Hotel Pompino 3

In the late 80s, VGTV's Mike Hentz and Karel Dudesek met with Peter Weibel (still artistic director of ARS at the time) and discussed "HOTEL POMPINO," the VGTV television project in which everyone involved would spend the entire time living and working together in a container city and filming would go on permanently. Initially the proposal didn't elicit much of a response. It was a second meeting attended by VGTV member Benjamin Heidersberger, Ars staffers and Hannes Leopoldseder, head of the ORF's Upper Austria studio, that led to the breakthrough and the signing of a contract by VGTV, ORF, SRG, ZDF and 3sat. Benjamin Heidersberger was responsible for all the technical innovations that went into the Pompino project and later Piazza Virtuale. He was the only one who, parallel to the artistic ideas, could think in terms of and achieve mastery over the technical context—or at least give the impression that the project would be a cakewalk.

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