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Station Rose/STR was founded in Vienna, Austria, in 1988 by Elisa Rose (visuals) and Gary Danner (sound) as an open media lab, after Rose and Danner had graduated from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.On from the beginning their activities spanned from art production, exhibitions, DVD-, CD-, CD ROM- and vinyl productions, to research (on Virtual Realities, in cooperation with the Austrian Ministry of Science and Research), lectures and performing.As one of the first artist-groups Station Rose has used the possibilities of interactive media and especially of the internet in their work. Performances and lectures in art galleries, universities and museums are equally important as performances at media festivals and in the clubscene.Equipped with computers, STR was doing field-research in Cairo, Egypt, as a post-graduate grant in 1988/89.
At the end of the eighties, STR started their Gunafa Clubbings in Vienna & Frankfurt, the first audio-visual online-clubevents worldwide, playing sounds & visuals in realtime. In 1991 they moved to Frankfurt, and went online at the same time.
They won Prix Ars Electronica 1995, Honorable Mention.Since 1999 STR webcasts live at http://www.stationrose.com, performing live@home. 2002-2006 they had a regular TV show at hr-fernsehen/ARD Digital called "Best of Webcasting". The audio-visual STR "Koechelverzeichnis" consists of 31 hours now = so far 31 episodes (31 hours of audio-visual art) have been produced, as one of the rare media art projects on TV. The "Digital Archive of Station Rose" has been expanding ever since 1988.
Station Rose has released on its own label Gunafa, on Sony Music, ZYX Music, Mille Plateaux, edition selene, International Deejay Gigolo Records, Crippled Dick Hot Wax.
photos by: Gary Danner, Edith Held, Anke Peters, Ernst Stratmann/Photx.de
