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now_____ group-shows in L.A.& Berlin - - evenSTRibber_at MQ:::::::::.After 20 years in exile Station Rose´s headquarter is in Vienna again.:::::::.new book "20 Digital Years plus"______

_________Violently Y/ours - Recycling Surplus to Save Nature"exhibition__ Sit-In/Out_ Performance
__ Performance at Lentos Museum 10.09 __ Naturband at Videorama_on tour, <20 Digital Years Archive> =online__________
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term "Digital Bohème" is by Station Rose 1994 ________FAQs
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STR announces:________________january 2012

Künstler thematisieren die bahnbrechende Rolle der Avantgarde-Rockband CAN
Visual artists reflect on the pioneering role of the avant-garde rock band CAN

25.11. - 18.12.2011 Berlin

Station Rose as part of the
CAN-exhibit in Berlin & Stuttgart with
the videoartwork "Rheingau-Schnappschuss"

"Halleluhwah! Homage à CAN", which was shown previously in the Stuttgart gallery ABTART
Zur Ausstellung erschien ein gleichnamiger Katalog (d/e) + Audio-CD, (modo Verlag, Freiburg i.Br.)

website Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien
website gallery ABTART

 

Station Rose is part of the
NO
EVER
show in Los Angeles at the ACE MUSEUM

credits: SCI-Arc

Southern California Institute of Architecture

even STRibber
Stationsbetrieb 04_
as part of VIENNA ART WEEK/ Digital Thursday at Museumsquartier
Elisa Rose & Gary Danner will be in their installation_

THU,17.11.2011
MQ/quartier 21/V_port/Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna
6 pm - until 9 pm CET______

photo: Stefan Joham

Die 90er / The 90s
Beispiele und Oral Histories / Examples and Oral Histories
25.11. 2011 — 30.4. 2012

A series of presentations, informal exhibitions, and discussions on Vienna's alternative art scene during the 90s.

Kuratiert von / curated by Severin Dünser, Christian Kobald & Arye Wachsmuth at COCO.

We are pleased to announce the lecture we give on the 90-ies artscene in Vienna at COCO tonite, with a a special focus on the inititiaton and Start Up Sequence of Viennas´s 4th district. It is one of the art centers of today, and STR started as early as 1988. In the meantime a lot of galleries settled, as well as alternative spaces. It is a vivid area today.
Besides that we will talk about our early netactivities, the first techno-clubbing, etc.

The STR-lecture includes AV-examples & an exhibit,

map

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=284603334912249

 

25. November 2011, 20 Uhr / November 25, 2011, 8 pm
museum in progress (website)
Station Rose
at COCO Bauernmarkt 9 (Passage) 1010 Wien

100 min TV-documentation
Sat,1.10.2011, 8-10 p.m. prime time on okto.tv is online now.

"Fernsehkunst - Experiment mit dem Medium"
Dieses Jahr widmen wir dem Experiment mit dem Medium einen besonders umfangreichen Programmschwerpunkt: Beginnend mit einem fast 2stündigen Porträt des Pionierduos „Station Rose“, Elisa Rose und Gary Danner, die im Wien der 80er Jahre erstmals den Kunstraum um den Cyberspace erweiterten und bis Heute auch die Visualistenszene, Clubkultur und Elektronische Musik prägen. okto.tv

parallel :public viewing at Stationsbetrieb 03:
Sat,1.10.2011, 8-11 p.m.
MQ/quartier 21/V_port/Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna
8pm - until 11pm ______
the artists will be there.

 

After 20 years in exile Station Rose´s headquarter is in Vienna again.

STR announces:________________september 2011

Stationsbetrieb 02: Friday, 9.9.2011, 8-11 p.m.
MQ/quartier 21/V_port/Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna
9.9.2011, starting 8pm - until 11pm >_______________________
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_STRIB_02__AVInstallation &Stationsbetrieb 02at Museumsquartier/V_port enters next phase.

Stationsbetrieb 02: Friday, 9.9.2011, 8-11 p.m.
MQ/quartier 21/V_port/Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna
9.9.2011, starting 8pm - until 11pm >_______________________Museumsquartier

Museumsquartier
STRIB_02 _ Stationsbetrieb 02 im MQ/V_port

The artists will be present.

foto by Stefan Joham & Marcel Houf

After being active abroad for over 20 years, next to activities in Vienna throughout the years, STR´s Elisa Rose and Gary Danner are back home in Vienna. In February 2011 their second base in Frankfurt a.M. was abandoned until further notice, and since then Station Rose´s headquarter is in Vienna again.

Station Rose/STR extend their presence at Museumsquartier, where they have been active since June, and continue to show the media installation "Station Rose is Back/STRIB_01" at V_port.

During the exhibition diverse STR-Field-Duty activities are planned, the next one - "Stationsbetrieb 02" - will take place Friday, 9.9., from 8 - 11 p.m. The field duty-activities at V_port at MQ continue now what STR had begun in the 4th district in 1988.

During the installation STRIB_01 STR will do upgrades step by step, and perform and interact live as artists.

Audiovisual installation STRIB_01 has been upgraded for Stationsbetrieb 02 after the summer.

The soundtrack has been refined, samples have been replaced and relocated, aural rooms redesigned.
Likewise the visual part has been upgraded, and is more in sync with sound now. Water as a theme is still a leitmotiv, gets a renewal with samples from the Venice lagoon as well as from the Danube.
The materialization continues, pieces of art made from fabric result from freezing the audiovisual flow, merge with the installation´s digital information, meander out from the shop window to the STReet.
-> The subject of "Recycling Surplus to Save Nature" plays a significant role, the used material´s sensuality meets new digital compositions.

At the coming Stationsbetrieb, neighbourly relations get cultivated at the MQ. Ready for communication, STR gets in touch with others, e.g. with monochrom, eSel.at and others. The STReet of quartier 21 becomes the shared meeting point. For this occasion, monochrom will organize a hackbus community special event (http://www.hackbus.info).

To all this you are cordially invited! Elisa Rose & Gary Danner

STR verlängert ihre Präsenz im Museumsquartier, wo sie seit Juni aktiv ist, und bespielt den V_port mit der Medieninstallation "Station Rose is Back/STRIB_01" weiter.

"Eine subtile audiovisuelle Intervention an einem urbanen Transitort der Kunst, die auch lange nach dem Verlassen noch im Hirn weiterbrummt." Didi Neidhart

:// german
Im Laufe der Ausstellung sind Stationsbetriebe geplant, der nächste - "Stationsbetrieb 02" - findet am FR, den 9.9.2011um 20h statt. Im Muqua wird somit eine Reihe fortgesetzt, die in der Station im 4.Bezirk 1988- 1991 gestartet wurde. Im Laufe der Zeit nimmt STR prozessuale STRIB_01- Installations-Updates vor, und wird zu gewissen Momenten als Künstler vor Ort agieren, performen.
Die audiovisuelle Installation STRIB_01 wurde nun nach dem Sommer für den Stationsbetrieb 02 upgedatet.
Der Soundtrack zur Installation STRIB_01 wurde verfeinert, Samplebausteine wurden ersetzt und modular umgestellt.
Ebenso wurde die visuelle Information einem Upgrade unterzogen, die Verflechtung mit der Musik weiter intensiviert.
Das Thema Wasser ist visuell nach wie vor ein Leitmotiv, erfährt ein nachsommerliches Venice_Meeres-Update unter paralleler Verwendung von Donau-Samples.
Die Verstofflichung schreitet weiter voran, neue Stoffarbeiten materialisieren sich aus dem gefreezten audiovisuellenFluss, verbinden sich mit der digitalen Information der Installation, mäandern aus dem Schaufenster heraus auf die
STRasse. Das Thema "Recycling Surplus to Save Nature" ist in der Produktion prominent eingesetzt. Die Sinnlichkeit von used material trifft auf neue digitale AV-Kompositionen.

Bei dem kommenden Stationsbetrieb 02 werden auch nachbarschaftliche MQ-Beziehungen gepflegt. Die kommunikations-bereite STR gets in touch with others, u.a durch Vernerdungen mit Monochrom & eSel.at, etc. Die STRasse des quartier 21 ist der gemeinsame Treffpunkt.
Sie sind dazu herzlich eingeladen.

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june 2011 STR announces:

STRIB_01
Station Rose at V_port
6.6.-10.9.2011
Museumsquartier
AV-installation & Stationsbetrieb
Eröffnung: 6.6.2011, 19h

TRIB_01 _ Stationsbetrieb im MQ/V_port
Dauer: 6. Juni bis 10. September 2011

Nachdem Station Rose/STR 20 Jahre im Ausland tätig war, neben Aktivitäten in Wien throughout the years, sind Elisa Rose & Gary Danner nunmehr exclusiv in Wien zurück - back Home. Im Februar 2011 wurde ihre zweite Basis in Frankfurt/D aufgegeben, Station Rose´s Headquarter ist wieder in Wien.
Von 6. Juni bis 10.September wird STR den V_port mit der audiovisuellen Medieninstallation "Station Rose is Back/STRIB_01"bespielen. Im Lauf der Ausstellungsdauer sind diverse Stationsbetriebe geplant.
Stationsbetrieb 01: 22.6.2011

STR_activities worldwide so far:______Station im 4.Bezirk _________Pioneering AV-Kunst, Netzkunst, Electronic music__ media-sculpture LogInCabin_ Performances, TV, exhibitions, installations, artproduction, lectures_ <20 Digital Years plus> Archive & BOOK out now; online since 1991.__________stationrose.com
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> Pioneers: Station Rose gilt als Pionier der Digital Culture, der Kunst der Neuen Medien, der Elektronischen Musik und der Net Art. Bereits 1988 hatte STR das Internet in ihre Kunst integriert, & 1989 ihren Techno Clubaktivitäten begonnen (erster Techno Club Wiens).

"Elisa Rose and Gary Danner were "out there" before there was a "there" to be "out" in." Bruce Sterling 2011

>4.Bezirk: Durch die Gründung der Station Rose in der Margaretenstrasse 26 im Jahr 1988 blüht & gedeiht dieser als Kultur- und Galerienbezirk. Station Rose hat den 4. Bezirk zu dem gemacht, was er heute ist.

Nun setzt der Stationsbetrieb im MQ/V_port wieder dort an, wo mit der Station im 4.Bezirk 1991 aufgehört wurde.

Während der Dauer der Installation STRIB 01 wird STR prozessual Updates vornehmen, und zu gewissen Momenten als Künstler vor Ort agieren und performen.

 

lecture at COCO Vienna
26/3/2011
website

april 2011 STR announces:

In february 2011 STR closed their other basis in Frankfurt, after 20
years of STRategy and activity there.
"Den Blick aus dem Panoramafenster des Wohnturms im Frankfurter Nordend kennen viele: Skyline und Frankfurter Stadtverkehr wird des künftig nicht mehr geben in den visuellen Arbeiten von Elisa Rose, während Gary Danner elektronisch und mit seiner Gitarre den Sound mit den Bildern verbindet, hervorruft, wiederumspiegelt. Der Arbeits-und Wohnort hoch über Frankfurt ist geräumt... Weil sich, wie sie finden, in Frankfurt nicht mehr allzuviel tut, schon gar nicht in der Medienkunst und der Musik. Den „Postkrisenkapitalismus“ und die Gentrifizierung des einstmals bohemehaften Stadtteils Bornheim haben die beiden Künstler als lähmend erfahren, sagen sie, es fehlten der Austausch, die neuen Impulse." ...................Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 17.2.2011

"„Cliffhanger - Station Rose Jingle 2011" - ....radioart at ORF/Kunstradio:
* version 2 : mpg3 file at ORF/Kunstradio with interview- online now
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WE MOVED ON -------------->> NEXT LEVEL - more news are coming !
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PLUS_______BOOK-Tour LONDON
2) In between the move 2 Station Rose book-presentations happened at Austrian Cultural Forum London & at Furtherfield space in London in february 2011.
"The Digital Art of Station Rose started in Vienna in 1988, at a time when the Web
still was far beyond mainstream, when Mondo 2000 never had heard about the music
genre "Techno", when future net-art-critics still mostly were university students,
and when the Iron Curtain was surrounding Austria´s east, south east and north
border.......
The latest art of Station Rose refracts the logistics and glitches of the Internet
through the deceptively low-fi aesthetic of contemporary art's installations and
performances. "Twenty Digital Years Plus" shows how this fits into their history
of using the viruses of visual, verbal and computer language to find insightful
ways of conceptualising digital culture".
Rob Myers/furtherfield.org

read the press-article here:
http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews/cyberspace-our-land-20-digital-years-plus

 

"Elisa Rose & Gary Danner were "out there" before there was a "there" to be "out"
in. -- Bruce Sterling, wired.com, 2010
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october 2010 : new book "20 Digital Years plus" out now.
The book - incl. CD and DVD - has beeb presented at Frankfurt book fair ... more here, Verlag für Moderne Kunst Nürnberg

://WED 06.10.2010 (9:30 pm live): book-presentation at openbooks, Frankfurter Kunstverein......more here

 

 

 

 

://SUN 02.5.2010 (11pm live):
______________"Station Rose Jingle 2010" - radioart at ORF/Kunstradio:
* version 2 : mpg3 file at ORF/Kunstradio with interview- already online now.
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info : Station Rose Jingle 2010
_____with interview, recorded by Elisabeth Zimmermann at Kunsthalle Wien in april 201

___ _____"axis + nature_____crisis____money_- Recycling Surplus to save Nature".
radio-art production with lots of guitar & a good-humoured Elisa Rose.

Following one of the leitmotifs, "New Media Arte Povera", of this years STR-Jingle for the radiostation ORF (in a tradition of 22 years now), this time Gary Danner made prominent use of analogue instruments, besides shredded samples, recycled and re-used.

Part 03 "axis + nature" is about "Frankfurt - Vienna -Cyberspace - a route that is more than hot".
One of STR´s contributions to a final victory over capitalism (as we know it....) still is
* "Recycling surplus to save nature!"

In part 04 ""MONEY MONEY MONEY" - as a follow up sequence - STR drops this remark:

"What about ART with basic income for everyone - to change the world - to change the world -
- basic income for everyone".

:// field research : capitalism gets weirder everyday__ the artists experience that firsthand in Frankfurt on a daily basis. Their question "What is the cosiest place in the world?" gets not answered by the artists, but is only displayed instead.

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Gary Danner: acoustic guitar, electric guitar, sub bass, programming, keyboards, vocals.
Elisa Rose: vocals, text.
Kim Eva Danner-Eidlhuber: glockenspiel.

check out the online-archives on STR-radioart here.
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://24.04.2010 (7pm - 2am):
______________"Close-Up_410" installation and performance:
at "Nacht der Museen" Station Rose will create a media-installation & will perform live.
Kunsthalle Schirn, Frankfurt, F.A.Z.Medienlounge /Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

STATION ROSE/STR are again <active> in their actual home-town Frankfurt with the AV-installation &
performance "Close-Up_410" at Kunsthalle Schirn, Kabinett 2.

Again this year for "Nacht der Museen", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung commissioned Station Rose to create the "F.A.Z. Media Lounge". STR will set up an audiovisual installation, plus change parameters live sporadically inside.

While last year´s installation for F.A.Z. at Staedel museum stayed more settled in form of a DVD-loop of 20mins, this year´s installation at Kunsthalle Schirn - going for as long as 7 hours (7pm-2am) - includes live-performative moments, where Elisa Rose & Gary Danner will actively change/update their AV-room.

This marathonesque installation (with Sound System & 6 beamers) gave the opportunity to see & hear the artists play & develop their leitmotif <Close-Up_410>. There was no Zeitplan handed out for the performative moments, to keep track and follow the story you had to come back frequently.

more

cprint "Close_Up_410"

STR buildt a AV-installation with 6 beamers & sound system & played live.

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://new: "Mythos Medienkunst" to let you know: we have been interviewed by Franz Xaver for the Austrian magazine "VERSORGERIN" in the march issue, focussing on the early netart years. we gave quite some answers on the black hole of art history, which we define between 1988-95, read it.
you can download it as pdf as well (in german, page 8+9), E.R.

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://10.02.2010: "Sit-In/Out" performance:
at Dresdner Bank, raum fuer kultur, Frankfurt

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3 collages of photos : photos by Ernst Startmann, collage bhy Elisa Rose
more performance fotos can be found here

"Sit-In/Out" installation in the financial district of Frankurt. the room was not a white cube, but the ground floor of a skyscraper - with lots of grey glass. we built a cosy situation on stage, with a white wall for 1 projection behind, and 1 artobject, which later behaved as a projection object. the screens, as well as 3rd one on the right side, were mirrowed through the windows. it could be seen from outside, from the street, sending light impulses far away. The mirrowed screens touched the other skyscrapers around.

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:// solo-exhibition "Violently Y/ours" - recycling surplus to save nature
at gallery Hofkabinett, Linz 15.01- 6.02.2010

// info: (photo of Station Rose at Tobias Rehberger´s studio)

take a look at the exhibition here as pdf.

_press article & 1st photos at Kurt Bayers facebook -site


STATION ROSE/STR are back to their home-town Linz for the 2nd time, after their AV-performance at
Lentos museum in oct.09, this time with the solo-exhibition "Violently Y/ours" at gallery Hofkabinett.

Now the media artists go consciously away from the media art (scene)´s devoutness to the future, and
concentrate on the crisis-ridden present, with new digital & analog works.
______Life instead of Artificial Life, present instead of the future.

They call their current direction "New Media Arte Povera".

For the solo-exhibition this means that STR acts in the sense of not wasting material, which must be retained nowadays. When "Recycling Surplus to Save Nature", they use the surplus, the fall-out of their studio in Frankfurt as samples for new works, besides digital prints on cloth. A very personal material, recently used by Elisa Rose, are her (worn) tights, recycled to yarn. Stills from the AV-compositions "Violent", "Fussgaengerzone" and "Ornamental_409", performed at Lentos museum, now become stitched, printed, sewn pieces of art, transfered into <real> material. The 500 year old building, in which gallery Hofkabinett is accommodated, represents a further exciting contrast to the in the meantime 21 years of digitality of the artists.

In addition, AV-compositions will be shown, & a limited music-edtion
<on Audio-Cassette> will be available in the exhibition, too.

:// see the videos of the performance at Lentos museum here:
____"Violent"
____"Fussgaengerzone"
____"Zipped" )

:// huge videosreens became stitched small sized art pieces for the exhibit.
see the photos of the performance at Lentos here at flickr .

 

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:// groupshow Videorama - "Naturband" at KUNSTHALLE wien
Station Rose is part of the group show Videorama, Artclips from Austria, with the video "Naturband" (1985/86)
November 04th, 2009 - January 10th, 2010

:// info: " Naturband" 1985/6

One of the first " studioproductions" of Rose and Danner, 2 years before the establishment of Station
Rose. They produced Naturband during their studies at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, where they
started to work together live audio-visually 1983/84.
The clip reflects the preoccupation of the artists with nature at that time, with distortion, as well as the
animism inherent in technology and nature, as well as their preference for a special lo-res image quality,
which they applied since then to their TV-program & natively in the net. The video was shot in VHS, and
edited in u-matic.
Elisa Rose: Camera, video; Gary Danner: Camera, music


The exhibition "Videorama" travels to->
Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, USA, 30 November, 2009 – 16 January, 2010
Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2010
Der Kunstverein, seit 1817. Hamburg, Germany, 2010
Galerie Henze & Ketterer, Bern, Switzerland, 28 November, 2009 – 27 February, 2010
Lalit Kala Akademie, National Academy of Art, New Delhi, India, 2010
MSU Museum der Moderne / Rupertinum, Salzburg, Austria, 2010
ParaSite, Hong Kong, China, 2010
Ullens Center For Contemporary Art, Peking, China, 2010
Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, Germany, 2010
Zacheta. National Gallery of Art, Warschau, Poland, 2010

http://kunsthallewien.at/cgi-bin/event/event.pl?id=3220&lang=en
http://www.ursulablicklevideoarchiv.com/

Publication:

A German and English booklet (ca. 60 p.) with 2 DVDs edited by the Kunsthalle Wien – Gerald Matt,
Angela Stief, and Gerhard Johann Lischka – will be published by Benteli Verlag to accompany the
exhibition.

press: EIKON '68 (feature Videorama)

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:// performance at Lentos Museum, Linz/A 22/10/09
"Augenclick – Pheromonic_Hungry Walking Blues "

:// info:
Elisa Rose (visuals) & Gary Danner (sound) work together digitally since 1988,
perform live with computers since 1992. Picture & sound, loops & patterns vare composed at the same time.
:// un-text: Station Rose/STR sees its AV/Netart as a new language, which will destroy the language of letters.
For SeeThisSound STR builds a Pheromonic Area with projections, P.A. &re-materializations. The basis is their personal synchronization. The samples/substances, which STR delivers during the performance to the public,
steers the behavior. The complex pheromonic communication system of nature is used performatively in their digital art,
"Das Pheromonische" is manufactured as AV-liquid. Signals release behavior reactions.
<Worst case scenario> are alarm pheromones, where hungry cultural workers transfer increased aggression.
Premiere.
Thanks to Ma Rainey for helping us out with the title.



________photos at flickr______blog.see-this-sound_
___performance-videos (youtube): 1.Violent__2.Fussgaengerzone_-3.Zipped

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:// performance at artspace Satellit in Frankfurt 30/10/09

performance-art-lab satellit, am Roemer, Frankfurt, between Schirn und Frankfurter Kunstverein,
a Station Rose evening at an art space called performance-art-lab satellit, installed in the (former)
Technisches Rathaus, Roemer, in Frankfurt. A building that is more than interesting, built between
1972-74. (The STR-studio/headquarter, installed in the 16th floor of a scyscraper is from 1972, too.)
IMHO the Technisches Rathaus (i.e. technical city hall) should be declared a historic monument/building &
be preserved - but cause Frankfurt is always under construction, at least it has been before the world financial crisis, the
city decided to tear it down & destroy it - soon. let´s see. (stills used from city hall,
rhein-main-wiki.de) E.R.

another performance-still

_fotos: Ernst Stratmann, Station Rose

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Station Rose 20 Digital Years _Database (in typo 3) - take a look here.

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:// Commercial Works
__________________ - like for the F.A.Z

Commercial Works is a new partition of STR´ activities, and the start was not bad : we composed an AV-composition, animated the campagne & created an evening & installation for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung at Staedelmuseum_

-> take a look at the F.A.Z.-Lounge at Staedelmuseum

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:// "Interstellar Overdrive" _Atom™ & Station Rose EP.

_______ limited edition, enhanced CD
___________ out on Third Ear, Japa, in feb.2009

Gary Danner: "Immediately after Syd Barrett died in 2006 I decided to record a tribute.
Later on I invited Atom™ to join in and contribute."

__________listen to the tracks at myspace; available on iTunes.

foto: Ernst Stratmann

The video was created simultaneously to the music by Elisa Rose.
clip "Krautstep Version", "Interstellar Overdrive EP"___________ youtube video here

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:// "LogInCabin" - media sculpture & archive
__________________ MAK/Museum of Applied/Contemporary Arts, Vienna.
_______________________________________5.11.2008 - 25.1.2009

STR celebrated with the media-sculpture "LogInCabin", at MAK Vienna.

20 Digital Years- The Archive is online since then.
The media sculpture (3,3 tons) has been sold after the exhibition.

photos by MAK/Wolfgang Woessner

info:
As the 1st media art space in Vienna STR went back to the roots - after 20 Digital Years. For that Station Rose constructed a media architecture of 3,3 tons & used the the logcabin system - which goes back to Bronze Age - as a sample and updated it to LogInCabin. Sustainable wood meets LEDs & sound system. The media sculpture was on 24hours for 3 months. The LEDs needed 100% energy throughout sunlight/daytime, and 10% after 5pm. It was an intervention in city space - seen for miles, positioned on the MAK Terrasse plateau (built by Peter Noever).
Digital Art could be seen inside the scultpure, on the street & online.
phot-collection here:

f The Digital Archive was presented there as a premiere.

After the exhibiton the media sculpture has been sold to the artcollection of the City of Vienna. Because of its logcabin system it was constructed in 3 days, and un-built in 2. It can be rebuilt any time. Station Rose performed live twice during the exhibit.

details here

____the big photo-collection is at flickr _here__

 

 

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:// "20 Digital Years - the Movie" at KUNSTHALLE wien.
_____video of the month #37: Station Rose

monographic artist screening.
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June 01st - June 30th, 2008 - Vienna, Museumsplatz 1/Museumsquartier

:// info:
2008 Station Rose/STR celebrated 20 Digital Years, and showed a film as their new piece of
art, as a representative cross-section of their audio-visual art, at Kunsthalle Wien for this occasion.

Many of the videos sampled and re-edited for The Movie have been created live during the webcasts
at their Frankfurt studio live @ home, for their TV series at hr-fernsehen/ARD digital "Best of Webcasting", as
well as during audiovisual live-performances in museums, at festivals and in the underground.
The basis of STR´s work is the interaction of visuals (Elisa Rose) and sound (Gary Danner). Both
compose their audiovisual art synchronously. Distillates thereof can re-materialize as
performances, installations, art products, CDs/vinyls/DVDs, net art projects, texts, TV shows etc.
While STR has installed and performed inside an audiovisual installation with 8 screens as early as
1991, their next step further now is in the opposite direction, by showing a one-channel projection
in the Ursula Blickle videolounge at Kunsthalle Wien.



The focus is on non-narrative dramaturgy & fictional story telling, which has been enhanced ever
since their audiovisual TV series. The real storylines are not in the spotlight, but get inverted
as breaks, as wild card and un-commercials between abstract MIDI-sequenced patterns.
The real world is featured as disruption, as glitch, as reset-button.
Digital abstract patterns, created by Elisa Rose since 1987, then on her Amiga computer, and the
use thereof, which had been confirmed during STR´s 8-month portgraduate studies in Cairo 1988/89,
take center stage ever since.
These attract interest together with RL/ real-life sequences, filmed on location (Vienna, Cairo,
Frankfurt, San Francisco, Linz, Lugano, Avignon, ICA London via Webcam).
The crossfading between scenes in movies has been replaced by short real-life interferences.
The soundtrack by Gary Danner was realized entirely on the computer, ranging from dry, minimal
electronica, over bass-heavy dub, to nods to Nino Rota stylistically. Special "vignettes" had been
created to fit the RL-interruptions, often backing the original sound recorded on location.
The movie is also a survey of the performative AV-flow of the art created in STR´s studio, with all
its drive as well as stops within the sequences.
Particular attention is given to subjective perception of time, digital glitches and the merger of
digital worlds and the (urban) nature surrounding us.
music composed, produced & performed by Gary Danner
visual art, performance, editing & camera by Elisa Rose

KUNSTHALLE wien "20 Digital Years_ the Movie" (06.08)

articles in skug by Heinrich Deisl
and in eikon #69 by Patricia Grzonka

Ursula Blickle Stiftung

 

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