Genius Loci Weimar
Genius Loci Weimar is an annual festival for projection mapping in Weimar .
festival
Genius Loci Weimar is an annual August festival for audiovisual art, video mapping and facade projections.
On the second weekend in August every year, action artists, video designers, media designers, architects and musicians come to Weimar to take part in the festival with their work. During the festival weekend, selected video projects will be played on three building facades in Weimar . Between 9:30 p.m. and midnight, international artists project their 15-minute contributions in the city center.
The most famous buildings to date have included the German National Theater (DNT), the Anna Amalia Library , the former Gauforum , the City Palace and the new Bauhaus Museum .
As an event of the Weimar summer and organized by MXPerience gUG (limited liability), an average of 50,000 visitors have come to the interdisciplinary festival since 2012.
competition
Artists from all over the world are invited to apply with their concept ideas for the Genius Loci Weimar Festival for video mapping and facade projections. The three best artistic works will be awarded prize money of 45,000 euros and will be presented at the festival in Weimar.
Every year, three artistically challenging and historically relevant facades in the city of Weimar are selected for the competition. We are looking for concepts that capture the spirit of the place with the combination of natural conditions and human creative drive.
The special prerequisites for the artistic work are to develop an independent visual language and not get lost in a historical retelling or in clichéd showmanship. The focus is on the “genius loci”, the spirit of the place, which is to be made visible with new media art techniques and thus adds another level of meaning to the place itself.
In order to participate, artists must submit their work in the format of a 30-second video clip. All competition entries will then be shown in a public traveling exhibition in Weimar. The three best works will be determined by a public vote on the website and by an expert jury.
history
| year | Venues | Artist | Side events |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | House of Lords | Nerdworking (Istanbul) | Genius Loci Club |
| 2013 |
Wittumspalais inner courtyard of Weimar City Palace, main building of the Bauhaus University Weimar |
Ana.Digital (Media Apparat, Austria) Liszt-hitecture (Videomapping Hungary, Hungary) Legacy (RDV Collectif, France) |
Genius Loci Club |
| 2014 |
Anna Amalia Library German National Theater Herderplatz |
Limen (MammasONica, Italy) Klang3 (Rüstungsschmie.de, Soundselektor, Dresden) Moya Façade (Xenorama, Bremen) |
Genius Loci Lab (Weimar): Bauhaus Museum A Wall is a screen Genius Loci Club |
| 2015 | Atrium ( Gauforum Weimar ) Jakobsplan Gerberstraße (house for socioculture) Residential palace |
Zoetropolis (MammasONica, Italy) Homage / Collage (Space Graphics) Grain Metal Punk (VJZARIA) The Memory Trace (Lukas Taido) |
Genius Loci Lab: e.Werk |
| 2016 |
Tempelherrenhaus Stern (hydro shield in Ilmpark) Sternbrücke | Romanzero (Greatmade, Erfurt) Erlinde (Dieselqueen, Dießen am Ammersee) Tagtool (OMAi, Austria) |
Genius Loci Lab: e.Werk Hafis-Goethe-Denkmal: Recker / Hauptmeier - Cultural Sounds? Bastille: KdR_Lichtmaschine AV-Live-Kino: Lichthaus-Kino backup: Short film festival |
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| 2017 |
Herderkirche Cranachhaus central bank |
Mirror (Flightgraf, Japan) Chiaroscuro (Desilence, Spain) Gestalt (Hotaru Visual Guerilla, Spain) |
Genius Loci Lab: Theaterplatz Genius Loci Talk AV-Live-Kino: Lichthaus-Kino Genius Loci Club: e.Werk Path installations: Nils Mosch, Stepan Boldt, KI-808 / Body Controller, MammaSOnica |
| 2018 | Goethehaus House of Frau von Stein University Library |
Alchemy (404.zero) Musae (MultiScalar) Inside Out (5Elements) |
Genius Loci Lab: cafeteria at the park Genius Loci Talk: Lichthaus Kino AV live cinema: Lichthaus Kino Genius Loci Club: Kesselsaal E-Werk Path installations: Climate pavilion, Wisp collective, YPOV |
| 2019 | DNT mon ami Bauhaus Museum |
REMAKE³ (ruestungsschmie.de) Reverse Imagination (Laura Seitz & Daniel Pitts) The Shape of Sound (Jonas Denzel) |
Genius Loci Lab: Weimarhallenpark Genius Loci Talk: Kunsthalle Harry Graef Kessler AV cinema: mon ami Genius Loci Club: Altes Funkhaus Path installations: Re: Sorb, Mehkas Dia Project, Paracetamol, Lichtplanung +, Filip Roca, Christoph Drews, Studio Otaika, Pardis Azadeh , Vasili Macheradze |
Side events
Genius Loci Lab
The Genius Loci LAB is the festival's young stage, which offers workshops and does AV live productions. During the week leading up to the festival, the boundaries of video mapping in connection with the urban context will be redefined and rethought.
AV live cinema
The AV live cinema combines the art of video mapping and music. Through the live performance, the screen is opened and the cinema is included through the interplay of sound and light.
Genius Loci Club
The Genius Loci Club combines abstract light art and unconventional electronic music. In addition to light installations, a range of contemporary club music will be presented on two event evenings.
Genius Loci Talk
For the 6th Genius Loci Weimar Festival, the Genius Loci Talk will take place in the Lichthaus cinema for the first time. The symposium brings together international experts on the topics of light art, video mapping, media architecture and marketing.
Theme:
- 2017 Mediatization of the cities
- 2018 The digital and the real space
- 2019 AI in Media Art