Talk about site-specific digital interventions and formats in the region with the presentation of the results of the Mapping Offenbach Lab on March 24, 2024.
Webtool
During a lab week in Offenbach with invited artists, designers and other experts, an experimental web tool was created. The resulting prototype records stories about memorable places in Offenbach and makes it possible to comment on them from different perspectives and using various media. In addition to questions, images, 3D scans and reconstructions were added to the spoken audio recording by Michael Lenarz in the workshop.
Discussion
Can digital monuments and digital artistic interventions in public spaces contribute to the politics of remembrance? How can the memory of people, places and events be turned into data sets that can be used in educational formats? What significance do digitization projects have for collective memory, and how can a database be turned into appealing apps and websites for different target groups?
Experts discussed these questions with visitors. Digital projects - exhibition formats, reconstructions, artistic formats and apps - that have been created in Frankfurt and the Rhine-Main region were presented.
With Michael Lenarz (Max Dienemann / Salomon Formstecher Gesellschaft), Jeanne Charlotte Vogt (NODE Verein zur Förderung Digitaler Kultur), Tanja Neumann (METAhub Frankfurt), Julian Kamphausen, Vanessa Amoah Opoku, Ben Livne Weitzman (WAVA. AR), Alexander Roidl (Mainz University of Applied Sciences / NODE), Denis Klein, Markus Mau, Sina Hassene Daouadji, Hannah Gmeiner, Prof. Piotr Kuroczyński, Dr. Jan Lutteroth, Michael Sherman (Mainz University of Applied Sciences)
(all photos: Stefanie Kösling)
