[spectre] sommercampworkstation 2009 berlin

Fri Jun 19 19:01:15 CEST 2009

Dear Spectres,

I am involved in a workshop series to take place during the upcoming 
Sommercampworkstation event at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin from 
10-16 August. Registration is open for the workshops, including the node 
on experimental instrument building which I will lead, so please have a 
look!

best wishes!
Derek

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((German version below - fuer deutsche Version nach unten scrollen))

Hello !

Here comes the first edition of the Sommercampworkstation newsletter.
Below you find some information about the basic idea and some first
program details.

Looking forward to seeing you in Berlin,
Carsten Seiffarth (former TESLA) and Carsten Stabenow (garage)

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[1] SOMMERCAMPWORKSTATION 2009 - laboratory for art and media Berlin

[2] SOMMERCAMP - workshop series

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[1] SOMMERCAMPWORKSTATION 2009 - laboratory for art and media Berlin

sommercamp+workstation=2009 is meant as a practical example of the
feasibility of a "laboratory for art and media in Berlin" carrying on
the idea of TESLA - medialab. The starting point of the four-month
project is the sommercamp from 10 to 16 August - a module to work and
generate ideas, with ten open workshops and two days of final
presentations on 15/16 August 2009 at the House of World Culture and a
kick-off on 14 August 2009 at the radialsystem. The second part of the
project is the workstation - intended as project production support -
with four three-month project residencies and a curatorial grant that
are produced in close collaboration with local and international
partners. A discursive weekend will take place from 13 to 15 November
2009 with the invited artists/projects and experts from science and
technology at Berlin based general public, in collaboration with DISK/
ctm.
Please have a look at our website :

http://www.sommercampworkstation.de/

Sommercampworkstation is funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds.

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[2] SOMMERCAMP - workshop series - now open for registration

The project will kick off with the sommercamp from 10 to 16 August
2009 in the foyer and the studios at House of World Culture with a
number of different open workshops. Workshops are an ideal form to
sketch new approaches, to build interdisciplinary bridges and above
all to soften the borders between artist, thinker and practitioner on
the one side and a passive audience on the other side. Workshops are
"detectors" to test new working and communication models, catalysts of
ideas and indicators for their relevance and acceptance. The invited
workshops/artists/thinkers are exemplary for very different approaches
to art and technology, for individual working methods, communication
models and organisation structures.

sommercamp is devided in 3 workshop clusters:

A] World as Representation: systems and simulation.
with Jessica Rylan (US), FOaM (B), Martin Howse/xxxxx (UK/D) and
Julian Oliver (E)

B] Re:Discovering Sound an Instrument-building Workshop
with Peter Blasser (US), Halldor Ulfarsson (F), Tore Honoré Bøe (N/E)
and Derek Holzer (US/D)

C] Ways of Doing. Approaches, Manuals, Tactics, Strategies and the
Operational Art
with James Wallbank (UK), Jordi Claramonte (E) and Adam Hyde (NZ)

more infos on the workshops and registration form here:
http://www.sommercampworkstation.de/?lp_lang_pref=en&page_id=10

The single workshops will be open for public (with registration).
After the one-week-workshop phase two days of final presentations will
take place on 15 and 16 August 2009 at the House of World Culture.

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((German version))

Hallo !

Hier kommt die erste Ausgabe des sommercampworkstation Newsletters.
Anbei folgen ein paar Informationen zur Idee und Struktur des
Projektes sowie erste Programminformationen.

Wir hoffen, euch in Berlin zu sehen!
Carsten Seiffarth (ehemals TESLA) und Carsten Stabenow (garage)

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[1] SOMMERCAMPWORKSTATION 2009 - Labor fuer Kunst und Medien Berlin

[2] SOMMERCAMP - Workshop-Programm

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[1] SOMMERCAMPWORKSTATION 2009 - Labor fuer Kunst und Medien Berlin

sommercamp+workstation=2009 soll ein praktisches Beispiel fuer die
Realisierbarkeit eines Labor fuer Kunst und Medien in Berlin geben und
schliesst an die Aktivitaeten des 2007 geschlossenen TESLA an. Auftakt
des viermonatigen Projekts ist das sommercamp vom 10. bis 16. August -
ein Arbeits- und Ideenfindungsmodul mit zehn offenen Workshops und
einer abschliessenden zweitaegigen Praesentation am 15./16. August
2009 im Haus der Kulturen der Welt und einem Auftakt am 14. August
2009 im radialsystem. Der zweite Teil des Projekts ist die
workstation, eine Produktionsfoerderung mit vier kuenstlerischen
Projektresidenzen und einem Vermittlungsstipendium, die in enger
Vernetzung mit lokalen und internationalen Partnern produziert werden.
Vom 13.-15. November 2009 wird ein diskursives Wochenende mit den
eingeladenen Kuenstlerinnen/Projekten und Experten aus Wissenschaft
und Technologie im general public/Berlin in Kollaboration mith DISK/
ctm stattfinden.

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[2] SOMMERCAMP - Workshop-Programm - jetzt anmelden!

Auftakt des Projekts ist das sommercamp vom 10. - 16. August 2009 im
Foyer und in den Studios im Haus der Kulturen der Welt mit einer
Vielzahl unterschiedlicher offener Workshops. Workshops eignen sich
hervorragend, neue Ansaetze zu skizzieren, interdisziplinaere Bruecken
zu schlagen und vor allem die Grenzen zwischen Kuenstler, Denker und
Macher auf der einen Seite und einem 'passiven' Publikum auf der
anderen Seite aufzuweichen. Workshops sind 'Suchgeraete' zur Erprobung
neuer Arbeits- und Vermittlungsmodelle, Katalysatoren von Ideen und
Indikatoren fuer deren Relevanz und Akzeptanz. Die eingeladenen
einzelnen Workshops/Kuenstler/Theoretiker stehen exemplarisch fuer
ganz unterschiedliche Zugaenge zu Kunst und Technologie, individuelle
Aneignungs- und Arbeitsmethoden, Vermittlungsansaetze und
Organisationsstrukturen.

sommercamp gliedert sich in 3 workshop cluster:

A] World as Representation: systems and simulation.
mit Jessica Rylan (US), FOaM (B), Martin Howse/xxxxx (UK/D) und Julian
Oliver (E)

B] Re:Discovering Sound an Instrument-building Workshop
mit Peter Blasser (US), Halldor Ulfarsson (F), Tore Honoré Bøe (N/E)
und Derek Holzer (US/D)

C] Ways of Doing. Approaches, Manuals, Tactics, Strategies and the
Operational Art
mit James Wallbank (UK), Jordi Claramonte (E) und Adam Hyde (NZ)

Informationen zu den Workshops und Anmeldeformular hier:
http://www.sommercampworkstation.de/?lp_lang_pref=de&page_id=10

Die einzelnen Workshops sind oeffentlich zugaenglich (mit Anmeldung -
siehe workshop cluster). Im Anschluss an die einwoechige Workshop-
Phase findet am 15. + 16. August 2009 eine zweitaegige Praesentation
der Workshop-Ergebnisse im HKW statt.

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SOMMERCAMPWORKSTATION - LABORATORY FOR ART AND MEDIA BERLIN
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-- 
::: derek holzer ::: http://blog.myspace.com/macumbista ::: 
http://www.vimeo.com/macumbista :::
---Oblique Strategy # 38:
"Courage!"