Beyond the Screens. 3rd City Skin Art Festival 2024

3RD CITY SKIN ART FESTIVAL 2024

International Creative Media Art Competition for students to create video artworks for urban screens in China, Singapore and Europe

SUMMER SEMESTER 2024 The students of the following universities are creating video art works for the CDSA Festival 2024 China Academy of Art, Public Art Department | Hangzhou Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Media Architecture | Weimar HFBK Hamburg, Digital Design | Hamburg Nanyang Technological University, School for Art, Media and Design | Singapore

INITIATOR & CURATORS YUELAI RUAN

Initiator of CDSA Festival Professor and Deputy Director of Public Space Art Department of the China Art Academy / Hangzhou

SUSA POP

Co-Curator of the CDSA Festival Initiator and organiser of the Connecting Classes Director of Public Art Lab & Connecting Cities Network Guest Lecturer at the Bauhaus Universität Weimar

INA CONRADI

Co-Curator of the CDSA Festival Professor at the Nanyang Technological University / Department of Art, Media and Design / Singapore

30 July 2024

TIME SCHEDULE

Submission of students’ video artworks in low resolution

15 August 2024

Pre-selection and feedback to students

31 August 2024

final selection of the video art works in consultation of the screens operators

1 October 2024 Final upload of video art works

3-10 October 2024 Test Screenings

12-27 October 2024 CCDSA Festival on urban screens in China, Singapore, Europe

CURATORIAL CONCEPT How can we transform large scale urban screens and media facades into visualisation zones of ecologies to make climate change tangible, visible and experiential in the public space

In nature noting exist alone Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring

Beyond Human Beings is the next era of the anthropocene that expands the human-centered perspective and gives a voice to the ecological systems of our planet.

Michaela Vieser, nature writing author

But how can we understand this complexity and interconnection of nature?

How can we listen, sense and visualise it?

And how to create awareness about the urgencies of our planet?

METHODS & MISSION

INVESTIGATE URBAN SCREENS AS LIVING SCREENS

NATURE DATA NARRATIVES

for Beyond Human Beings

how to shape natural environments to better understand its complexity?

IMPACTFUL VIDEO ARTWORKS

METHODS & TOOLS

for hybrid placemaking on large-scale digital infrastructures

for AI generated graphics and narratives machine learning systems sensing applications

CONNECTING NATURE AND CITY through urban screens as visualization zones

ECO DATA VISUALISATION

through cross-disciplinary collaboration of art, science and technology

SCREENS AND INFRASTRUCTURE

CDSA

2022

Creative Direction

MAN – NEXUS SCREEN by NTU SINGAPORE – SCHOOL FOR MEDIA, ART AND DESIGN A public screen as students‘ laboratory for urban screens interventions

Selection 10 Hamburg, Germany Hamburg Elbphilharmonie Elman Screen at the entrance Height:18,49m Width: 4,64m Surface Area: 66qm

We warmly want to invite you to participate Elman at the entrance withScreen the Elman Screenof the Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg Visual: Thorsten Bauer in the CDSA Festival 2024

Elman Screen at the entrance of the Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg Visual: Thorsten Bauer

Co-curating Partner International Jury

PUBLIC ART LAB based in Berlin is an action research platform for urban media art with focus on creative citymaking, citizen science and translocal dialogue that empower social interactions and citizens' engagement.

PUBLIC ART LAB initiated the Connecting

Cities Network (with support of the

European Union, Culture Programme), in more than 45 cities worldwide to investigate the cultural potential of urban screens and collectively circulate media art works around the globe.

www.connectingcities.net co-funded by the European Union / Culture Programme

INITIATED BY PUBLIC ART LAB IN CO-ORGANISATION WITH ARS ELECTRONICA FUTURELAB LINZ BIS BODY PROCESS ARTS ASSOCIATION ISTANBUL CONNECTING CITIES CHINA FACT LIVERPOOL IMAL BRUSSELS M-CULT HELSINKI MEDIALAB-PRADO MADRID MEDIA ARCHITECTURE INSTITUTE VIENNA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART ZAGREB RIGA 2014 VIDEOSPREAD MARSEILLE

IN ASSOCIATION WITH CITY OF JENA ETOPIA ZARAGOZA FEDERATION SQUARE MELBOURNE FOUNDATION BAUHAUS DESSAU ILLUMINATING YORK KMUTT ESIC LAB BANGKOK MARSEILLE-PROVENCE 2013 MUTEK MONTRÉAL QUARTIER DES SPECTACLES MONTRÉAL SAPPORO MEDIA ART LAB SKY GALLERY HONGKONG STREAMING MUSEUM NEW YORK STRELKA FOUNDATION MOSCOW THE CONCOURSE / URBANSCREENS TV SYDNEY UNIVERSITY OF AARHUS VERVE CULTURAL SAO PAULO VISUALIA PULA XM:LAB SAARBRÜCKEN IN COOPERATION WITH ARTE CREATIVE FUNDED BY THE EUROPEAN UNION / CULTURE PROGRAMME

How can we open digital infrastructures for community building, civic engagement and translocal dialogue?

SELFIESAOPAULO by Stefaner, Chow, Manovic

‘Performance: Digital Expressions’ / SP Urban Digital Festival, 2014

How can we open digital infrastructures for community building, civic engagement and translocal dialogue?

Connected Cultures Programme

for Germany + Brasil Year 2013 curated by Public Art Lab and Verve Cultural

‘Performance: Digital Expressions’ / SP Urban Digital Festival, 2014

THE PUBLICATION contains the best practices, projects and theoretical background of CONNECTING CITIES

@AVEDITION, JUNE 2017

Thank you!

Susa Pop, director Publicartlab.org Connectingcities.net Urbanmediaart.academy @connect_cities susapop@publicartlab.com