5-18 July 2004

 

Project Overview

In its unique setting of the historical coal mine, the lab will initiate a series of projects this summer, including an architectural workshop on Architecture as Invitation to Act/Interactive Living and interactive design workshops about Adoptive Systems. High school students and citizens from the region will work with architect Marion Tränkle and engineer Jim Ruxton on developing ideas and spatial concepts for the future mapping of lifeworld and communicational infrastructures of living, with a particular focus on ideas of interactive living in our future habitats.

 

Brasilian composer Paulo C. Chagas, together with Carrie Henneman, Lynn Lukkas, Patrick Delges, Johannes Birringer, Marija Stamenkovic, and team members will develop an acoustic-synaesthetic installation in the main atrium of the Mine, utilizing interactive sensors and real-time processing to explore the dynamic coupling of a sonic environment with the viewer¹s movement within the space of the image. A narrative dimension, derived from José SaramagoŒs novel Essay about Blindness (Ensaio sobre a cegueïra), is complemented with a database of other stories, voices and messages which will include mobile/wearable communications devices." This audio-visual installation will be developed over a longer period of time and transported/adopted to other locations.

For a reflection on Paulo C. Chagas's compositional work for Lab 1, go to "Visionsraum"

 

Marlon Barrios-Solano will lead a movement workshop with interactive environments, mainly combining wearable sensing devices, alternative interfaces, optic tracking and real time processing. He calls his adoptive system Unstable Landscape V/ SPIFF, and it is devised as an improvisational installation/performance space which resembles a generative, self-organizing environment reacting to changes in human behavior, light conditions and architectural deployments. The coal mine environment will be a source of visual imagery and the site will become a performative and participatory environment altering and extending the original function of the spaces.

 

Johannes Birringer and Dorothee Augustin develop a pilot-projekt on Interactive Media and in Education, designing perspectives for art and technology in classrooms of the future.

 

A collaborative telematic project (online) will be conducted with Jeff Mann, Michelle Teran, and WAAG Society for Old and New Media (Amsterdam); LiveForm-Telekinetics involves artificial life-systems and is tested via online webcasting between Göttelborn and Amsterdam. This telematic project extend research which began last year. Mann, a Canadian network engineer, had designed a special antenna during the 2003 laboratory which enabled wireless transmissions of video images from the Tower to the exhibition sites.

 

The public will have access to the work processes of the lab via webcams and website. Visitors are welcome on site.

Public Events:

Friday: July 9, 19:oo Discussion and Presentation of Architectural Workshop (with guests)

Sunday, July 11: "Schaufenster to Göttelborn" opens at K4 Forum, Saarbrücken

 

Tuesday July 13, 18:oo Interaction-opening at Salon Jürgen Schillo, Saarbrücken-Dudweiler

Thursday, July 15, 8:30 - 12:oo Visit of School (Realschule Saarwellingen): Workshop on Interactive Media in Education (Lab team and Dorothee Augustin)

Thursday, July 15, 19:oo Discussion and Symposium: Interactive Living, Energies, Environments" (with guests)

 

Saturday, July 17, Open exhibitions (12 ­ 6 pm) and performances during the Night of Interactive Media (22:oo pm)

 

Sunday, July 18: 18:oo Interaction-opening at K4 gallery, Saarbrücken: "Interactive Media between industrial space and artspace"

 

 

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