Wolfgang Staehle is a media artist and the founder and executive director of THE THING, an independent media project and one of the seminal on-line and off-line forums for net art. THE THING began as a Bulletin Board System focusing on contemporary art and cultural theory in 1991 and moved its wares onto the Web in 1995. Staehle was born in Stuttgart, Germany, and has been living in New York since 1976. He is widely recognized as a pioneer of the Internet art scene, and his video and new media works have been exhibited world-wide. His work "Empire 24/7"—a live image of the Empire State Building in New York—was included in the "net_condition" show at ZKM Center in Karlsruhe (1999) and in "Loans from the Invisible Museum" at Yerba Buena Arts Center in San Francisco (2000). He had solo exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, (1993) and Marimura Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (1990). His exhibition "2001" (Postmasters Gallery, September 2001) consists of three Web-transmissions—the television tower in Berlin, the Comburg monastery, and a panoramic view of lower Manhattan--offering an instantaneous compression of time and space. THE THING website URL: http://bbs.thing.net/
Time: Late SPRING/Early AUTMN
For Gallery space exhibition include more PCs and more projectors if possible
TechNeeded:
- PC
- 2 linux running pentium PCs with some storage to hold a load of one day images (one for back-up)
- 2 video cards (probabbly with Bt chips... have to contact Jan for this)
- at least 128kb permanent connection, better if possible
- two cammeras with analogue outs (this might be much cheaper to buy in US)
- two video projectors... prefarably same type so it is easier to bland tham in panorama
- optionaly other PCs with big screens for showing other works
TO-DO:
- get data/references/press from WS on project!
- contact ArtsLink/Trast for Mutual Understanding for funding
- contact Goethe Institute in Zagreb for support and regional co-ordination with Greece
- contact Timos from MediaTerra for possible production in Greece
- inform Dubrovnik partners of the project status
- investigate possibility of local funding by Touristic Board of Dubrovnik/Ministry of Tourism
- possibly invite other projects that "mediated" Dubrovnik into an exhibition
BUDGET:
- travell costs WS from NY and Jan from Berlin to Zagreb and than to Dubrovnik
- 10 per-diems + honorarium arround 1000$ each (ideal)
- accomodation for 3 days in Zagreb
- accomodation for 7 days in Dubrovnik
- if possible get money for:
- fee for presentation of work
- coordination of project
- printing small postcard-kind publication in panorama format
- include equiptment in BUDGET
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