Loading ...A three day symposium – lectures, discussions, presentations, sound performances and video-screening. Jointly produced by Dock e.V. and DISK/CTM.
DOCK-PLATFORM
art and media in berlin – past present future
DISPLAYS FOR BECOMING PRESENT / EXHIBITING NETWORKING
20 + 21 November 2009 – general public, Schönhauser Alle 167c, 10435 Berlin
Entrance free!! Konferenz in englischer Sprache
DOCK-PLATFORM takes off from an appraisal as well as concrete visions of the protagonists for the conditions of production and presentation of art with media in Berlin.
The conference DISPLAYS FOR BECOMING PRESENT / EXHIBITING NETWORKING on Saturday is a public brainstorming about spatial conceptualizations of artistic projects of translocal and transdisciplinary nature. Thematically the conferences with artists, architects, curators, researchers and theoreticians is based on two threads: space and network.
The conference is organised by Doreen Mende in the frame of the curatorial grant of DOCK-BERLIN and held in collaboration with DISK/ctm.
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Day 1 – 20.11.2009
Dock/Platform – Symposium
// Entrance free
// Organized by Dock e.V.
20:00 Lecture
ART AND MEDIA IN BERLIN – PAST PRESENT FUTURE
with Andreas Broekmann (DE), Martin Howse (UK), James Wallbank (UK), Carsten Seiffarth (DE), Carsten Stabenow (DE) and othres.
Dock/Platform takes off from an appraisal as well as concrete visions of the protagonists for the conditions of production and presentation of art with media in Berlin. The Publication “Wegweiser Kunst und Medien in Berlin” will be presented, which has been commissioned by mikro e.V. has was edited by Andreas Broekmann and Carsten Seiffarth. The publication portraits 33 Berlin initiatives and institutions active in the field of art and media culture.
22:00 Sound Performance
MARIO DE VEGA
A sound performance by mexican artist Mario de Vega utilizing motors, needles, amplified objects and other electronics.
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Day 2 – 21.11.2009
Dock/Platform Conference
// Entrance free
// Organized by Dock e.V.
Conference:
DISPLAYS FOR BECOMING PRESENT / EXHIBITING NETWORKS
The conference is a public brainstrom about spatial conceptualizations of artistic projects of translocal and transdisciplinary nature. The conference involving artists, architects, reaearchers, curators and theoreticians is thematically based on two threads: space and network. The conference is curated by Doreen Mende, who was awarded the Dock-Curatorial-Residency.
14:30 Part 1
Beryl Graham (curator Sunderland University, crumbweb.org)
Agnes Meyer Brandis (artist)
Herwig Weiser (artists)
Respondent: Alexander Klose (author & researcher)
16:00 Part 2
Peter Mörtenböck (architect, networkedcultures.org)
Peter Hanappe (Sony Computer Science Laboratory, Paris)
Respondent: Sabeth Buchmann (professor for art and theory, Vienna)#
17:30 Part 3
Nikolaus Hirsch (architect, culturalspaces.in)
Trebor Scholz (New School in New York, digitallabor.org)
Respondent: Stefan Römer (professor for media theory and conceptual artist)
20:00 Final Discussion
With all participants.
22:00 Performance
“Open Core” by Julien Maire (FR)
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Day 3 – 22.11.2009
Sound & Media in Berlin
// Entrance free
// organized by DISK/CTM
17:00 Lecture
THE TRICK LIAISON OF CONTEMPORY COMPOSITION (NEUE MUSIK) AND EXPERIMENTAL POP
by Dahlia Borsche (DE)
The grey zone between Contemporary Music and experimental Pop is an ideological minefield, on which both sides are armed to the teeth with prejudice and defensive attitudes and yet, for quite some time already, mutual exchange in terms of music and content has been fruitful and fun. This on-off love-hate relationship is a longstanding tradition of knee-jerk responses that put more ingenuous rapprochement on hold. But, with a little insight into the roots of these traditions, one can not only dislodge tired prejudice and diminish mistrust but also open the door to more profitable forms of cooperation, with which the grey zone could at last leave its shadowy existence behind.
18:30 Panel Discussion
SOUND AND MEDIA IN BERLIN
With Honor Hager (guest curator transmediale, UK), Robert Henke (Musician/artist/developer, DE, requested), Farahnaz Hatam (NK, Berlin), Gregor Hotz (Ausland, DE), Jan Rohlf (DISK/CTM, DE) and others.
Chaired by: Pit Schultz (Herbstradio, DE)
When people talk about ‘media arts’, they not infrequently mean music and artistic work with sounds. Yet what exactly is this ‘music with media’? Why does it play such a major role in media arts discourse? Where does it take place? Why is never really named as such? Are the available terminologies, venues and initiatives adequate?
20:00 Screening
COLORFIELD VARIATIONS
2009, 80 min.
Colorfield Variations is a collection of audio/visual works reinterpreting the Color Field movement by an international array of critically acclaimed sound and new media artists and assembled by curator and sound artist Richard Chartier.
Color Field painting, an abstract style that emerged as a new direction in American painting in the 1950s following Abstract Expressionism, is characterized by canvases painted primarily with stripes, washes and fields of solid color. An
alternate but less frequently encountered term for this style is chromatic abstraction. As the first critically acclaimed art movement to originate in the United States’s capital, the Washington Color School was key to the larger Color Field movement. As a reaction to the emotional energy and gestural surfaces of Abstract Expressionists, the Color Field artists broke away from the individual mark in favor of pure color itself becoming the main content of the work. By breaking painting down to its formal and fundamental elements, the Color Field artists created pure, simplified, large-format, color-dominated fields on often monumental scale utilizing the full psychological power of color. Artists such as Clyfford Still, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Larry Poons, Gene Davis, Jules Olitski, and others eliminated recognizable imagery from their canvas and presented abstraction as an end in itself with each work being a cohesive image. The Color Field movement can be seen as a precursor to the themes and aesthetics of the subsequent Minimalist movement.
With Works by: Steve Roden (US), Alan Callander (US), Frank Bretschneider (DE), Stephan Mathieu (DE), Sue Costabile (US) + Beequeen (NL), Tina Frank + General Magic (AT), Bas Van Koolwijk (NL), Chris Carter + Cosey Fanni Tutti (UK), Ryoichi Kurokawa (JP), Sawako (JP), E. Domnitch + D. Gelfand (RU/US), Ernest Edmonds (AU) + Mark Fell (UK).
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