- Here are some thoughts about
the event from e-rich translated by Webist Dr.
Hans-Georg Turstig
Dear Webists,
Finally the time has come to lift the secret of
the „Cyber Dome Project“ ;>)
Two weeks ago the well known Cologne sculptor Odo
Rumpf invited several of his artist colleagues to
participate in an interesting project: The
“Culture- and Culture-Lifting-Machine for
Cologne”. You can find information regarding
this project at http://kulturhebung.odorumpf.de/
Spontaneously I decided to participate. Because
even though the thing was afflicted with irony
and critique, it wasn’t looked at too
serious either.
A week later my ideas was mature: to create the
“Cyber Dome Cologne”. Information about
this you also find at http://kulturhebung.odorumpf.de/
under “» Konzepte teilnehmender
Künstler”
My poster "Art Kolonne 2004" was ready
;>)
The colleagues were enthusiastic and I began with
the assembly of 2000 CD’s on a 20 square
meters net. During the manual labor (which was
strenuous and yet refreshing for a digital
artist) I contemplated the construction of the
supportive chassis which on the one hand had to
be stable and secure but on the other
transportable and quickly to assemble.
During those creative contemplations I decided to
provide the digital dome with such kind of art
and to thus filled transport it into the
“holy” Cologne. Since the space in the
“Cyber Dome” was quite limited, I only
invited a few of the Webists to participate. A
few hours later I already found three images by
Pygoya in my mailbox, followed by Ingrid and
Vlado. The equally beautiful picture by Hans
unfortunately arrived half a night too late (what
a pity!).
Last Friday I briefly interrupted my muscle
strengthening work to participate in the solemn
decoration of the crane.
Tuesday morning at 4:15 am all preparations for
the dome were completed and at 9 I was on
my way to laminate four cyberdome pictures and
the Webism poster.
Poster at the entrance portal of the "Cyber
Dome":
...(proudly) presented:
Pictures mounted in the back of the inner area :
Afterwards I erected the gigantic (for me)
structure on the banks of the Rhine at the
Hitdorf ferry and positioned the poster and the
Webists’ pictures inside. At 3 pm I joined
the “ART-CONVOY” in Monheim, to
accompany the “Culture-Lifting-Machine”
to Hitdorf.
After a breathtaking drive at a walking pace (the
crane was accompanied by the tractor of the
artist Ketan which was equipped with the orange
blinking lights for heavy transports and two
white chicken wings at the radiator grille)
the convoy accompanied by a 2 km long queue
of friendly honking automobiles reached Hitdorf
at 5 pm. Here it was greeted by the
“Cyberdome” which was sparkling in all
colors of the entire spectrum. (Photos will
follow.)
After an hour rest the
“Cultur-Lifting-Machine” and the
“Cyberdome” together were brought
across the Rhine to the Cologne bank with the
ferry. Here we mounted the Dome on a trailer and
“raced” with 50 km/h to the studio of
Odo in Cologne-Nippes where it found its
provisional location in front of the entrance
area.
Around 8 pm crane and tractor too arrived here
safe and sound and the participating artists
– tired but very content - allowed
themselves a well deserved refreshment ;>)))
A wonderful event on an equally wonderful sunny
Sunday.
We decided that this wouldn’t be the last
shared action.
Thank you for your spontaneous participation.
Press - perhaps more article will follow, present
were 7 journalists, however until now I only know
of the this report:
http://www.ksta.de/artikel.jsp?id=1086523955900
While writing this I got an idea to continue
this: We could develop this Cyberdome-story
further into a proper Webism-Project and now
invite everyone to send in pictures to the
subject “Cyber Dome”, “Dome”
or “Cologne Dome”. I then could try to
organize an exhibition here in Cologne. Presently
the Dome, which the people of Cologne are very
proud of, is a very hot topic regarding world
cultural heritage.
What do you think?
Long live Webism !
e-rich
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