Sign on / Sign off – 24 Hour Live Artist Television

Sign on / Sign off is a live streaming event of artist made “television” taking place at the Merz Akademie in Stuttgart, Germany on June 30, 2017.  The 24 hour “television network” will combine live performance, with remote broadcast and pre- recorded moving image content.

Sign on / Sign off is made possible by the Merz Akademie and with support from the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service).

program details:

5:22 Uhr
Sign on/ Sign off goes on the air. Throughout the day and into the night there will be live interviews, performances, cooking shows, painting shows, bands and DJ’s, and screenings of video from artists from around the world, and remote broadcasts.

20:00-2:00 Uhr
Merz Akademie Party Central with Michael Paukner (Stuttgart) and Dolphins (Leipzig)

2:00- 5:22 Uhr
Late night films, late night lectures, poetry readings, puppets, make-overs, satori

Featured Artists:
David Buob (Berlin)
Nicholas Hoffman (Frankfurt)
Melissa Livermore (FRANCE)
Steve Mathewson (AUSTRIA)
Tintin Patrone (Hamburg)
Francisca Villela (Berlin)

Music:
Michael Paukner (Stuttgart)
Dolphins (Leipzig)
Mark Perretta (USA)
Laylay (Stuttgart)
William Stamenkovic, Marko Mrdja & Maria Rose (Stuttgart)

Filmmakers:
Filipe Afonso (PORTUGAL)
Sverre Aune (Berlin)
Neno Belchev (BULGARIA)
Michael Betancourt (USA)
Catron Booker (USA, MEXICO)
Zachary Bruce / Ellen Broadhurst (AUSTRALIA)
Christian Noelle Charles (UK)
Biswajit Das (INDIA)
Alexei Dmitriev (RUSSIA)
Carl Elsaesser (USA)
Tobias Elsner (Stuttgart)
Michael Fleming (NETHERLANDS)
Lisa Förste (Stuttgart)
Florian Fusco (AUSTRIA)
Diane Haefner (Berlin)
Karissa Hahn (USA)
Alex Hovet (USA)
Maura Jasper (USA)
Lana Z Kaplan (USA)
Kent Lambert (USA)
Sarah Lassiter (USA)
Laylay (Stuttgart)
Carly Mandel (USA)
Peter Miller (AUSTRIA)
Eden Mitsenmacher and Rebecca Tritschler (NETHERLANDS)
Lydia Moyer (USA)
Jason Moyes (UK)
Lexi Musselman (USA)
Rick Niebe (ITALY)
Manuel Onetti (SPAIN)
Ann Oren (USA)
Eric Pillmayer (Stuttgart)
Stuart Pound (UK)
David Quigley (AUSTRIA)
Brian Ratigan (USA)
Joe Saphire (USA)
Carl Spartz (USA)
Pawel Szostak (AUSTRIA)
Melissa Tvetan (USA)
David Weimar (Stuttgart)
Dina Yanni (AUSTRIA)

Live Programs and Performances by:
TANGRAM kollektiv (Stuttgart)
Maj-Britt Designer, (Stuttgart)
Lucca Donalies (Stuttgart)
Alvaro Garcia (Stuttgart)
Nikolaos Goutzeris (Stuttgart)
Jonas Heinisch (Stuttgart)
Julius Kleinbach (Stuttgart)
Dylan Linde (Stuttgart)
Caroline Meyer-Jürshof (Stuttgart)
Melis Süngü (Stuttgart)
Arian Sanati (Stuttgart)
Janina Schindler (Stuttgart)
Lorenz Adrian Schmider (Stuttgart)
Delia Steinbach (Stuttgart)
Vladislav Sycev (Stuttgart)
Maximilian Tolksdorf (Stuttgart)

Filmmakers:
Filipe Afonso (PORTUGAL)
Sverre Aune (Berlin)
Neno Belchev (BULGARIA)
Michael Betancourt (USA)
Catron Booker (USA, MEXICO)
Zachary Bruce / Ellen Broadhurst (AUSTRALIA)
Christian Noelle Charles (UK)
Biswajit Das (INDIA)
Alexei Dmitriev (RUSSIA)
Carl Elsaesser (USA)
Tobias Elsner (Stuttgart)
Michael Fleming (NETHERLANDS)
Lisa Förste (Stuttgart)
Florian Fusco (AUSTRIA)
Diane Haefner (Berlin)
Karissa Hahn (USA)
Alex Hovet (USA)
Maura Jasper (USA)
Lana Z Kaplan (USA)
Kent Lambert (USA)
Sarah Lassiter (USA)
Laylay (Stuttgart)
Carly Mandel (USA)
Peter Miller (AUSTRIA)
Eden Mitsenmacher and Rebecca Tritschler (NETHERLANDS)
Lydia Moyer (USA)
Jason Moyes (UK)
Lexi Musselman (USA)
Rick Niebe (ITALY)
Manuel Onetti (SPAIN)
Ann Oren (USA)
Eric Pillmayer (Stuttgart)
Stuart Pound (UK)
David Quigley (AUSTRIA)
Brian Ratigan (USA)
Joe Saphire (USA)
Carl Spartz (USA)
Pawel Szostak (AUSTRIA)
Melissa Tvetan (USA)
David Weimar (Stuttgart)
Dina Yanni (AUSTRIA)