jan brueggemeier, pingfm

Jan Brueggemeier Jan Hendrik Brueggemeier (*1978) is a musician, media-artist and free media-enthusiast in the context of networked and streaming media. Currently he lives in Weimar. From 1998 to 1999 he studied musicology at the University Cologne. Since 1999 he is studying media art & design at Bauhaus-University Weimar Since 2000 he is student-assistant at the department of Experimental Radio as well as founder and one of the driving forces of pingfm.org, a net based platform for audio/video experiments. pingfm.org is member of DFM radio-television International from Amsterdam, the first webcast-station from the Netherlands and the British webcast-station piratetv, London. 2001 pingfm received the Bauhaus-University Weimars project-award. As an artist his most recent work individually was the production of the soundtrack for the documentary-movie about the NO!art-founder Boris Lurie, published 2003 by the memorial-place Buchenwald and the production of the production of the audio-documentation of his diploma-project n E t u r e (2004). In the context of pingfm he exhibited and perfomed at festivals as such as the Streaming Battleground of the Filmfestival Rotterdam (2000), BackUp Weimar(2000), Webcastlounge at Art Frankfurt (2001), Rel Satellite Performance, Amsterdam (2001); NOMUSIC Festival I - VI, an 24 hrs online art-festival (2001-2003); Serverfestival at the art space "hartware", Dortmund; Digimade at the Cardinal-Strich University, Milwaukee/U.S.A (2003); solo-exhibition "pauseandplay" at CCBA, Recife, Brazil; SESC, Sao Paolo, Brazil; RE-INVENTING RADIO - Long night of radioart, organised by ORF Kunstradio in the context of ARS Electronica 2004. Further artistic projects he has been involved in were the prodction of the multimedia-theaterplay "Schlaf!" at the Kunstfest Weimar (2001) in cooperation with Theaterhaus Weimar and Art's Birthday 2003 and 2004, a production of ORF Kunstradio Vienna, Austria. 2004 He was invited to participate on conferences as "Art Server Unlimited 2", organised by the multimedia institute Zagreb in Labin/Croatia (2001), the "Interfiction-Symposium" of the eightteenth documentary and video-festival, Kassel (2002), "Netzwerke", a media-congress at the art-space Mousonturm, Frankfurt (2002) and garage-Festival in Stralsund (2004). Aside his artistic practise he has been organising over the past years several workshops and exhibitions in Weimar with international partcipants like Tape-Beatles from Prague, Czech Republic (former U.S.) and Serhat Koeksal, Istanbul, Turkey. He was one of the core organisers of the one-week media-festival "ping in progress", which took place 2001 in Weimar, the one-week strategic media deployment conference "media above & beyond", Weimar 2002, the electronic music-festival "Raste_01", Weimar 2003; "Raste_02", Weimar/Frankfurt/M 2004, and the discourse and media-art-Conference "What means autonomy today?", Weimar 2004. In 1998 he was one of the founders of the multimedia-label "Soundwerft" in Bremen.

pingfm pingfm.org is a net based platform for audio/video experiments. pingfm focuses on the live production of audio and video. From the early beginning in 2000 the members of pingfm have been fascinated by the three modes of working with networked and streaming media: their aesthetics, their global interaction and their potential of linking up different media-formats such as club, theatre, concert, cinema, radio, installation, performance and other. We understand free media as a term that allows the application of free content on whatever the context. Related to that pingfm has organised events, festivals and conferences like ping_in_progress, Weimar (2001); strategic media deployment conference, Weimar (2002) and NOBORDER-Camp Radio, Strasbourg (2002). http://pingfm.org