projects & media networks

Coming from a media art background organising one’s own projects and media networks has always been felt as a part of the artistic practise. The same rings true for the curating of festivals and other social events. As it all started off with the enthusiasm for own, self-created and -organised projects and platforms.

Research

Jan Hendrik Brueggemeier is currently a creative Ph.D candidate at the Centre for Creative Arts at La Trobe University in Melbourne. For more information please have a look at the website “From Sound to Waves to Territories“.
Website: www.fromsoundtowavestoterritories.com

Currently Jan Hendrik is a associated researcher for the areas of new media and new modes of communication at the Athens based NGO Poiein kai Prattein (to create and do) dedicated to the arts, cultural policies and urban planning.
Website: http://poieinkaiprattein.org

In 2006 he contributed to two mayor studies as well as curated the new media section of the European Culture Capitals & Months-Network travelling exhibition “A Journey throughout the World – 20 Years of Cultural Capitals”. Both studies were conducted by Dr Hatto Fischer. Jan Hendrik focussed on the area of online practices of museums and media projects by the European Cultural Cities:

the first study on “The Use of Multi Media by Museums” was commissioned by the municipality of the Greek city of Volos DEMEKAV
the second study was on an online archive for the project of the European Cultural Capitals as part of the travelling exhibit “A Journey throughout the World – 20 Years of Cultural Capitals,” an intiative of the ECCM network.

In 2004 he based his final MFA project on a series of conducted interviews with media practitioners on their relationship to free media, networking and urban culture and used his findings to demonstrate that this differs from the usual approach taken by local authorities wishing to improve the image of the city without heeding the need for a vital communication.  For more information please see the “neture series“.

Tags: new media, research, text

AA in London

From August 2010 – August 2011 worked Jan Hendrik Brueggemeier for the Development office of the AA in London to help the School shape its academic and cultural projects. As well as he tutored at the interdisciplinary design studio AA Interprofessional Studio.

The Architectural Association and School

website: www.aaschool.ac.uk

The Architecture Association and School is the world’s most renowned international and  influential school of architecture and learned society. Since 1847, it has pioneered a belief in architecture as  profession, culture and form of human enquiry and is credited with fostering the creation of  worldwide leaders of architecture.   AA School alumni include architectural leaders Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Lord Rogers,  Will Alsop and many others. Through its unique, year-long, unit based system of teaching,  direct intervention in cities and its intensively collaborative team based approach to learning,  the school brings together disconnected worlds, fresh ideas and inspiring insights. The AA  School is celebrated worldwide as an imaginative setting for architectural culture.

The AA took ownership of HookePark in 2003. It is a sustainable working forest, with award-winning alternative, sustainable structures by leading UK practises (including RIBA Royal Gold Medal-winning architects Frei Otto and Edward Cullinan, an AA Graduate)

The AA Interprofessional Studio (AAIS)

website: www.interprofessionals.net

The AA Interprofessional Studio (AAIS), which was launched in January 2009, is creating a new field of activity for the AA. Working on the margins of art, architecture and performance, the AAIS can reach professions, create partnerships and stimulate students that would not usually have the possibility of working with, or within, the AA. AAIS welcomes students from a very broad range of backgrounds and disciplines including artists, filmmakers, scenographers, architects, urban planners, landscape architects, engineers, product designers and graphic designers as well as managers, teachers and communicators. AAIS is run by Theo Lorenz and Dr. Tanja Siems.

Tags: architecture, design, development, interprofessional, school

bauhaus lab

In 2008/9 was Jan Hendrik Brüggemeier the artistic co-director and co-initiator of the EU culture project “bauhaus lab”.

“bauhaus lab” is a international network of interdisciplinary laboratories on new artistic strategies and modes of interdisciplinary co-operations.

In full appreciation of the ideas behind the historical Bauhaus movement and their lasting impact on today’s affairs, the bauhaus lab project wants to further explore the present conditions for an innovative artistic practice across disciplines and national borders:

# where is the working place of the artist today?
# which are the interdisciplinary coalitions to be shared today and why?

With the support of the Culture programme of the European Union (2007- 2013) and on initiative of the Cultural Directorate of the City of Weimar, the bauhaus lab project is a co-operation between the following partners:

In the course of this project and in the frame of the 90th anniversary of the Bauhaus the results of the research are presented to the public in various formats and further collaborative co-operations with external partners will be fostered across Europe and beyond.

Besides the numerous activities of the project partners the contemporary scenography festival Crash!Boom!Bau! at the Theaterhaus Jena forms the flagship of the project co-operations.

The point of departure is the work of the theatre workshop at the Bauhaus school “Bauhaus Bühne” (bauhaus stage), that used to present his work in 1920ies at the city theatre of Jena (todays Theaterhaus Jena and location of the festival).

The festival wants to highlight contemporary scenography as the melting pot assembled out of diverse interdisciplinary artistic trends and drives.

Project website: http://bauhauslab.weimar.de (archived website)
Crash!Boom!Bau! website: http://bauhauslab.org/festival (archived website)

logo design: Helmut Voelter

Tags: architecture, city, collaborations, communication, contemporary, creativity, interdisciplinary, internet, networks, new media, performance, play, political, scenography

Heritage Radio Network

From 2005 to 2006 Jan Brueggemeier co-ordinated the Heritage Radio Network.

The HRN was dedicated to cultural journalism and Internet-radio. To promote the rich diversity of European cultural heritage, the website www.heritageradio.net has been set up. It served as syndication platform for the journalistic output of its network members and linking point between the different radio-stations.

Individual articles and interviews, the commonly produced HRN-magazines (online and on-air) as well as a dedicated HRN music stream were published. Working and publication language was English. The website offered to the HRN-editors an online working environment including a content management system for the publication (Typo 3), a WIKI engine for collaborative editorial work and real-time online chats for work co-ordination and discussion.

Following radio-stations participated:

Bulgarian National Radio,
Croatian Radio,
Hungarian Radio,
Radio Krakow,
Radio Lotte Weimar,
Slovak Radio and
Radio Cesky Rozhlas

The HRN has been initiated by the HERMES project (Interreg III b – CADSES) to promote Cultural Heritage and New Media as factors for sustainable regional development.

Project website: www.heritageradio.net

HRN Magazines:

#1 Museums
#2 UNESCO
#3 Cultural Capitals
#4 Language & Dialects
#5 Hermes

Tags: culture, europe, internet, journalism, new media

DFM Radio / Television International

Independent Interactive Radio/Chat/Multi-Media Community

Contributors from: Canada, Japan, Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, UK, France, Spain, Finland, Scotland, USA and more

From 2001 to 2006 Jan Brueggemeier has been an audio/visual programme maker for DFM.

DFM is a free interactive radio/chat/multi-media community. Its main studio is located in Amsterdam. DFM has been a constant presence on the Dutch and international media scenes since the 1980s.

The programs have been transmitted live via the Internet and have been co-ordinated between various media-stations and platforms simultaneously.

Jan Brueggemeier is currently taking his sabbatical-year(s).

Project website: www.dfm.nu

Tags: collaborations, independent, interactive, internet, media activism, music, video, webcast

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pingfm Solo-Exhibition at the CCBA Recife (BR)

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The exhibition was dedicated to the idiosyncratic aesthetic of streaming video.

It showed 35 prints (A0) and short video-clips of internet transmissions by the artist collective pingfm.

Live-Streaming means the live transmission of audio and video data via the Internet. For the sake of global accessibility the volume of the data has to be kept as low as possible. To achieve this the video and audio data has to undergo heavy compression. This causes a vivid deformation of the original data.

In the work of pingfm the members has been fascinated by streaming media because of its particular aesthetic, the global interaction and the intersections to other media and locations.

Italian article on www.Neural.it

Tags: aesthetics, buffering, experimental, internet, low bandwidth, media activism, webcast