Exhibition:
November 4-12, 1995
Opening:
3rd of November 1995, 6 pm
Symposium:
November 10-11, 1995
Venue: Exhibition and Conference Center of the Luxemburg International Trade Fair Grounds (FIL)
A Luxemburg Goethe-Institut Project in cooperation with the 'Organisation-Commitee Cultural City Luxemburg' on the occasion of Luxemburg being 'The Cultural City of Europe 1995'
Telepolis Contact:
Realisation: Medienlabor Muenchen
Projekt-directors: Georg Hartwagner, Stefan Iglhaut, Florian Roetzer
Projektmanagement: Armin Medosch
Organisation: Susanne Waldmueller, Corinna Schneider
Lothringerstr. 13
81667 Munich
tel: +49 89 484073
fax:+49 89 484074
telepolis@mlm.extern. lrz-muenchen.de
http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/MLM/telepolis.html
German contribution to "Luxemburg Cultural City of Europe 1995"
C O N T A C T S
Telepolis is
€ an exhibition on the developements and effects of the new digital media on the various aspects of our lives
€ a symposium on the new constellation of media in the realm of telecommunication - network - providers, interactive television - which deals with these topics from a specific european point of view.
€ a public symposium discussing the profil of the future tele-existence and their effects on social and urban structures
The exhibition Telepolis will make the diversive variety of possibilities offered by telecommunication accessible for a broad public. The city serves as a metaphor and main theme to present the topic in a way that it is also understandable for the amateur. Divided into different districts - The gate, street, city-center, entertainments district, educational- and scientific district, social institutions, cultural district, industrial district, residential district - the exhibition Telepolis shows the role that telecommunication will or can play in social life, now or in the near future. Dividing the exhibition Telepolis into the above-mentioned districts serves, on the one hand, the structure of the theme, on the other hand, the architecture of the exhibition as well as the placement of the different projects will follow this underlying structure.
The symposium as a part of Telepolis concentrates on the topic of Media and Networks. TV, radio, computer and telephone are melting into a new interactive medium, offering new qualities and providing new possibilities which are going to be discussed by international experts.
The public symposium will provide a platform for the discussion on urban environment and media and the resulting consequences for all levels of human existence. The discussion will mainly be concerned with cultural, philosophical and soziological aspects in order to point out the enormous possibilities of telecommunication but also in order to show the inherent dangers.
ORGANISATION
Telepolis is a project of the Goethe-Institute of Luxemburg in cooperation with the Organisationa-Commitee "Luxemburg Cultural City of Europe 1995". The Exhibition and Conference Center of the Luxemburg International Trade Fair Grounds (FIL) will host the event and provide technical support and manpower. The Siemens Cultural Program provides logistical and financial support.
Telepolis is being organized by the Medianlab Munich. The Medialab and its board of directors, Georg Hartwagner, Florian Roetzer und Stefan Iglhaut, have already conceptualised and organized noticeable events in the field of new media. Examples are sucessful projectes like "Artificial games" (Munich 1993), "Net-Culture" (Munich 1994) or "Illusion and Simulation" (Munich 1994). The Projectmanager Armin Medosch has already held similar positions in different international projects, f.eg. (Stubnitz Art-Space-Ship).
Telepolis will be conceptualised and organized as a project for international cooperation. Partners will be scientific institutions, art- media- and design-academies and national as well as international companies.
The architecture of the exhibition will be constructed as an interdisciplinary process between architecture, light, graphic and technical conception at the "Institut fuer Neue Medien" (FFM). The projectmanager Alba d`Urbano will visualise the concept as a 3D-Computeranimation together with Jens Heise, who is responsible for the lighting.
The venue, the Exhibition and Conference Center of the Luxemburg International Trade Fair Grounds (FIL) is located conviniently at the beginning of the highway to Trier, in Luxemburg - Kirchberg. Altogether Telepolis will occupy 6000m2 of which 1800m2 are in one exhibition hall alone. The exhibition hall meets the most modern technical demands (telephone, water, translation cabins).
Telepolis is the most challenging contribution of germany for the program "Luxemburg Cultural City of Europe 1995" and is sponsored by the Goethe-Institut from funds provided by the German Department of Foreign Affairs. From the Luxemburg point of view, Telepolis enhances the innovative image of Luxemburg as a location for Media-providers, and -developers.
Telepolis is a Tele-Event. Telepolis is not only an exhibition on networks but for the duration of the event a real network-city is going to be created. Telepolis will accordingly reach a worldwide user potential of approx. 30 million computer users who are connected to the Internet, and will be able to take part in the event via network. In addition to that, specific point-to-point connections will be set up, so that for example events of the cultural program can take part in different parts of Europe at the same time.
The media coverage of Telepolis is an integrative part of the concept. The cooperation of radio- and television-stations was initiated at an early time during the conceptual work.
The cultural program shows "state of the art" in art and technology. A focus point are online-concerts of the electronic music avantgarde. Musicians in London, Berlin and Luxenburg will perform together via network, the result will be audible in each of the three cities. Further issues of the program are video demonstrations, presentations and performances.
Telepolis is already present on the Internet through the possibilities of the WorldWideWeb. A special "Homepage" is constantly being updated and shows the latest state of the art of the project.
A catalogue which will be published to present Telepolis will have contributions of international experts and a documentary overview of all the exhibits that are going to form the Telepolis. As a part of the Telepolis-scientific-district a electronic-publishing project will be demonstrated. Every visitor of the Telepolis will have the opportunity to take part in creating and printing his personal catalogue.
Far reaching advertising and PR will attract visitors from Luxemburg, Belgium, Holland, France and Germany. The high quality profile of the selected projects will not only appeal to the "man in the street" but will attract an international clientele of experts out of the art-, technology- and media-world.
Companies participating in Telepolis are offered the chance to present their latest developments in telecommunications. Innovations of your companies' are going to be integrated in the challenging cultural concept of the exhibition. The team of the Medialab will work with you to find a way to optimize this integration wether you are an exhibitor, a sponsor or a participant of our conference or the symposium.
STATEMENT
By selecting the theme of Telepolis, but also with the ways and meams of its realisation, the organizers are paving new roads. Telepolis is meant to be a laboratory of society in times of change, brought about by the upsurge of new communications-technology. Telepolis asks the key-question of wether these technologies are relevant to society and to what extent they are going to be accepted. Telepolis hereby leaves the realm of mere theory. The creation of a real network-city will make Telepolis into an experiment dealing with economical, institutional, political and social responsibilities of society in a telematically networked world. Similar to a feasability study, Telepolis can help to sharpen the view for future fields of business, to make the challenges and chances of the new network-culture accessible.
Participants
Stand Maerz 1995; kein Anspruch auf Vollstaendigkeit der Angaben
Institutions
Artificial Intelligence Lab, VUB, Bruessel
Art+Com e.V., Berlin
Canon Art Lab, Tokyo
Centre Recherche Public Henri Tudor, Luxemburg
Europe Online, Luxemburg
Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, IAO, Stuttgart
GMD, St. Augustin, Bonn
Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe
knowbotic research, Koeln
Institut fuer Biomedizin, Giessen
Institut fuer Neue Medien, Frankfurt/M
Internationale Stadt e.V., Berlin
SES - Astra, Luxemburg
Siemens AG, Muenchen
Starbright Foundation, San Francisco
Zentrum fuer Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe