SPOTS Media Installation: Concluding Programme

Berlin, Park Kolonnaden at Potsdamer Platz, 5.3.2007:

• Unusual art project on Potsdamer Platz enters its closing phase
  
• Media façade to show “Most of SPOTS” from March 05 - 31, 2007

The SPOTS light and media façade on Potsdamer Platz has entered its last round. After 18 solid months of art in a public space, the popular project now begins its concluding programme. A cross section of the past ten showings will be presented through March 31st, 2007 under the heading “Most of SPOTS” – after which the installation on the building at Potsdamer Platz 10 will be dismantled.

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SPOTS Media Installation Pulses to Big-City Rhythms

Berlin, Park Kolonnaden at Potsdamer Platz, 2.1.2007:

• SPOTS sports new attraction from January 01-31, 2007: “Inner-city Waltz”
• Mader Stublić Wiermann integrate media façade into big-city life

Since last Monday, the SPOTS media façade is the site of “Inner city waltz,” a work by Holger Mader, Alexander Stublić and Heike Wiermann, a trio of artists and architects. The current installation on SPOTS, the media façade on the building at Potsdamer Platz 10, explores the effects of media façades on public space. The building becomes part of urban events, characterized by the eventfulness and pulsating life of the square itself. Ongoing rotations of different images on the façade show 3-D animations and structures of natural phenomena, vitalising the building on the north end of Potsdamer Platz and integrating it into the big-city goings-on.

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Potsdamer Platz as Object and Stage of Media Art

Berlin, Park Kolonnaden at Potsdamer Platz, 1.12.2006:

• “Pop-Up” presents urban reality on the SPOTS media façade
• The final exhibit: Timm Ringewaldt’s installation “Hexity”

An unusual exhibition project in Berlin draws to an end, as media artist Timm Ringewaldt’s “Hexity” installation takes its place on the SPOTS light and media façade. From December 4 to 31, 2006, Ringewaldt will present Potsdamer Platz as a place of constant oscillation between urban center and wasteland. Economic, traffic and political processes are reflected upon and broadcast to the matrix provided by the grid of screens. Although the grid provides for fixed structures, it also leaves room for a multitude of interpretations.

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compArt Presents “Fun with Precision” to Passers-by on Potsdamer Platz

Berlin, Park Kolonnaden at Potsdamer Platz, 3.11.2006:

• Professor Dr. Frieder Nake, Hendrik Poppe and Matthias Krauß present algorithms as art on the SPOTS media façade
• Building at Potsdamer Platz 10 to be turned into mega-screen for the “Markov Process”

From November 6 - December 3, three computer artists will use the building at Potsdamer Platz 10 to demonstrate just how aesthetically pleasing mathematics can be: Under the heading “Fun with Precision,” the Bremen based compArt group will bring the SPOTS projection surface into play to illustrate mathematical processes. “SPOTS will become a large visual computer matrix to which the “Markov Process” is applied. The algorithm derived from this mathematical principle controls the distribution of light on the projection surface,” explains Professor Dr. Frieder Nake. This causes the large spots of light to undergo an ongoing transformation, continually conjuring up new shapes.

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»Pop-Up«: SPOTS Media Installation on Potsdamer Platz Presents New Exhibition

Berlin, Park Kolonnaden at Potsdamer Platz, 6.10.2006:

• »Pop-Up« provides a dose of urban reality from Oct 9 – Dec 31, 2006
• Algorithms and visual jockeying by mathematicians and concept artists
• Nina Fischer and Maroan el Sani to start things off with: »Berlin [sunrise] – think of the future for 10 seconds«

In its fourth exhibition, SPOTS – the media façade of the building at Potsdamer Platz 10 – continues to explore the architectural symbiosis that links visions of future cities with media façades as a dominant element of urban space. Starting Monday, the latest SPOTS exhibition will present »Berlin [sunrise] – think of the future for 10 seconds« and »Tokyo Star,« two works by the visual concept artists Nina Fischer and Maroan el Sani.

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Terry Gilliam & Friends present ‘Past People of Potsdamer Platz’ on SPOTS Media Installation in Berlin

Berlin, Park Kolonnaden at Potsdamer Platz, 4.5.2006:

• Famous British director Terry Gilliam invites viewers on a trip through the history of Potsdamer Platz
• Gilliam presents installation in person in Berlin: »People become part of history«

Berlin, 4 May 2006 – Terry Gilliam, internationally renowned director, scriptwriter and producer, today presented his »past people of Potsdamer Platz« installation in Berlin. The work, which will remain on view on the SPOTS media facade of the building at Potsdamer Platz 10 from May 4 to Jun 8, 2006, is a joint project between Gilliam and his artist friends. Five headless figures will populate Potsdamer Platz for four weeks, each with one arm outstretched and holding a protective umbrella. Where their heads would be are holes from which the light of monitors flickers, showing historic scenes from five decades.

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Jonathan Monk Presents “A Wall of Lights without Sound or Wall of Sound without Lights Piece” on the SPOTS media installation in Berlin

Berlin, Park Kolonnaden at Potsdamer Platz, 30.3.2006:

• Jonathan Monk shows an abstract reminiscence of 1970s rock music
• Building at Potsdamer Platz 10 turns into mega-screen, showing Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody”

Rock ’n’ Roll is coming to Potsdamer Platz. For four weeks, from April 1 to May 3, 2006, the SPOTS light and media installation will be showing an abstract reminiscence of 1970s rock music: “A Wall of Lights Without Sound or Wall of Sound Without Lights Piece”. Jonathan Monk defamiliarised one of the first and best-known videos in the history of music clips, Queen’s legendary “Bohemian Rhapsody,” separated it into individual sequences and recombined them in new ways.

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SPOTS Media Installation Presents New Exhibition: ‘Transition’ Opens with ‘Signs Fiction’ by fettFilm

Berlin, Park Kolonnaden at Potsdamer Platz, 27.2.2006:

• “Transition” on Potsdamer Platz showcases international artists: Terry Gilliam & Friends, Jonathan Monk and fettFilm
• “Signs Fiction” shows the interaction of video, space, architecture, content and people as a total work of art

Beginning March 1, the SPOTS light and media installation at Potsdamer Platz 10 presents a new artistic program. “Transition,” an exhibition that runs through June 8, 2006, shows a succession of works by international artists like the director Terry Gilliam & Friends, Jonathan Monk and fettFilm, all of which deal with states of transition and change. The exhibition is curated by Ingken Wagner, who has made a name for herself in the art community as curator and consultant, based among other things on her involvement in the exhibition “Close to Chris” by the photographer Christopher Doyle. Ingken Wagner said: “In ‘Transition,’ content, visual experience and the surroundings symbiotically combine into literally ‘shining examples’. The works with their very own style no longer have anything in common with the habits and predictability of projections.”

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SPOTS media installation on Potsdamer Platz to show “Sensor” by Carsten Nicolai

Berlin, Park Kolonnaden at Potsdamer Platz, 2.2.2006:

• SPOTS light and media facade presents “Sensor” by Carsten Nicolai from February 5 – 26, 2006
• Nicolai’s “Sensor” reflects movement, density and frequency of urban life

Starting Feb 5, 2006, the SPOTS light and media facade on Potsdamer Platz will show “Sensor”, a work by Carsten Nicolai. “Sensor” engages with the movement, density and frequency of the cityscape and visualizes the ongoing changes by means of environmental sensors in the facade. The sensors monitor Potsdamer Platz, responding directly to environmental influences such as visitor traffic, time of day, brightness and noise level, as well as noise over time. The different information received and forwarded by the sensors is translated into light signals by the software and determine the interaction of the light gradients, which move over the facade like complex wave patterns. The result is light modulations that turn the facade into a mirror image of the city.

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SPOTS media installation presents special exhibit for the transmediale.06

Berlin, Park Kolonnaden at Potsdamer Platz, 19.1.2006:

• »City Gaze« exhibition to display works by international artists: Jim Campbell, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, realities:united / John deKron, Carsten Nicolai
• »Sensor« by Carsten Nicolai reflects movement, density and frequency of the cityscape

During the transmediale.06, the SPOTS media installation will present a special series of exhibits featuring works by artists of international renown. The exhibits are part of the ongoing »City Gaze« exhibition, which engages with the possibility that the city itself can become a seeing object, an observer of urban life. The exhibition is curated by Dr. Andreas Broeckmann, artistic director of the transmediale.

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SPOTS media installation at Potsdamer Platz presents ‘Gait Studies in Low Resolution’

Berlin, Park Kolonnaden at Potsdamer Platz, 9.1.2006:

• Figurative scenes on the SPOTS light and media facade
• ‘Gait Studies in Low Resolution’ by Jim Campbell from 10 January to 1 February 2006

The SPOTS light and media facade at Potsdamer Platz will be presenting Jim Campbell’s ‘Gait Studies in Low Resolution’ starting 10 January 2006.

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SPOTS, the media installation at Potsdamer Platz, presents 33 Questions per Minute by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

Berlin, Park Kolonnaden at Potsdamer Platz, 12.12.2005:

• Questions from passers-by become part of an interactive work of art
• 33 Questions per Minute by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, from 13 December 2005 to 8 January 2006

What is life? Who am I? Where do we come from, and where do we go? If you’ve ever wanted to ask a deeply personal question on a gigantic media facade, then as from 13 December 2005 you can by taking part in the interactive art project 33 Questions per Minute (33QPM), Relational Architecture 5 by Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. Passers-by can type whatever questions are occupying them into a terminal that is installed within viewing distance of the SPOTS light and media facade.

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SPOTS media installation: Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz to become open-air gallery

Berlin, Park Kolonnaden at Potsdamer Platz, 24.11.2005:

• SPOTS – one of the world’s largest light and media facades at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin
• City Gaze exhibition runs from 24 November 2005 to 26 February 2006
• Internationally renowned artists – works by Carsten Nicolai, realities:united and John deKron, Jim Campbell and Rafael Lozano-Hemmer will be on show Tuesdays through Sundays from sundown until the early hours.

The glazed facade of a high-rise building, normally a mute backdrop for bustling big-city life in Berlin, becomes a seeing object and transforms Potsdamer Platz into an open air gallery. Until 26 February 2006, the exhibition City Gaze will be showing on SPOTS, one of the world’s largest light and media installations. SPOTS is integrated into the glazed facade of Potsdamer Platz 10 and was produced specially for this project. City Gaze presents works by major international artists, including Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Jim Campbell and Carsten Nicolai who will be unveiling his project Sensor in February. The show will launch with Skala by artists and architects realities:united. In this work, Tim and Jan Edler together with John deKron superimpose images of a private reality on the prestigious architecture of Potsdamer Platz. Skala explores how media designed surfaces on buildings and the images they display can expand the possibilities of architectural design and transform public space. Displayed from sundown until the early hours on Tuesdays through Sundays, all the works in City Gaze have been developed specially for this location and this medium.

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