FW: BEM - Bad Ems Media Art Days, scientific congress puls exhibition arty bytes, May 30th - June 1st, 2003

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Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 17:48:59 +0200
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Subject: BEM - Bad Ems Media Art Days, scientific congress puls exhibition
arty bytes, May 30th - June 1st, 2003

Dear all,

we would like to announce the following event:

Bad Ems Media Art Days
Virtual Utopias &#8211; Boundless Possibilities?
On the Relevance of New Technologies in Art and Society
May 30th &#8211; June 1st, 2003
Marmorsaal, Romerstr. 8, Bad Ems, Germany

An Academic Conference organized by
Kunstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral and Institut fur Kunstwissenschaft, University
of Koblenz-Landau, Campus Koblenz

External Cooperation with
Georg C. Tholen, Institut fur Medienwissenschaften, University of Basle and
Monika Fleischmann/Wolfgang Strauss, Institut fur Medienkommunikation (IMK),
Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Sankt Augustin

Beginning: Friday, May 30th, 2003, 2pm, Marmorsaal, Romerstr. 8, Bad Ems,
Germany

New means of expression have developed in art, photography, film and New
Technologies which have aesthetic and social consequences. What started as a
self-reflexive system around the medium, opens its (cyber-)space for new
(&#8216;think&#8217;-)rooms in which text and picture converge, time is
measured in real time, the virtual emerges as a new reality and simulation
makes possible new forms of being.
The New Media uses the internet and the computer, film, photography and
video are alienated, virtual realities are generated and the viewer
participates interactively in the construction of New Media works.
In the nowhere-land of the Net, new models of communication, new forms of
society and hierarchies, virtual landscapes and architectures arise. Spatial
and temporal distance is questioned as is the representation of the body:
eternal youth, dream and trauma, idyll and horror, reality and fiction.
The congress will be followed by a discussion about the current state of
research and artistic ideas. The object here is to debate the current
position with young researchers and artists and to think up tomorrow&#8217;s
utopias in the wake of the creation of the quantum computer.

The exhibition art bytes and the Internetcafe will accompany the congress
with concrete artistic statements.

art bytes: Opening on May 30th, 2003, 7.30 pm
Kunstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Villenpromenade 11, Bad Ems

Artists involved:
Adi Blum
Christiane Buchner
Ursula Damm
Monika Fleischmann/Wolfgang Strauss
Wiebke Grosch/Frank Metzger
Achim Lengerer
Simone Zaugg
and others

Registration: Please, use our registration form under www.bem.balmoral.de

Conference Office
Kunstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral
Villenpromenade 11
D-56130 Bad Ems
Tel. +49.2603.94 19 0
Fax +49.2603.94 19 16
Email [email protected]
Internet www.bem.balmoral.de


Further information are available under www.bem.balmoral.de


Programme
(subject to alterations)

Friday 30th May 2003

2.00 pm
Beginning
Music of the 21st Century

Greeting
Jurgen E. Zollner (inquired)
Minister of Science, Education, Research and Cultural Affairs of
Rhineland-Palatinate

Virtual Utopias &#8211; Boundless Possibilities?
Daniele Perrier
Kunstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems

The European Picture &#8211; To be in Flux?
Ludwig Tavernier
Institut fur Kunstwissenschaft, University of Koblenz&#8211;Landau

The Emperor&#8217;s New Clothes. On the Relationship between Composition and
Performance
Petra Bockholdt
Institut fur Musikwissenschaft, University of Koblenz&#8211;Landau

AWAAZ PROJECT
Ruby Jana Sircar
Institut fur Gegenwartskunst, Akademie der Bildenden Kunste, Vienna


4.15 pm
Intermezzo


5.00 pm
Korsakow Syndrom (Germany, 2000-2001)
Florian Thalhofer
Award Winner Digital Sparks 2002

7.30 pm
art bytes
Opening of the Exhibition
Klaus Gallwitz and Daniele Perrier
Kunstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral

Saturday 31st May 2003

9.00 am&#8211;12.00 noon
Part I: Media Culture Virtuality

Spaces &#8211; The Place of the Media and the Question of Art
Georg C. Tholen
Institut fur Medienwissenschaft, University of Basle

Virtual and Analogue Places or: the Everyday is made up of all Sorts of
Poaching
Michaela Schweiger
Kunsthochschule fur Medien, Cologne

Media Reception: Case Study of a Generation
Carmen Beckenbach
ZKM &#61629; Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe

Brave New World: Constructions in the Virtual
Annett Zinsmeister
Berlin

New Media &#8211; New Art?
The Hare transfixed by the Media Serpent
Dietrich Grunewald
Institut fur Kunstwissenschaft, University of Koblenz&#8211;Landau

12.00 noon
Lunch Break


1.00&#8211;4.00 pm
Part II: Media Art &#8211; Politics

He is a model(l), and he looks good. On the Typology of the &#8216;Media
Artist&#8217;
Verena Kuni
Fachbereich III, Kunstgeschichte, University of Trier

The Internet as an Opportunity for Broadening Art Practice
Bettina Lockemann
Buro fur Bildangelegenheiten, Berlin

Gadgets Play
Matze Schmidt
Institut fur Kunstwissenschaft, Kunsthochschule Kassel

Who Inherits the Classical NetArt? The Need to Take Stock After the Death of
a Utopia
Gerrit Gohlke
Media Arts Lab, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

4.00 pm
Intermezzo

4.30&#8211;7.30 pm
Part III: Cyber Performance Art

Virtuality and Physicalness &#8211; Theory and Practice of the medial Stage
Thea Brejzek
Theatre specialist and independent director, Berlin

Dead or Alive? Agents, Avatars and Amazons
Jessica Ullrich
Georg-Kolbe-Museum, Berlin

Body Presence and Performance Space
Sabine Gebhardt Fink
Hochschule fur Gestaltung und Kunst, Basle

Performance in the Information Age
Noah Holtwiesche
Zentrum fur Medien und Interaktivitat, Giessen

In-Visible. Visual Approximation to the Mysterious Structure of Life
Markus Lohoff
Institut fur Kunstgeschichte, RWTH Aachen


8.00 pm
Reception


10.00 pm
Late Night Programme
Film Screening at the Kurcafe, Romerstr. 8, Bad Ems

Korsakow Syndrom (Germany, 2000-2001)
Florian Thalhofer
Award Winner Digital Sparks 2002

Time Code (USA, 2000)
Mike Figgis

Sunday 1st June 2003

9.00 am&#8211;12.00 noon
Part IV: Spaces of Knowledge in Art and Society

>From Online Archives to a Virtual Museum. A Few Ideas on Creating a Media Art
Site
Nina Zaretskaja
TV-Gallery, Moscow

Interactive Virtual Environments. Experiences with the Cybernarium Days
Stefan Muller
Institut fur Computervisualistik &#8211; AG Computergraphik, University of
Koblenz&#8211;Landau

Online Archive: Networked Spaces of Knowledge
Monika Fleischmann/Wolfgang Strauss
Institut fur Medienkommunikation (IMK), Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Sankt
Augustin

Encyclopaedizer or: Are you afraid of Spiders?
Adi Blum/Beat Mazenauer
zusammenstoss, Luzern

Field of Interaction &#8211; Public Space in the Digital Age
Mirjam Struppek
Berlin


12.00 noon
Intermezzo

13.00 pm
The Redefinition of Art by Electricity
Derrick de Kerckhove
McLuhan Program in Culture & Technology, University of Toronto


14.00 pm
Public Panel Discussion
with Ursula Damm, Derrick de Kerckhove, Monika Fleischmann, Daniele Perrier,
Ludwig Tavernier, Georg C. Tholen, Simoen Zaugg and others


Open End











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