BIOGRAPHY (1988 - today)

Station Rose/STR was founded by musician Gary Danner & visual artist Elisa Rose, after they had finished their studies of media art at the University of Applied Art in Vienna in 1987 with diplomas.
From 1988-1991 Station Rose was located in todays (art)center of the city, at Margaretenstrasse 26, in the 4th district. Since 1991 the headquarter is located in Frankfurt/Germany.
2001:

webcasts - live@home, starting with Webcast 129
Online Interview at "Inkwell.vue".
"Dave - remixed", Vinylrelease on International Deejay Gigolos.
"Im Gespraech" at <www.stationrose.com> with mille plateaux / Force Inc. Music Works.
"Im Gespraech" at <www.stationrose.com> with Dr. Udo Kornmeier.
Participation (lecture & performance) at "v-stream21", Linz Austria.
Audio-visual performance at t-u-b-e, Munich.
Audio-visual performance at Mousonturm, Frankfurt.
Realization of the "Webcast Lounge" at Art Frankfurt.
Audio-visual performance at WMF, Berlin.
Audio-visual performance and lecture at Steirischer Herbst, transfer.net.

2000:

"Arte / Tracks", TV-feature on Station Rose.
"Club Transmediale", audio-visual performance, Berlin.
Art Frankfurt 2000, represented by Galerie Trabant; Gunafa Clubbing; Artkino. 
"Im Gespraech" at <www.stationrose.com> with Bazon Brock.
"Mekka Frankfurt Offenbach", in cooperation with moschee.
"Kulturzeit", 3sat, TV-feature on Station Rose.
"Drag & Drop", performance and installation & in conversation with Josephine Bosma at 
medien.kunst.tirol, Innsbruck, Austria.
"100 Tage keine Ausstellung", Kunstverein Salzburg, performance and conversation with Hildegund Amanshauser.
"live @home 3", vinylrelease on Gunafa Records.
"AU CIEL", Audio CD, Crippled Dick Hot Wax.
"2 Step", TV-feature, 1 hour live recording of a webcast, VIVA 2.
Performance at rhiz, Wien.
Participation at "If only we could tell", installation and performance, Generali Foundation, Wien. 
"private://public", book publication, edition selene, presentation at MAK Vienna, and "filesharing" Berlin.
Audio-visual performance at VIPER, Basel.
Regular Webcasting at <www.stationrose.com>.
Audio-visual performance at "Joypad / Blasthaus!", San Francisco.

1999:

Participation at "CROSSLINKS", Berlin: 1st Webcasting at  <www.stationrose.com>, 22.1.1999.
Participation at "Next 5 Minutes 3", Amsterdam. Webcasting, Performance, Booktour.
"Galerienrundgang"/ Art Frankfurt, Rotari Club Frankfurt/Offenbach.
"Gunafa Clubbing II", Space Place/Frankfurt.
"Accept The Future", audio-visual performance, Bordeaux France.
"Best of Webcasting", RadioX, Frankfurt.
"Kunstradio - Station Rose Jingle 99", ORF, Austria & Internet.
Participation at "von 0-1", lecture, Kunsthalle Schirn Frankfurt.
"Playing now", CD release on Gunafa records.
"live @home 1+2", vinyl releases on Gunafa records.
"Playing now world tour": Earth Dance Festival/Hamburg, Galerie Trabant/Wien, U60311/Frankfurt, 
Transmediale/Berlin, Viper Festival/Luzern, Ultraschall/München, Batofar/Paris.

1998:

"Transmediale 98", audio-visual performance, Berlin.
"1st Decade" - 10 Years of Station Rose", book publication, edition selene, Vienna.
"Kunstradio - The 1st Decade", ORF/Austria & Internet.
STR on Field Duty in California, USA.
"Booktour": lectures, installations, performances in: Vienna (MAK), San Francisco, 
Hamburg (Westwerk, in conversation with Geert Lovink), Frankfurt/Bookfair.
Participation at "Construction Sounds", audio-visual performance, Museumsquartier Vienna.

1997:

Release of CD extra "Phosphoric Brain Massage", hypermedia art; texts; audio, on Sony Music.
ELECTRIC MINDS/World Wide Jam, Internet.
"Sunflower Festival", Regensburg, Germany.
"Nature One Festival", Kastellaun, Germany.
Popkomm 97, Cologne.
Ars Electronica, workshop and lecture on Virtual Communities, with John "Tex" Coate; Linz, Austria.
"Cosmic Circus" Festival, Frankfurt & Berlin, Germany.
"Technoscope", Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria.
"Flying Network", University of Potsdam, Germany.
Participation at "Montreal International Festival of Cinema and New Media", Canada.
"Musik im Internet", lecture, Fachhochschule Frankfurt.
Release of "TREE", Vinyl-Maxisingle and Video, on Sony Music.

1996:

Participation at "Burning the Interface", exhibition of "avantgarde-CD ROMs", Sydney Australia.
"Kursbuch Internet", text contribution, Bollmann Verlag, Germany.
Videoconference with Timothy Leary, Ken Kesey.
"Komm 96", panel discussion with J.P. Barlow, G. Lovink and others, Duesseldorf.
Popkomm 96, Cologne.
"Electronic Weekend", Theremin-concert, WP8, Duesseldorf. 
Contract with Sony Music/S3.
Station Rose "Hosts of the Frankfurt Conference" and "World Wide Jammers" at 
Howard Rheingolds "ELECTRIC MINDS". 

1995: 

Release of CD/CD-ROM "Icons, Morphs & Samples", Gunafa Records, licensed by Play it again Sam Germany.  
"Mind Children", CD-Single, Gunafa Records, licensed by Play it again Sam Germany.
Field Research USA. Meetings with Howard Rheingold, John Coate (S.F. Chronicle), The WELL,	
Dr. Timothy Leary, Terence McKenna.
STATION ROSE - Homepage <www.well.com/www/gunafa/>, honorable mention at Prix Ars Electronica.
Popkomm 95, Cologne.
"Gunafa Clubbing / Internet Lounge", The BOX Frankfurt, online connection with "The WELL", San Francisco.
Participation at "Telematic Cities", Gelsenkirchen, Germany. 
"World Wide Jam", contributions for Howard Rheingold´s "Digital Zeitgeist". 
Participation at Frankfurt Bookfair.
"Auskunft", in conversation with F.E.Rakuschan, Depot Vienna.

1994:

Participation at "Chromapark", Berlin. 
MTV-The Party Zone, London. 
Contribution to "Pulseman", Electronica Sampler (double vinyl, Frogman Records, Tokio).
Participation at "Art Finale", Nuernberg.
Production of CD-ROM "Surfing on Electronic Surfaces: 15 years of Ars Electronica". 
Participation at "European Media Art Festival", Osnabrueck.
Participation at "Infografia ´94", Bilbao. 

1993:

"Station Rose Interaktiv", Galerie Troester & Schlueter, Frankfurt. CD ROM, Multiples and Print-Outs.
Participation at "Mediale", Hamburg. 
Live-Tour, 10 German Metropoles, with Dj Dag.
Participation at "Unit n", Vienna.
Founding of Hypermedia-Label "GUNAFA": CD ROMs and vinyls.
Hypermedia - Events at "Ebene 7",Frankfurt: real time chat, ascii graphics.    	
Performance with Terence McKenna, Ebene 7 Frankfurt.
Participation at "Interactiva", Cologne. 
Participation at Popkomm, Cologne. 
"FAB 505", EP/Video Production, #3 of "New Musical Express-Techno Charts", London. 
"FAB 505 - Networked Cell", Hypermedia Installation & Multimedia Sequencing live, incl. online connection with 
Virtual Community at The WELL. MAK/Austrian Museum for Applied Art, Vienna. 
"Reise zu den Quellen", field research in Tokyo Japan.

1992:

regular Gunafa Clubbing, XS club Frankfurt, live hypermedia performances in a Club context, online networking with 
Virtual Community at The WELL: real time chat, ascii graphics.
Participation at "Expeditionen 92", Munich. 
CD-ROM Production "Station Rose Interaktiv. Virtual Reality as a New Frontier". In cooperation with the Austrian Ministry 
for science and research, and CHIP INSIDE. 
Participation at "37 Raeume", Berlin.
Participation at "Interactiva", Cologne. 
Release of "DigitEyes/Dave", "LP of the Week", MTV / "The Party Zone". 
Participation at "Virtuelle Rituale", Freiburg.

1991:

Station Rose goes online at The Well.
"Public Brain Session", with Micky Remann, TV tower Frankfurt. 
"Virtual Reality as a New Frontier",	research for the Austrian Ministry for science and research. 
Field research in California, USA. 
Participation at "1st European Software Festival", Munich.
"Gunafa 2000", exhibition at NGBK, Berlin. Multiples, light boxes, live-performance, Internet connection with 
Howard	Rheingold, San Francisco. "Virtual Welcome" by Dr. Timothy Leary. 
Release of "Gunafa 2000" EP/CD (#9 in "Global Techno Power Charts", Detroit USA). 
Audio-visual performance at "Soft Targets", Munich.
"Chill Out", Kunsthalle Schirn, Frankfurt.
Move from Vienna to Frankfurt. Closing of Station Rose lab in Vienna.

1990:

"Cybergirls", exhibition by Moritz Reichelt, last activity of STR in Vienna.
"Mind Machines", Symposium: Cyberspace & Virtual Realities, Wien. 
"Public Brain Session", premiere of, Vienna. Opto-acoustic brain stimulation through theta waves.
"Das Broiler Projekt", with Christoph Tannert / Berlin East,on "Avantgarde in the GDR?". "Warenwerte", Videos,
lecture, vinyls. STR/Vienna.     
"Gunafa Clubbing", Hypermedia Installation, Public Brain Session, Techno. Vienna, Mannheim, Hamburg, Frankfurt.  
"Windows", series of installations in the windows of the Station, Vienna. With contributions by Helmut Mark und F.E. Rakuschan, 
Peter Sandbichler and others. Art in a public space.
Art Frankfurt. Represented by Gawlik & Schorm/Vienna, Karin Sachs/Munich. 
Participation at "Sommeratelier", Hannover.   
Audio-visual performance at Westwerk, installation and Public Brain Session, Hamburg.
Public Brain Tour: BRD, CH, USA; some performances with Dr. Timothy Leary. 
Audio-visual performance at "Cyberthon" ("A 24-hour Adventure in Virtual Reality"), San Francisco. 
Participation at Steirischer Herbst - "Mobile Halle".

1989:

"Arabian Sands", exhibition, with concert by Gary Danner & The Bicycle Thieves, gallery Gawlik & Schorm, Vienna
(short break of field research in Cairo): light objects, video edition, catalogue (incl. 1,2 MB disc), multiples.  
"Station on Field Duty", hypermedia field research in Cairo/Egypt until Juli. Production of objects, fashion 
and soundrecordings.
Participation at "Design Wien", Museum for Applied Arts, Vienna.
Participation at "Museum des 21. Jahrhunderts", Vienna, curated by Oswald Oberhuber. 
Participation at "Trash City", Forum Stadtpark, Graz Austria, curated by Armin Medosch.
"Gunafa Show", audio-visual performance at Ars Electronica, "Im Netz der Systeme", incl. "Gunafa Pavillon", Linz Austria. 

1988:

"Station on Field Duty", on from November, field research in Cairo/Egypt for 8 months.
"Music cassettes & light installation" by Andreas Kunzmann.
"3 short stories" by Armin Medosch, publication on "Edition Rose", lecture by the author.
"Flags and Hymns", project at the occasion of the Station´s opening. Contributions by Gerwald Rockenschaub, Bob Adrian, Helmut Mark, 
F.M. Einheit, Der Plan, Elisa Rose, Gary Danner, General Guglhupf, Sevo, Walter E. Baumann and others. Multiple and cassette.
"Die andere Wirklichkeit. Avantgarde in der DDR ?" Lecture by Christoph Tannert/East Berlin.
"Samples", Symposium, Vienna. With contributions by Fritz Ostermeier, Pita, Thomas Mießgang, Zelko Wiener, Constanze Ruhm, 
Mathias Fuchs, Phoenix Presseagentur, and others, 
incl. "Sampling Live" with concert, Acid House (DJ G. Rockenschaub) and light-installation.
"Oriental Light", performance and installation at Museum Ludwig, Cologne. 

Opening of Station Rose, 11.3.88 in Vienna.


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