new & mixed / interfaced / environment-oriented / computer-based / digital / electronic / cybernetic / networked / mobile / wireless / locative / intermedia / transitory / sat-connected / virtual / transactional / interactive / simply reactive
Referring to the tradition of the atelier for multimedia&performance based at KHM Academy of Media Arts Cologne, the working group and environment re-active platform was founded in 2004.
As a discussion forum re-active platform researched on entities like feedback, data navigation, simulation (of presence), control space, new media situationism, appropriation and misappropriation of formats, nomadic strategies, performance and happening, the techno-image, methodology as a material.
re-active platform / a collaborative media arts production / about circuits, phenomena, data observers & more
re-active platform is about the logic and aesthetics of systems; circuits, signals and displays are represented as objects, images and sites, while the phenomena of the real seem to be nothing more than just mere coincidence.
re-active platform embodies concepts, works, tests and exchange between artists and other art and technology competences that temporarily and repeatedly turned into site and condition themselves.
The main task of the first cooperative show production of 2010 consists in reflecting the idea of re-activity on a very abstract level, not referring to much to individual preferences of the artists for their usual shapes of production.
The first entities discussed as metaphors were circuits and data-streamings as accessible phenomena.
The results is a collaborative produced ensemble of artefacts not produced for being unique, but for being part of a variable discourse.
re-active platform / ralf baecker, artur holling, karin lingnau, jihyun park, luis negrón van grieken and susanna schoenberg / march 20 to April 14, 2010 / Glasmoog - Filzengraben 2a, Cologne
re-active platform / ralf baecker, artur holling, karin lingnau, luis negrón van grieken, jihyun park and susanna schoenberg / october 28-30, 2010 / C.A.R. Contemporary Art Ruhr – Zeche Zollverein, Essen
re-active platform / ralf baecker, artur holling, karin lingnau, luis negrón van grieken, jihyun park, susanna schoenberg / October 8 to November 21, 2011 / Museum Of Contemporary Art, Taipei
re-active platform (follow-up) / ralf baecker, artur holling, karin lingnau, luis negrón van grieken, jihyun park, susanna schoenberg / 2011 / Opekta, Cologne
re-active platform / jihyun park and susanna schoenberg / june 1-4, 2012 / C.A.R. Contemporary Art Ruhr – Zeche Zollverein, Essen
re-active platform / jihyun park and susanna schoenberg / 2012 / Zaha Museum, Seoul
re-active platform / jihyun park and susanna schoenberg / 2013 / L.A. Art Show, Los Angeles
re-active platform (two displays) / jihyun park, luis negrón van grieken, susanna schoenberg / june 3-5, 2016 / C.A.R. Contemporary Art Ruhr – Zeche Zollverein, Essen, Germany