Audio, Video and Print libraries
These libraries, as the
media 'plug-ins' of haus.0, are each ordered in terms of certain shifts,
which aim to reference a fundamental change in the 1980s and 1990s
concerning media. Defining each particular media outside of formal
medium and in terms of wider social perspective allows for links in
terms of artistic practice now. Materials are not collected after
thematic categories along the lines of traditional libraries. Specific
to each kind of media, participants are asked to suggest organisational
outlines for sections in libraries that connect within their projects,
as the emphasis is around a set of key overlaps and interlinks focused
down to a condensed section. Serving as compass points these sections
assist in orienting to the nature of the new program concepts. As well,
they address the existing scale and continuity issues of the artist
space operating system. One specific perspective on supplying resource
and inquiry is addressed through how haus.0 library frameworks draw
lines out from the earlier Künstlerhaus operating definitions of the
role of media. The character of this is evident by the more inclusive
definition of cultural productions, i.e documentary, political,
aesthetic inquiry, entertainment, as well as contributing structurally,
a parallel to Künstlerhaus early proposal for the first video library in
the region.
Computer
The
project haus.0 works with the logic of a web browser. The analogy serves
to reference anew a fundamental link between culture and identity, while
creating a new relation between the changing notions of artistic
practice and an art space in transition. haus.0 is planned as an
ongoing, independent format, that now works with the given conditions of
the 20-year old art space, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart. Linking the program
of the artistic director to the institution, it creates the possibility
to define the space in different terms and expressions. This reflects
the emphasis on an open ongoing search in an artist's institution. The
necesssity of changing inquiries is woven with the foundation.
The browser consciously integrates the art institution space as the
interface for navigation and orientation, stressing the unpredictable,
polymorphous identity represented in the web browser's language of links,
while concentrating on different search patterns. The browser represents
the constant interplay between new frontiers. The space created by that
introduces a definition of two existing systems: computer and net. The
browser like all innovations works with a situation of transformation
by offering a flexible interface between, suggesting any number of possible
actions. The character of the browser created through the hypertext
logic is an assemblage of interlinked texts present via the monitor
as a projection created by electronic signals. haus.0 suggests it can
be read as a transforming collection of different layers bridging from
mechanical diagrams to the comicstrip, recalling collected memories
of pasts and futures creating the frameworks for new contemporary social
political narratives.
haus.0 provides on its computer website a selection of periodically
updated links including writings which the program often translates
into German if required. Each project has a specific webpage, and may
include links that develop with the involved participants. The process
is continuously shifting further to the web, where projects originate
and link up to also develop from there in regard to the actual site
of Künstlerhaus/haus.0, as new spatial configurations.
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