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Claus Sendlinger: On Lighting in Hotels

wk — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:04:53 +0000

Luminapolis: Claus Sendlinger, you are founder and CEO of Design Hotels and specialist in integrated concepts of hospitality. The hotels have a leading position for the evolution of design. Hotels are something like “Lighthouses of modern living”. Are they also “Lighthouses” for lighting design?

Claus Sendlinger: Lighting is an integral part of a holistic concept for design hotels. Some hotels are definitely pioneers for lighting design and we’re continuing to see lots of innovation in this area.

Luminapolis: Do you know a hotel using light or lighting design as a theme?

Claus Sendlinger: The Nordic Light Hotel in Stockholm, the Kruisherenhotel in Maastricht and the Lanchid 19 in Budapest are examples of hotels with great lighting design. An important factor in Swedish life is the quality of local light, or the lack of it. Interior Designer Lars Pihl therefore incorporated this changing atmosphere into the Nordic Ligh Hotel. The light installations inside the Nordic Light Hotel fluctuate with the time of the day, the season or the guest’s mood. Another great lighting design project is at the Kruisherenhotel in Maastricht, which was formerly a monastery. Ingo Maurer was responsible for the lighting design and developed, among other elements, the designs for the entrance “tunnel,” the central lighting system over the entire axis of the church, the hall lighting and the outside lighting. Szövetség ’39 and Nextlab are the art designers of the moveable accordion-like glass façade of Lánchíd 19 hotel, further animated by the changing colours of an innovative lighting design concept. These two groups of young professionals, working on experimental developments, set up a workgroup of engineers, producers and co-artists for this project. The result is a dynamic facade, which lives together with its surroundings – a 21st century mural.

Luminapolis: What are the main mistake lighting designers can do in hotels?

Claus Sendlinger: The light concept should be adapted to the different areas of the hotel and thus cater to different moods. The biggest mistake a lighting designer can do is to create a light environment that does not fit to the concept of the hotel.

Luminapolis: Do think that Lighting is an important part for high-end hotel concepts in the future?

Claus Sendlinger: Yes, definitely. Light plays a crucial role in the hotel design environment. It can create a whole different experience, not just by visually enhancing certain design elements, but also in creating the right mood and atmosphere.

Book-Tip: Design Hotels

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Deadline: September 14th: Urban Intervention Award

wk — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:42:10 +0000

The City of Berlin offers the first European-wide Urban intervention Award in 2010 and requests projects. The purpose of the Urban Intervention Award is to contribute decisively to the improvement of the quality of life in the urban sphere. Also light installations, for instance, which relaunch places temporarily like Luminale, are possible projects for the prize. The competition ends on the 14th of September. More>

German Lighting Design Award: Deadline, September 30th

wk — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:27:24 +0000

The German Lighting Design Prize will be awarded yearly. In ten categories the winners are determined by a high qualified jury. The applications can be submitted by planners or building-owners, submissions from Germany, Austria of Switzerland and the Benelux Countries are possible. More (only in German) >

The Age of the Prefix Re: Ars Electronica 2010

wk — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 12:50:03 +0000

Re-think, Re-invent, Re-launch, Re-pair, Re-act, Re-novation, Re-generation, Re-volution, Re-cycle, Re-set, Re-naissance, this year’s Ars Electronica, the festival for art and technology in Linz stands completely in the sign of the prefix Re.

“There’s no time left for warnings. We’re in it up to our necks right now—in the climate crisis, Surveillance Society, the bankruptcy of the financial sector … We’ve passed the points of no return. The dramatic consequences are looming on the horizon today. And there’s no excuse for our lethargy since we already possess ideas, tools and techniques to initiate a change of course. We just have to take action! Roll up our sleeves and get to work on a job that can no longer be avoided. We have to mend our ways and get things moving in the right direction,” the festival-makers have explained the concept of the festival edition 2010.

And “it’s to late to be a pessimist”, they quoted Yann Arthus Betrand. the main topic is “Repair” with the worldwide most important festival Art&Technology festival. The program is more extensive than ever. In the Futurlab stands among others the subject Media and Architektur on teh agenda.

This year during the Luminale in Frankfurt the Media Facade Summit formed the prelude for the reflection about that, how architecture and media, media and light allow new connections with each other and change the public space basically. Now the Ars Electronica offers its own Futurelab on the subject. The Media Facades Festival is running presently in seven European metropolises and in October the Media Architecture Bienniale takes place in Vienna. More about the Ars Electronica here>

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Bienniale di Venezia: Sehnsucht, the very German Song

wk — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 07:50:57 +0000

‘Sehnsucht’ is the subject of the German Pavilion on the Bienniale di Venezia, on this week-end (29.08.) will open the gates. The neon letters (photo) are hanging above the entrance portal. Jakobine Meyer (Berlin) has contributed the neon plastic on the subject. Siegrun Appelt (Vienna) which have been present also two years ago in the team of Raumtaktik has cooperated in concept for 2010 (commissioner Cordula Rau a.o.). Zumtobel is one of the sponsors as well as already in 2008. At that time the German Pavilion stood in the sign of the ecological re-thinking of architecture. In 2010 the historical context of the Romanticism and the very German dream of the ‘Gesamtkunstwerk’ will be discussed under the keyword ‘Sehnsucht’ controversially again. More>

The art magazine blog of Till Briegleb presents the first impressions of the Architecture Biennial. More>

Zumtobel Group Award Ceremony: September 9th, Bregenz

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The jury met at James Turrell’s Roden Crater in Arizona (USA) at the beginning of February 2010 and selected the winners. In the category “Built environment” the winner is the Harmonia // 57 Office Building in Sao Paulo, Brazil. It is designed by Triptyque Architects, Paris, France/Sao Paulo, Brazil and completed in 2008. Winner in the category “Research & Initiative” is New York City Resource & Mobility (“Self-Sufficient City”). It is designed by Terreform ONE + Terrefuge, New York, USA. More>

Susa Pop: Interview Media Facades Festival Europe 2010

wk — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 19:11:55 +0000

On August 27th the Media Facades Festival Europe will have its première. Luminapolis made an interview with Susa Pop, artistic director. She explores the interferences between media facades, digital culture and public space since years. The festival will connect seven European metropoles with their site-specific projects under the common roof of the festival. The programme you find here>

Luminapolis: Susa Pop, you are artistic director of the Media Facades Festival Europa 2010. Who are the others? It is a trans european cooperation of several institutions.

Susa Pop: I initiated the Media Facades Festival Europe 2010 (MFF2010) together with Mirjam Struppek / Interactionfield as a follow-up project of the Media Facades Festival Berlin 2008 (MFF2008) where we explored the cultural and communicative potential of mainly commercially used urban screens. We invited 24 Berlin based artists and media designers to develop site-specific screening projects with the possibility of social participation. Based on this experience of MFF2008 and on the fact that most public screens are operated by internet-based technologies, we developed the idea of interconnecting seven European metropoles with the medium of urban screens. We are collaborating with new media experienced institutions and curators like Stefan Mittleboeck / Ars Electronica Futurelab, Marie-Laure Delaby from iMAL / Brussels, Heather Corcoran from FACT/ Liverpool, Minna Tarkka from m-cult / Helsinki, Nerea Calvillo from Medialab-Prado / Madrid and Eszter Bircsák from Kitchen Budapest. In a collaborative process we selected the artists’ projects which will be presented in Joint Broadcasting Events from 27 August to 2 October 2010.

Luminapolis: What kind of art do you present at the festival and what are the main topics? Street art and Urban Intervention are the keywords for new art initiatives for the public space.

Susa Pop: We have been developing main curatorial topics with a special focus on the following themes:
• Connected Cities: Joint Broadcasting projects that happen simultaneously and interactively across the borders
• Urban Activism: Reclaim the Screens! An activist approach to opening screens for the urban community
• Human Screens: Human processes are visualised on media facades
• Organic Cities: Public Data projects use information resources from the environments and develop a real-time software programme for live streaming
• Public Playing: Games designed as an interaction catalyst for the public audience
• European Dialogue: Projects that especially support intercultural exchange and connect the local scenes through the media facades infrastructure of the participating cities
• Citizens Journalism: Research and participatory projects of local scenes
• Recontextualise: A shared video platform on a central server to create local screening programmes

Luminapolis: What are the places in Europa where the festival activities take place?

Susa Pop: MFF 2010 is a pilot project of interconnecting 7 European metropoles with the medium of urban screens and media facades. The Joint Broadcasting Events will take place in Berlin, Budapest, Brussels, Helsinki, Liverpool, Madrid and Linz. Some of the participating institutions temporarily display screening and interactive projects on the existing infrastructure of urban screens and media facades in the cities – like Helsinki, Berlin, Budapest, Brussels. The other institutions are running their own media facade like Medialab-Prado Madrid, Ars Electronica Center in Linz and FACT in Liverpool which develop more socially and ecologically sustainable programmes. The joint Broadcasting Events will take place during the weekends and are presented in local frameworks like Long Night of Museums, White Nights / Nuits Blanche etc.

Luminapolis: Which technologies the artists use to create their messages?

Susa Pop:For the interactive projects, they use mobile devices like mobile phones and especially developed digital interfaces like the SMSlingshot by VR/Urban. The public playing projects are based on motion-tracking camera systems. Then there are also Public Data projects with especially developed software to visualise the environmental and social processes.

Luminapolis: And what is the perspective of media facades. When becomes the movie Blade Runner reality?

Susa Pop: Media Facades and Screens are a new communication medium at the interface of the public space and the digital worlds. Our main idea and goal is to reclaim the screens for the public audience and contribute to a sustainable urban media development in our cities. In my opinion urban screens and media facades have a high potential of community building and regeneration of the public space. They can open digital stages for the public audiences, visualise social processes and interconnect local scenes of other cities.

LightSpec – The new digital Magazine of Philips Lighting Technology

wk — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 03:44:12 +0000

LED is the main topic of the new digital magazine LightSpec. Is LED ready for general lighting? That’s the leading question not just for Philips experts. Interviews with Louis Poulsen, Fagerhult or Zumtobel gives a panoramatic view on the new technologies. More>

Buch Tipp: Light & Emotions – 47 Conversations with Lighting Designers

Lighting Calendar September 2010

wk — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:00:12 +0000

If you want announce a date, please mail to the editors of Luminapolis

02.09 – 11.09. Linz: Ars Electronica
02.09. – 11.09. Linz: Biennale für Lichtkunst Austria 2010
02.09. – 06.09. Chicago: Amococo, Architects of Air
03.09. – 26.09. Cologne: 68elf-forum junger Kunst, Experimentale
03.09. – 26.09. Ruhr.2010: Ruhrlights: Twilight Zone
08.09. – 10.09. Gent: 2nd CIE Expert Symposium on Appearance
09.09. Bregenz: Zumtobel Group Award for Sustainability and Humanity in the Built Environment
10.09/11.09. Hamburg: A Wall Is A Screen / Harbour-Tour
10.09. Winterthur: Beleuchtung von Sportanlagen
11.09. – 19.09. Düsseldorf: Kai 10 Below ZERO, Raumzeitpiraten
11.09. Madrid: MIMODEK “La noche en Blanco”
12.09. – 15.09. London: PLASA 2010
15.09. – 19.09. Chartes: LUCI Annual Forum / Philips city.people.light.award
16.09. – 17.09. Lecce: 6. Conferenze Nazionale Del Colore
16.09. – 17.09. Stuttgart: Polycity
17.09 – 19.09. Amberg: Der Berg leuchtet / INSTA Lichtkolloquium
18.09. Herford: Museum MartA, Stephan Brenn
18.09. Hamburg: Gisela Meyer-Hahn,Night of Churches, St. Petri
20.09. – 25.09. Alingas: Shaping the Night Workshop
21.09. – 25.09. Shanghai: World Expo 2010: Week of Light
22.09 – 23.09. Philadelphia: Lights of Philadelphia
24.09 Chicago: IALD Regional Meeting
24.09. – 03.10. Lüdenscheid: Lichtrouten
24.09. – 25.09. Winterthur: Fassade- und Stadtraumbeleuchtung
21.09. – 25.09. Amsterdam: 7th ILA Conference
25.09. Enschede: Grenswerk Festival, Urbanscreen
27.09. – 28.09. Tours: AFE, Journées nationales de la lumière
27.09 – 29.09. Frankfurt/M.: Strategies in Light
28.09. – 30.09. Alingas: Light and Health, Seminar
29.09 – 01.10. Yokohama: LED Japan / Strategies in Light

- 05.09. Ruhr 2010: Emscherkunst, Mischa Kuball et. al.
- 03.10. Wien: MUMOK, Brigitte Kowanz
- 05.09. Aarhus: Mirazozo, Architects of Air
- 21.11. München: Osram, Seven Screens, Harun Farocki
- 5.09. Bozen: Antonella Cattani Contemporar Art, Carlo Bernardini
- 7.11. Tokio: Mori Art Museum, Sensing Nature
- 12.09. Frankfurt/M.: Peter Kogler
- 19.09. Krefeld: Museum Haus Lange: Julius Popp
- 15.11. Langmatt: Museum Langmatt, Pipilotti Rist: Sommergäste
- 04.09. Tokio: Senseware
- 04.09. Boisbuchet: Summer Workshops/Vitra with Moritz Waldemeyer, Paul Cocksedge and others
- 31.10. Shanghai: Expo 2010
- 26.09. Wolfsburg: James Turrell – The Wolfsburg Project
Philips Lighting Academy Seminar
-17.09. Berlin: Galerie Caprice Horn/ James Clar
- 30.09. Songdo: Scenocosme at INDAF – Incheon International Digital Art Festival 2010

October Preview

07.10. – 09.10. Vienna: Media Architecture Biennale 2010 Conference
07.10. – 31.10. Vienna: Media Architecture Biennale 2010 Exhibition
07.10. London: LoveLight

New Website for Light Art from Italy

wk — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 12:45:42 +0000

Gisella Gellini and her team have used the première of Luces – Light art from Italy in the Archaeological Museum of Frankfurt during Luminale 2010 to launch a new forum for the light artists from Italy. The website Luces informs on the Frankfurt projects of the italian participants of Luminale. More>… >>>