impressum

 

Urban Screens has been presented at:

Madrid
March 2007 - INTERmad: artistic interventions in urban space

Weimar
10-12 November 06 - Media city Conference Bauhaus-University Weimar

Amsterdam
14. November 06 - Stifo@sandberg workshop

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

Bremen
19. November 06 - International Urban Media Workshop

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

San Jose
9. August 06 - ISEA 2006 Symposium

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

RELATED PUBLICATIONS

Mirjam Struppek: "Urban Screens as a new integrated digital layer of the city", in: Augmented Urban Spaces, Ashagte Publications (upcoming 2007)

Mirjam Struppek: "PANTALLAS URBANAS sobre el potencial urbano" in: ACT 2.0 – the trace of the other - ARTICULOS Nov. 2006

Stefan Wölwer: "Urban Interfaces" in: PAGE 11/2006, p. 30-33

Mirjam Struppek: "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: "The social potential of Urban Screens" in: Visual Communication, Volume 5, No. 2, Sage Publications June 2006, p. 173-188

Louis M. Brill: " Clad with Dreams - LED videoscreens add new outdoor-advertising punch" in: Signs of the Times, May 2006, p. 98-102

Special Issue on Urban Screens, edited by Mirjam Struppek and Pieter Boeder, First Monday peer revied journal on the internet - February 2006
A special Issue featuring various articles about key issues on Urban Screens

Tom Vanderbilt: "Circuit City - Tom Vanderbilt on Pixelated Architecture" in Artforum, November Issue 2005

Dan Leopard: "Micro-Ethnographies of the Screen: The Supermarket" in: Flow, online journal of television and media studies - October 2005
http://jot.communication.utexas.edu/flow/?jot=view&id=1050

C. C. Sullivan: "ArchInfo: Active Façades Bridge Art and Architecture" in: ARTINFO.COM, online destination of LTB Media - 5th October 2005
http://www.artinfo.com/News/Article.aspx?a=1275

"Urban Screens" in: Indian Architect & Builder, September 2005 Issue, under the section ΠDirections in Design- Cities of tommorrow

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

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

PRESS REVIEWS

"Tatort - Gucken am Brandenburger Tor", von Dirk Engelardt, in: Berliner Zeitung, Rubrik Media, Montag 31.Juli 2006

"11,7 Millionen Freunde", von Dirk Engelardt, in: Frankfurter Rundschau, Rubrik Medien, Montag 17. Juli 2006

"Urban Screens", by Monique van Dusseldorp, in: EMERCE Magazine

"URBAN SCREENS / 2005 the integration of art & culture through LED video screens", by Louis M. Brill, in: SIGNS OF THE TIMES magazine, December 2005

"Screensspace", by Perry Bard
In: Afterimage, the Journal of Media Art and Cultural Criticism - issue 33.3, December 2005

"URBAN SCREENS 2005 - A Glimpse into Future: Outdoor LED Video Screens in Modern Cities", by Mikhail Demidenko
www.screens.ru - Issue #9/2005

"Life on the big screen", by Haydn Shaughnessy#
In: Irish Times - 15/09/2005
The urban screens movement is bringing communities together with artistic as well as practical aims, writes Haydn Shaughnessy...

BACHGROUND RESEARCH

Video installation pilot project, Amsterdam

In co-operation with the city of Amsterdam’s Zuidas Project Bureau, the Zuidas Virtual Museum, SKOR and Faircom are planning a permanent video screen installation for cultural programming at the Zuidplein, on Amsterdam’s South Axis. Here you can download the presentation held by Mirjam Struppek about "the effects of new media installations on urban and public space" held during a test event on 21 January 2005 with a pilot installation PDF (796kb)

[STRICTLY PUBLIC]

In relation to the international Media Art Festival Transmediale 04 the artist group STRICTLY PUBLIC organized for one month a video art screening on the larges outdoor LED screen in Berlin. Mirjam Struppek was commissioned in January 2004 by the artist group to undertake a questionnaire with passers by, analyzing their reception. www.strictlypublic.de

Here you can download the commenting report about the experiences of the questionnaire:

"Video Art in the Public Sphere" by Mirjam Struppek, Umelec - September Issue 3/2005 PDF (261kb)
At the outset of 2004 the art group STRICTLY PUBLIC projected video art on Berlin’s largest outdoor LED screen. Is there any way that video art can encounter spectators in a public space?