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Winter 2018 European Energy Innovation 39

COMMUNICATION

Art as a transformer
A worldwide movement of climate
changemakers has emerged to
engage citizens in artistic action
because media art in the urban space
acts as a space-time compressor.
Urgent issues of climate change raise
awareness and catalyse common
solutions which are embedded in the
citizens’ everyday analogue and digital
communication practises.

dynamis is aware about the impact Photo: ©Matthias Ruttke
and outreach of artistic urban
projects and presented the Public
Face II (2017) and the Fake Star (2018)
to raise awareness for its project
Energieavantgarde Anhalt and to
communicate with the citizens of
Dessau and the region of Bitterfeld-
Anhalt in Germany about the urgent
issues of the energy transition.

Public Art Lab Berlin was
commissioned to curate and
produce these urban interventions

Photo: ©Johanna Landscheidt in collaboration with the artists’ The Fake Star was the second
collective of Julius von Bismarck, urban intervention. Conceived as a
Benjamin Maus and Richard flying windmill in the sky, the Fake
Wilhelmer: The Fake Star generated Star generated its own energy to
its own energy and the Public Face II feed an LED lamp and looked in
enabled the visualization of data the dark like a real star. The work
related to the energy consumption could be interpreted like an artistic
and production of renewable energy comment to mankind depending on
sources. Both light installations were the power of nature and its volatility.
temporarily set up in the public space Furthermore the flying ‘starpower
and made use of two different artistic station’ operated from renewable
approaches: energy explored in a poetic way the
effects of the ‘post-fact’ period and
Public Face II was presented as our collective perception of truth. In
an energy barometer for the city of the time of digital media, facts and
Dessau and the region of Bitterfeld- credibility are measured based on
Anhalt. The artists developed an each individual’s social reality and
algorithm for this installation, that influences as well as on what the
measured the balance of energy majority agrees. l
consumption and energy
generation from both renewable For further information visit:
and conventional resources in the
area. The more the region dynamis-online.de
consumed energy from alternative energieavantgarde.de
sources, the bigger the smile on the publicartlab.org
Public Face. When Dessau electricity futuredivercities.eu
networks were fed by fossil fuels, co-funded by Creative Europe
the Public Face looks sad. The
dates were provided by energy and
meteo GmbH.

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