*.ARTLABS

2007-12-19T15:08:00.000+02:00

Today:
Presentation 19.12.2007
19.00 at *.artlabs // CT3
3 Alea Genistilor, from strada Rahovei (map is here)

Curator: Bianca Herlo
Co-Curator: Madeleine Helmer
Project Manager: Andreea Ciortea

2007-12-13T15:04:00.000+02:00

Visit the artists at *.artlabs as they work on their projects.
more: http://kulturzentrum-hermannstadt.blogspot.com/

Niklas Roy ladder

Timm-Oliver Wilks bicycle

PublicSound Project: Bike Hack + Soundride

2007-12-12T17:30:00.000+02:00

15.12.2007 Saturday: 14.00-16.00
Workshop and Performance

The Public Sound Project is a series of performance-based workshops that combine simple sonic experiments and old–school, analogue interventions within public space. The projects resulting from the workshops are intended to enable participants to contribute to the acoustic ecology of the city through technological intervention.

Bike Hack Workshop + Soundride is a collaborative workshop and mobile sound performance. During each workshop, participants are invited to construct bicycle-mounted noisemakers made of contact microphones, playing cards, and mini amplifiers and to take part in a large scale soundride through the city.

Jessica Thompson (B. 1975, Toronto, Canada) is a new media artist whose practice encompasses sound, performance and mobile technologies. Her projects enable audience members to create user-defined spaces and situations within urban environments.

If you have a bike, bring it with you to the workshop.

Photo: Bike Hack + Soundride, Boston (2005), Copenhagen (2007)
Photos: Tina Louise Hundrup, Thinking Metropolis, Andy Cavatora, Art Interactive

2007-12-11T20:49:00.001+02:00

2007-12-05T22:20:00.000+02:00

Sibiu Transport Plan

click to download working Master Transport Plan for Sibiu! Keep in mind it is not finalized, and provided for inspiration, thanks to WSP Development Romania. The final will be presented December 12 in Sibiu.

artists

2007-11-27T10:32:00.000+02:00

Niklas Roy
Myriel Milicevic & Hans Kadel
Jessica Thompson
Hannes Nehls
Timm-Oliver Wilks
Paul Popescu

2007-11-23T13:01:00.000+02:00

program: 6 - 19 December
presentation, talks: 19 December

artists: send us a few photos of previous projects, as well as a concise description of the work you have been doing.

Call to artists

2007-11-16T13:30:00.000+02:00

ART TRAFFIC MOBILITY

Media Art festival

In Germany, as in no other European country, traffic and culture meet in a fruitful symbiosis. From the traditional automotive engineering to the innovations in the traffic system - the valuable collective experience regarding the phenomenon of traffic reflects itself in the creative artistic debate dealing with mobility concepts. The relation between artistic approaches, design, and the production of mobility reveals a German contemporary view of the urban structure and the way the traffic system is organized, strongly influenced by terms such as sustainability and coexistence, which seek to constantly improve the quality of life in one of the most populated European areas.

At the same time the city of Sibiu, as integral part of the European urban landscape, reveals a modern vision with regard to improving the life quality of its inhabitans by reducing the road traffic within the historic centre of the city. It is not only the necessity, but also the pleasure to develop and implement such alternative ideas as urban mobility that bring together urban planners, artists, and designers in a common artistic debate.

In this context, art takes the role of the mediator. Art is the link that brings together life-style and mobility culture. Art illustrates, modelates, and reveals experiences, feelings, and various forms of knowledge that would otherwise find no place of their own.

What are the artistic viewpoints, the creative strategies and the concepts necessary to sensitize for the topic, which design innovations offer solutions concerning the various issues related to this topic?

The exhibition and workshop brings media artists, designers, film producers and urban planners together, in order to develop utopias, tendencies and prespectives and subsequently present their outcomes to an international, but in the first place to the Romanian public.

2007-11-16T09:45:00.000+02:00

Reinventing the Wheel will be a two week long artist in residency program during December. A public exhibition of the works accompanied by a program of events will occur on 15 December. Five or six artists will be asked to develop projects in reaction to the traffic in Sibiu, and the constant movement of cars and trucks through the urban landscape that is both a benefit and burden for the city and its inhabitants. Traffic entering Sibiu's old town has been successfully regulated, and an infrastructure of one way and restricted streets has slowed down cars and minimized use of the roads. The system within the newer town, however, has not changed and it continues to be an overbearing aspect of the urban fabric.