pueblo plays HIMW (He Is My Wife): A post-industrial noise performance questioning what personality means in a facebook world; a faceless performer unravels multiple personalities through
noise.
With her poetic manifesto Brazilian artist Vanessa Ramos-Velasquez transfers ideas around cultural cannibalism and anthropophagic practices as coined by her countryman Oswald de Andrade in his 1928-text Manifesto Antropófago into the present digital age – For in today's world, it is the virtual world which poses the new frontier making everyone a potential coloniser. In this lecture Vanessa Ramos-Velasquez presents her research paper and manifesto-poem.
The nomadic TRACES Lounge responds to the high geographical and intellectual mobility demanded from artists and curators today by offering a space for slow culture, relaxed interaction and deeper exchange. Visitors are invited to discuss the realities of navigation within Free Culture and the Open Web as they participate in the TRACES live radio show, and the TRACES 'Open Zone Special Edition'.
Claus Pias präsentiert sein neues Buch Was waren Medien?, mit Beiträgen von Dieter Daniels, Lorenz Engell, Wolfgang Hagen, Joachim Paech und Claus Pias, blickt der Band auf die Anfänge der akademischen Beschäftigung mit Medien in Deutschland zurück, setzt sie in Beziehung zur Geschichte der Medienkunst, fragt nach der wissenschaftssystematischen Position von Medienwissenschaft und entwickelt Zukunftsperspektiven.
Bei der Präsentation mit dabei sind Dieter Daniels und Wolfgang Hagen.
As a follow up of the workshop Reclaim the Screens! during transmediale.10 and based on the Media Facades Festivals Berlin 2008 and Europe 2010 we explore how artists, curators and creative people can utilise the urban screens infrastructure as social vision panels. What is the communicative, intercultural potential of public screens? Which socio-aesthetic forms of interaction enable a dialogue between different local scenes, how can we engage the public in the creative process to contribute to local community building?
Our identities are redefined as diffused, open and emergent, perceivable yet elusive, ephemeral yet drastically present, single yet multiple, localised yet ubiquitous. During the workshop participants will create a connective emergent "Identity" from scratch.
Somali pirate fashion is the new trend for a new generation of rurbans (rural urbane). Take part in the process of production of the WOPPOW by WOPPOW fashion line - preproduced garments and accessories directly brought to you from the nairobi district of Kibera and Eastleigh as well as fashion items from Puntland, Somalia are waiting to be brought to a climax of style by fine European hands. Plus: video material needs editing and shall be transformed into WOPPOW's new advertising line. >APPLY HERE FOR THIS WORKSHOP!
Sharism is the pledge of Creative Commons. In opposition to the legal concerns regarding loss of copyright control today's sharing environment is more protected than one might think. Many new social applications make it easy to set terms-of-use along the sharing path and their infringement will be challenged not just by the law, but by your community: Your audience – who benefit from your sharing – as the gatekeepers of your rights! This workshop demonstrates the benefits of sharing through examples of Sharism projects and Creative Commons licenses, while challenging views on real value and contributions, both economic and creative.
In this workshop members of the group HONF teach science through an artistic approach in order to demonstrate that science doesn’t have to be expensive, dangerous or inaccessible nor only possible with a lab. Participants will learn how to make their own slant culture, colour it with natural dyes and make a test tube rack from paper. At the end everyone is invited to take their slant culture home and pass on the experience, technique and culture to others.
Marshall McLuhan Salon, Embassy of Canada in Berlin
conference partner event
Doors Open: 18:00, Lecture 18:30 - 19:30
Botschaft von Kanada, Leipziger Platz 17, 10117 Berlin
transmediale Marshall McLuhan Lecture 2011 is to be held by Mark Surman, Executive Director, Mozilla Foundation. His lecture topic is Media, Freedom and the Web.
The digitisation of Audiovisuality has taken place through a hybridisation of media formats, artistic genres and cultural contexts rather than solely technological. The idea behind the lecture by Dieter Daniels is that this development has already been in process for 250 years – since the Enlightenment, in the 19th century and the 1920s until today.
Nominated for the transmediale Award 2011, this interactive sound installation by Christopher Warnow and Daniel Franke is more than just an interpretation of a composition by Rutger Zuydervelt. An interface, which reacts to the audiences' body movements, this work immerses the viewer by superimposing digital and architectural spaces. For each one of us a different, individual and fluid visualisation appears onscreen. This event is one of three occasions when the artists will be present for a show and tell of the work.
This audio-visual performance is a homage to the history of record experiments. This time the reproducing device becomes a machine célibataire à la Marcel Duchamp. By combining the record player with an exercise bicycle the Discjockey2000 is generated, an unconventional musical instrumentarium for generating incomparable analog sounds.
Tonight LIVE:RESPONSE presents two audiovisual performances which both revolve around cut-up techniques to remix items and icons of our contemporary pop culture. DONJON by Cécile Babiole and Vincent Goudard gleefully deconstructs a wide range of objects, particularly audiovisual equipment: turntables, radios, computers, musical instruments, telephones, video cameras – but also cocktail blenders, battery chickens, and various other domestic and fantastic appliances of ages past and present. In Genre CollagePeople Like Us manipulate the symbols, patterns and film stars of selected movie genres/sub-genres.
‘Free’ and ‘open’ – it sounds so idealistic and limitless. The so-called Open Culture has produced many alternative approaches in dealing with knowledge and information, but, on the other hand, the utopias of free access constantly breed confusion. This discussion focuses on the future agenda of the Free Culture movement and provides guidance for all those who are confused by too much ‘freedom’.
This visualisation workshop lead by the co-founders of Tactical Tech explores the space where creativity and data meet, with an aim to discover new forms of engaging people in the issues that effect our lives. Uncovering how activists around the world are using information design to increase political participation, this workshop shows how visual metaphors, storytelling, and creativity can turn information into action!
In this workshop Dmytri Kleiner, creator of Thimbl, the free, Open Source, distributed micro-blogging alternative will talk about how Thimbl came into existence and what makes it different from other social networks. Dmytri will also show preregistered participants how to get webhosts, Internet service-providers or system administrators to provide accounts so that they can use the Thimbl for their own creative practices.
Pre-registration required.
> thimbl.net/
What if Kafka's Internet suddenly came true and text were suddenly undecipherable as too many algorithms cancel out each other’s choice of uncensored words and all online communication were limited to emoticons?
These are the ideas behind interACTicons, a project enacting and visualising our online habits through the collection and performance of JPEGs, GIFs and videos by Ursula Endlicher that comprises of an online archive, several hands-on workshops and a final participatory performance.
The short films shown in this programme address the paradoxes gathering at the margins of communication processes. While such endeavours particularly aim for functional consensus between members of a society they seemingly also engender a whole range of peculiarities. Desync Systems presents five such examples.
This programme juxtaposes two films that, each with its own absurdity, document cornerstones in the development of telecommunications. The 1940s educational film Dial Comes to Town taught people how to use the direct dial telephone, while today – regardless of the time difference – workers in call centres outsourced to India instruct British and American callers on how to use their technical devices via service hotlines.
With software processes entering broadcasting culture, a young generation of hands-on thinkers and producers has become attracted to radio as a medium for community projects and artistic endeavours alike. This global panel of broadcast pioneers and radio artists looks at the unique qualities of radiophonic practice and explores the future of experimental transmission.
