re-active platform
Ralf Baecker, Artur Holling, Karin Lingnau, JiHyun Park, mit Luis Negrón van Grieken, Susanna Schoenberg
March 20 to April 14, 2010
glasmoog
Academy of Media Arts Cologne
Filzengraben 2a, Cologne, germany
re-active platform is about the logic and aesthetics of systems; circuits, signals and displays are represented as objects, images and sites, while the Phänomene des Realen [phenomena of the real] seem to be nothing more than just mere coincidence.
re-active platform, initiated by Susanna Schoenberg in 2004, embodies concepts, works, tests and exchange between students and other art and technology competencies that temporarily and repeatedly turned into site and condition themselves.
www.khm.de/export/re-active
Background
re-active platform began 2004 as seminar formula at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne; it was part of the research&teaching field called multimedia&performance; it was supposed to be as >technical< as possible and to be in the local vanguard of application of and
experimentation with new technologies [expanded media, intermedia..] or pieces of them.
So re-active platform started as a label for a production oriented environment [the platform as a place] where persons with very different background issues, interests, skills, and positions in the creative process [the platform as a collaborative pool], were and still are asked to reflect together about art works acting [re-acting] like >systems<.
With a kind of regular incidence re-active platform got visible as a concept and as a variable group in seminar activities, workshops, group exhibitions, field works.
Concept
The main task consists in reflecting the idea of re-activity on a very abstract level, not referring to much to individual preferences of the artists for their usual shapes of production.
The first entities discussed as metaphors were circuits and data-streamings as accessible phenomena.
The results is a collaborative produced ensemble of artefacts not produced for being unique, but for being part of a [variable] discourse.