Media workshop

Since 2009, the media workshop has provided infrastructure and expertise for the realisation of media art works. Its offers are aimed at all professional visual artists in Berlin. The workshop managers are happy to give advice on artistic projects and technical questions.

Contact

Medienwerkstatt im Kulturwerk des bbk berlin
Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin
Google-Maps (external link)

e-mail: @email
(Please arrange appointments by mail!)
phone 030 614015-79 / 030 551472-84

opening hours

Mo 1 - 8 pm
Tue - Fri 10 am - 5 pm

Team

Head: Andrea Huyoff,
Team: Ilka Forst, Manfred Miersch, Jo Zahn

FIXTURES #4 – Cornelia Sollfrank and Felix Stalder in conversation with Kevin Rittberger / Embodied data and planetary thinking on April 28th, 2025

Pranayama-Praktizierende mit Smart Ring | Fotocredits: © Cornelia Sollfrank/Felix Stalder

Pranayama-Praktizierende mit Smart Ring | © Cornelia Sollfrank & Felix Stalder

At the fourth Jour Fixe event of the Media Workshop we are delighted to welcome three guests: Cornelia Sollfrank, Felix Stalder and Kevin Rittberger. At FIXTURES #4 they will speak about the contemporary in embodied data practices and its relation to the planetary.

FIXTURES #3 - Martin Sulzer feat. Farhad Farzali / Artificial Art on March 17th, 2025

Videostill Problem Property - chapter I, 2024, © Johannes Büttner & Martin Sulzer

For the third FIXTURES event on March, 17th, 2025 Martin Sulzer is our guest and will talk about artificiality as a central element in his artistic work, be it 3D rendering, synthesizers or artificial intelligence.

FIXTURES #2 - Henning Christiansen Archive / Rachel Dagnall & Thorbjørn Reuter Christiansen on February 24th, 2025

Fixtures 02 Henning Christiansen Archiv Medienwerkstatt

Thorbjørn Reuter Christiansen digitalisiert Videos von Henning Christiansen in der Medienwerkstatt | Fotocredits: © Rachel Dagnall

For the second FIXTURES event on February, 24, 2025 Rachel Dagnall & Thorbjørn Reuter Christiansen are our guests. They will present a selection of video and sound recordings from the archive of the Danish FLUXUS artist and composer Henning Christiansen (1932-2008) that have just been digitized since beginning of February in the Media Workshop.

Booking request

Please arrange appointments via mail:
@email

We recommend scheduling
1 - 2 weeks for computer workstations and
2 - 4 weeks for audio room and greenscreen studio.

User charges

Price lists and price agreements

Cancel appointments

Appointment cancellations at least 24 hours in advance, via telephone or to our office e-mail: @email. Not timely canceled appointments will be charged.

Please use the e-mail address for appointment arrangements or general inquiries. Only in urgent cases or in case of short-term cancellations of appointments, the workshop department should be contacted by telephone.

Computer Workstations

Differently equipped workstations: hardware / software
and individual advice

Contact: Andrea Huyoff,
Ilka Forst, Manfred Miersch, Jo Zahn (Team)
@email, tel 030 614015-79 / 030 551472-84

Medienwerkstatt Greenbox Bjorn Melhus Titel

Greenscreen Studio

Background: Green and black (white in the Media Lab) with dimmable light on the ceiling and movable lamps on the ground.

@email, tel 030 614015-79 / 030 551472-84

Audio Room

acoustically optimized room

Contact: Manfred Miersch
@email, tel 030 614015-79 / 030 551472-84

Media Lab

The media laboratory is located in the 80 sqm, historic boiler house of the Kunstquartier Bethanien. Since 2020 it is available as a media lab for the development of artworks.

@email, tel 030 614015-79 / 030 551472-84

Fixtures

Once in a month at the Jour Fixe of the media workshop the media lab is open for talks and discussions, demonstrations and workshops.

Screenings / Events

Screenings, Events, Exhibitions and Artfair Presentations of the media workshop

28.04.25 FIXTURES #4 in the Media Workshop - Cornelia Sollfrank and Felix Stalder in conversation with Kevin Rittberger | Embodied data and planetary thinking

Cornelia Sollfrank und Felix Stalder,
Contemporaneity in Embodied Data Practices,
in der Reihe The Contemporary Condition
(Hrsg. Geoff Cox, Jacob Lund und Nicolas Malevé),
Sternberg Press, 2025

Cornelia Sollfrank and Felix Stalder will speak at FIXTURES #4 about the contemporary in embodied data practices and its relation to the planetary. The occasion is the publication of their new book Contemporaneity in Embodied Data Practices, published in the series The Contemporary Condition by Sternberg Press.
Kevin Rittberger will moderate the dialogue and lead it into a general discussion.

Space for art work - media art made in Berlin