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

YUELAI RUAN

Initiator of CDSA Festival

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

INITIATOR & CURATORS

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

TIME SCHEDULE

30 July 2024

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?

INVESTIGATE URBAN

SCREENS AS LIVING SCREENS for Beyond Human Beings

METHODS & MISSION

IMPACTFUL VIDEO ARTWORKS for hybrid placemaking on large-scale digital infrastructures

NATURE DATA NARRATIVES how to shape natural environments to better understand its complexity?

METHODS & TOOLS 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

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

Elman Screen at the entrance of the Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg

Visual: Thorsten Bauer

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.

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