flashlights is a series of mini-workshops where artists, curators, cultural workers, theoreticians, scientist ... will give an insight into their work field.
Contact: [email protected] The workshops are based on personal experience and individual concerns, mirroring current art practice, introduce into the matter, raise and answer questions, start discussions and give hand on examples. flashlights is developed and organized by Tatjana Fell & Andrzej Raszyk
and a production by arttransponder & berlinerpool
in co-operation with Stattbad We
26/11/2012
>>> READY FOR READING??? #
Hey we finally made it and our flashlights booklets are ready for you in our office - come by and get them - we are happy seeing you again
#13 HITHER YON |
Id, Ego, Superego: the Invention of the Collaborative City &
#14 ZUZANNA SKIBA | Mental Cartographies
26/11/2012
Deepak Kurki Shivaswamy - SPACE OUTSOURCED | flashlights #16 | 2011
>>>Deepak - Thank you so much for sharing your perspectives of space with us in this great workshop yesterday & Thanks to all af you who joined us exploring the amazing ZK/U space with body and mind!
Here some pictures - more are coming up soon... maybe even a video ...
27/08/2012
19/08/2012
Dear friends of flashlights >>> We hope you had a great time and some relaxing vacation >>> sun is out and thats exactly the right time to be back in Berlin!
We are happy to invite you to our upcoming flashlights 16 / S P A C E IV
with the dancer and choreographer and co-ounder of an interdiciplinary artist network DEEPAK KURKI SHIVASWAMI.
Based in Bangalore/India and on his visit in Berlin, he will share with you his special experiences with space –additionally he will engage you to explorere space with your own body.
So --- save the date 26th of August!
please notice >>> flashlights from now on moves on shore and will be in a different location >>>
>>>We thank STATTBAD Berlin for ther generous support with great space during flashlights #8-15
Dear flashlights audience >>>>>
flashlights has summer break! We wish you all a great summer and hope you will have a good time and nice relaxing holidays!!!
All the best -- we keep you updated soon
Dear all --
here some pics of the talk of
SUSANNE ACKERS: Bio-Technographies - From Cyberspace to Augmented Space
Thank you so much Susanne and thanks to all participants for the enriching discussion!!!
18/07/2012
flashlights 15 / S P A C E III >>>SUSANNE ACKERS: Bio-Technographies - From Cyberspace to Augmented Space / /Mittwoch, 13. Juni 2012 // Today in an era after post modernism, the concept of modernity in art has almost vanished. Still it is obvious that within the technological perpetuation of „ever-new“ media the promise of modernity is alive. An ongoing race for new technologies – the latest and most global developments - all sorts of social media with facebook as its vanguarde application alters our reality. Especially today, this sit...uation either urges older people to reproduce their biographies retrospectively online or enabled younger people to create a biography „on the way“ – as digital natives do all their lifes. The asymptote has become the symbolic form of our times: we are constantly repositioning ourselves in the cyberspace of the 1990ies which has become the augmented space of the 21st century. This workshop will focus on cyberspace and the augmented space and the relation to our own techno-biographies. The following topics will be put up for discussion: >> 1st flashlight: Francesco of Assisi and Giotto / the invention of the first marketing tools for the catholic church: pictures which describe and visualize texts >> 2nd flashlight: Alberti and Brunelleschi / the invention of the laws of perspective: how to integrate painting into the 7 liberal arts >> 3rd flashlight: Erwin Panofsky / the laws of perspective as a symbolic form: the sociological interpretation of visualization of our perception of reality >> 4th flashlight: Stanley Kubrick: 2001 - A Space Odyssee / the invention of a visualization through time – the asymptote as a symbolic form > SUSANNE ACKERS media scientist & art historian and founding member of the Old Boys Network is currently based in Berlin. Studies in art history, linguistics and philosophy, Ph. D. about Charlotte Davies (2009). 2005-2010 Managing Director of Hartware MedienKunstVerein Dortmund &head of Medienwerk NRW. Until 2003-2001 Deputy Director of the Institute for Visual Media at the ZKM Karlsruhe. 2007-2004 lecturer on ZHGK, Zürich and 1998-1996 senior Lecturer in arthistory & electronic art at Högskolan Skövde, Sweden. Additionally she supported and co-curated various exhibition projects and performed on CeBIT 96 as member of the artist group -Innen. More information: www.koener.de/susanneackersonperspective.htm www.obn.org flashlights 15 / S P A C E III is further developed and organized by Tatjana Fell with thanks to Andrzej Raszyk flashlight is a production of berlinerpool & arttransponder
REMINDER >>> This week on WEDNESDAY 13th of June
>>> comes the new flashlight >>>register onine!
We also are visible on fakultaet null platform -- go and check out their other interesting seminars, workshops and discussions!
FAKULTÆT NULL / SUSANNE ACKERS: BIO-TECHNOGRAPHIES – FROM CYBERSPACE TO AUGMENTED SPACE arttransponder& berlinerpool likes to invite you to flashlights 15 / S P A C E III 13th JUNE / Wednesday Start: 6pm > End: 9pm SUSANNE
20/05/2012
flashlights 14 / SPACE II >>> ZUZANNA SKIBA >>>MENTAL CARTOGRAPHIES
Our perception is transmitting a steady and continuously updated flow of information as a basis for creating our consciousness and orientation. Trained constants of orientation within space are saved in our memory, as part of a common world knowledge. We relate to this knowledge during processes of imagination, planning and space-time reasoning. Hence orientation is generated as an individual achievement and a cognition gained by a subject actively engaged with its environment. The function of orientation is generated only through this interrelation.
Mental space is an ability which refers to cognition and contains subjective consciousness in the following dimensions:
1. Orientation referring to space ( look at the location of space, we will research this at our work location/work space in Stattbad Wedding)
2. Orientation referring to identity How does space affect us and how far does our mental space reach out? Where starts and ends our individual border without changing our position?
After a short introduction we want to explore the Stattbad location and produce individual mental maps. We will compare our collected results with each other as well as with the actual situation on site and put them up for discussion. The workshop will focus on the following questions: 1.How can a result be possible without having a scientific foundation – based just on our memory and knowledge?
2.What distinguishes a scientific based cartographic representation of the location from our personal mental maps? 3.Which changes might result if we change our perspective, e.g. from worm’s-eye-view to bird’s-eye-view? Does a shift in perspective also implicate a shift from matter to non-matter? 4.Which irritations will occur within our comparisons?
> ZUZANNA SKIBA Zuzanna Skiba, cartographer and artist, lives in Berlin and has been working the last 20 years on a personal cartography based on memories and real experiences. Her serial work complex represents exemplary a mental procedure which is changing its figures fluently. Inner and outer landscapes merge into autonomous shapes and are embedded into paintings. Zuzanna Skiba perceives the world with all is topographic, political and private informations and memories from it’s outside appearance. Her present work series „Magnetic Fields“ consists of drawings ostracising, isolating and enclosing lines which develop their own meaning and direction and generate a pictorial component. She participates in various national and international exhibitions, art projects and artist co-operations.
More informations: www.zuzannaskiba.com
flashlights 14 / S P A C E II
are further developed and organized
by Tatjana Fell with thanks to Andrzej Raszyk
flashlight is a production of berlinerpool & arttransponder
04/05/2012
Just now Hither Yon sent us an amazing video documenting the flashlights workshop - Id, Ego, Superego: the Invention of the Collaborative City. Watch the video to see HITHER YON and flashlights participants in action.
http://vimeo.com/41285827
Hither Yon at Flashlights 13 A large scale installation concept was presented to the workshop-audience as a test of collaboration and communication within the Stattbad großbad. The exercise was meant to challenge each participant to create a statement by physically manipulating a…
flashlights 14 / SPACE II >>> ZUZANNA SKIBA >>>MENTAL CARTOGRAPHIES >>>GERMAN DESCRIPTION
Dienstag, 15. Mai um 18:00 - STATTBAD Berlin
Unsere Wahrnehmung übermittelt uns kontinuierlich einen Fluss von Informationen durch diese wir unser Bewußtsein und unsere Orientierung schaffen und ständig neu aktualisieren. Gelernte Konstanten einer Orientierung im Raum werden als Teil des Weltwissens im Gedächtnis gespeichert. Auf sie wird bei der Imagination, der Planung und der raumzeitlichen Schlussfolgerung zurückgegriffen. Orientierung entsteht somit als eine Leistung des Subjekts. Sie ist eine Erkenntnis, die das Subjekt aktiv, handelnd im Umgang mit der Umwelt gewinnt und die auch nur in diesem Zusammenhang ihre Funktion hat.
Die mentale Orientierung im Raum ist eine, sich auf Erkenntnis berufende Fähigkeit, die das Bewusstseins eines Subjekts in folgenden Dimensionen beinhaltet:
1. Orientierung zum Raum > siehe Raumlage - dieses werden wir an unserem Arbeitsort-Arbeitsraum im Stattbad Berlin Wedding untersuchen
2. Orientierung zur Identität > Wie beeinflußt uns der Raum, wie dehnt sich der Raum mental aus? Wo befindet sich unnsere persönliche Grenze und wo hört sie auf, ohne dass wir den Standort wechseln?
Nach einer kurzen Einführung werden wir den Arbeits-Standort erforschen und individuelle, mentale Karten davon erstellen. Die gewonnenen Ergebnisse werden dann mit dem tatsächlichen Lage-Plan und mit den gesammelten Ergebnissen der Teilnehmer_innen verglichen und anschließend prozeßhaft zur Diskussion gestellt.
Im Workshop werden wir folgenden Fragen untersuchen:
>> Wie ist ein Ergebnis ohne wissenschaftliche Grundlage nur durch unserer Erinnerung und unser Wissen möglich?
>> Aus welchen Gründen unterscheiden sich die wissenschaftlich basierte kartographische Darstellung unserer Örtlichkeit tatsächlich von den einzelnen mentalen Karten der Teilnehmer?
>> Welche Veränderungen ergeben sich bei einem Perspektiv-Wechsel, z.B.von der Froschperspektive zur Vogelperspektive?
Ist ein Perspektivwechsel auch ein Wechsel des Raumes - und gleichzeitig ein Wechsel von Materie zur Nichtmaterie?
> ZUZANNA SKIBA
Zuzanna Skiba, Kartographin und bildende Künstlerin lebt in Berlin und arbeitet seit mehr als 20 Jahren an der Erstellung einer persönlichen Kartographie, die auf Erinnerungen und konkret Erlebtes zurückgreift. Ihr Werkkomplex serieller Arbeiten zeigt beispielhaft eine mentale Arbeitsweise, von sich fließend verändernden inneren wie äußeren Landschaften, die eigene Formen bilden und in eine gemalte Form eingebettet werden. Zuzanna Skiba betrachtet die Welt von außen mit all ihren topographischen, politischen und persönlichen Informationen und Erinnerungen. Ihre aktuelle Werkserie „Magnetfelder“ besteht aus Zeichnungen in der die Linie abgrenzt, eingrenzt oder einschließt und eine ganz eigene Bedeutung schafft, welche in der Dichte und Richtung zu einer malerischen Bildkomponente wird. Sie ist in internationalen und nationalen Ausstellungen und Kunstprojekten vertreten und arbeitet innerhalb verschiedener Künstlerkooperationen.
> Workshop in deutscher Sprache
> Kostenbeitrag für Materialien: 4 Euro (bitte zum Workshop mitbringen)
> max. Teilnehmer_innenzahl: 8 - 10
> Deadline 15. Mai
> ONLINE ANMELDUNG >> http://goo.gl/OaT8D
Ort >>STATTBAD Berlin, Gerichtstr. 65, 13347 Berlin, S-Bhf Wedding
Fragen an > [email protected]