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Abstract
In the past two and a half years the Internet platform netzspannung.org has been developed at the MARS-Exploratory Media Lab and positioned as a knowledge portal for digital art, design and technology. The aim of netzspannung.org is to make visible competencies and developments in the various artistic and technical disciplines of digital culture, as well as to bundle and promote them and to process the content to make it available on the Internet for education, research and further education purposes.
The need for this kind of platform which is directed at curators and theoreticians as well as media artists, developers and those doing practical work is based on several facts: until now, information on the theme of digital culture has not been available in the Internet in any organized way. Search machine hits are unsatisfactory as the work on a key word basis and consider neither the context of the content nor the quality. In addition, the knowledge stored in data bases is seldom found by search machines. Therefore netzspannung.org was created tp develop medial strategies for processing, archiving, visualizing and contextualizing relevant content frm media culture, thus making it accessible. But how can an archive be created that is not based on already existing material? For this puropse netzspannung.org provides an open channel as well as modules which are editorially mentored: with the 'netzkollektor' and the 'experts data base', artists, designers and researchers have the possibility to present their current projects on a common platform. New contributions to netzspannung.org are automatically set in relation to all other existing contributions via indexing and key word links. Knowledge discovery tools such as the 'semantic map' as specially developed graphic interfaces allow intuitive and semantic discovery of the knowledge portal netzspannung.org above and beyond traditional forms of presentation.
To offer current content from the areas of media art, media design and communication technology, the conferences ‘Memoria Futura’ and ‘cast01-Living in Mixed Realities’ as well as the competition to promote young talent ‘digital sparks01/02’ were conceptualised and carried out as formats. In cooperation with various partners, selected series of lectures at universities, called ‘Tele-lectures’, are transmitted and archived. The ‘Mobile Unit’ as a transportable streaming platform serves as an input and output instrument in this process. Due to the special connection between editorial and participatory elements, netzspannung.org is a continuously growing knowledge portal representing a hub for research, communication and service for digital cultures.
Artists / Authors
- Monika Fleischmann, Leiterin des MARS-Exploratory Media Lab, Fraunhofer-Institut für Medienkommunikation
Date(s)
- October 25, 2002
Organizer
Fraunhofer Institute for Media Communication MARS-Exploratory Media Lab
Contact
redaktion@netzspannung.org
Location
Schloss Birlinghoven, Sankt Augustin, Germany
Submission
, Apr 9, 2003
Category
- Lecture
Keywords
- Topics:
- archive |
- collaboration |
- distributed systems |
- media art |
- knowledge management |
- information design |
- community |
- databank |
- networking |
- internet |
- knowledge spaces
- Formats:
- internet