5th biennial on media and architceture - Programme

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5. Medien und Architektur Biennale Graz
07 - 11 November 01
5th graz biennial on media and architecture
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The biennial on media and architecture is pleased to invite you for the 
fifth time to get connected to what is stake in the actual tendencies of 
architecture and urban culture.


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Opening       Wednesday, 07.11.01, 19.30, Dom im Berg
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Opening Programme

Louis Bec: Opening Speech
The Mall – the ideal city? - Harun Farocki discussing with Kai Vöckler
Opening Film: Harun Farocki, Die Schöpfer der Einkaufswelten, 2001, D/A


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Programme Overview
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Introduction
International Competition
Virtual Lounge
Conference Infoscapes
Conference Cityscapes
Spheres
Cityscapes - Modular Living
On the Waterfront - The Video Diaries

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Introduction
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Architecture and media – a widely spaced dialogue with a view onto the 
aesthetic, economic and social context of topical architectural, urban and 
image production. A complex system of intertwined realms that mutually 
influence each other, implicating a process of continuous modeling. With 
more than 100 media artworks from 24 countries and approximately 60 papers, 
presentations and round-table talks, the 5th graz biennial on media and 
architecture will present a range of perspectives of the current discussion 
on architecture, urbanism and media.

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International Competition
Dom im Berg, Thursday, 8. 11.01 until Sunday, 11. 11.01
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In the context of the international competition, outstanding audio-visual 
works and CD-ROM & Internet projects of the past two years are presented. A 
total of 70 works have been nominated for the competition, of which 42 are 
film and video works and 28 are CD-ROM & Internet projects.

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Virtual Lounge
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In the virtual lounge: www.artimage.at > 5th biennial media and 
architecture > competition all nominated internet works are presented.

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Conference
Infoscapes –  New Spaces – New Strategies for Communicating Architecture?
Palais Attems, Thursday, 8. 11.01
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Infoscapes – New Spaces – New Strategies for Communicating Architecture 
presents in 4 panels 26 items and projects by architects, artists, 
designers and curators, who have addressed the opportunities for the 
mediation of architecture and urbanism offered by the new media. In this 
context, mediation is always seen from the point of view of interaction. 
The projects were chosen considering
which architectural and artistic means and strategies had been applied in 
the approach to the possibilities offered by the new media with a view to 
adding a new dimension to the experience of both architecture and the urban 
landscape framed by it. A new dimension not achievable by conventional 
means of documentation and representation.

Infoscapes Panel I: City Cartography – Informational Navigation
Infoscapes Panel II: Architecture: Forms of Mediation and Representation
Infoscapes Panel III: New Spaces - New Strategies? Inventing New Moves
Infoscapes Panel IV: Interventions in Spheres

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Conference
Cityscapes - Imagineering the Urban Condition
Thursday, 8. 11.01 until Saturday, 10. 11.01
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The relation of images of urbanity and the production of space, the changes 
and new forms of existence resulting from imagineering as a contemporary 
architectural paradigm, and the current selfconception of urban planners 
vis-à-vis the global exchange of urban visions of desire and fear determine 
the central themes of the conference.

Forum 1: Structural Changes + New Realities
Forum 2: Perspectives of Urban Design
Forum 3: Imaginary Forces + Spatial Practices

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REMIX Cityscapes – Imagineering the Urban Condition
Saturday, 10.11.01 19.00
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A final round table with all partisipants of the cityscapes conference:
Christopher Charles Benninger, Lydia Buchmüller, John Fiske, Susanne 
Hauser,Jorge Mario Jáuregui, Norman M. Klein, Bernd Knaller-Vlay, Christian 
Kühn, Rüdiger Lainer, Lars Lerup,  Hrvoje Njiric, Walter Prigge, Wolf D. 
Prix COOP HIMMELB(L)AU, Klaus Ronneberger, Andreas Ruby, Ines Schaber & 
Jörg Stollmann, Georg Schöllhammer, Patrik Schumacher, John Urry, Edward W. 
Soja, Brett Steele, Nigel Thrift, John Urry, Kai Vöckler

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Spheres
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Presentation of the virtual production- and exhibition space Spheres. 
Spheres is a plurilogue, collaborative production space for and about 
various public spheres. For the first series of works four artists/groups 
of artists were invited. All of their work is remarkable for its prolonged 
and intense focus on the theme of public space. It is a process-focused 
space in which new works, discourses and documentation interact with and 
influence one another continuously and on different levels.
Sabine Bitter und Helmut Weber: Major Leisure
Sigrid Kurz und Karl-Heinz Klopf: SCREEN TEST: IN SPACE
Knowbotic Research: Mental imMigration
LAB[au]: Cityscapes Interface

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Cityscapes - Modular Living
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The Cityscapes - Modular Living special programme invites us to immerse
ourselves in a frenetic world of images of housing utopias from the second
half of the 20th century. Documentation, video essays, films and music clips
demonstrate the wide spectrum between extreme situations and sensitive tracing
in housing complexes worldwide.

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On the Waterfront - The Video Diaries
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In Cooperation with the International Filmfestival Rotterdam

On the occasion of Rotterdam, together with Porto, being the Cultural 
Capital City of Europe in 2001, at its 30th edition the International Film 
Festival Rotterdam presented a special programme On the Waterfront, curated 
by Gertjan Zuilhof, comprising films that in very different ways portray 
something of the wealth of stories, myths and dramas that are set around 
harbours, ports and are about surviving by the sea (and on the edge of 
society).




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