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homeless in berlin!!!

berlin is the hotest city in europe!

and many people would like to live here, like a young friend from max ( etoy ).
so everyone: we want to help this young girl to find a room for some months. she arrives at the end of september. if someone knows something about free rooms in nice flat-sharing communities.
just tell us!
and by the way, me, new platoon worker, (picture on the rigth side) i’m also looking for a new room, favored in kreuzberg so 36.
thanks fort the support!

asia-pacific week berlin 2007

the 6th asia-pacific weeks take place from september 10 to 23, 2007 and will be dedicated to the motto: „asia-pacific: changing the world“.
this is a very big event with more then a hundred arrangements.
it is a platform for political, economic, cultural and science dialogue and exchange with partner countries in the asia-pacific-region.
the slogan is " berlin: gateway to asia“

the business and science programm basically consists of three conference clusters:

-„urban sustainability conference (usc)“

national and international actors from the spheres of politics, business and science conference on all relavant aspects of urban infrastructure.



- „conference on multilateral economic cooperation with the asean (cmec-asean)“

the conference will focus on cooperation as regards environmental issues, energy-politics and trade.



- „creative industries conference (cic)“

it supports long term collaboration with partners of the asian-pacific countries in cultural industries, product development, creative applications of technology and media, and in information transfer.
the cic encompasses radio and music projects, digital media, communication and product design, fashion projects, networking, lifestyle, city planning and community.



Platoon recommends: the china calling event


music experts from china inform and discuss about current developements and restructuring of chinese music market. They try to find out possibilities for networking between the european music industry and the chinese one.

invited are selected well know representatives of china’s music media who come to berlin to visit the popkomm music exposition like hao fang edito-in-chief rollingstone magazine china or wang xiang publisher of gramophon magazine china.

date: 21.09.2007
venue: cicero-galerie
adress: rosenthalerstr. 38 10178 berlin
time: 13.30-16.00

PARAFLOWS FESTIVAL 'UN_SPACE'/ VIENNA

what’s going on in austria????
here a tip for my part …


PARAFLOWS FESTIVAL 2007
annual convention for digital arts and cultures
september 13 – 23 / vienna, austria

the topic of the 2nd annual festival in vienna is 'UN_SPACE'. between the ars electronica festival and the steirischer herbst, PARAFLOWS is a fairly new, but really recommendable, festival. it functions as a platform for the local net art & culture scene and as an interface to the more famous domestic international positions within media art.

the festival title 'UN_SPACE' shows the exploration of inaccessible, invisible, theoretical and immaterial spaces. it’s a matter of spaces, which are physical unseizable – or more precisely it’s about unseen, immaterial and theoretic spaces.

an worth seeing project will be jacob kirkegaard’s (denmark) examination with spaces in prohibited zones of tschernobyl. by means of an audiovisiual installation it’s possible to get – acustcal and visual – an insight in those prohibited zones, which are closed since the tschernobyl-disaster in 1986. about 30 kilometres around the atomic power plant is closed since more than 20 years and deserted.

further interesting projects:


interfaces of sea – shows the sea as media for data transfer – e.g. by sonar-technology (at quartier21)

exhibitions at CAT (contemporary art tower)

workshops by metalab vienna


altogether 25 impressive projects are shown at MAK (flakturm arenberg) in vienna - and every night: concert/party!

nine eleven

the future of our world was determined by this occasion. and my future was directly influenced by it as well, because i was in nyc during that tragic september, and i was supposed to begin a new future over there. the decision to move to u.s was at first a very unusual one for me, something that was mostly due to my desire to change my personal life than being driven by political reasons. however after 4 weeks it was not possible for me to stay anymore, because the whole nation fell in a psychotic trauma which freezed life completely and i just couldn't stand it any longer.










the war in iraq, guantanamo bay, many assassinations all over the world...thats´ what has followed. today.













a new debate about people converting to islam started in germany, furthered by the government!!!
















this two men didn´t look like having a dialogue in 2001. quite on the contrary: they pushed with aggressions the worlds political stage and cherished a viper in their bosoms.

Designcluster Asia

Designcluster brings together four of Asia’s leading metropolises:Tokyo(Japan), Seoul(Korea), Hong Kong(China) and Shanghai(China). the exhibition focuses on young experimental design evolving at the crossroads between various disciplines. the designers’ sources of inspiration flow freely between zen and high technology. thus, the contribution of the Tokyo Musashino Art University comprises objects that recall the spirit of abstract beauty of the traditional Japanese Karesansui gardens into everyday life. with the help of high-tech electronics, Sukwoo Lee from Seoul combines the interaction of audio and light frequencies to create a futuristic lamp design. one of the main aspects of the exhibition is the highlighting of cultural and social influences within the various asian countries, where differences in lifestyle and culture sometimes prove to be much wider than expected. the exhibition will be curated by Joerg Suermann. rather than an trade fair dedicated to produced design, Suermann perceives the exhibition as an overview show that simultaneously deals with young, innovative design, experimental design concepts, and utopia. within this context, he collaborates with local curators such as designer and art director Chio Kim from the Seoul Design Festival. In this way, each design metropolis receives a focus of its own and will deal with individual topics.

we are looking forward to party with you and our asian friends and designers!
Stay wild*


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the Designmai Youngsters - DMY Berlin presents, within the frame of the Asian Pacific week, the exhibition “Designcluster ” in the new rooms of Galerie Tristesse deluxe, Wallstr.15, 10179 Berlin.

OPENING:
thursday 13.09. from 19:30
Djs Cat Geisheim and Female Macho, Visuals by jpech

PRESS-PREVIEW:
thursday 13.09. at 19:00

EXHIBITION:
tuesday - sunday 14.09. - 23.09. from 14:00 - 20:00

FINISAGE:
sunday 23.09.07 17:00
with DJs und Vjs


DMY Berlin, Am Flutgraben 3, 12435 Berlin,

Presse Infos

„What makes Shanghai/Berlin addictive?“

„What makes Shanghai/Berlin addictive?“ is a creative exchange between Berlin and Shanghai. In September 2006, designers from Berlin previously exhibited artworks in Shanghai about their own fascination of the German capital. Now their Chinese peers have the chance to present their imaginings of their own city in Berlin. The event will be an interactive plattform and a meeting place for creative and interested people, used to enhance existing contacts and ideas. In addition to the exhibition there will be workshops between the artists from both cities. The online community shanghai-addictive opens the project to a global audience and tells about the creative work in both cities.

„What makes Shanghai addictive?“
14,000 posters, 28 ideas, 4 days, 2 cities, 0 stop

11.09. - 14.09.2007 | Rodeo-Club/Postfuhramt | Oranienburgerstrasse 35-36 | Berlin

Opening hours/Öffnungszeiten: daily 10:00 - late/täglich von 10:00 bis spät am Abend

Vernissage: 11.09., 19:30

Evening of the Colourful Dancing Dragon: 12.09., 20:30, PFA-Bar im Postfuhramt

Finissage: 14.09., 23:00

SEOUL: Lina kim: 'ROOMS'

Tom´s good friend, Hyun-jeong, who works for goethe-institut seoul, invited us to visit: “rooms“, an extraordinary exhibition by Lina Kim at columns gallery.











when i first saw her photos i felt somehow shocked...out of breath.

surrounding us were pictures of a series of empty rooms, all of them had a window through which one could see a natural landscape.











the photographic interiors were realized throughout different seasons over the course of three years, between 2003 und 2006.















i think her eyes can capture something different, something concealed behind the scenes, a feeling of absence, of vanished human activity; a place where nature seems to be glimpsing at us from the outside, leaving one with the impression of being imprisoned in a dilapidated building, cut out from our own perceptions, in a stillshot of time where nature steps back, observing how we consume ourselves and vanish in decay.










the brazilian born Lina Kim (1965) also has Korean origins. she now lives between Berlin and New York.



Lina Kim 'Rooms'
September 4 - 29 2007
Culumns gallery
art center for visual and performing arts.
63-14 chungdamdong gangnamgu, seoul korea.



best regards
Jong Ha
PLATOON.seoul