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Hans
Platzgumer - Klaus Buhlert - Console / Thomas Meinecke - Philip
Jeck - Sparks - Ammer / Console - DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid
- Jennifer Minetti - Daniel Kluge / Edouard Stork - Thomas Harlan
- Kid 606 - Move D / Thomas Meinecke - Loopspool - Romuald Karmakar
/ Michael Farin / Kalle Laar / Georg Zeitblom - Chrislo - Hans Platzgumer
/ Ca Mi Tokujiro - Dead City Radio
intermedium from
one2two
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Herbert Kapfer
intermedium: network for media art
Increasingly the
electronic media dominate the notions and effects of present-day culture.
It is now hardly possible to distinguish between the commercial and the
artistic use of media technologies. New technical experience is developed
for commercial reasons; experimental and avant-garde processes are backed
by economic interests. Intermediality, mixing forms and linking media,
is becoming everyday artistic practice. Media are almost omnipresent.
Dealing with media reality is an elementary theme of artistic work in
the narrower sense. Its public is limited. The information and entertainment
flow ignores artistic questions and refuses to reflect. It narrates everything
just like that, so to speak.
The exact opposite can be observed within and in relation to the arts:
here nothing can be narrated just like that, nothing presents itself automatically
without having determined in an aesthetic process narrative modes, forms
of presentation and the question of means and media specifically in relation
to the subject. The backward-looking postulate according to which "people
need narratives" can be reflected back: the wealth of experimental
narrative and presentation modes is only experienced by those who allow
themselves the necessary openness and grant themselves freedom of perception.
Only in this way is it possible to experience the difference between narration
and calculation, between narrative flow and data flow, between information
about and insight for people. A non-reflective approach to the media involves
switching off mentally. From the concept of narration to the genesis of
the initiative intermedium: the phenomenon mentioned above of arts converging
was also evident in the radio play genre in the 90s. The growth in mixed
aesthetic and medial forms created from performances, live broadcasts,
presentations inspired by musical theatre, remix projects, on-line presentations
and interactive experiments inspired the idea of holding a festival. The
aim was to use such an event to present for discussion and broadcast intermedia
projects from radio drama, acoustic art and sound art. The rest of the
story can be quickly told: In November 1999, Bayerischer Rundfunk initiated
the media arts festival intermedium 1, which took place in the
Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin and was linked with numerous broadcasts.
The partners were the radio drama departments of ARD, DeutschlandRadio
and the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe.
intermedium 1 offered Intermedia Performance Audiolounge Discussion Radio Play Film. intermedium 2 presents Radio Play Discourse Network Art Performance
Installation VJ/DJ-ing at the ZKM Karlsruhe, on the radio and on-line.
The festival theme: X or 0: identities in the 21st century.
In order to make sure that the initiative intermedium also retains
the perspective of conceptual and media openness and thus avoids rigidity,
the festival will be created anew each time at changing locations with
changing event partners and coproducers: After intermedium 1 in
Berlin and intermedium 2 in Karlsruhe, intermedium 3 will
probably take place in Munich.
intermedium is a network for media art. intermedium combines festival events
and broadcasts in the media of radio and the World Wide Web. Organizationally intermedium is based at Bayerischer Rundfunk and is being realized
in collaboration with cultural institutions, media centres, theatres and
public broadcasting corporations.
intermedium is interdisciplinary and sees itself as an initiative of radio to try
out artistic cooperations with other media and arts; in addition to the
developing and presenting of artistic projects, intermedium is
involved in the debate on technical-artistic matters and on media and
cultural policy. The topics are: electronics as a lifestyle, the everyday
routine of intermedia, cyber modernity, media totality, the interaction
between art and media, pop culture, industry and piracy, media convergence,
network art and art in the age of globalization, the information society.
Since January 2000 the label intermedium records has published
new and historical radio plays and soundtracks whose content is connected
with the festival or its theme. The sampler intermedium from one2two documents the label's CD publications in the period between the festivals intermedium 1 and intermedium 2.
CD 1
1 - Hans Platzgumer
Identitäten 2002 (9'36)
original theme for intermedium 2, 2002
previously unreleased
2 - Klaus Buhlert
rule number one (2'10)
voice: Barry McGovern
from: "...the whole thing's coming out of the dark"
samuel beckett - words / sounds & moving images
BR / ORF / DLR / ZKM Karlsruhe
intermedium rec. 001
3 - Console / Thomas
Meinecke
Welche Farbe hat Mariah Carey? (12'02)
from: soundstories / materialmeeting
intermedium rec. 005
4 - Philip Jeck
Vinyl Coda IV (11'00)
excerpt from: Vinyl Coda IV
intermedium rec. 008
5 - Klaus Buhlert
rule number two (1'06)
voice: Barry McGovern
from: "...the whole thing's coming out of the dark"
samuel beckett - words / sounds & moving images
intermedium rec. 001
6 - Sparks
Concerto in Koch Minor (3'45)
from: Günther Koch revisited: Voll in den Mann
intermedium rec. 007
7 - Ammer / Console
Heimat und Technik_Das Heidegger Bootleg (19'20)
from: Audiolounge
BR / HR / DLR
intermedium rec. 009
8 - Klaus Buhlert
rule number three (1'05)
voice: Barry McGovern
from: "...the whole thing's coming out of the dark"
samuel beckett - words / sounds & moving images
intermedium rec. 001
9 - DJ Spooky That
Subliminal Kid
Gedanken Form Remix (12'13)
from: walter ruttmann weekend remix
intermedium rec. 003
10 - Jennifer Minetti
Bericht über ein Tor, das keines war (2'54)
from: Günther Koch revisited: Voll in den Mann
intermedium rec. 007
CD 2
1 - Daniel Kluge
/ Edouard Stork
the chance to begin again (0'47)
original theme for intermedium 1, 1999
previously unreleased
2 - 5 - Thomas Harlan
Rosa - Die Akte Rosa Peham (12'56)
voices: Manfred Zapatka, Bernd Moss, Karin Anselm
adaptation: Michael Farin / director: Bernhard Jugel
music: Helga Pogatschar
excerpt from: Rosa - Die Akte Rosa Peham
BR / WDR
intermedium rec. 011
6 - Philip Jeck
Vinyl Coda IV (5'23)
excerpt from: Vinyl Coda IV
intermedium rec. 008
7 - Kid 606
word: speak (Amiri Baraka) (5'57)
sound: papier reißen / tear paper
from: one word one sound
intermedium rec. 012
8 - Move D / Thomas
Meinecke
Freud's Baby (14'52)
excerpt from: Tomboy / Freud's Baby
intermedium rec. 004
9 - Loopspool
word: wohnzimmer (Kathrin Röggla) (7'44)
sound: papier reiben / rub paper
from: one word one sound
intermedium rec. 012
10 - 11 - Romuald
Karmakar / Michael Farin / Kalle Laar / Georg Zeitblom
Das Warheads-Oratorium (10'26)
voices: Manfred Zapatka, Karl Penta
director: Bernhard Jugel / Romuald Karmakar
excerpt from: Das Warheads-Oratorium
intermedium rec. 006
12 - Chrislo
word: nacht (Albert Ostermaier) (5'34)
sound: papier knüllen / screw up paper
from: one word one sound
intermedium rec. 012
13 - 17 - Hans Platzgumer
/ Ca Mi Tokujiro
Shonen A (12'33)
voices: Ca Mi Tokujiro, Peter Veit
excerpt from: Shonen A
intermedium rec. 010
18 - Dead City Radio
Es geht los! (1'12)
from: Günther Koch revisited: Voll in den Mann
intermedium rec. 007
intermedium
rec. 013
ISBN 978-3-939444-14-5
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