Beam me up – on curatorial online projects“
Time: 14:000-15:00pm Saturday June, 26th
Cost:free
Host:Reinhard Storz
Since fifteen years, Reinhard Storz has been organizing curatorial projects, in which international artists and authors work on the Net, on a common topic. In his lecture Reinhard Storz will report on his recent projects titled “56kTV – bastard channel” and “Beam me up”.
“56kTV” was realized in 2004-2006 with participating artists from Germany, France, India, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, Switzerland and USA. “56kTV – bastard channel” is a cross between a television and a web project, a platform in the Internet that tells the story of itself as a television channel. The project employs the techniques and forms of the WWW, but is oriented to suit the formats of TV-channels: news, quiz, documentary soaps, action movies etc. The project also takes on the form of daily programs from the real TV-channels. Individual contributions of the project will be available in the Web only at definite times. “56kTV” will suspend the unrestricted availability of the net and the quick consumability of its contents. A text feature from international authors will accompany the TV-project and the individual art-contributions in the form of an online program-magazine.
Reinhard Storz’s recent project “Beam me up” is an Internet publication with scientific and artistic essays for our present-day appreciation of space, as expanded by the media. Over eighteen months “Beam me up” magazine has regularly been enlarged by new contributions from China, India, Japan, USA, Canada, South America and from different European countries. “Beam me up” integrates all qualities of the digital and networked media technology. Among these are the worldwide participation of authors, the private access at one’s home computer for the audience and the application of different multimedia formats which reminds one, with “Beam me up”, of a virtual art exhibition, a TV channel or an electronic art magazine, according to the contribution.
Reinhard Storz, Art and media historian, editor of www.xcult.org – Net Forum for Culture (since 1995). Co-curator of the digital art collection by HadeK Basel. Teaches Art and Media History at the Academy of Art and Design / University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland. Active in media publishing, focusing on New Media. Works as a curator of online projects with international artists and authors.
