Die TanzMedienAkademie – gegründet 2007 als Forum interdisziplinärer Recherche und Produktion des Kunstfestes Weimar erprobt neue Formen der künstlerischen Zusammenarbeit zwischen Tänzern und Medienkünstlern. Unter der Leitung von Stefan Kraus bietet die Bauhaus-Universität Weimar einen Fachkurs an, der den Studierenden die Werkzeuge der Echtzeitmedienproduktion für Bühne und Event vermittelt. Am 29. August werden die Ergebnisse eines zweiwöchigen Workshops dem Publikum des Kunstefestes im Hauptgebäude der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar vorgestellt.
The Bauhausmaschine was taking part in the 5 day MX Media Lab that was conducted by the participants of the workmodule "Raum in Bewegung".The class was training students for the participation in the DanceMediaAcademy, an experimantal format by the Kunstfest Weimar that invites young dancers and media artists to work together. During the annual showcase of Bauhaus-University Weimar, the class was using the tower of Project- and Designworkshop Gaswerk as their temporary lab.
With Bochum being in the very heart of Europes Cultural Capital of 2010, and the event “Extraschicht” featuring 50 locations and over 200 events all over the former industrial region, there was no lack in visitors, when Bauhausmaschine joined the team of Musiktheater im Revier, to drag the audience into an ambicious project called the [...]
The distorted animations of MXZEHN VJ optoyzMX underlined the flashy style of French-Canadian ElectroClashers Jack Hosé very well. Right after this intoxicating performance the 200 PS kollektiv kept rocking the party people of Weimar till dawn.
1919 Walter Gropius founded the “Staatliche Bauhaus” in Weimar. It became the most influencual design school of the 20th century. There is hardly any designer, artist or architect who is not inspired or influenced by the bauhaus. In it’s early phase in Weimar, the Bauhaus was a place for interdisciplinary experiments. Bauhausmaschine is a contemporary audiovisual art and design project created by media artists Stefan Kraus and Marc Sauter to reflect the 90th anniversary of the Bauhaus Foundation in Weimar. You will find this work well documented in our catalogue “Season One“.