EXPTV:Community.Media.Identity

Course Details

Project Leaders:

• Prof. Ben Sassen/Jr. Prof Experimental Television
• Alexander Klosch
• Sandra Naumann

Guest Lecturers & Additional Support:

• Dr. Lorenzo Tripodi
• The Process Institute
• Nicola Hens
• Simon Tretter

Project Description

English

How can media be used to reflect upon and influence the identity of a community?

The project 'community.media.identity' focuses on the connections between media, identity, place and community development. During the semester students will be introduced to a range of practices for using media as a critical tool in social/urban practice, focusing especially on documentary film, creating community media workshops and working with online video networks.

The semester will begin with guest talks and workshops from a range of practitioners working in social/medial fields.

After this, students will move into the practical stage of the project, working both in Weimar and abroad to actively develop and apply methodologies for exploring, negotiating and expressing community through video.

This practical stage will include working alongside Dr. Lorenzo Tripodi of urban/medial art research group Ogino Knauss (www.oginoknauss.org). From June 14th to 20th students will travel to Belgrade in Serbia to support Dr. Tripodi in his research for a new experimental video piece he is producing looking at the peripheries of urban space in the city and how residents relate to them. This will be an exceptional opportunity for students to experiment with media in an urban context whilst working with a professional media artist and researcher.

Students will also have the opportunity to participate in and develop their own social/medial projects based in Weimar later in the semester, leading eventually to a presentation of works at the 2010 Summary.

Deutsch

Wie ist die Identität einer Stadt definiert? Wer formt und kontrolliert diese? Und wie reflektieren und beeinflussen Medien diese Identität?

Das Projekt 'community.media.identity' stellt die Verbindungen zwischen Medien, Identität, Orten und Praktiken sozialer Arbeit in den Fokus.

Zu Semesterbeginn werden die Studenten verschiedene Theorien betrachten, wie man Medien als kritisches Werkzeug in sozialen und urbanen Projekten nutzen kann.

Studenten werden eng mit der von Dr. Lorenzo Tripodi gegründeten urban/medial art Gruppe Ogino Knauss (www.oginoknauss.org) zusammenarbeiten. Im Juni 2010 haben die Studenten die Möglichkeit, gemeinsam mit Dr. Tripodi nach Belgrad zu reisen, um ihn bei der Produktion seiner neuen experimentellen Videoarbeit zu unterstützen und dabei die Beziehungen zwischen urbanen Räumen und der Identität der Bewohner zu untersuchen.

Studenten werden auch innerhalb der Weimarer community arbeiten und mit einer Kombination aus Medien, Open Source Software und sozialer Arbeit kreative Konzepte entwickeln und umsetzen.

Termine

Every Thursday, 10:00 - 17:00 Room 002, Bauhausstr. 15

Project Discussions, Links and Notices

A list of links relevant for the project has been started here: http://delicious.com/BenSassen/com.med.id

Anyone wishing to add links for the course should use the delicious tag: com.med.id

Alternatively, send links to the email list and they will be added later to the main link list

Trip To Belgrade

Transportation Options

Car

Kloschis Van

Gas prices all around Europe:

• Gas Price Info

Maut prices:

• Maut Price Helper

Plane

Eva will phone and ask for Airline Sponsoring

I think we all looked already... With one luggege cheked in costs: 136 E There are still places... Starts from Cologne-Bonn

• German Wings

There is a little problem with the train connections... It takes a half day just to get there because we have to change at least twice or even 4 times, and of course it costs some extra... so in this case it would be the best if we could arrange to have the busses from the Uni to take us.

Larissa: Someone said, there is the possibility to take the German Wings ticket. Around 25 €. Is it each way, or back and forth?''

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Accomodations on the Road

>>>Vienna: Katharina Jordan Wolfrathplatz 2 1130 Vienna

<<<Budapest: ?

Accomodation

• Chilton Hostel Belgrad

We are not in the centre – we are the centre! ;-)

We booked "The Appartment": For 10 people 110 Euro per night = 11 Euro for each per night.

Car-Parking:
'You have close to the hostel streets where parking is free. In case you want parking with guard, there is one on Slavija square 400m from the Hostel, and i think it cost around 15 eur per day.'

Address:
Chillton Hostel
Katanićeva 7
11000 Belgrade
Serbia

Contact us:
Ph/fax: +381 11 344 18 26
SMS/mobile: +381 62 677 004
E mail: chilltonhostel@gmail.com
Skype: chillton
MySpace: www.myspace.com/chilltonhostel

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The Chilton is a great hostel and it's not really that far from the center. In Belgrade Buses are super cheap and Taxis too (tell them to turn on the meter!) Matthias.breuer 11:15, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

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Fund-raising Suggestions

• Funding Organisations

Media Faculty

The media faculty will potentially fund up to 30% of a project trip We need to speak to Frau Schmitt about this --> remind/hassle Ben to do this.

Int. Office

Melissa.

Das International Office bietet Förderungen für Projekte im Rahmen von Hochschulkooperation, Durchführung gemeinsamer Projekte... -- us! Formular Projektfoerderung

DAAD

Edu & Eva

Das hier steht fuer uns alle zur Verfuegung:

http://downloads.72stunden.de/1/20/1/38963080476531518081.pdf

Goethe Institute, bilateral Organisations

Gesellschaft für serbisch-deutsche Zusammenarbeit
http://www.drustvosns.org/

• Party

Locations:

VdV-Bau/Product Design Area -> Patricia Marienstr. -> Timi

Technic:

Stuko (about 50 €)

Music:

We'll try to find a live band, besides that we need a DJ. We agreed on Balkan Music, right? Al Jawala -> Larissa (I'll ask them)

Drinks:

Patricia, Larissa

Kicker Tourament

Kicker organisieren Wo? Wann?

Kuchenverkauf

Wann, wo?

Party

Phoning the Berr/Vodka etc. companies for sponsoring -> Patricia, Larissa

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Equipment

• Stativ (Video)
• 2x SLR Camera
• 2x Zoom Sound Recorder
• 2x Shotgun Mic
• 2x Video Cameras
• 2x Headphones

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Weimar West

Fensterplatz vs. Balkonträume

People from salve.tv were meandering around Weimar West to get access to plattenbau-inhabitants in order to get an impression of their view out of their windows.

• "Fensterplatz / Hallo, salve.tv ist da!"

It's pretty odd that a lot of people have a negative image of 'these Weimar West people'.
Eva

Weimar West macht sich 'ne Platte

My idea for the Weimar West project: I got inspired by "Plattenbau privat-60 Interieurs by Susanne Hopf, Natalja Meier" a photographic work.
"P 2" steht für "Plattenbau 2". So heißt der 1962 entwickelte Bautyp des DDR-Wohnungsbauprogramms. Es ist der Grundtyp für rund 1 Million in der DDR gebauter und bezogener Wohnungen. Die jungen Autorinnen haben 60-mal den zentralen Wohnraum von P 2 in Schuss und Gegenschuss fotografiert - einmal leer und 59-mal mit ihrer Einrichtung: 59 individuelle Interieurs in einem inzwischen legendären standardisierten Wohnungsbaukonzept, 59 ganz persönliche Antworten auf die immer gleiche Ausgangssituation, 59 bewusste oder auch unbewusste Inszenierungen einer persönlichen Lebenswelt.

I do have a keen interest to see the Weimar West Platte from the inside. How do the inhabitants style their flat? what is their favorite place in their house? How do they like the plattenbau?
Eva

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Liebes Weimar West? / Approaching inhabitants

Hello, by walking by this gallery today, I came accross a Plakat concerning the Festival "Platte, Schraube, Fuge - Experimente zwischen Stadt, Körper und Zeit" in the Kolonnadenviertel in Leipzig, and adressing its inhabitants directly... I thought it was an interesting approach. Melissa