Interactive Arts Media Network e.V.
Exhibition: "WORK IN MOTION - migration, mobility and labour"
Interactive Arts Media Network:
The interactive arts media network is a union of creators that produces and exhibits media art. We have known each other since our studies at the University of Applied Sciences and Art, Dortmund, Germany. Some of us stayed in this prospering, constantly developing area, others moved to Berlin, Hamburg or elsewhere.
Our most demanding and creative missions are consolidated under the umbrella of the interactive arts media network e.V.
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The Red House:
The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate organises and presents socio-political as well as artistic, cultural and training programmes.
The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate provides an opportunity for the youngest generation to participate in public life, brings together young artists who are ready to question the prevailing perceptions and offers them a place to realise and present their projects. Through its socio-political programmes, the Red House Centre for Culture and Debate creates a forum which stimulates public debate, brings new ideas into public politics, educates a new generation of political leaders and brings together the cultural and political elite.
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Biography Per Pegelow (Curator):
- 1974 in Hamburg
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2006-present:
Per Pegelow lives and works in Hamburg and Bristol as curator and media artist
2006-2008: Per Pegelow studied Media Art and New Media at the Bristol University West of England. Got his Master Degree in January 2008 for the praxis integrated research project “Gating – the Migration of Industry”. Prof. Bob Cotton and Prof. Paul Gough.
2004-2006:
Per Pegelow lived and worked in Dusseldorf, Germany.
1998-2005:
Per Pegelow studied Communications-Design at the University of Applied Sciences, Dortmund. Got his Diploma in February 2005 with the project "Gating, in 8 Minutes around the World". Prof. Cindy Gates, Prof. Susanne Bruegger.
1995-1998:
Per Pegelow studied Philosophy and Photography at the University of Hamburg and at the University of Art, Hamburg. Freelance Photographer and Assistant Photographer. Prof. Hans Andree and Prof. Kilian Breier.
1993-1995:
Per Pegelow worked as an Assistant Photographer.
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Public collections:
- New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, USA;
- The Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, Ithaca, USA.
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Awards, Sponsorships and Advancements:
- Nominated for the “Australian Effects & Animation Festival” award, 2006 [Project: Goaling Loops];
- Advancement from “Bundesministeriums fur Bildung und Forschung”, Germany, 2006;
- Award from the “European Media Art Festival”, 2005 [Group Project: Balkan Wars - The Game];
- Sponsorship from “Air New Zealand” [Project: Gating], 2004;
- Nominated for the “International Digital Art Awards”, 2004 [Project: War Against Terror];
- Sponsorship from “Kodak Germany” [Project: Alice Media], 1999.
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Bibliography (selection):
- "4th International Symposium of Interactive Media Design”, 2006 Istanbul, Turkey;
- "Affairen”, 2005 Dortmund, Germany;
- "The Making of Balkan Wars: The Game”, 2004 Madrid, Spain;
-“3rd International Symposium of Interactive Media Design”, 2005 Istanbul, Turkey.
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Per Pegelow participated in several exhibitions:
2008:
- In progress: "6th International Symposium of Interactive Media Design" [paper and project: Work In Motion]
- "Degrees of Difference", F Block Gallery, Bristol, United Kingdom [Project: Gating - the Migartion of Industry]
2007:
"Atelier - die Plattform fur neue Kunst und Choreographie":
- Atelier im November, Pact Zollverein, Essen, Germany [Project: Gating - the Migration of Industry]
- "Web Biennial 2007", Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum, Istanbul, Turkey. [Paper: Gating: a description of place, virtual space and social network with plan perspective panoramas].
- "5th International Symposium of Interactive Media Design" (Ctlg, ISBN) [Paper: Gating: a description of place, virtual space and social network with plan perspective panoramas; Projects Gating I - III]
2006:
- "Pool Art Fair", FReREINDEPENDENT, New York, USA [Projects: Gating I, Goaling Loops,
War-Against-Terror.info].
-"Lange Nacht der Kunst", Spiekergasse, Gutersloh, Germany [Project: Gating].
- "4th International Symposium of Interactive Media Design" (Ctlg, ISBN)
Istanbul, Turkey [Project: Goaling Loops].
- "Einskommanull", Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany [Project: Gating].
"Atelier - die Plattform fur neue Kunst und Choreographie":
- Atelier im Mai, Pact Zollverein, Essen, Germany [Project: Goaling Loops
with five screens and loop-objects].
- Atelier im Januar, Pact Zollverein, Essen, Germany [Project: Goaling
Loops].
2005:
- Web Biennial 2003, Istanbul Museum, Turkey.
- "International Festival of Electronic Art 404", Rosario, Argentina [Project: Gating].
- "9th International Video Festival Videomedeja", Novi Sad, Serbia and
Montenegro [Project: Gating].
- "Art in the Age of New Technologies": Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan, Armenia (Ctlg, ISBN) [Project: Gating].
"Atelier - die Plattform fur neue Kunst und Choreographie":
- Atelier im August": Pact - Zollverein, Essen, Germany [Project: Gating].
- Atelier im Oktober": Pact - Zollverein, Essen, Germany [Projects: War-Against-Terror.info/Alice-Media]
- "Feldstarke" [Project: Gating].
- "3rd International Symposium of Interactive Media Design" (Ctlg, ISBN), Istanbul, Turkey [Projects: Gating, War-Against-Terror.info].
2002-2005:
As partition of: "The making of the Balkan Wars: The Game" (Ctlg, ISBN).
- European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck, Germany (2005);
- Casa Tranzit, Cluz, Romania (2004);
- City Museum of Skopje, Macedonia (2004);
- Medialab, Madrid, Spain (2004);
- Conversations 2002, Athens, Greece (2002);
- FORUM International Art Exchange, Thessaloniki, Greece (2002).
2004:
- "Academy meets Photokina", Photokina, Cologne, Germany [Project: Gating].
- "Bilderkriege" (Ctlg, ISBN):
Kunstverein Hildesheim, Germany [Project: War-Against-Terror.info].
2003:
- ">I - rivers< - Netart from German speaking countries!" and
"Perspectives'03": Computer Space Festival 2003, Sofia, Bulgaria [Project: War-Against-Terror.info].
- "Bilderkriege" (Ctlg, ISBN): Focus, Dortmund, Germany.
As participant of: "Violence Online", [Project: War-Against-Terror.info]:
- "MAD '03 Festival", Madrid, Spain;
- "File 2003 Festival", Sao Paulo, Brazil;
- "Nonetart Festival", Rosario, Argentina;
- "Open Air at Royal Gardens", Copenhagen, Denmark;
- "Fibreculture"-Conference", Brisbane, Australia;
- "Web Biennial 2003", Istanbul Museum, Turkey;
- "PEAM 2003 Electronic Art Festival", Pescara, Italy;
- "NetArt Open 2003", Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland;
- "1st New Media Art Festival", Chiang Mai, Thailand;
- "18th Videoformes Festival", Clermont-Ferrand, France.
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Prof. Peter d'Agostino (Patron)
is an artist who has been working in video and new media for over three decades. His pioneering projects have been exhibited internationally in the form of installations, performances, telecommunications events, and broadcast productions. Surveys of his work include: Between Earth & Sky: MX (1973-2007), exhibited at Laboratorio Arte Alemeda, Mexico City; Interactivity and Intervention, 1978-99, Lehman College Art Gallery, New York; and, Between Earth & Sky, 1973/2003, University of Paris I Partheon-Sorbonne. Major group exhibitions include: The Whitney Museum of American Art (Biennial, and The American Century-Film and Video in America 1950-2000), the Sao Paulo Bienal, Brazil, and the Kwangju Biennial, Korea. His works are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, Kunsthaus, Zurich, Foundation
La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain, Pacific Film Archive, University Art Museum, Berkeley, The Getty Center, Los Angeles, and
is distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix, New York.
D’Agostino was awarded grants and fellowships from: the National Endowment for the Arts, Japan Foundation, Pew Trusts, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT. He was an artist-in-residence at the TV Laboratory, WNET, New York, the Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada, the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center, Italy as well as a visiting artist at the National Center for SuperComputing Applications, University of Illinois, and the American Academy in Rome.
His interactive multimedia projects (Web, DVD, CD-ROM, Laserdisc) include: DOUBLE YOU (and X,Y,Z.), TransmissionS, TRACES, STRING CYCLES, @Vesu.Vius, VR/RV: a Recreational Vehicle in Virtual Reality, YOO (YearZEROZERO) and www.peterdagostino.net . The installations have been exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Long Beach Museum of Art, as part of the Video Viewpoints series at The Museum of Modern Art, the Festival des Arts Electroniques, Rennes, France, the Interactions exhibition at the Rijksmuseum Twenthe in Holland, and the European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck, Germany. The TransmissionS: In the WELL installation (1990) and VR/RV (1995) both received honorary awards for interactive art at Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria.
A professor of film and media arts and director of the NewTechLab at Temple University, Philadelphia, he was a Fulbright Scholar in Brazil, 1996, Australia, 2003, and Italy 2006. D’Agostino’s books include: Transmission: toward a post-television culture, The Un/Necessary Image. and TeleGuide-including a Proposal for QUBE. He is also a contributor to Illuminating Video, and Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art. Recent publications featuring his work include New Media in Art, Video Art, and Digital Art.
Proposal for the Media Art Exhibition “WORK IN MOTION – migration, mobility and labour”
1. What is it about?
The current change in global living conditions by new ways of communication and transport - often called globalisation - is enabled by certain developments within the media. The view of this development with all its social and economic issues is represented by mass media in a way that leads to a phenomenon Jean Baudrillard calls "Hyper reality", where the perception of mass media products starts to replace the independent view on the common reality.
Baudrillard suggests that the "production of alternative media" is a way back to a clear and more independent perception of reality.
The production of media products that do not fit within the common standard formats of mass media is what the work of media artists is about. The media works of "Work In Motion - migration, mobility and labour" are (re-)producing a clear view on social lives within the European and North American nations in times of rapid "globalisation".
The media art exhibition “WORK IN MOTION - migration, mobility and labour” intends to pool various artistic approaches in a pulsating art show.
2. Structure of the Project
Our proposed cultural project has two parts: one part consists of a collaboration of East and West European artists to produce new media artefacts together. These collaborations will be prepared online and will take place between the second half of May 2009 and the middle of June in Sofia, Bulgaria.
These workshops will be accompanied by the second part of the “WORK IN MOTION - migration, mobility and labour” project. This second part of the project is a bigger show of media art installations of Bulgarian and European artists and the products of their collaborations between May and June. The artists will prepare this show together with the support of the Interactive Arts Media Network (based in Bristol, UK and in Hamburg, Germany) and the Red House Centre of Culture and Debate (based in Sofia, Bulgaria).
The third input of the show will be made by our North American Patron Peter d'Agostino, a media artist in the first hour who frequently works in Europe and is currently preparing a new version of his "WorldWideWalks" based on the footage he captured in Sofia in June 2008, supported by the Red House and the Interactive Arts Media Network in Germany and the UK. Peter is a professor of Temple University in Philadelphia, USA.
A second edition of the show in Istanbul, Turkey is proposed for 2010.
3. The Venue
The venue for the first version of this European exhibition project is the Red House in Sofia, Bulgaria. The Red House has a tradition of combining art with political reflection. It is an internationally recognised cultural centre in one of the most vibrant culture capitals of East Europe. East Europe plays a key role within the process of globalisation. It is also an area of production for the Western nations as a region that outsources work to Eastern nations - it is part of both sides of the current global development and part of the uprising cultural, political and financial centre of the Western nations: the European Union.
4. Benefits for the European and Bulgarian Public
"Work in Motion…" combines various artistic approaches to the topic of the project in a vibrant, thought-provoking exhibition that is firmly connected to Sofia and Bulgaria in general by including contributions and reactions of Bulgarian artists and shows, as well as several West European works that deal with Sofia such as the work of Peter d'Agostino, “WorldWideWalks Sofia”, and the "Gating – the Migration of the Industries" work of the German/British group IAM Network that shows the history of the Kremikovtzi steel works. Later versions of the show are proposed for the Netherlands, the UK and Germany.
5. Benefits for the Artists
The Red House in Sofia are inviting a group of European and Bulgarian artists to show their works within the context of the exhibition and to produce new works together with other European artists. The workshops and the exhibition will try to make interconnections between the East European and the Western cultural lives on several levels and promote the artists in Bulgaria
and West Europe.
6. Benefits for the European Spirit
One of the goals of this cultural project is to enhance the cultural and political exchange between different parts of Europe and the USA. It searches for consensus and confrontation within the area of the EU and North America about the hopes, expectations, worries and political impacts of a rapidly developing EU. The same media that the participating artists are employing in their works enables this development.
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Organisations Involved in the Project:
• Red House Centre of Culture and Debate, Sofia, Bulgaria
• Interactive Arts Media Network, Bristol, United Kingdom
• Interactive Arts Mediennetzwerk, Hamburg, Germany
• Temple University, Philadelphia, United States of America
• University of Applied Sciences and Art, Dortmund, Germany
List of artists involved in the project and the key topic of the works they will show:
George Alamidis, Greece
Work: I.D.
Topic: Control of travel and migration
Miguel Álvarez Fernández, Spain
Work: Displaced
Topic: The transformation of located space into non-located media space
Harun Farocki, Germany
Work: In-Formation [Aufstellung]
Topic: Migration, restriction of migration and the integration of emigrants in their host countries
Ulrike Franke and Michael Loeken, Germany
Work: Losers and Winners
Topic: The process of the deindustrialisation of the west and the industrialisation of the east
IAM Network, United Kingdom, Germany
Work: Gating III
Topic: The journey of industrial plants around the globe
Kate Rich, United Kingdom
Work: Feral Trade
Topic: An alternative network for the global trade with fair trade coffee
Peter d'Agostino, United States
Work: WorldWideWalks: SOFIA
Topic: Everyday culture and cultural roots in several emerging nations
