In the preparation to the exhibition _move, a workshop with academics and guests from different fields will take place at the Media Art Programme of the University of Art and Design Halle, exploring the field of interference between architecture and media.
Architecture and media entail and permeate each other in the most different ways. Electricity, new technologies and new forms of communication have transformed the state of architecture, the borderlines between private and public space have become penetrable and disintegrate.
Media-based images of buildings, circulating in magazines, movies and the internet, influence the forms of architecture. In the tradition of cinema for example the horizontal window developed, according to the classical projection format of film. The architects were looking upon their houses as cameras, upon the window as objective.
The workshop starts in and contextualizes the spaces of the Media Art Programme, the former “Gardener’s Building’”of the Burg Giebichenstein Halle.
Situated outside the protective castle walls, today the building is - secured by a code card system - a space at the same time open around the clock and inaccessible for outsiders. The electronic system decides about inclusion and exclusion.
A wall, the counterpart of the moat, is separating the generously vitrified winter garden, the open atrium and the studio space towards the forest. The sight into the studio from direction of the street is hindered by the lawn in front of it and by two narrow, long drawn-out windows that somewhat remind on loop-holes.
During the workshop, leitmotives like inclusion, exclusion, border, permeability, external and internal perception, will be debated in association with this architecture.
Theoretical examinations of artistic works like the “Cinema” by Dan Graham, the film “Les Mystères du château de Dé” by Man Ray or Buckminister Fuller’s “Dymaxion House” are as well part of the workshop as basis for the practical work.
The results of the workshop will be presented publicly at the opening weekend of the exhibition _move.
The workshop is open for all students of the university.
Prof. Michaela Schweiger for the Media Art Programme.
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