»Mediaflow« 
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(collective) Monika Fleischmann | Wolfgang Strauss >
»Mediaflow«, 2006 - 2006
Co-Workers & Funding:
ochen Denzinger, Gestaltung (Installation+Browser)Ansgar Himmel, Datenbank (Installation+Browser)
Kai-Uwe Kunze, Datenbank (Installation).
Directed by Wolfgang Strauss and Monika Fleischmann
Andreas Muxel, Sound Engine (Installation+Browser)
Kresimir Simunic, Programmierung (Installation)
Frederick Lölhöffel v. Löwensprung & Michael Schubert, Technische Umsetzung (Browser)
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Technology
Software
Medienfluss Browser: MySQL, Flash, TTS (Online nicht mehr verfügbar seit 2017 Medienfluss Installation: MySQL, C++, TTS, Max/MSP
Descriptions & Essays
Monika Fleischmann/Wolfgang Strauss, NETZSPANNUNG.ORG – PERFORMING THE ARCHIVE, 2007, space- and time based interfaces as access to online archive netzspannung.org.
Filmed at the 'You_ser: The Century of the Consumer' exhibition at Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe (Germany).
Monika and Wolfgang Fleischmann-Strauss 28-08-2023
MEDIAFLOW :BROWSER AAND INSTALLATION 2006
Thoughts in the flow, that's what the MediaFlow Interface stands for. The entire content of an archive - here from netzspannung.org - is visible at a glance. Parallel streams of images and words run along the projection wall. The online archive is projected onto the wall. Images of projects and people, including titles, authors, and keywords pass byt the viewer. . Images and words are awakened to a visual and acoustic sphere and take on a narrative position. The MediaFlow creates the impression of a walk-in data room. A large touchscreen interface translates images and words into scrollable text bands ready for selection.
On a large touch screen, the flowing images and words are translated into scrollable text bands and can be specifically searched and selected. With this selection, documents related to the content are visually linked and highlighted. With its visual and acoustic sphere, the media flow creates the impression of a walk-in data room. With the motif of the flow, static and passive amounts of information are set in motion. They flow out of the archive, as if around the visitors, and take up a narrative position.
The formal structure of the MediaFlow installation is reminiscent of Aby Warburg's art historical concept of a thinking space - his Mnemosyne Picture Atlas. In the 1920s, he developed his “Denkraum” ( thinking space), a collection of photographs, documents and texts arranged on panels. into a thinking space. These wooden panels were not meant to appear in a fixed order, but rather to continually evoke new insights by arranging and rearranging the documents. Instead of Warburg's variable image panels, the MediaFlow consists of streams of information, but can also be freely selected and rearranged.
Art historian Daniel Becker elaborates: “MediaFlow like Mnemosyne are correspondingly (…) fragmentary and therefore only the source or origin of a body of knowledge; the actual formation of knowledge arises through decisions in the interaction, reception or (re)configuration of the existing content by the user over the course or, or better, in the flow of time. Similar to Warburg, but algorithmically controlled, the fluid interface allows for arrangement and rearrangement, thus initiating a dialogue between viewer and content. This method explicitly allows for mind games, and so the digital archive becomes a space for thought movement. (…) “The work of Fleischmann and Strauss thus enriches the discourse around collections of knowledge, because here it is not about – like a classic archive search, which is connected with previous knowledge - about targeted searching, but about browsing and ?nding. This a?rmation of media-savvy sur?ng in the data pool of an online database is inscribed in a long history of concepts for storing, archiving and collecting data.”
The MediaFlow is a visual finding tool and a research browser used to get a quick overview of the contents in the archive and direct access to individual documents. Through the openly visible creation of relationships between works, texts and lectures, a form of learning is practiced as thinking in contexts. Part of the Knowledge Archives exhibition at Edith-Ruß-Haus for Media Art (2008) was to use the MediaFlow interface for teaching and learning. Between the large installation screens were intimate research stations in the exhibition space, set up like workstations for archivists. Students visited the installation with their teachers to deepen their knowledge of contemporary media art and theories. They browsed the MediaFlow, learned about comparative works, and gained insight into the media art they were discursively discovering.
The synopsis of overview, context and detail enables a comprehensive orientation in the archive, which combines the classic access via keywords with newer approaches of associative conceptual networks and visual searches. The system received the IF Communication Design Award in 2007.
Monika and Wolfgang Fleischmann-Strauss: Mediaflow, 28-08-2023, in: Archive of Digital Art MEDIAFLOW :BROWSER AAND INSTALLATION 2006
Thoughts in the flow, that's what the MediaFlow Interface stands for. The entire content of an archive - here from netzspannung.org - is visible at a glance. Parallel streams of images and words run along the projection wall. The online archive is projected onto the wall. Images of projects and people, including titles, authors, and keywords pass byt the viewer. . Images and words are awakened to a visual and acoustic sphere and take on a narrative position. The MediaFlow creates the impression of a walk-in data room. A large touchscreen interface translates images and words into scrollable text bands ready for selection.
On a large touch screen, the flowing images and words are translated into scrollable text bands and can be specifically searched and selected. With this selection, documents related to the content are visually linked and highlighted. With its visual and acoustic sphere, the media flow creates the impression of a walk-in data room. With the motif of the flow, static and passive amounts of information are set in motion. They flow out of the archive, as if around the visitors, and take up a narrative position.
The formal structure of the MediaFlow installation is reminiscent of Aby Warburg's art historical concept of a thinking space - his Mnemosyne Picture Atlas. In the 1920s, he developed his “Denkraum” ( thinking space), a collection of photographs, documents and texts arranged on panels. into a thinking space. These wooden panels were not meant to appear in a fixed order, but rather to continually evoke new insights by arranging and rearranging the documents. Instead of Warburg's variable image panels, the MediaFlow consists of streams of information, but can also be freely selected and rearranged.
Art historian Daniel Becker elaborates: “MediaFlow like Mnemosyne are correspondingly (…) fragmentary and therefore only the source or origin of a body of knowledge; the actual formation of knowledge arises through decisions in the interaction, reception or (re)configuration of the existing content by the user over the course or, or better, in the flow of time. Similar to Warburg, but algorithmically controlled, the fluid interface allows for arrangement and rearrangement, thus initiating a dialogue between viewer and content. This method explicitly allows for mind games, and so the digital archive becomes a space for thought movement. (…) “The work of Fleischmann and Strauss thus enriches the discourse around collections of knowledge, because here it is not about – like a classic archive search, which is connected with previous knowledge - about targeted searching, but about browsing and ?nding. This a?rmation of media-savvy sur?ng in the data pool of an online database is inscribed in a long history of concepts for storing, archiving and collecting data.”
The MediaFlow is a visual finding tool and a research browser used to get a quick overview of the contents in the archive and direct access to individual documents. Through the openly visible creation of relationships between works, texts and lectures, a form of learning is practiced as thinking in contexts. Part of the Knowledge Archives exhibition at Edith-Ruß-Haus for Media Art (2008) was to use the MediaFlow interface for teaching and learning. Between the large installation screens were intimate research stations in the exhibition space, set up like workstations for archivists. Students visited the installation with their teachers to deepen their knowledge of contemporary media art and theories. They browsed the MediaFlow, learned about comparative works, and gained insight into the media art they were discursively discovering.
The synopsis of overview, context and detail enables a comprehensive orientation in the archive, which combines the classic access via keywords with newer approaches of associative conceptual networks and visual searches. The system received the IF Communication Design Award in 2007.
Literature
Fleischmann, Monika and Wolfgang Strauss. »The Art of the Thinking Space: A Space Filled with Data..« In Digital Creativity: Shifting Boundaries: Practices and Theories, Arts and Technologies,, edited by Antony BrooksVol.31, Nr. 3. DOI: 10.1080/14626268.2020.1782945, , 156–170. Oxfordshire: Routledge Taylor & Francis, 2020.
Becker, Daniel. »Atlas oder Orakel? Atlas or oracle?.« [<01.09.2016>].
Fleischmann, Monika and Wolfgang Strauss. »Searching instead of Finding: The Digital Archive as Find Engine..« In Futuros Possíveis: Arte, Museus e Arquivos Digitais, edited by Giselle Beiguelman. São Paulo: Periópolis/ Edusp, 2014.
Robertson-von Trotha, Caroline Y. and Jesús Muñoz Morcillo, ed. Öffentliche Wissenschaft und Neue Medien. Vol.1. ISBN 978-3-86644-844-5, Karlsruhe: KIT Scientific Publishing, 2012.
Fleischmann, Monika and Wolfgang Strauss. »"Medienkunst als Wissenskunst / Medial Arts as Knowledge Arts.".« In Wissenkünste! Das Wissen der Kunst und die Kunst zu wissen / The Knowledge of the Arts and the Art of Knowledge, edited by Sabine Flach and Sigrid WeigelISBN978-3-89739-439-1, , 271-299. Weimar: VDG Verlag und Datenbank für Geisteswissenschaften, 2011.
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