Rose station
Station Rose (short STR ) is an audiovisual artist duo and is one of the pioneers of digital art. In 1988 Elisa Rose (media artist, born 1959 in Linz ) & Gary Danner (musician, media artist, born 1959 in Linz) founded Station Rose in Vienna as a public multimedia laboratory, after both graduating from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna (Magisterium ) had completed.
The work of “Station Rose” can be classified into the categories of media art , performance art , digital art, video art, computer art , net art and electronic music .
activities
From the foundation of the station, the spectrum of STR activities ranged from CD , vinyl , DVD and CD-ROM productions, through art production and research on the subject of virtual realities and the curating of symposia to lectures and performances, exhibitions in Galleries, museums, universities and underground.
In 1988/89 STR carried out multimedia field research (post-graduate scholarship) with computers, scanners and samplers in Cairo / Egypt for 8 months (“station in the field”).
Station Rose organized the first techno events in Vienna in 1989 (“Gunafa Clubbing”), moved to Frankfurt am Main in 1991 and went online at the same time.
In their Gunafa clubbing, they started using the Internet as an element of their audiovisual live performances from 1992 onwards. The real-time communication between globally connected users was projected onto the walls of the Frankfurt techno club "XS". In addition, sounds and visuals were played on the computer in real time.
In 1995 STR received the Prix Ars Electronica (honorable mention). In the same year they coined the term “digital bohemian”. 1996-1998 they had an artist contract with Sony Music. 1996–1998 they were part of the virtual community project "Electric Minds" by Howard Rheingold. In 1998 the book "1st Decade" designed by them was published. Since 1999 STR has been webcasting on www.stationrose.com
2002–2004 Rose and Danner shared a professorship at the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt (Media Production). From 2002 to 2006 the one-hour program “Station Rose - Best of Webcasting” was broadcast weekly on hr-fernsehen / ARD Digital (a total of approx. 31 hours of audiovisual compositions). In addition, the CD and DVD “Best of Webcasting” were released in 2005.
Station Rose was one of the first artist groups in the world to explore the possibilities of interactive media and the Internet. Audiovisual performances in art galleries and universities are on an equal footing with actions at media festivals and events in the club area / underground in the group's catalog of works. Webcasting and live streaming play a prominent role here.
After Elisa Rose and Gary Danner lived abroad for a total of 20 years, with their main residence in Frankfurt am Main, they returned to Vienna in 2011.
Performances, installations and lectures (selection)
- 2018: AV-performance at Art's Birthday, Radio Kultur Haus, Vienna
- 2017: "Composers´ Lounge # 13", Porgy & Bess Vienna, hosted by ÖKB "Brandstätte"
- 2017: guest lecture at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, textual sculpture Prof. Heimo Zobernig
- 2016: "Vienna Art Week - Interview Marathon Seeking Beauty", AV performance, MAK Vienna
- 2016: “Parallel Vienna 2016”, installation and AV performances
- 2016: "PiXXL_Hall", 4 hour live AV performance at Donaufestival, Minoritenkirche Krems
- 2016: Aalborg University, Denmark. Lecture and performance
- 2015: "Vienna for Art's Sake!" (participation), Benetton Collection, Belvedere Vienna
- 2015: "Pixel Home 2.0", Kunst Haus Wien
- 2014: KunstGraf + ZYX TANK solo exhibition and A / V Performance
- 2014: "Pixel Home", land art project, Ottensheim Upper Austria
- 2013: Ottensheim Open Air, live AV performance
- 2013: Artist Talk, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
- 2013: "ShelTeR", installation and AV performances at "Total Recall", Ars Electronica, Tabakwerke Linz
- 2013: "Digital Quarter Century_Patterns & Pleats", installation and AV performances, Ovalhalle MQ Vienna
- 2012: Opening of Station Rose at Museumsquartier, electric avenue
- 2011: bookpresentation at furtherfield, London
- 2011: bookpresentation at the Austrian Cultural Forum, London
- 2010: “Sit-In / Out”, audiovisual performance at “what is music?”, >> space for culture << Dresdner Bank Frankfurt
- 2010: "Close_up_410" in cooperation with Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, audiovisual installation and performance at Kunsthalle Schirn Frankfurt
- 2009: "Augenclick - Pheromonic, Hungry Walking Blues", LENTOS Art Museum, Linz
- 2008: "LogInCabin" media sculpture at MAK, Museum of Contemporary Art in Vienna
- 2007: Ars Electronica , performance at Second City / Capture Your City
- 2006: “ Paraflows ”, Vienna; "Everything is so analogue Da Draussen", Städelschule, Frankfurt; FH Joanneum, Graz
- 2005: Performance & DVD and CD presentation “Best of Webcasting”: Kunstraum Innsbruck , Kunsthalle Wien ; Cafe Royal Frankfurt; Art University Linz
- 2003: Martina Detterer Gallery, Frankfurt; World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam ; IMG Mainz
- 2002: "Cybersonica", ICA, London ; Kunsthaus Bregenz
- 2001: WMF Berlin
- 2000: Transmediale Berlin, Salzburger Kunstverein, Generali Foundation , Vienna, Transmediale Berlin
- 1999: World Tour Playing Now: Blasthaus, San Francisco ; Le Batofar , Paris; Transmediale Berlin
- 1998: Transmediale Berlin
- 1995: Popkomm, Cologne
- 1993: Performance series, level 7, Frankfurt
- 1992–1997: "Gunafa Clubbing": XS, Frankfurt; Space Place, Frankfurt; Turbine, Berlin; Nature One; among others
- 1990: “Public Brain Session”: Skala, Vienna; Cyberthon, San Francisco
- 1989: Ars Electronica, Linz; Gunafa Clubbing, Atrium, Vienna
- 1988: “Station in the field service”, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Network projects
- 1992: Gunafa Clubbing, XS, Frankfurt
- 1995: Gunafa homepage at The Well
- 1995: World Wide Jam, contributions to Howard Rheingold's "Digital Zeitgeist"
- 1995–1996: “Digital Cocooning”, Cu See Me Conferences
- 1996–1997: "Electric Minds", Virtual Community
- 1999–2006: Webcasting on stationrose.com
- 1999: "Crosslinks", Berlin
- 2001: “Webcast Lounge” at Art Frankfurt
- 2002: Congress “9-11 Networks”, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt
- 2003: "Playing Field", IMG Mainz
Solo exhibitions (selection)
- 2018: Bildraum 01, Vienna
- 2014: Kunsthaus Langenthal Switzerland
- 2010: “Violently Y / ours” solo exhibition at gallery Hofkabinett, Linz
- 2004: OKCentrum, Linz
- 2003: Martina Detterer Gallery, Frankfurt
- 2000: Kunstraum Innsbruck, medien.kunst.tirol
- 1993: Tröster & Schlüter Gallery, Frankfurt
- 1991: NGBK, Berlin; “Soft Targets”, Munich; “Chill Out”, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; Westwerk Hamburg
- 1989: Galerie Gawlik & Schorm, Vienna
Discography (including CD-ROMs and DVD)
- “STATION ROSE INTERACTIVE - Virtual Reality as a New Frontier Area”, CD-ROM incl. 3 audio tracks for Commodore Amiga system, label: Gunafa, Frankfurt 1992, distributed by CHIP INSIDE / Vogel Verlag.
- "DAVE / Digit Eyes", record, Frankfurt 1992, label: Eternity, distribution: EFA
- "Surfing On Electronic Surfaces: 15 Years of Ars Electronica", CD-ROM for Macintosh, Frankfurt / Linz 1994, label: Gunafa, distribution: Ars Electronica.
- "Icons, Morphs & Samples": audio CD / CD-ROM, Hamburg 1994, label: Gunafa, licensed by Play It Again Sam / Germany, distribution: Rough Trade.
- "Phosphoric Brain Massage": CD EXTRA & Vinyl, Frankfurt 1996, Label: Sony,
Distribution: Sony.
- “Playing Now”: audio CD, Frankfurt 1999, label: Gunafa, distribution: Neuton. (Online rerelease 2006)
- "LIVE @ HOME 1-4": Edition of records with recordings from webcasts on www.stationrose.com. Frankfurt 1999–2002, label: Gunafa, distribution: Neuton.
- “AU CIEL”: audio CD, Berlin 2000, label: Crippled Dick Hot Wax !, distribution: EFA. Also released as double vinyl.
- “Clicks & Cuts 2”: audio CD sampler (participation), Frankfurt 2001, label: Mille Plateaux , distribution: EFA.
- “Soundcultures”: Audio Mini-CD (participation), Frankfurt 2003, Edition Suhrkamp / Mille Plateaux, distribution: Suhrkamp.
- “Manifestation!” Record, Eternity, Frankfurt 2003, distribution: Neuton.
- "Best of Webcasting", DVD and audio CD, Frankfurt 2005, label: ZYX Music, distribution: ZYX Music.
- "Live @Home", CD, online publication, Frankfurt 2006, label: Gunafa, distribution: finetunes.net.
Radio plays
- 1988–2005: “Station Rose Jingles”, Ö1 Kunstradio, ORF Vienna
Curatorial projects
- 1988: Symposium "Samples", Station Rose, Vienna
- 1990: Symposium “Mind Machines”, Station Rose, Vienna; “The Broiler Project - Avant-garde in the GDR?”, Station Rose, Vienna; "Windows", Station Rose, Vienna
- 2000: Symposium "private: // public", / Museum for Applied Arts, Vienna
- 2002: Congress “9-11 Networks”, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt
Research and Teaching
- 1991–1992: Research assignment “Virtual Reality as a New Frontier Area” for the Austrian Ministry f. Science and Art, with CD-ROM production.
- 2002–2004: Professorship / Media Production at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences.
watch TV
- 2002–2006: "Station Rose - Best of Webcasting" 1-31, hr-fernsehen / ARD-Digital (total of 31 hours of audio-visual art)
- 1994–2001: video clips in MTV, Viva, Arte, 3sat
literature
- Station Rose - 1st Decade. edition selene, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-85266-082-3 . (German & English)
- Station Rose - private: //// public - conversations in cyberspace. edition selene, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-85266-114-5 . (German & English)
- Station Rose - /// on / Demand. Revolver Verlag, Archive for Current Art, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-86588-305-2 .
- 20 digital years. Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86984-111-3 .