what we may have learned from HWS 1:- more time of preparation

- more budget for people, less for representation, surface design..
- more clarity on the level of representation (see poster, project text)
- more parallel and decentral (emergent) activities
- more focused mediation to the public
- more focused worksphops for a interested public
- more intercommunication between groups and individuals
- more investment into the simple conditions: housing and food
- less calvinistic work ethic instead 'dionysic work' (A. Negri)
- shorter differently weighted and scaled periods of activity
- clearer mediation to the public (press work etc.)
- more differentiation in different work zones (audio, project management, budgeting, press contacts, technics, group coordination..)
- more clarity of context and goals
- discussion on the workspace list about "post HWS I"

HYBRID WORKSPACE II
Berlin, around 9th Oct. 1998

time:
public fair 4-10 days
small monthly events during the year (@ WMF lounge)
weekly events during the biennale

location:
Johanneshof (ex Hotel, same building of new WMF club)
Alexanderplatz (Ausstellungszentrum or ex Markthalle) or
Chausseestr. (ex Konsum supermarket) or
together with Berlin Biennale (Juedisches Mueeum?)

mediation of:
small hybrid media projects (reframing independent media culture)

*goals and topics

+ enhancing the Berlin Biennal with a rich and vivid zone for 'new media culture'
+ reframing media culture as a hybrid of small independent projects in theory&practice and different fields: politics, arts, music, design, technics, research
+ connect local, regional and international groups active in media culture
+ exploring and developing different pragmatic media aesthetics
+ mediating a speficific quality of small heterogenous, crossculural, inventive and politically aware international media culture
+ build up local infrastructure for media culture with strong international strings
+ for Berlin - filling the gap: enhancement of heterogenous local non-institutional microstrucutures of media practise,
+ collaboration with existing groups, institutions, projects, companies on adequate levels, self-representation and focused variety,
+ synergizing a network of nodes for reinvention, construction, ressource acquisition etc.
+ open architecture, coalition of groups, common ressources and project management
+ opening up a new open space for media culture in Berlin - a 'digital salon' - a space for presentation and intercommunication outside of institutional or industrial architectures of cultural representation
+ providing basic infrastructures to build up a media activist environment
+ workshops, small bussiness, contacts, presentations, campaigs, panels, parties, food

*content

4 modules / presentation zones selected groups&projects from the following fields (test-wise)

.music/clubs/labels/zines
.architecture/design/fashion
.media activism/campaigns/politics
.media art/software/techniques (to be modified and extended)

2 cuts -> worksphops + panels
. small media practice from pirate radio to Kunstradio, zines to journals, no-budget to small company
. the theoretical dimension - philosphy, strategies, issues, criticism, contextualisation

+ hybrid media coverage & formats film, local tv, video, radio, newspaper, books, internet, party, records, journals,
+ collaboration with local and global media partners
+ possible projects f.i.: 24h real audio live stream radio, mpeg jam session, raw video e.a. at the open channel, intercontinental online live acts, spam contest, ascii tv, online panels, interview zone, press conferences, reading table, small business contacts, hiring artists...

*participants

a wide range of participants contributions is necessary (also more from Asia, Africa, Latin America)
* building up strong inter-connection to local initiatives, cultural networks, organisations, projects, enterprises, artists, institutions
* giving space for heterogenous self-presentation
* different phases: maybe 1 for bigger media institions

*schedule

modular hybrid timing and scaling (depending on available ressources)
- congress/fair/convention - short term parallel 'multiversity' (1 week)
- event/projects/workshops - middle range sequential 'polyversactivity' (long weekends, 1 - 2 week project residencies)
- semipublic/workspace/office laboratory - long term spatial bandwidth collective
- possibility: (up to three months) generating its own schedule and activities (kind of a prototype e-space lab), mapping the complex Berlin scenery
- and a permanent public cantina/bar/lounge (WMF ?)

*location&space

the location should be big enough, reachable by public transport, rather central in the space: zonal spacing following the needs of the user/participants and audience
i.e.:
area of individual presence presention
area of general public presentation
area for public meeting, feeding, dancing, socializing
area for infrastrucure (storage, office, archive, organising)

*organisation/implementation

+steering committee/advisory board & operational group+

steering committee:
follwos the content layers, its task is to propose and decide participants, projects, communicate with them, give help etc.
- including local/global activists experts well known, accepted and connected in the scenery of the layers we identified as relevant for HWSII
- including one of the Biennial curators
- including the head of operational group

tasks: scouting, preparation, discussion and deciding (voting?)
remotely via e-mail and (3 - 5) meetings in Berlin
presence in Berlin for the first week (?)
defining responsibilities

budget sc:
fee: travel costs to & from Berlin
honorarium 3.000 DM

who: Geert Lovink, Pit Schultz and up to 5 other experts (to be selected)

operational group

- coordinates the realisation of the project
budget planning
technical planning
sponsor acquisition
communication coordination with participants
interinstitutional relations (public and private partners)
public relations (flyer etc)
contracts

leading coordinator: Thorsten Schilling
assistants partly parttime (to be specified)

organisational principle should be enabling and enforcing the self organisation of the participants and generating a sustainable infrastructure for (small/independent/hybrid..) media culture in Berlin

*institutional background

cooperation Berlin Biennial with tool e.V.

Berlin biennial
hosting the project, which is official part of the biennial programme giving financial (2/3 of the overall budget), infrastructural (bandwidth, renting and insuring the space) support, uses the location for own events (discussion panels etc.) after the first week (event link to the host, kind of dX hall thing) in coordination with the project participants

tool e.v.
is general Auftragnehmer(engl:?) by contract,
gets an general budget of 350.000 DM,
organises the whole implementation of the project,
signs publicly responsible for all what happens there (the next Schlingensief
Brinkmann happenings f.i.),
acquires additional sponsoring for the project
owns the aquired equipment,

*budget

this is an preliminary approach
it has to specified after a general approval
ca. 450.000 DM

a) content providing costs

- participants travel & accommodation costs 100 participants a 1000 DM 100.000 DM
- project fund (realisation of special projects) 60.000 DM
- material fund (tapes, films, back up, etc.) 20.000 DM
- special guest fund (also for preparatorial events) 20.000 DM

b) technical costs

- ISDN leased line - 4 month (starting in September) 7.000 DM
- server 5.000 DM
- software, programming 5.000 DM
- Computer, Printer, Scanner etc. 30.000 DM/ sponsoring
- video&audio equipment 50.000 DM (or general sponsoring provided by BB)
- architecture 30.000 DM (also renovatory costs)
- telephone 6.000 DM
- technical equipment/transport/office costs 10.000 DM
- rent/insurance space – Berlin Biennial (15.000 DM)

c) staff

honorarium advisory board members 7 x 5.000 DM = 35.000 DM
project coordinator 6 month a 3.500 DM = 21.000 DM
assistants ca. 15.000 DM

d) publications, tapes, CDs, booklets ? 5.000 DM

e) documentation 10.000 DM

f) incomes

to be specified after general approval
f.i.:
additional sponsorship
party incomes, merchandising & others to be specified
public funding

*implementation time line

+December 97
general approval

+January?February
starting cybersalon

+End February 98
specified concept (steering committee, list of proposed participants, projects, locations, budget)
signing contract

+March/April/Mai - 1st implementation phase
sponsoring acquisition
application international funds
location renting
developing architectural concept
specifying participants/project list up to 80%
contacting local and international partners
developing media plan

+June/July/August - 2nd implementation phase
sponsoring contracts
approval international funds
starting preparation locationstarting realising architectural conception
specifying & hiring equipment
defining participants project list
starting first project production
contracting local and international partners
starting advertisement

+September – 3rd implementation phase
preparing location
installation architecture
installation equipment
further advertisement/schedule announcement

+Octoberlaunching Hybrid WorkSpace II

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