EXPTV:Community.Media.Identity

SS10 Projektmodul 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

we need at least the cars for 9 days: so from the 12th until the 21st

The cheapest is around : 600 E for a wan for 7 people 350 E for a car for another 5 people

Gas: probably 2 x 200 E is enough

Gas prices all around Europe:

• Gas Price Info

With the following company we have unlimited kms.... That's good... With others we have 2700 Km for free than we have to pay for each km 0,21 E And since just to get there and back is around 2600 km... I think it's better to stay safe...

• Car Rental Site

950 E - car rental 400 E - gas --- 1350 : 12 people = 112.5/person -Timi

Train

We went to ask on the place and also called in for a second opinion and of course they sad two different things:

First we got an offer for a group of 12: 2481 true Budapest 2505 true Croatia

this would make more than 208 E/pers. If we book it one by one it would be around 500 E

Than the guy sad it would be one way 131 E for one person but there is no guaranty if there is enough place for all of us.... Timi

• Deutsche Bahn

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?''

Timi: It's possible... but the fact that there is no good connection doesn't changes... The Uni bus won't be able to take 12 people right? there are 2 busses at least, we took a trip to Halle with them...

Bus

From Leipzig/Halle - Flughafen to Belgrade: 126 E

• Bus Website

We would leave on Saturday at 12:00 and would be there at 15:00.. next day ( there is no other possibility) Back on Sunday at 11:00 is the bus and we would be in Leipzig on Monday morning at 4:30 -Timi

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Fund-raising Suggestions

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

• Funding Organisations

DAAD

Edu & Eva

Das hier steht fuer uns alle zur Verfuegung:

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

Int. Office

Melissa.

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

Goethe Institute, bilateral Organisations

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

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.

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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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Accomodations

• Arkabarka
• Sc.rs

I wrote yesterday to the second one. As soon as I get an answer, I'll let ya'll know. Stay in touch, bye bye -Edu.

• Chilton Hostel Belgrad

I sent them an email, about 2 weeks ago and they sent me following offer:
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"Hi Katrin,

Thank you for your interest in our hostel.

The prices in June are:
1 x 4 bed room (price is 15 / 16 eur [16 on Friday and Saturday] per person/night)
1 x 6 bed room (price is 13 / 14 eur [12 on Friday and Saturday] per person/night)
1 x 10 bed room (price is 12 / 13 eur [12 on Friday and Saturday] per person/night)
1 x apartment (same building, basement) for 6-7 persons (price is 16 / 17 eur [16 on Friday and Saturday] per person/night)

As a group, you can get a discount of 20%.
Please let as know soon if you would like to book at our hostel

All the best

Vojkan"
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How far is the research about the other apartments in Belgrade? Did we recieve any news about them? Otherwise we probably should sign in the chilton soon... =)

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