Performance Lecture 2025.
Artist Elisa Rose & composer Gary Danner will shed light on the development of their digital art & music as STATION ROSE from 1988 to date. They embark on a journey through their rapid development in the vast field of pixels, sounds, floppy disks, CD-ROMs, vinyls, netart, digital land art, immersive spaces, Web3, AR, VR, XR, performances, phygital installations, the metaverse & AI.
The artists will provide insight into their digital work during the lecture, talking about 37 years of digital art - with performative audio-visual live moments. The lecture is based on their Digital Archive http://digitalarchive.stationrose.net.
Their artistic projects are internationally considered pioneering achievements in Digital Culture. They initialized Vienna's 4th district as an art center as early as 1988, after graduating from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and were instrumental in defining the early techno scene with their audio-visual performances from 1989. In 1991, they conducted a research project on "Virtual Reality as a New Frontier" for the Austrian Ministry of Science, published as a CD-ROM. In the same year they installed their first immersive installation incl. PBS Performance.
It all began in 1988 in a street shop in Vienna, where they set up their Station. Here, Danner & Rose conveyed an open, cross-media concept of art in Vienna´s postmodern art world.
From the beginning they were aware that digital technologies would change our cultural, social & political lives forever. "The outcome of this story is happening everywhere" STATION ROSE 1988. STATION ROSE first went online with an Amiga computer in 1988. With their streamings, from 1999 onwards, they anticipated tendencies which became a mass movement as a result of the pandemic 2021.
Details :
The talk is about their diverse artworks, their music & art forms, examples from 37 digital years will be made visible & audible. It is about both their digital art history - working with and knowing the nostalgic aesthetics of the internet of the early 90s is in the air - and of course the future. They will quickly jump between times. 1988 immediately becomes 2018, when they transferred their early digital work to new systems, now available again as the NFT "Substation". Originally a 1988 work on floppy disk, it was dropped as NFT in 2021, and subsequently became a room installation in a solo show in Vienna in 2021/22. The path is from floppy disk to NFT, to installation to immersive performances. Early works meet current works in AR, VR & real space. New 3D objects can pop up as virtual sculptures & be experienced in AR.
In 2024/25 they resume their longterm topic Digital Land Art & Nature Is Cool.
"The outcome of this story is happening everywhere." 1988
“Cyberspace Is Our Land” 1993
“From Digital To Analog & back again” 2015
“Precision” 2024
“Digital Land Art_Nature Is Cool” 1988-2025
The artists are regarded as pioneers of digital culture (FAZ, Wired). They won Prix Ars Electronica Honorary Mention in 1995 & received the lifetime award of the City of Linz in 2012.
https://digitalarchive.stationrose.net/info.html
https://linktr.ee/stationrose
