Moment of Starlings >>> Lectures & Debates

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Measuring the Urban/ Die Vermessung des Urbanen in Munich

02nd Nov 2009 >>> lecture & debate #1 >>> Improv Everywhere

16th Nov. 2009 >>> lecture & debate #2 >>> Rimini Protokoll

30th Nov. 2009 >>> lecture & debate #3 >>> Blast Theory

07th Dec. 2009 >>> lecture & debate #4 >>> Rudolph Chimelli about #iranelection
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Shortly after the elections  in Iran, thousands of people poured into the streets of Teheran and other  large cities. Their goal: revolution! At about the same time, countless  people in the United States also came together in public spaces in New York.  Their goal: fun!
Swarms form in the virtual world that take on gigantic  forms in public spaces. New communication technologies create new forms of  cooperation, and make possible a new public life in times when cities are  fragmented and everything is accelerated.

This four-part series of  lectures and debates of the Urbanauts invites four prominent theoreticians  and practicians of the new social revolution to take part in debates on  public spaces, virtual worlds, and swarm intelligence. The series  of Monday discussions is a contribution to the continuous debate on the  Urbanauts' project, and is part of the SPIELART Theater  Festival.

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Im Iran schwärmen direkt nach den Wahlen hunderttausende Menschen auf die Straßen Teherans und anderer Großstädte. Ihr Ziel: Protest! Etwa zeitgleich formieren sich in den USA ebenfalls unzählige Menschen zu „flash mobs“ im öffentlichen Raum New Yorks. Ihr Ziel: Spaß!
In der virtuellen Welt formieren sich Schwärme, die sich im öffentlichen Raum zu mächtigen Gebilden erheben. Neue Kommunikationstechnologien und soziale Netzwerke in den weiten des Netzes erschaffen neue Formen der Kooperation und ermöglichen ein neues öffentliches Leben in Zeiten der fragmentierten und beschleunigten Stadt und Gesellschaft.
Im diskursiven Teil von „Moment of Starlings >>> 11832“ dem SPIELART-Beitrag der urbanauten im öffentlichen Raum, entwickeln die urbanauten das Projekt gemeinsam mit den Referenten, Debattenteilnehmern und dem SPIELART-Publikum weiter: vom „flash mob“ zum „urban swarm“.
Die vierteilige Vortrags- und Debattenreihe der urbanauten lädt vier prominente Theoretiker und Praktiker der neuen sozialen „Revolution“ zur Debatte über öffentliche Räume, virtuelle Welten und schwärmende Intelligenzen. Im Anschluss Debatte mit den urbanauten und prominenten Münchner Akteuren.

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Lectures & Debates

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02.11.2009 >>> Improv Everywhere (New York / USA)

19:00 pm: Lecture by Charlie Todd, Improv Everywhere

Location: PATHOS Transport Theater, Munich

Based in New York, Improv Everywhere has executed over 85 missions of chaos and joy in public places around the world.  From the infamous No Pants! Subway Ride to the legendary Grand Central Freeze, Improv Everywhere has been responsible for some of the most original and subversive pranks of the Internet age.  The group has been wildly successful online, receiving over 70 million views on YouTube alone.  They have been profiled by The New York Times, This American Life (on the radio and on television), The Today Show, 20/20, ABC World News Tonight, and Rolling Stone, to name a few.

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Charlie Todd is the founder of Improv Everywhere, producing, directing, performing, and documenting the group's work for over eight years.  He is also a teacher and performer of improv comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre.  New York Magazine called him "One of the 10 funniest people you haven't heard of."  Now that you've heard of him that doesn't mean much.

Panelmember:
Charlie Todd (Improv Everywhere)
Kathryn Crockart (US Generalkonsulat München)
Patrick Gruban (sub_bavaria)
Svenja von Gierke (Greencity, Organisatorin d. 1. Carrotmobs Münchens)
Michael Kramer (die urbanauten)

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16.11.2009 >>> Rimini Protokoll (Berlin / Deutschland)   

19: 00 Uhr: Lecture by Daniel Wetzel, Rimini Protokoll

Location: Schwere Reiter, Munich

Projects in performance / theatre and related disciplines. Since 1997 most of the works deal with actors and specialists of non-art theatre disciplines like being a pilot, kid, pensionist, working as an engineer, a street cleaner or selling something. / Lectures and seminars related to those works and their strategies.

Daniel Wetzel was born 1969 in Kontanz, Germany, lives in Athens, Greece. 1990-2000 Applied Theatre Science / Performance Studies, Giessen University (Institut für Angewandte Theaterwissenschaft). / Working on his PHD on „the act of taking pictures as a performative“. Since 2004 Daniel Wetzel is artist in residence at Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) Berlin.

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30.11.2009 19:00 Uhr >>> Blast Theory (Brighton / UK)

19:00 Uhr: Lecture from Julianne Pierce, Blast Theory

Location: Blackbox / Gasteig, Munich 

Blast Theory is renowned internationally as one of the most adventurous artists' groups using interactive media, creating groundbreaking new forms of performance and interactive art that mixes audiences across the internet, live performance and digital broadcasting. Led by Matt Adams, Ju Row Farr and Nick Tandavanitj, the group’s work explores interactivity and the social and political aspects of technology. It confronts a media saturated world in which popular culture rules, using performance, installation, video, mobile and online technologies to ask questions about the ideologies present in the information that envelops us.

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07.12.2009 19:00 Uhr >>> #iranelection (Teheran / Iran)

19:00 Uhr: Lecture from Rudolph Chimelli (Journalist und langjähriger Korespondent der Süddeutschen Zeitung)

Location: Lothringer13, Munich

Nach den ersten Experimenten der urbanauten, Schwärme im öffentlichen Raum mittels SMS und Twitter zu koordinieren, (im Rahmen des Projekts 'Moment of Starlings >>> SMS an 11832 >>> Follow @TWTflash' Doku: www.urbanaut.org <http://www.urbanaut.org> ), blicken die urbanauten über den Tellerrand der Kunst und verfolgen gemeinsam mit Rudolph Chimelli, langjähriger SZ-Korrespondent und Iran-Experte, und Gästen die Frage nach der 'Twitter-Revolution' im Iran.

Eine Debatte über: Facebook, Twitter und #iranelection, die Rolle des Internets als Instrument der Mobilisierung verschiedener Ausdrucksformen von Politik UND Kunst im öffentlichen Raum, virtuelle Öffentlichkeit und reale Bedingungen.

Anschließend Debatte mit:
Silvia Bauer (Kulturwissenschaftlerin, Iran-Twitterin, @silviabauer)
Kuros Yalpani (Informatiker, www.politube.org)
Benjamin David (die urbanauten)
Anja Junghans (dei urbanauten)