Media workshop in the cultural center of the BBK Berlin
The media workshop is one of the three workshops that the cultural work of the Professional Association of Visual Artists Berlin (bbk berlin) has set up for the visual arts. It offers job opportunities and professional support for artists working with media in Berlin. There are also lectures and seminars.
As the youngest of the three workshops of the bbk berlin, it was initially set up in 2008 as a department of the printing workshop located in the Kunstquartier Bethanien in Berlin-Kreuzberg . The workshops are funded by the Berlin Senate Chancellery for Cultural Affairs . The media workshop is run by Sandra Becker and Lioba von den Driesch.
History of the workshop
The printing workshop and the sculpting workshop have been supporting the visual arts with infrastructure for decades. In the 1990s there were no subsidized work opportunities for artistic work with analog and digital media. Editing rooms were priceless back then. That is why the media artists got together and called for the media workshop back in the 1990s. There were many committed and several concepts that were gradually evaluated. Ultimately, however, there was a lack of overall financing, so that the media workshop was initially set up with only four workstations and a green screen studio as a department in the former offices of the printing workshop of bbk Berlin in the basement in Bethanien. A multifunctional room was planned to provide space for a wide variety of work techniques. In 2008, the realization of the media workshop began. The need to further develop such jobs is described in 2003 as follows: "High-quality production facilities for media art can currently be found nationwide almost exclusively at academies and universities reserved for enrolled students. More and more media artists are being adequately trained, but are being trained Completion of her studies the foundations of artistic production are missing. "
activities
The workshop offers various digital and analog workplaces, a green screen studio, know-how and space as well as technical infrastructure for artists who work with media. In addition, she organizes network meetings , seminars and workshops in her rooms in the Kreuzberger Kunstquartier Bethanien . It offers advice and assistance in the field of media art. It mediates and supports cooperation and networking between media professionals. A so-called expert pool , consisting of 20 media artists, can support projects with assistance if necessary. Regular collaborations with the international film and media art festival Directors Lounge as well as trade fair appearances promote social awareness of media competence. The focus is on the critical concept of media. Monthly lectures as part of the network meetings complete the offer. The media workshop creates space for innovative projects such as B. in the control room of the former heating power plant in Berlin-Mitte.
The media workshop counts with the FabLab u. a. to the Grassroot Labs in Berlin. These have a democratic tradition and were developed from the grassroots. They are a help for self-help in the sense of DIY . Do it yourself as a principle is inherent in media art, as there is hardly any institutional help in the form of funding and reception for this relatively new art form. Much of this work has already disappeared and could not be archived because the media carriers such as VHS cassettes e.g. B. dissolve after a certain time. The media workshop digitizes a. a. these older formats and thus makes them available for the future.
The media workshop brings together the media art scene in a city that has a long international art tradition. For 40 years, media art afford artists and artists critical contributions to digitization. Media art includes media artistic forms of expression that differ from classical painting and sculpture in that they use technical media and are often interdisciplinary. It goes from net art to experimental film and video as well as sound installations. The media workshop as infrastructural support and knowledge transfer for self-help is described in the "Art Forum", the specialist journal for visual arts.
Projects
- Trade fair appearances at the art fairs Preview 2012, 2013 and the Berliner Liste 2014, 2015 and 2016 in the control room of the heating power plant, innovative art fair Contemporary Art Ruhr 2015
- Network meeting on MALM (Media Art Lab Mercosul) in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Porto Alegre 2015
- Screening programs at Kino Central in 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015
- Lecture series cyber technology at the Free University in the summer semester 2014
- Temporary installation of Liquid State Machine 2011
- Music video "African Logic YAYATO" 2015, produced in the media workshop
- Tom Christie on David Lynch Digitization of video material from 1979 in the media workshop
Artists (selection)
Among the artists who work at the Medienwerkstatt should be mentioned: Ottjörg AC , Liz Allbee , Sandra Becker , Daniela Comani , Jakobine Engel , Niklas Goldbach , Susanne Hoffmann , Peter Kees , Azade Köker , Susanne Kutter , María Linares , Sharon Paz , Patricia Pisani , Lorenz Rollhäuser , Hito Steyerl , Andrea Sunder-Plassmann , Myriam Thyes , Ignacio Uriarte , Gisela Weimann , Frank Zucht , Hans Martin Sewcz .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Kunstquartier Bethanien Berlin. Retrieved December 3, 2018 .
- ↑ funding programs / visual arts , funding programs visual arts, accessed on October 18, 2015
- ↑ medienwerkstatt berlin , accessed on January 26, 2016
- ↑ funding programs / visual arts , funding programs visual arts, accessed on October 11, 2015
- ↑ bbk-kulturwerk.de , Kulturwerk des bbk berlin GmbH, accessed on October 11, 2015
- ↑ bbk-berlin.de , circular 2010, p. 12
- ↑ bbk-berlin.de , history of bbk berlin, accessed on October 11, 2015
- ↑ Development scenario phoenix - rooms for digital art. Retrieved December 3, 2018 . , Quotation from p. 5
- ↑ Network meeting of the Medienwerkstatt , at medienwerkstatt-berlin.jimdo.com, accessed on December 3, 2018
- ↑ youtube.com , Berliner Liste 17. – 20. September 2015, accessed October 13, 2015
- ↑ berlin.de/projektzukunft , description of the media workshop on p. 13
- ↑ on1.zkm.de , 40 Years of Media Art in Germany, accessed on October 11, 2015
- ↑ kunstforum.de/nachrichten , Media Art Funding, accessed on October 11, 2015, below
- ↑ Berliner Liste 2015 - Medienwerkstatt: Space for artistic work with time-based media ( Memento from September 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ The media workshop on the Berlin list , on medienwerkstatt-berlin, accessed on October 11, 2015
- ↑ Interview on the exhibition Interview with the head of the media workshop Sandra Becker on the exhibition, accessed on November 11, 2017
- ↑ surveillance-medienwerkstatt-berlin-switch , Contemporary Art Ruhr 2015, accessed on November 2, 2015
- ↑ cms.goethe.de , Media Art Lab Mercosul, accessed on October 11, 2015
- ↑ kino-central.de ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Films made in the Medienwerkstatt, accessed on October 10, 2015
- ↑ events , Die Medienwerkstatt Berlin and the Kino Central
- ↑ bbk-berlin.de , professional association of visual artists berlin, accessed on October 10, 2015
- ↑ fu-berlin.de , Cybertechnik, accessed on October 10, 2015
- ↑ transmediale.de , Medienwerkstatt Berlin - Liquid State Machine, accessed on October 11, 2015
- ↑ youtube.com , Afrikan LOGIK "YAYATO", accessed on October 13, 2015
- ↑ blatc.tumblr.com , Video, accessed October 19, 2015
- ↑ giselaweimann.de , Gisela Weimann, accessed on October 13, 2015
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 14 " N , 13 ° 25 ′ 27.6" E