The festival ended on Sunday with a great success and an overwhelming response
During the weekend more than 12.000 visitors gazed in wonder at the spectacular facade
shows of the second Genius Loci Weimar festival. While in 2012 around 6.000 visited the
shows, the number has more than doubled. Was last year only the Fürstenhaus was illumina-
ted, this year the three facades Wittumspalais, City Castle courtyard and the Bauhaus Univer-
sity Weimar main building were transformed into huge urban screen.
On Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 9:00 p.m. to 12:30 interested visitors had the opportu-
nity to experience the complex productions. The Wittumspalais facade was put into limelight
with „Ana.Digital“ by Media Apparat from Austria. The projection showed a dancer merged
into the projection, to become a dream of historical memory particles. In the city castle cour-
tyard, „Liszt hitecture“ was projected by Video Mapping Hungary (Hungary). A journey of the
musician Franz Liszt from Hungary and a Hungarian artist group to Weimar was visually re-
narrated and combined with a remix of Franz Liszt‘s music. The main building of the Bauhaus
University Weimar presented „Legacy“ by RDV Collectif (France): A triptych on the
legacy of the Bauhaus heritage, a study and interpretation of the influences of the old over
the new Bauhaus.
Beside the three shows the festival provided several other highlights. The Genius Loci Club in
the Project and Design Workshop Gaswerk counted on Friday after the premiere show over
600 visitors, enjoying live video performances, honey-combshaped light installations and
electronic music from DWIG + Deer (Weimar) and Mare Ateq (both Berlin). A VJ battle was
fought out between Das Konglomerat (Weimar) and Lampenschirm (Vienna). Beyond that the
filmmaker and choreographer Daniel Belton (Good Company) from New Zealand presented
live on Saturday night a specially designed facade projection „Time Dance / rapid mix“ for the
Bauhaus University Weimar.
In addition, for the first time workshops were offered (from August 5 to 11) in which partici-
pants could learn more about videomapping, engineering and the implementation of their
designs, and were able to experiment with this new art form. The symposium at the weekend
(August 9 to 11) was a great opportunity for students and professionals to learn more about
„media facades“, to discuss videomapping art and its methods and to get an overview of the
current research. „Not many scientific references can be found within the field of videomap-
ping and media facades, so that the Weimar symposium could strongly contribution to the
current discussions.“ underlined Anke von der Heide, project manager of Genius Loci Weimar
and organizer of the symposium.
Prof. Markus Wintersberger, a lecturer at the Institute Creative / Media / Technologies at FH
St. Pölten (Austria) and a member of Media Apparat held as well a lecture, while a dancer en-
hanced the performative character of his presentation. „It is not only about the technological
aspect, facade projects should also be artistic and playful irritations, which are able to change
the rules“said Winterbergsberger.
„We are thrilled that the Genius Loci Weimar festival was such a great success and we are
thankful to all our partners. Without them the festival would not have been possible“, said
Hendrik Wendler, managing direcor of Genius Loci Weimar. The festival and symposium was
sponsored by the Thuringian Ministry of Economy, Labour and Technology, the Best Western
Premier Grand Hotel Russischer Hof, the Weimarer Sommer the City of Weimar, Kulturstiftung
des Freistaats Thüringen, the Klassik Stiftung Weimar and the Bauhaus University Weimar. The
festival in combination with the symposium will take place next year in Weimar again.
The Festival:
Genius Loci Weimar is an unique media art festival which looks beyond the mere geometry
of objects to explore the possibilities of reflecting the spirt of the place through projection
art. Unlike erratic claptrap, Genius Loci Weimar approach focuses on an intensive analysis of
history, habitus and the architectonical composition of the place. The international festival of
audiovisual projections Genius Loci Weimar was launched in 2012 and became an immediate
success. 2013 will mark the expansion of Genius Loci Weimar in time and space: three historic
facades will be animated, and invite you to an evening stroll along the projection locations.
The festival is being expanded to include a program with competition, symposium, workshops
and exhibition in cooperation with the Bauhaus University Weimar. A new and unique festival
format enriches so the “Weimarer Sommer” event series and offers a hotspot for a young art-
form and provides a pool for different creative disciplines.
Genius Loci Weimar is sponsored by e.g. Thuringian Ministry of Economy, Labour and Techno-
logy, the Best Western Premier Grand Hotel Russischer Hof, the Weimarer Sommer the City of
Weimar, Kulturstiftung des Freistaats Thüringen, the Klassik Stiftung Weimar and the Bauhaus
University Weimar.
More information: www.genius-loci-weimar.org
Genius Loci Weimar 2012 : Behind the Scenes from Genius Loci Weimar on Vimeo.
Genius Loci Weimar is an exciting international festival for multimedia facade projections and site-specific audiovisual performances. The festival combines the historical spirit of Weimar and the contemporary techniques of video mapping, involving static objects in order to create an additional geometrical dimension and optical illusion.
Join Keuchel&Vogel! They take you in their video behind the scene of the first edition of Genius Loci Weimar, held in 2012.
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Genius Loci Weimar : 2012 Documentary (short) from Genius Loci Weimar on Vimeo.
Genius Loci Weimar
Is the international festival for multimedia building projections and site specific audiovisual performances.
Starting in 2012 Genius Loci Weimar invites international media artists to reflect the spirit of weimar in their work.
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UNDER AN ALIAS from nerdworking on Vimeo.
Under An Alias is the new big fairytale of nerdworking, a digital historical expression. This time our story takes place in a small German town; Weimar. The effect of a small town with the population of 65,000 people on the world concerns all of us, a city where the majority of its income is from culture. Weimar is a meeting and creation point for eminent intellectuals of our current times. This town, where Goethe wrote his masterpieces, where the music of Franz Liszt could be heard. This is where its republic of Germany was founded in 1919, whose legacy was subsequently marred by the establishment of a Nazi concentration camp in 1937. Weimar, a city that currently merges art and architecture in Bauhaus university, has many untold stories.
Although difficult, telling Weimar’s story was incredibly educational for an Istanbul based group of artists. It gave an opportunity for nerdworking illustrate a story from another perspective. Dozens of people spent long hours immersing themselves the rich cultural background, whilst taking into consideration the opinions of previous researchers. Under An Alias, created by collaboration of international artists and working completely in cyberspace, made its debut as the main act of the Genius Loci Festival.
Under An Alias was on exhibition from 10th till 12th of August on Fürstenhaus, Franz Liszt Conservatory, each night from 8PM till the early hours, several times a night. We decided that there couldn’t be anything more appropriate, than projecting the analogy onto this iconic building. The initial section is the spirit, then the muscles then the skin of this tribute to the legacy of Weimar was created. The story was based on the linear history of the city, the abstract origin slowly turned into decaying effect in the years of war. Then the exploding Bauhaus movement after the World War II is portrayed with a statement to pay homage to one of movement's greatest masters; Kandinsky. Then the story flows into the German industrial machine, healing its wounds from the diffused times with aggressive images of engineering and machinery. And finally, after all of city's turbulent history, we are waving goodbye to Weimar with its peace and order as a giant music box. We appreciate her hospitality.
Under An Alias was made by nerdworking's crew of 22 people from different disciplines architectures, new media artists, sound designers and the staff of Genius Loci Weimar. Enjoy the show, till the next fairytale.
Producer: NERDWORKING
Design and Art Direction: NOHlab (Candaş Şişman - Deniz Kader)
Motion Design and Animation Teams:
Fehmican Gözüm
Gökalp Gönen
Saygın Soher
Sinan Büyükbaş
Ouchhh
Creative Director: Ferdi Alıcı
3D Artists & Designers: Çağlar Özen, Emre Önol, Ferdi Alıcı
2D Artists & Designers: Dilan Tanrıkulu Regal, Harun Kerem Köse, Yusuf Emre Kucur
Compositing: Ferdi Alıcı
Robotika
CG Supervisor: Coşku Özdemir
3D Artists & Designers : Davut Toy, Vikram Puttanna
Sound Design: Alp Coksoyluer, Giray Gürkal, Görkem Şen
Architectural 3D Modelling: Kerem Asfuroğlu
Storyboard Artist: İsmail Anıl Güzeliş
Documentation: Cansu Turan
Project Management: NERDWORKING (Erdem Dilbaz)
Render Farm: RenderRider
Special Thanks to Gökçen Dilek Açay, İkinciParti Prodüksiyon, Stefan Kraus
contact: nerd@nerdworking.org
Genius Loci from RDV on Vimeo.
Nicolas Paolozzi & Damien Roche
First edition of Genius Loci festival.
Weimar august 2012
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Due to a camera issue, the video presented is a re-recording done after the end of the festival.
Animated Objects - Nils Andersen : Truck Projection from Genius Loci Weimar on Vimeo.
Animated Objects was a class for media students at Bauhaus-University Weimar in Winter Semester 2012/13 conducted by Genius Loci Weimar video artist Stefan Kraus. Nils Andersen created this projection mapping of a paper model of a very versatile truck - on the road.
Genius Loci Weimar : Artist Teaser from Genius Loci Weimar on Vimeo.
Genius Loci Weimar is an international festival for audiovisual projection mapping based in the city of Weimar in Germany. While this years projection mapping is produced by Istanbul based artist collective Nerdworking and 3 AV crews, next years edition will be showing the winners of an international competition. Nerdworking has produced a audiovisual mapping show for the "Fürstenhaus", today home of Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar", that refelcts in an artistica way the spirit of Weimar as a cultural city in the heart of Europe. The clubnight at Gaswerk is featuring the finest audiovisual entertainment from two continents.
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Genius Loci Weimar ist ein internationales Festival für Fassadenprojektionen, das am 10. August mit der Uraufführung der Fassadenshow "UNDER AN ALIAS" des Istanbuler Künstlerkollektivs Nerdworking in Weimar Premiere feiert.
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Animated Objects - Waiblinger & Kugler : Universe in a Box from Genius Loci Weimar on Vimeo.
Animated Objects was a class for media students at Bauhaus-University Weimar in Winter Semester 2012/13 conducted by MXZEHN video artist Stefan Kraus. Cornelius Waiblinger and Michael Kugler didn't go for anything less than the universe.