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/ re-active platform /
new & mixed / interfaced / environment-oriented / computer-based / digital / electronic / cybernetic / networked / mobile / wireless / locative / intermedia / transitory / sat-connected / virtual / transactional / interactive / simply reactive
Referring to the tradition of the atelier for multimedia&performance based at KHM Academy of Media Arts Cologne, the seminar, working group and environment re-active platform was founded october 2004 by susanna schoenberg. First collaborators and partecipants were luis negron van grieken, ralf baecker, beikyoung lee, franziska hoffmann, micha thies, kerstin ergenzinger, leif rumbke, irena paskali, sara thiesen, malgorzata calusinska, nicole dhur, florian egermann.
As a discussion forum re-active platform researched on entities like feedback, data navigation, simulation (of presence), control space, new media situationism, appropriation and misappropriation of formats, nomadic strategies, performance and happening, the techno-image, methodology as a material.
Among the re-active guests and friends count michelle teran, martin howse, yolande harris, deufert+plischke, thilo elsner, william bennett, bewernitz&goldowski, verena maas, andreas walter, lasse scherffig, stefanie stallschus, luis negron van grieken, urs fries, frans vogelaar, VALIE EXPORT, julia scher.
http://www.khm.de/mk/seminar/export/re-active/
Fernwärmetunnel below the Rhein, Cologne / tuesday 07-11-27, 2-3 pm / photograph: ludwig zeller.
re-active platform / a collaborative media arts production / about circuits, phenomena, data observers & more
re-active platform is about the logic and aesthetics of systems; circuits, signals and displays are represented as objects, images and sites, while the Phänomene des Realen [phenomena of the real] seem to be nothing more than just mere coincidence.
re-active platform, initiated by susanna schoenberg in 2004, embodies concepts, works, tests and exchange between students and other art and technology competences that temporarily and repeatedly turned into site and condition themselves.
The main task of this production consists in reflecting the idea of re-activity on a very abstract level, not referring to much to individual preferences of the artists for their usual shapes of production.
The first entities discussed as metaphors were circuits and data-streamings as accessible phenomena.
The results is a collaborative produced ensemble of artefacts not produced for being unique, but for being part of a [variable] discourse.
re-active platform / ralf baecker, artur holling, karin lingnau, jihyun park, luis negrón van grieken and susanna schoenberg / march 20 to April 14, 2010 / Glasmoog - Filzengraben 2a, Cologne, Germany.
re-active platform / ralf baecker, artur holling, karin lingnau, luis negrón van grieken, jihyun park and susanna schoenberg / october 28-30, 2010 / C.A.R. Contemporary Art Fair Ruhr – Zeche Zollverein, Essen, Germany / photographs: artur holling.
re-active platform / ralf baecker, artur holling, karin lingnau, luis negrón van grieken, jihyun park, susanna schoenberg / October 8 to November 21, 2011 / MOCA Studio - Taipei, Taiwan.
