Mirjam Struppek
Urban Media Research
struppek /at/ interactionfield.de

Urban Space, Public Sphere and the New Media

Mirjam Struppek ia based in Berlin and works internationally as urbanist, researcher and consultant. She is President of the newly formed International Urban Screens Association (IUSA) and a member of Public Art Lab, Berlin. With a background in Urban- and Environmental Planning she has internationally lectured and published essays with a special focus on the livability of urban space, public sphere and its transformation and acquisition through new media. Mirjam has been instrumental in building the Urban Screens community and in collaboration with the Institute of Network Cultures, and Department of Art in Public Space, Amsterdam she developed as curator and co-organiser the concept for the first international Urban Screens conference in 2005. She is currently working on further implementing this concept of utilizing outdoor screens for a sustainable urban society. She is coordinating Urban Screens Melbourne 2008 and curates an extensive multimedia program around the conference. Together with Public Art Lab and the Mediaarchitecture Group Vienna she is developing "Mediaarchitecture Today" a festival taking place in Berlin, September 2008 at the German Architecture Center (DAZ) around the topic of media facades.
Since 2002 she has developing the online-information-platform interactionfield about the relation of interaction, new media and public space. In this context she organizes since 2005 the monthly discussion evening „Urban Media Salon“. In 2003 she worked as Gallery Assistant in a gallery for still and motion pictures in Berlin. Mirjam Struppek was specially selected member of the ISEA 2006 - Interactive City Jury.

Current Projects:

MEDIAARCHITECTURE - Coorganisation of events around the topic of media facades.

Urban Screens Melbourne 2008 - Conference coordinaton and curation of a range of Urban Media installations and screen presentations to coincide with the conference event.

URBAN SCREENS - A research project on the "potential of outdoor screens for the urban society".

URBAN MEDIA SALON - A monthly private meeting, bringing together interested parties from various disciplines, to exchange about interactions and relations of Urban- and Mediaspaces. A special open event will take place in cooperation with Transmediale 2008.

Consulting of Federation Square Melbourne, Institute of Creative Sustainability and the International Streaming Museum, New York

Support and close exchange with the Artists, Aram Barthol, Christian Nold.

Selected Further Projects:

Shared Encounters - Content Sharing as Social Glue in Everyday Places: Coorganising a Workshop at CHI 2007, San Jose, California

URBAN MEDIA SURVEY - What connotations arise the term "Urban Media"?

18-24. Oct. 2004 - Paintings at Bus Stops - Wolf Guenter Thiel and Heidi Wegener, Wconsult, show the Swiss Artist Regula Syz in an exhibition in public space at bus stops in Berlin Friedrichshain/Kreuzberg. As part of the project I developed a questionnaire with passers-by which can be explored as interactive tour on the website.

2004 - Inquiry Media/Communication in the context of the research project "Shrinking Cities" 3,2 MB PDF (German)

February 2004 - questionnaire with passers by for the artist initiative [STRICTLY PUBLIC] and their transmediale screening event on the LED-display at the corner of Kurfürstendamm and Joachimstaler Str., Berlin

2003 - DIY Video Art - I.mov , 00:0I:I0 (10MB)

1999 - 2000 Sasashima - Neue ways for the urban planning in Japans large cities 11 MB PDF (German)
Research project about urban structures in Japan and Master plan proposal for Sasashima in Nagoya, Japan

1998 / Pools of Meaning - Attractors and Semiotic Fields
Project about the rediscovery of the Kaki river in Nagaoka, Japan Website (English)

Publications:

Struppek, M. (2007): “New Interventions in Urban Public Spaces“ in: “The Mobile Audience“, edited book by Martin Rieser, Rodopi

Struppek, M. (2007): "New Media, Interaction and Public Space", in the catalogue of the exhibition series "Under Scan" by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

M. Hohl, S. Schuricht, M. Struppek (2006) "Freequent Traveller: Interaction versus contemplation" in the online journal of the London Consortium: STATIC 4, Special issue on 'Unaccommodated'

Mirjam Struppek (2006): "Urban Screens - The Urbane Potential of Public Screens for Interaction" in: intelligent agent Vol. 6 No. 2, Special Issue: Papers presented at the ISEA2006 Symposium, August 2006

Mirjam Struppek (2006): "Research C - Media/ Communication" in: Philipp Oswalt (Ed.), Shrinking Cities- Complete Works 2 – Interventions, Section: Commissioned Research, ARCH+ Verlag GmbH, Aachen, 2006

Mirjam Struppek (2006): "Interactionfield - public space in the digital age" in: Philipp Oswalt (Ed.), Shrinking Cities- Complete Works 2 – Interventions,Section D: Organizing Retreat , ARCH+ Verlag GmbH, Aachen, 2006

M. Hohl, S. Schuricht, M. Struppek (2006) "Double Room: An exploration of public space with the Zen View" in: Proceedings of Participatory Design Conference (PDC '06 Vol II) (in press), Trento, Italy 2006

Struppek, M. (2006): ”The social potential of Urban Screens” in: „Screens and the Social Landscape“, Visual
Communication, Sage Publications, June 2006, Volume 5, No. 2, pp 173-188

Co-editor of the special issue of the peer-reviewed online journal First Monday, Special Issue #4: Urban Screens: Discovering the potential of outdoor screens for urban society (February 2006)

Struppek, Mirjam. (2006): “Migration and Internet - Communications with Migrants“ in: “Shrinking Cities, Volume 2“, Hatje Cantz

Struppek, Mirjam (2005):"Kommunikation mit Weggezogenen" in: Shrinking Cities, Band 2, Handlungskonzepte, Hatje Cantz Verlag

Struppek, Mirjam (2005):"Video-Art invading the visual sphere of our public spaces" in: 3/2005 of Umelec, download the paper draft

Schuricht, S and Struppek, M. (2005): „New design in a complex world” in: tema celeste, July/August 2005.

Struppek, M. (2005): “Video-Art invading the visual sphere of our public spaces“ in: Umelec, Issue 3/2005

Struppek, Mirjam (2005): “New Urban Screens“ in: „Space and Perception - Symposium Reader”, Riga, S. 57-59

Struppek, Mirjam (2004): „Botfighters” in: Playtime, Bauwelt, Heft 30/04, S.13

Upcoming Publications:

Struppek, M. (2008): “Urban Screens as a new integrated digital layer of the city” in: „Augmented Public Spaces“ / edited
book, Ashgate Publications


Presentations / Lectures:

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
November 15-17 - Keynotespeaker at Interactive Futures 07

Eindhoven, NL
3rd November 2007 - Keynotespeaker at Image Radio 2007 symposium
Topic "Urban Screens: prelude of virtual reality in public space?"

Linz
07. November - Lecture at the Art University Linz

Linz
1-3. October 2007 - Workshop "Sauber Linz" for the European Culture Capital 2009

Linz
7. September 2007 - Panel discussion "Public Space - Virtual Space" at ARS Electronica

Melbourne Brisbane, Sidney
August 2007 - Lecturetour in Australia

Madrid
March 2007 - Lecture at M.A.D.R.I.D.28045, artistic interventions in urban space

Weimar, D
10-12 November 06 - Media city Conference / Bauhaus-University Weimar

Amsterdam, NL
14. November 06 - Stifo@sandberg workshop

Augsburg, D
16. November 06 - Urban Media - Mobile Experience - Symposium

Bremen, D
19. November 06 - International Urban Media Workshop

Berlin, D
3. November 06 - New Media Roadtrip: Research and production tour of 22 students from Carleton College

San Jose, USA
9. August 06 - ISEA 2006 Symposium

San Francisco, USA
7.-8. August 06 - Interactive City Summit, Swedish American Hal

London, UK
6. July 06 - The Urban Picture conference - The moving image in the public environment Thursday at the Lewis Media Centre

Utrecht, NL
7. December 05 - opening symposium Interactive Film Lab @ Impact

Amsterdam, NL
28. October 05 - stifo@sandberg conference for the Masterclass workshop for documentary filmmakers

San Diego, USA
17-19 Oktober 05 - LED 2005, international anual conference for the lighting and high-brightness light emitting diode (HB LED) communities at Hilton Hotel

Riga, LV
20.-21. May 05 - Space and Perception, symposium on Mixed Reality

Berlin, D
5.February 05 "Video-Art invading public Space" at transmediale 05 Salon

Amsterdam, NL
21.January 05 - Opening of the Video Installation Pilot Project

Amsterdam, NL
19. November 04 - Open Doors | Project leaders round table

Rotterdam, NL
14. November 04 - fusedspace presentation on the DEAF04

Weimar, D
22. October 04 - radical connector(s) 01, Discourse- and Media-Art-Festival

Helsinki, FI
21. August 04 - ISEA2004, Symposion on Electronic Arts

Manchester, UK
1. May 04 - Locative Media Pannel and Workshop at futuresonic04

Milan, I
29. November 03 - Visions of possible worlds - conference at Triennale Milan

Bremen, D
2. October 03 - Paradox, workshop on walled-city.org, European Network for People's Education,

Amsterdam, NL
12. September 03 - next 5 minutes 4, Internationales Festival for Tactical Media

Bad Ems, D
1. June 03 - Congress Bad Emser Medienkunsttage

Berlin, D
1. February 03 - Salon transmediale 03, International Media Art Festival

 

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