From the STWST archive: STWST is providing a photo of its project Checkpoint95 for the exhibition “Über eine Brücke gehen / fahren / schreiben / forschen / reden / streiten” (‘Crossing a bridge / driving / writing / researching / talking / arguing’) on the Nibelungen Bridge in Linz.

Exhibition:
Über eine Brücke 
gehen / fahren / schreiben / forschen / reden / streiten 
(‘Crossing a bridge / driving / writing / researching / talking / arguing’)

An exhibition on the Nibelungen Bridge in Linz at the University of Art and Design Linz.
Hauptplatz 6, ground floor from 21.11. - 18.12.2024
Opening 20.11.2024 18h.
Billboard in the subway 4.11. - 1.12.2024.

Project management: Birgit Kirchmayr, Institute for Modern History and Contemporary History at the Johannes Kepler University, as well as Angela Koch and Wiltrud Hackl, Institute for Media at the University of Art and Design Linz and Co.Lab for Remembrance Work - Aesthetic-Political Practices

Contribution of the STWST:
1995: Checkpoint 95
A project of the Stadtwerkstatt for Ars Electronica 1995 - to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, the end of the Cold War and in critical appropriation of the emerging new media and technologies. A live TV programme was produced in Linz, New York and Moscow, focusing on the historic checkpoints on the Nibelungen Bridge with telepresence, satellite technology and robotics. Stadtwerkstatt-TV in co-operation with Paper Tiger TV, New York and Association of New-Screen-Technologies, Moscow. © Stadtwerkstatt, archiv.stwst.at