Susa Pop | Public Art Lab

Susa Pop is an urban media art curator, cultural producer, lecturer, and the artistic director and co-founder of Public Art Lab.
She initiated a lot of urban media art projects like Digital Calligraffiti and Connecting Cities which is a worldwide network of urban media art environments and institutions – co-funded by the European Union.  Having originally studied design and cultural management, she is interested in creative city-making through urban media art projects which foster digital placemaking, community building and citizen science in the urban space. Susa Pop holds worldwide lectures in the field of urban media art and gives seminars at the Bauhaus University Weimar and the Leuphana University. She recently launched the Urban Media Art Academy together with Tanya Toft in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Thailand.

 

MAIN PROJECTS
Media Façades Festivals in 2008 and 2010 (co-funded by the European Union), Innovation Forum Urban Screens in 2011 (together with the German Ministry of Science and Education), Urban Media Network Berlin in 2012, Mobile Studios (2006), the Bauhaus Festival in 2012 and 2013 (together with the Bauhaus Foundation Dessau), Germany + Brazil Year 2013 (official opening with Goethe-Institute Sao Paulo), City Visions Jena in 2015 (in cooperation with the City of Jena and the International UNESCO Light Year), the international programme of the Guangzhou Light Festival in 2015, Live Your City in Bangkok 2016 (together with BACC and Goethe-Institute Thailand) and the Energy Avantgarde Anhalt, Germany (2016), Future DiverCities 2016-2020, co-funded by the European Union / Creative Europe.

 

MAIN PUBLICATIONS
Urban Media Cultures and  Urban Media Art Can Do at avedition.