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introduction |
The department for "Hybrid Space" at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne
is the first of its kind worldwide. It was established in 1998 and is
embedded in the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, an interdisciplinary
environment combining media arts, media design, media theory and film
and television. Within the "Hybrid Space" department, architects, urbanists,
designers and media artists collaborate with soft- and hardware engineers
in the development of projects for combined analog and digital, urban,
architectural, design and media spaces. The scope of the research and
development projects ranges from those on the urban scale and the scale
of the mobility networks to architectural interiors and 1:1 industrial
design applications and wearables. The Department of "Hybrid Space"
has initiated public discussion processes using multiple modes of intervention.
It has contributed to high level international research, for example,
with the survey on "the use of space in the information-communication
age" that we conducted within the framework of Infodrome, a think-tank
for the Dutch government (1999-2002). It has organized international
artistic events as, for example, "ReBoot", a boat voyaging for a week
down the Rhine from Cologne to Amsterdam as a floating media-laboratory
in 1999. On board, eighty artists, musicians, architects, urbanist and
media collectives worked together on projects dealing with the space
of flows (the river, Internet and local TV) and spaces places (along
the journey). Frans Vogelaar, Professor |
 Installation at the Stazione Leopolda, Florence (photo by: Luca Dettori) |
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| Seminars
on "transit_bags", on "no-end technology"
and on "SUPERFICIAL_SURFACE" Instructor: Frans Vogelaar |
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Installation swinging matter (2003) by Helge Jansen Within the seminars, students from different fields and years, graduate as well as post-graduate students, mix and work together. The themes of the seminars cover a broad range of fields, from wearables to "robotic parasites" and architectural applications. The program of the seminars encourages and supports a highly conceptual approach and combines a demanding experimental artistic practice with technological innovation. For example, in this year's seminar (academic year 2002-2003) on "transit_bags" we worked on wearables as tools for a mobile culture and developed projects for the spaces, the objects, the services and the users of the mobility networks. (Professor: Frans Vogelaar, assistant: Kathrin Peters.) Parallelly, within the "no-end technology" seminar, we developed "endless, recyclable, low cost, non-hierarchical, 'open-source', 'do-it-yourself' technology" in the form of low-cost, do-it-yourself robots. Goal was the "weaving into our worlds non-hierarchical and non-controllable communication systems". (Professor: Frans Vogelaar, assistant: Martin Nawrath.) A third seminar on "SUPERFICIAL_SURFACE" concentrated on architectural applications (Professor: Frans Vogelaar). Within this seminar concepts and prototypes for networked architectural parasites as "temporary additional elements to existing buildings expanding, informing, inverting and deforming space" were developed. And next to architecture, the urban scale and the scale of the mobility networks has for years been a field for our development practice. Students: Kaja el Atar, Juliana Borinsky, Nina-Oana Constantinescu, Maximilian Erbacher, Helge Jansen, Thom Kubli, Oliver Kunkel, Nazgol Majlessi, Sven Mann, Anna Schlieben. |
Born in Holland, Frans Vogelaar grew-up in Zimbabwe and Holland. He studied Industrial Design at the "Akademie voor Industriele Vormgeving", in Eindhoven in Holland and architecture at the "Architectural Association School of Architecture" (AA), London. He worked at the architectural and design office "Studio Alchymia" (Allessandro Mendini), Milan and at the "Office for Metropolitan Architecture" (Koolhaas), in Rotterdam. He is founder of invOFFICE for architecture, urbanism and design based in Amsterdam (formally in Berlin) and is Professor for “Hybrid Space” at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. | |||||
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