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Call for applications: Bruno Zevi Prize 2011

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With a view to developing and disseminating the teaching of Bruno Zevi and his method of critical and historical inquiry, The Bruno Zevi Foundation is holding an international competition to award a prize for a historical-critical essay offering an original analysis of an architectural work or theme or an architect of the past or present.

The competition is open to holders of research doctorates with experience in these fields:
– the key role of space in architecture
– the ancient sources of the modern language
– history as methodology of architectural practice
– the modern language of architecture
– landscape and the zero-degree language of architecture

Essays already published in Italy are not eligible. The languages admitted are Italian, English and French. The prize consists of the publication of the essay and in the invitation to give a lecture on the occasion of the award.

In this edition the Jury is composed of: Alexander Levi, Zeuler Lima, Massimo Locci, Luciana Miotto, Alessandra Muntoni.

Those wishing to enter for the competition are required to provide the Bruno Zevi Foundation with all the documents required by no later than June, 30, 2011 (as attested by postmark).

See more at www.fondazionebrunozevi.it/premio2011/prize2011.htm

Bruno Zevi Foundation

The Bruno Zevi Foundation was created in September 2002. Its purpose is to honor the memory of Bruno Zevi, a stubborn and impassioned advocate of the integration of democratic values and architectural ideas, and to recall his extraordinary work as a critic, historian and thinker.

To this end, the Foundation will encourage and promote the activities of those wishing to devote their energies to the history of architecture, to theoretical studies and practical endeavors in the fields of architecture, urban planning and landscape, and to art in general. With particular reference to young people, it will also endeavor to foster an understanding of the architectural heritage as inseparably bound up with its literary and scientific counterparts in accordance with the unified and decidedly anti-academic view of culture that Bruno Zevi championed throughout his life.

SAG 2011: schedule

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06  April 2011 opening course description + demo of smartboard
13  April 2011 Christopher Csikszentmihalyi’s talk and student work review.
20 April 2011 Daniela Kinateder’s talk “Panopticon LV I-I”
05 and 06 May 2011 field trip to Hamburg for talks and exhibition

16 May 2011 Martha Rosler visiting the seminar
17 May 2011 discussion, Martha Rosler and scheduled student presentations
18 May 2011 seminar scheduled students’ presentations
24 May 2011 Susanna Schoenberg “Some Basics on Telecommunication and Multivariante Data Analysis (while cooking Italian)”
25 May 2011 seminar lecture + students’ presentations (mid term review)

01 June 2011 Karin Harrasser and Aino Korvensyrjä: lecture

SAG 2011: about Leni Riefensthal

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1 Der Heilige Berg: Leni Riefensthal as a dance performer ().
2 Triumph of the Will (photos from Hinter den Kulissen des Parteitags): as a director and editor of documentaries.
3 Her paperwork performance in getting the rights to revenue from TOW after WWII.
4 The focus on (enigma of) her is the depth and duration of denial in her life.  And her set-ups of watching and being watched.

SAG 2011: about Marina Abramovic

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interviews & performances on video @KHM mediathek:

Abramovic – Ulay  / Regie: Marina Abramovic und Ulay . – Amsterdam  : MonteVideo . – 10 Videokassetten (VHS) : farb.
Zaugg, Remy   [Regie] : Positive zero . – Originalfassung . – 1 Videokassette (VHS, 34 Min.) : farb. . – (Modus vivendi ; 2,2 )5 ;
Sign.: VID V 1261 Znr.: 98 V 249,2

Coulibeuf, Pierre [Regie] : The Star – Marina Abramovic / Regie: Pierre Coulibeuf. Drehbuch: Marina Abramovic … . – 1 (VHS, 60 Min.) : farb.
Sign.: VID TV 1475 Znr.: 99 TV 30

Art meets science and spirituality in a changing economy
Abramovic, Marina : / Marina Abramovic (art), Fritjof Capra (science), Raimon Panikkar (spirituality) . – 1 Videokassette (VHS, ca. 45 Min.) : farb. 5 ;
Sign.: VID V 0267 Znr.: 92 V 225

Abramovic – Ulay / Regie: Marina Abramovic und Ulay . – Amsterdam : MonteVideo . – 10 Videokassetten (VHS) : farb.
China ring, unedited video notebook . – Originalfassung . – 1 Videokassette (VHS, 159 Min.) : farb., teilw. s/w . – (Continental videoseries ; 3,2 )7 ;
Sign.: VID V 1263 Znr.: 98 V 250,2

Abramovic – Ulay / Regie: Marina Abramovic und Ulay . – Amsterdam : MonteVideo . – 10 Videokassetten (VHS) : farb.
Action in 14 predetermined sequences . – Originalfassung . – 1 Videokassette (VHS, 30 Min.) : s/w . – (A performance anthology ; 1,2 )2 ;
Sign.: VID V 1258 Znr.: 98 V 248,2

A performance anthology : (1975 – 1980) / Regie: Marina Abramovic und Ulay . – Amsterdam : MonteVideo . – 3 Videokassetten (VHS) : farb. . – (Abramovic – Ulay ; 1 )
Four performances by Abramovic (1975 – 1976) . – Originalfassung , [S.a.] . – 1 Videokassette (VHS, 60 Min.) : s/w . – (Abramovic – Ulay ; 1 )1,1 ;
Sign.: VID V 1257 Znr.: 03 V 52

Abramovic – Ulay / Regie: Marina Abramovic und Ulay . – Amsterdam : MonteVideo . – 10 Videokassetten (VHS) : farb.
Communist body / fascist body . – Originalfassung . – 1 Videokassette (VHS, 154 Min.) : farb. . – (Modus vivendi ; 2,1 )4 ;
Sign.: VID V 1260 Znr.: 98 V 249,1

ANN: Monitoring and Surveillance – Inaugural Weimar-Princeton Summer School for Media Studies 2011

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Weimar (Germany), June 6-10, 2011
Deadline: Feb 20, 2011

The first international Summer School for Media Studies, a co-operation between the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (Internationales Kolleg für
Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie, IKKM) and Princeton University (Department of German), will take place from June 6 – June
10, 2011 in Weimar, Germany. Conceived as the first in a series of annual summer schools that will be held alternately at the IKKM Weimar
and at Princeton University, the 2011 program will be directed by Lorenz Engell (Weimar) and Thomas Levin (Princeton).

This year’s summer school will focus on the comparative analysis and theoretical investigation of selected aspects of surveillance culture.
The weeklong series of seminars, workshops, and lectures will be devoted to an examination of the technological, aesthetic, political,
and conceptual dimensions of surveillance practices. The summer school will address these practices specifically within the categories of
monitoring, tracking, and data aggregation.

The concept of monitoring is especially relevant to surveillance practices inherent in television technology and therefore refers to new
forms of engaging with the visual. Tracking, on the other hand, refers to a wider scope of the politics of control, which are promoted, for
instance, by the use of devices such as GPS and cell phone positionality services. Furthermore, these politics also underlie the
emerging cultures of social media.

The aggregation of vast databases of personal information gathered from, for example, frequent flyer accounts, surfing history,
toll-roads, cell phone and credit card usage, all result from the ability to track information. This process of data aggregation is aimed
at the production of cyber-portraiture – or the ‘data shadow’ – which exists for nearly everyone and calls into question the notion of
informational self-determination within the framework of what one could call a surveillance ontology (I am surveilled therefore I am).

The summer school will discuss and compare these practices of surveillance and offer in-depth analyses of both the conceptual
framework and the media of surveillance.

Reference / Quellennachweis:
ANN: Monitoring and Surveillance – Inaugural Weimar-Princeton Summer
School for Media Studies 2011. In: H-ArtHist, Feb 2, 2011.
<http://arthist.net/archive/769>.