhof-housing-estate. At Saturday media-space-host Atelier Brückner invites into its bureaus. The design-studio projektriangle in cooperation with Wand 5 invites to he Etage 01-event, where since more than a year continually persons, firms and institutions of the field of media production have been invited. Organizers Wand 5 e. V. is one of the most innovative organizers of concepts of media-art- and film-events. Since 15 years the association situated in Stuttgart and the dependance in Berlin (film- and media-distribution) has realized Stuttgart Filmwinter an extraordinary event for short- and experimental-film, video-art and new media. Within a ranking of the Australia Film Commission Filmwinter (Festival for Expanded Media) was chosen to the 50 most important film- and media-events of the world – especially because of its innovative potentials. Next to the Filmwinter Wand 5 has organized more than 200 events, from open-air-film-events, film and concert-tours to virtual congresses within the internet. As service Wand 5 developed several web sites for other organizers of cultural events and distributes films and media. Presentations in New York (New York University), Tokiyo (Galerie Axis), Bologna (Link, University), Berlin (Filmfestspiele, Berlin Beta) and at further locations made Wand 5 to an important institution within the international context. Support The event media-space is supported by the Medien-Team of the state capital Stuttgart, the MFG Medien und Filmgesellschaft of Baden-Württemberg as well as the hosts Atelier Brückner, Milla & Partner and projekttriangle. Cooperation Cooperators of the event media-space are IAO of the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft Stuttgart, the Architektenkammer Baden-Württemberg and the Festival artimage – Biennale für Architektur und Medien (Graz). The media-space design is developed by the Stuttgart studio of grafik-design projekttriangle. Information Contact Wand 5 im Filmhaus Friedrichstr. 23 A 70174 Stuttgart Germany Contact person: Ulrich Wegenast Mobile 0171-1984 250 uli@wand5.de Prizes for the four media-space-days: DEM 360,- for one single media-space-day: DEM 100,- for representatives of non-profi-organizations: DEM 160,- for one single media-space-day: DEM 50,- for students, unemployed and Wand 5 members: DEM 60,- for one single media-space-day: DEM 20,- by appointment only (click here for registration form)