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Berlin - Cyber City (1989-1990), the interactive media art installation, was created right after the fall of the Berlin Wall. A table with an aerial view of Berlin (from 1972) was equipped with sensor technology and combined with a 3D environment of Berlin places. The audience got a navigation sensor in their hand (virtual reality tool) and visitors were invited to explore the city in time zones from 1939 (opening of S-Bahn Potsdamer Platz) to 1989 (fall of the Berlin Wall) and discuss the past and the future of the formerly divided city. The idea was to reconstruct and explore parts of East and West Berlin that were largely unknown in East OR West at the time of the exhibition (1990).
The question was: On what basis do Germans plan their/our future? While researching for the project, we came across forgotten spaces of the past such as Nazi bunkers under the death strip, and the abandoned Potsdamer Platz S-Bahn station, which for almost 30 years was only accessed by East Berlin police. The dimly lit S-Bahn platform of the 'ghost trains' that ran underground through East Berlin (from Wedding to Schoeneberg) was monitored and patrolled by armed guards to prevent East Berliners from trying to escape to the West by these trains.
We supplemented the research with simulations of the past: What did the station look like in 1939? And expanded the past with architectural visions for the future of the city and Potsdamer Platz. Our own participation in the Potsdamer Platz architectural competition and the designs of other participating architects were also integrated. The public should be given the opportunity to discuss the future of their city.
We felt it was important to debate the history on which the new Potsdamer Platz and Leipziger Platz would be built, and we hoped for a friendly encounter with the surrounding world in East and West, which at the time were keenly observing Germany. Some feared a resurgence of Germany and Nazi ideas. The media-archaeological interactive table opened a public debate about the city's past and future. It was introduced at the "Internationale Funkausstellung" in Berlin in 1991 and was further presented in ART+COM's rooms at Bahnhof Zoo. Unfortunately, the Berlin Senate was not interested in further use of the table at that time. A missed opportunity by the government of the time.

Artists / Authors: Wolfgang Strauss, Monika Fleischmann, Art+Com e.V. Berlin
Cooperators: Edouard Bannwart, Dirk Lüsebrink, Uli Weinberg, Gavin Hodge, Alain Bouchilloux, Hendrik Tramberend, Josef Speier, Achim Gothe. ART+COM
Origination: Germany, 1989-91
Berlin Cyber City was developed in the "Raumlabor" of ART+COM, directed by Monika Fleischmann & Wolfgang Strauss. Their research was funded by the Berlin Senate for Science and Research. It was part of the Longterm Research program on "Neue Medien im Städtebau" (New Media in Urban Planning, 1988-2002) directed by Edouard Bannwart, Head of Art+Com e.V. and supported by Deutsche Telekom/Berkom.

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