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ART, NEW MEDIA AND INTERNET

General Information:

"From graphic-design to creative networking in arts
Development and testing of a concept for adult and further education"

This is the title of a new experimental model project at the DIE funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Technology (BMBF) http://www.bmbf.de. The project was initiated on the 1st October, 1997 and will end on 30 September 2000.

The project focuses on the following question: Does adult education provide an adequate communication environment which encourages the participants to use the new media techniques creatively and which offer them the possibility of a self-expression on an autonomous and artistic basis?

Regarding this question a working theme called "ways and traces - a virtual travelog" has been conceived for the realization of the project. By offering courses under various themes such as "paths of life, topographies, travel accounts, encounters, environments" participants shall be given individual insights in internal and external aspects of life.

These "personal impressions" shall be processed artistically by means of computer graphics and in a second step further communicated within the internet. The realization of the theme by virtual groups shall take place at four institutions. Finally the development of a virtual topography, accessible for everybody in the internet under the URL "Cyberscape" shall be realized.

In realising this project the DIE cooperates with other institutions of design, education and science. The project will be monitored and evaluated during all the phases by an artistic and scientific advisory board and will be subject to final editorial treatment.

 

Actual information:

The Institut für Neue Medien (INM) Frankfurt/M. http://www.inm.de has been actually charged to develop in cooperation with the DIE an internet-web. By means of this web the exchange of the working results and of information between the participants and the virtual groups shall be provided. Furthermore the participants may get artistic inspiration by their researching activities within the information fields of "media arts" (net art, timebased art etc.) and the dialog about the project.

In addition to that an homepage is actually under construction. The web will then be devided into three different domains such as the "Cyberscape" (working area of the participants), "Art'n'Bytes" (media-art information space with hyperlinks and VRML gallery "Plug In Plaza") and "Dialog" (including a guestbook, scientific/-artistic background information, annoucements concerning the project etc.). It´s full function is expected by September 1998.

Four institutions of adult education intend to offer above-mentioned courses. The VHS Hamburg Stadtbezirk West, the VHS Leverkusen in cooperation with VHS / KOMED Mediapark, Köln http://www.komed.de such as the Medienpädagogisches Zentrum Potsdam (MPZ) http://www.brandenburg.de/mpz.

Since May 27th, 1998 a dummy of the project's homepage is accessible under the URL: http://www.cyberscape.de The site is actually under construction and most of the functions are still inactive. It is suposed to change more frequently. However some hyperlinks are already activated. You may surf through the sites of the working field (in its raw state). Just have a look and visit our progress.

On March 23th, 1998 the expert forum met for the first time at the DIE in Frankfurt/M. The expert forum acts as an advisory board and serves the discussion of contexts, background information and problems regarding the project. The following members of the advisory board participated in the first meeting (in alphabetical order)

Gerd Dykstra - Medienpädagogisches Zentrum Land Brandenburg - Potsdam

comment: Mr. Dykstra manages the section art/esthetical education/photography at the MPZ. He is responsable for the organisation of the courses.

Dr. Karin Dollhausen - Rheinisch Westfälische Technische Hochschule - Aachen

comment: In cooperation with Prof Dr. Karl Hörning, Dr. Dollhausen is involved in research activities in the field of cultural production of technology, and focuses in particular on cultural processes of computers as means of communication and work.

Gabriele Gramelsberger - Institut für Neue Medien - Frankfurt/M.

comment: Mrs. Gramelsberger is in charge of the scientific management at the INM. She is responsable for the creation and supervision of the internet-web as well as for the scientific advise for the project.

Prof. Dr. Michael Jäckel - Universität Trier

comment: Dr. Jäckel holds the chair of consum- and communication-research at the institute of sociology at the university of Trier. His research interests includes empiric studies of media use and media acceptance, especially the study of interactivity and gratification.

Franz John - kunstkompatible Projekte - Berlin

comment: Franz John lives and works as a free artist in Berlin. He became well-known for the realization of national and international art projects which focus on media perceptions (e.g. „Military Eyes). In 1996 he was artist in residence at the Headland Center for the Arts in San Francisco.

PD Dr. Pierangelo Maset - Universität Lüneburg

comment: Dr. Maset is lecturer at the university of Hamburg as well as academic council for estethic education at the university of Lüneburg. He is working as an artist/media-artist and a co-founder of the HYDE-Kartel in Berlin.

Gerd Struwe - VHS Leverkusen

comment: Mr. Struwe is media artist and organized several exhibitions with regard to media and art and is running the project courses at the VHS Leverkusen. At the same time he is responsable for the coordination of the cooperation with the VHS/KOMED.

Joachim Sucker - VHS Hamburg, Stadtbezirk West

comment: Mr. Sucker is in charge of the project at the VHS Hamburg. He gained a lot of experience during his work with new media within his courses and the cooperation with other media-artists.

Tammo Zahlten -VHS Köln/KOMED Mediapark

comment: Mr. Zahlten is in charge of media-work at the VHS Köln in cooperation with the KOMED at the mediapark of Köln.

At March 23, 1998 the follwing person will also be member of advisory board:

Prof. Dr. Angela Keppler-Seel - Technische Universität Dresden

comment: Dr. Keppler-Seel holds the chair of communication-science at the technical university of Dresden. She is well-known for her inquiries in the field of communication and media behaviour and supervises the section of communication-science at the German Society for Sociology (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie, DGS).

Achim Wollscheid - Frankfurt am Main

comment: Achim Wollscheid lives and works as a free artist in Frankfurt am Main and one of the founder of the artgroup SELEKTION. He is well-known as a national and international artist with participations to the Ars Electronica, studies at the LAB San Francisco and cooperations with the Hessischen Rundfunk.

 

Agenda of March 23th, 1998

Top 1: Welcoming speech by the vice director of the DIE, Mr. Klaus Meisel and the project director Dr. Udo Thiedeke

Top 1: Introduction of the participants

Top 3: Brief representation of the project's intentions and concept

Top 4: Formulation of relevant themes and questions for further work of the advisory board

Top 5: Discussion

Summary:

The project's concept was presented on the expert forum. Thus the project aims at developing an educational concept to promote the creative media competence which shall be researched under different aspects such as communication, cooperation and acquisition/managent of knowledge.

Furthermore questions regarding the importance of knowlege, education and interactivity were raised within the meeting. In this context they referred to the conveyance of the recipiant's and producer's role in the internet, the conveyance of incentives of self-directed working in virtual groups or the importance of the internet as a public space.

Finally a discussion on the problems and possibilities of the theoretical integration and its pratical realization was held on with regard to the construction of the internet-web and under consideration of VRML-object worlds (VRML = Virtual Reality Modelling Language, three-dimensional modelling of „communication worlds" in the internet).

 

For additional information please contact:

project director: DIE, Dr. Udo Thiedeke,
Tel. ++49 (0)69-95626-175, Fax. ++49(0)69-95626-174
E-mail:
thiedeke@die-frankfurt.de

institutional coordination: DIE, Richard Stang,
Tel. ++49 (0)69-95626-126, Fax. ++49(0)69-95626-174
E-mail:
stang@die-frankfurt.de

secretary: DIE, Astrid Feldmann,
Tel. ++49(0)69-95626-141, Fax. ++49(0)69-95626-174
E-mail:
feldmann@die-frankfurt.de

Update: July 13, 1998

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