CONFERENCE
2: TECHNOLOGIES, INSTITUTIONS AND LEGALITY
Saturday 24 March 2007, 12:00h
Mirjam
Struppek (DE)
Urbanist and curator of Urban Screens Festival
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URBAN
SPACE, PUBLIC SPHERE AND THE NEW MEDIA
In an experimental timeframe of about ten years, interactive media
installations and performances have emerged as a new art form
in urban space, encouraged by the mobilization of digital technologies
and new wireless and wearable gadgets. Public space understood
as open, civic space is a key element in the development of European
urbanism. How does this new type of public art, with its playfulness,
its focus on communication and its reflection on the power of
new technologies contribute to this old idea of public space?
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Mirjam
Struppek (DE)
Mirjam Struppek (born 1973, Berlin) graduated in urban/environmental
planning. She lectures and publishes essays, focusing on the livability
of urban space and its acquisition through interactive media and
created the information-plattform interactionfield. Since 2005
she works on the concept Urban Screens, discovering outdoor screens
for a sustainable urban society.
www.interactionfield.de
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CV.pdf
www.interactionfield.de
www.urbanscreens.org
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Stéphane
Bauer
Director of the Art Center Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien,
Berlin
Adrian
Nabi (DE)
Curator and publisher of Backjumps magazine
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LEGALITY-ILLEGALITY
OF ART IN PUBLIC SPACES - THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE EXHIBITION
OF ART IN THE WHITE CUBE VS. ITS EXHIBITION IN PUBLIC SPACES.
Stéphane Bauer will be talking about the political aspects
as well as the aspects of legality and illegality of art in public
space and specifically about Backjumps – The Live Issue.
Street Art originates and evolves on the streets of the cities.
As a phenomenon it shapes the cityscapes around the world. Opinions
differ concerning its different types and propagation. Beyond
the criminalisation and the recent tightening of laws, there is
rarely any reflection on the cultural, social and artistic dimensions
and developments of Street Art.
www.backjumps.com
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Stéphane
Bauer (DE)
Since 2002, Stéphane Bauer has been the director of Kunstraum
Kreuzberg/Bethanien and responsible for program and organization.
He studied sociology and was a coworker of the Federal association
of student culture work (Bundesverband Studentischer Kulturarbeit).
He was a free coworker at the University of the Arts Berlin (Hochschule
der Künste) and the managing director of the department for
art Kreuzberg. Since 1997, he has been curating exhibitions partly
also in the New Society for Visual Arts, (Neue Gesellschaft für
bildende Kunst e.V.).
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Backjumps
- HipHop, street art and youth culture. Urban aesthetics and
communication.
Adrian Nabi will be talking about the history, aesthetics and
philosophy of Backjumps and Street Art. Backjumps – The
Live Issue is an exhibition and event project, which took place
in Berlin 2003 and 2005 and will be presented for the third
time from june22th until august 19th in 2007. Backjumps wants
to create a setting in Berlin to present current developments
and interdisciplinary interfaces of Street Art, aerosol culture
and HipHop. The aim is to show the way contemporary ramifications
and variations Street Art is being contemplated, lived and advanced
internationally both to a broad audience and to the young scene,.
With Backjumps – The Live Issue the city transforms into
a live magazine with the Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien as the
central exhibition site. Whole facades were reutilized creatively
by artists. Decentralized exhibition rooms and the “City
Of Names“, a “city made from wood” at the
Mariannenplatz expanded the spectrum. Workshops, city walks
and an accompanying city map guided the inhabitants and visitors
through the “magazine pages”, and animated them
to explore their city with open eyes.
www.backjumps.org
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Adrian
Nabi (DE)
Adrian Nabi was born and raised in West-Berlin. His father is
from Afghanistan, his mother from Iran. Since he doesn’t
speak their language he doesn‘t have much of a connection
to their culture. In 1983, he discovered Hip-Hop for himself and
since then he has been living Hip Hop culture.
In 1989, he finished school. From 1988 to 1993 he managed Sprayers.
Since the early 90's, Adrian has curated several street art exhibitions
in Berlin. Currently he is curating the exhibition „Backjumps
- The Live Issue #3“ in Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien. Since
1994 he has been publishing the magazine Backjumps. The magazine
tries to bring a unity and coherence to the many branches and
strands of the urban art scene. It is his goal to make Backjumps
a sort of agency which realizes and developes ambitious projects
for and within urban spaces.
Besides the magazine, he also publishes illustrated books occasionally.
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LA
FIAMBRERA OBRERA
Javier
Rodrigo Montero
Art researcher and
educator
Jordi
Claramonte
Philosopher and electrician
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BORDERGAMES:
NETWORK TOOLS AND CULTURAL POLITICS
Bordergames is an open source video game based on authentic
experiences of young immigrants in different cities. The concept
of border, be it national, physical or cultural, was the main
inspiration for this game. The objective of this network project
consisting of different groups and collectives is to stimulate
training processes in order to gain basic computer knowledge
and to establish empowerment by making use of modern information
and communication technology.
Bordergames aims to be a working tool that enables young immigrants
to learn to conduct new technologies and to use them for their
self-organisation. The research/intervention mode established
in Bordergames concerning the conception, design and programmation
follows the idea of participation, creating interconnections
between the initiators of the project, the different organisations
concerned, the active networks of each context and the participants.
Currently, there are several Bordergames work groups in different
European cities. New workshops are about to enlarge the network
that has set up this project in order to finally gain a contagious
autonomy.
www.bordergames.org
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Javier
Rodrigo Montero (ES)
Researcher and art educator. Graduated in Fine Arts at the university
of Salamanca. Several research residency to Berlin, Lüneburg
and Chicago. Worked as coordinator of lectures for tutors, teachers
and art mediators in various Spanish museums, among others the
European seminar Prácticas Dialógicas. Intersections
between the critical theory of education and the critical museology,
2006. As an educator, he has developed education projects and
expositions in different Spanish cities and in Berlin, and held
conferences and workshops in different universities and museums
(The School of Arts Institute, Chicago 2004, Universität
der Angewandten Kunst , Vienna 2004- 2005). Javier Rodrigo also
participated in various conferences (Institute for Art in Context,
Berlin, 2004, International Conference on Collective Cultural
Development, Granollers 2006, Idensitat 06), and has various publications
on art and education.
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Jordi
Claramonte (ES)
I was born 1969 in a beauty salon. My father was a dresser of
hair, my mother was a girl you could call on: when you called
her, she was always there (that's definitively, such a great thing
about mothers). Later on I moved to Valencia, Sevilla and Madrid
where I learned a number of funny things.
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