In 1988, Station Rose/STR (Elisa Rose and Gary Danner) has been opened as public media lab, exhibition & performance space in Vienna by Elisa Rose & Gary Danner. It can be seen as the essential space for media art in Vienna at that time – digital art became reality in 1988 through STR- with business hours. The virtualization was realized after the move to Frankfurt in 1991. For the 20th anniversary STR buildt a real place again, as a temporary, walkable media sculpture, with a timeline of the Digital Archive as a database, as a performable work-in-progress artwork The virtual and the real morphed together on location. STR created grounding through the building process exactly because of the years of dematerialization and thereby making the complex 0-1 art accessible. STR performed during the project, the audiovisual works of Station Rose were accessible on the LED skin. …
see also
Cyberspace Is Our Land: 20 Digital Years Plus on www.furtherfield.org : http://goo.gl/LLFIz