BEM - Bad Ems Media Art Days, May 30th - June 1st, 2003

[albrecht at balmoral.de]

Dear all,

we would like to announce the following event:

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

An Academic Conference organized by 
Künstlerhaus Schloß Balmoral and Institut für Kunstwissenschaft, University of Koblenz-Landau, Campus Koblenz

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

Beginning: Friday, May 30th, 2003, 2pm, Marmorsaal, Römerstr. 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 (‘think’-)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’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
	      Künstlerhaus Schloß Balmoral, Villenpromenade 11, Bad Ems

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

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

Conference Office
Künstlerhaus Schloß Balmoral
Villenpromenade 11
D-56130 Bad Ems
Tel. +49.2603.94 19 0
Fax +49.2603.94 19 16
Email bem at balmoral.de
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
Jürgen E. Zöllner (inquired)
Minister of Science, Education, Research and Cultural Affairs of Rhineland-Palatinate

Virtual Utopias – Boundless Possibilities?
Danièle Perrier 
Künstlerhaus Schloß Balmoral, Bad Ems 

The European Picture – To be in Flux?
Ludwig Tavernier
Institut für Kunstwissenschaft, University of Koblenz–Landau 

The Emperor’s New Clothes. On the Relationship between Composition and Performance
Petra Bockholdt
Institut für Musikwissenschaft, University of Koblenz–Landau 

AWAAZ PROJECT
Ruby Jana Sircar 
Institut für Gegenwartskunst, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, 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 Danièle Perrier
Künstlerhaus Schloß Balmoral

Saturday 31st May 2003

9.00 am–12.00 noon
Part I: Media Culture Virtuality

Spaces – The Place of the Media and the Question of Art
Georg C. Tholen
Institut für Medienwissenschaft, University of Basle

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

Media Reception: Case Study of a Generation
Carmen Beckenbach
ZKM  Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe

Brave New World: Constructions in the Virtual
Annett Zinsmeister
Berlin

New Media – New Art?
The Hare transfixed by the Media Serpent 
Dietrich Grünewald
Institut für Kunstwissenschaft, University of Koblenz–Landau 

12.00 noon
Lunch Break


1.00–4.00 pm
Part II: Media Art – Politics

He is a model(l), and he looks good. On the Typology of the ‘Media Artist’
Verena Kuni
Fachbereich III, Kunstgeschichte, University of Trier

The Internet as an Opportunity for Broadening Art Practice
Bettina Lockemann
Büro für Bildangelegenheiten, Berlin

Gadgets Play
Matze Schmidt
Institut für Kunstwissenschaft, Kunsthochschule Kassel

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

4.00 pm
Intermezzo

4.30–7.30 pm 
Part III: Cyber Performance Art

Virtuality and Physicalness – 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 für Gestaltung und Kunst, Basle

Performance in the Information Age 
Noah Holtwiesche
Zentrum für Medien und Interaktivität, Gießen

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


8.00 pm 
Reception


10.00 pm
Late Night Programme
Film Screening at the Kurcafé, Römerstr. 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–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 Müller
Institut für Computervisualistik – AG Computergraphik, University of Koblenz–Landau

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

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

Field of Interaction – 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, Danièle Perrier, Ludwig Tavernier, Georg C. Tholen, Simoen Zaugg and others


Open End