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Bluetooth_Graffiti
Using Bluetooth technology embedded in many mobile communication devices, visitors who have this functionality on their cell phones are invited to activate it and to explore and collectively create together virtual space. They can send and receive visual and audio fragments which recast the history and memory of politically charged public sites.
Bluetooth_Graffiti I Germania transmediale.07
Some projects, such as the creation of a great city axis, which included broadening Unter den Linden and placing the Siegessäule in the center, far away from the Reichstag, where it originally stood, succeeded. Others, however, such as the creation of the Große Halle (Great Dome), had to be shelved due to the beginning of war.
The first step in these plans was the Olympic Stadium for the 1936 Summer Olympics. Speer also designed a new Chancellery, which included a vast hall designed to be twice as long as the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles. Hitler wanted him to build a third, even larger Chancellery, although it was never begun. The second Chancellery was destroyed by the Soviet army in 1945.
Almost none of the other buildings planned for Berlin was ever built. Berlin was to be reorganized along a central three-mile long avenue. At the north end, Speer planned to build an enormous domed building, the Volkshalle (people's hall), based on St. Peter's Basilica and the Pantheon in Rome. The dome of the building would have been impractically large; it would be over seven hundred feet (200 meters) high and eight hundred feet (250 meters) in diameter, sixteen times larger than the dome of St. Peter's. At the southern end of the avenue would be an arch based on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, but again, much larger; it would be almost four hundred feet (100 meters) high, and the Arc de Triomphe would have been able to fit inside its opening. The outbreak of World War II in 1939 caused the decision to postpone construction until after the war to save strategic materials.
One so-called exploration building (Schwerbelastungskörper, literal translation: Heavy load-bearing body) still exists, basically an extremely heavy block of concrete used by the architects to test how much weight the ground was able to carry. Instruments monitored how far the block sank into the ground.
Robert Harris, author of the 1992 alternate history novel Fatherland, posits that Hitler's and Speer's vision of rebuilt and monumental Berlin would have been realized by 1964. Other researchers into the logistics of Hitler's Welthaupstadt have claimed that, owing to both the sheer amount of marble required and Berlin's marshy foundations, Germania would have sunk into the ground within a few years. ”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welthauptstadt_Germania
Previous realizations of Bluetooth_Graffiti:
Bluetooth_graffiti I Mausoleum_1 The installation in public space is part of Mobile Studios Project
Bluetooth_graffiti I Mausoleum_3 The realization is sponsored by CEC ArtsLink. Produced in association with the Harvestworks Benders and Coders concert series and the 2006 Bent Festival.
Part of “On Difference #2” exhibition. Supported by Kulturstiftung des Bundez, Culture 2000 Programe, Allianz-Kulturstiftung
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