December 11th, 2008
by mirjam
Collage: ‘I am Free - Article 1: Freedom, Equality, Brotherhood’ campaign at the Nightscreen in Berlin
On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The 60th aniversary has been celebrated as well on various Urban Screens. For one month Amnesty International projected in cooparation with Stroer Megaposter every day one of the 30 rights on the 660 sqm large LED-Nightscreen at the Gasometer in Berlin.
Federation Square, Melbourne shows from 11 till 21st December daily at 10:30am and 4:30pm "Stories on Human Rights" on its big Plaza Screen and the Atrium Screen. MIA the Urban Sreen in Milan presented on the 10th Dec. as well this project, including videos by 12 international artists organised by Art for the World.
The mobile projection group A Wall is a Screen made a special performance, showing related short films on facades in the public space of Hamburg.
September 28th, 2008
by mirjam
Man With a Movie Camera : The Global Remake
Next screening at USM08, Saturday October 4 at 5:50pm till 6:30pm
A participatory video shot by people around the world who are uploading footage to footage to http://dziga.perrybard.net to interpret Vertov’s 1929 film Man With A Movie Camera. The site has a scene index and every shot of the film is logged. Please observe the duration of the shot to preserve Vertov’s rhythm. The remake plays as a split screen with the original. You can also participate by selecting Tags where a list of topics appears. When you upload you will see your upload on the into page under recent uploads your name/website is linked on the Participant’s Page. Click on any scene or tag and upload now!
September 19th, 2008
by mirjam
SMS LOVE by Gul Kozacıoğlu / SMIL @ yama
Yama: Marmara Pera Hotel Ekrani / Screen Istanbul, Exhibition : 18.09 - 18.10.2008
Send your sms messages: 00 90 534 698 69 28
Write the world a Love Poem, send an sms, and watch as your message spreads, dancing, across the world. SMS Love sets up a tragic-romantic space between censorship in the public space and expressions of love. When messages are received, a program filters them and choreographs a dance according to content, beaming messages to the public over the course of a month. SMS Love was developed through an ongoing fascination with the Sufi love poetry and dance of Rumi and the relationships the artist found between the Japanese Haiku / Beat Poetry and the contemporary instant expressions of everyday life we find in the SMS mobile text message.
September 17th, 2008
by mirjam
Urban Screens Melbourne - Outdoor Multimedia and Film Program: 3-8 October 2008
We have now more details about the public mulimedia and film program of USM08 available online. USM08 will showcase demonstrations and creative experiments on urban screens around the topics of today’s communities or water. The program is experimenting with a range of different content suitable for urban screens and is programmed to create a lively event enjoyable for a diverse public audience. The program consist of four main elemets:
- Multimedia Program
- Film Program
- Joint Broadcasting
- Public Poster Sessions
September 17th, 2008
by mirjam
On 9th September Urban Screens and USM08 has been introduced to the people of Milan in a public discussion with local experts in the prominent space of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele. From the location you have a view to the Urban Screen MIA facade at the Duomo Square. Are urban screens and such mediafacade structures a contradiction to these historical spaces or a promising future as presented in the website clip of MIA? And what can be the content for public screens in a country where moving images are not only associated with advertisement but also political propagnda and a monopolstructures around the media, is interactivity with the public the solution?
May 7th, 2008
by mirjam
The Landmark Interactive Bus Stop
The research project Flexible Urban Displays by David Bouchard and Sajid Sadi in collaboration with Orkan Telhan explores how programmable surfaces can be shaped and textured in more flexible ways than traditional LED displays. By using modular tiles as building blocks, displays can become an integral part of objects, structures and spaces. Through appropriate use of digital technology, a bus stops is turned into a sensual, engaging, memorable self-organized landmark.
May 6th, 2008
by mirjam
DafurDafur at the Jewish Meuseum in Berlin, image by Helene Caux
DARFUR/DARFUR, conceived of by Leslie Thomas, is a traveling exhibit of digitally-projected changing images that provide visual education about the richly multi-cultural region while exposing the horrors of the ongoing humanitarian crisis. The event will present photographs taken in Darfur by internationally acclaimed photojournalists including a US Marine. Launched in New York on September 18th the exhibit will travel to 24 cities over 24 months
More than 200,000 civilians have been victims of violence in Darfur since February 2003. Executions, murders, rapes and the burning of villages are all part of the agenda. Over two million people are living in refugee camps on the border to Chad and at least four million - more than half of Darfur’s population - are completely reliant on international aid.
