transmediale 2015 CAPTURE ALL opens partner programme on 9 January 2015
Vorspiel, Marshall McLuhan Lecture with David Orrell, Marshall McLuhan Salon with Lorna Mills & assemble | standard | minimal at Schering Stiftung
Press Preview: 27 January 2015, 12:00 Haus der Kulturen der Welt, John-Foster-Dulles Allee 10, 10557 Berlin
Berlin, 06.01.2015
Before transmediale 2015 CAPTURE ALL, again supported by Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation), starts on 28 January 2015 at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, the partner programme leads over to the festival opening in numerous Berlin based project spaces, organisations and galleries from 9 January.
VORSPIEL
On 9 January 2015, 19:00 the pre-festival programme Vorspiel of transmediale and CTM – Festival for Adventurous Music and Art opens at Z/KU - Center for Art and Urbanistics. Coordinated by transmediale’s all-year initiative reSource transmedial culture Berlin a series of Berlin based organisations, galleries, independent project spaces and other venues from the field of digital art and culture as well as experimental music and sound art react to the festival themes CAPTURE ALL and Un Tune until 1 February 2015.
Partners & Venues: .CHB – Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, ACUD Macht Neu, Agora Collective, Alexander von Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft, Apartment Project Berlin, Art & Science Node, Art Laboratory Berlin, Bauhaus-Archiv, berlinerpool, DAM GALLERY, designtransfer / UdK, Ehemaliges Stummfilmkino Delphi, Schering Stiftung, Errant Bodies, Institut für Alles Mögliche, Kunsthalle/PLU41, La Plaque Tournante, Labor Neunzehn, Liebig12, LOOPHOLE, Martin Reiche / Green Hill Gallery, Multiversal, PANKE, schnellebuntebilder & kling klang klong, Simple Things Berlin, studio r°, Supermarkt, uqbar, Vilém Flusser Archive, Voces (Ulrike Gabriel und Udo Lindemann), Z/KU Center for Art and Urbanistics
The complete pre-festival programme is available online.
The special exhibition Sensing the Future - László Moholy-Nagy, the Media and the Arts at the Bauhaus-Archiv focuses on the artistic work of the avant-gardist and Bauhaus teacher László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946). Moholy-Nagy’s many-faceted media art as well as works by contemporary artists such as Olafur Eliasson, Gottfried Jäger und Karl Martin Holzhäuser, Erika Lincoln or Guy Maddin are presented at the Bauhaus-Archiv until 2 February 2015 (open daily - except Tuesdays - from 10:00 until 17:00). The exhibition, curated by Oliver Botar of the School of Art at the University of Manitoba, Canada, has been prepared in collaboration with the Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art in Winnipeg, Canada, and has received financial support from the Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin, Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne and Salgo Trust for Education New York.
Ghost Cinema is a series of site specific AV interventions that take place in urban spaces menaced by capitalistic speculation and gentrification processes. For the Vorspiel it will go live in a haunting session at Ehemaliges Stummfilmkino Delphi, located at historical Filmstadt Weißensee in Berlin, on 18 January 2015 at 19:00. Ghost Cinema is conceived as an assemblage of audiovisual materials such as video footage, photographs, newspaper articles, testimonials, drawings and other archives, in order to create a remix that awakens the spirit of the place where the performance happens.
The designtransfer gallery of the Berlin University of the Arts takes a look at the stories that emerge by measuring and representing data. An exhibition shows the results of MEASURING INSTRUMENTS and TECHNO LEGACY, two projects of the Digitale Klasse at the Berlin University of the Arts led by Prof. Joachim Sauter and Prof. Jussi Ängeslevä. A talk by the new media design collective Domestic Data Streamers from Barcelona will complement the exhibition that opens on 27 January.
From 11 until 27 January, the artist-run space Labor Neunzehn presents the exhibition From field recording to data sonification in late capitalism, which focuses on the practices of collecting information by means of sound. Labor Neunzehn shows works by artists like Andrea Polli, Peter Cusack or Stephen Vitiello dealing with sonification, audification and field recording techniques for the exploration of data, global imbalances, climate change, and cultural shifting.
Part of the Vorspiel programme is also the exhibition [micro]biologies II: πρωτεο / proteo with works by Joanna Hoffmann at Art Laboratory Berlin. Joanna Hoffmann's transdisciplinary works combine art, microbiology, physics and technology. Her use of multimedia installations, 3d stereoscopy, experimental video animation and other media explore the visualisation of sub-atomic and molecular as well as cosmic space.
berlinerpool and ascribe raise the question of property rights in digital environments. Under the title Art ownership in the digital age: Perceptions on the art object, intellectual property, and data, several speakers will discuss the associations of ownership through open access models, mass media, technology, and acquisition in the digital age – specifically the ownership rights of art, intellectual property and information. The exhibition Mothership featuring the digital work of Jonathan Monaghan will run alongside the lectures. Please RSVP here since seats are limited. The attendance is free.
From 21 January, Apartment Project presents the experimental film WhereToGo? made by artists from Berlin and Istanbul within a few months period. The film project subjects the attempts and struggles of a stranded and displaced group of people, in search of an escape in a dystopic environment. WhereToGo? as performance will be staged on 22 January at 18:00.
Opening night at Z/KU – Center for Art and Urbanistics
Siemensstraße 27, 10551 Berlin
9 January 2015, 19:00
The opening event provides the opportunity to get an insight into the programme and meet the participants of Vorspiel and its extended network. The event will include a DJ Set by Mobiletti Giradischi and a D/VJ Set by Sakrowski & hannahlinda.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN LECTURE
Canadian mathematician and publicist David Orrell will deliver this year’s Marshall McLuhan Lecture entitled Money is the Message on 27 January 2015 at the Embassy of Canada.
In works like Apollo’s Arrow: The Science of Prediction and the Future of Everything (2007) he deals with the boundaries of mathematic patterns which are supposed to ensure the predictability of events of all kinds. His most recent publication Truth or Beauty: Science and the Quest for Order focuses on the strained relationship between science and aesthetics.
In his talk, Orrell will pick up on McLuhan’s idea that money is a medium for social interaction. The lecture looks at the origins of money; explores its often-paradoxical properties; asks how money went missing from mainstream economics; shows why modern fiat currencies are transmedia; peers into the future of currencies; and – in the spirit of McLuhan – draws on everything from ancient philosophy, to modern scientific theories such as complexity, to decode money’s mysterious but enchanting message.
transmediale Marshall McLuhan Lecture is a cooperation between transmediale and the Embassy of Canada.
Money is the Message by David Orrell
Embassy of Canada, Leipziger Platz 17, 10117 Berlin
27 January 2014, 18:30 (please present a valid photo-ID at the door and allow sufficient time for Embassy security), Doors Open 18:00
In English; free admission (please register via the Marshall McLuhan Salon).
In connection to the lecture, the McLuhan Salon will show the solo exhibition Abrupt Diplomat with new works by Canadian media and Internet artist Lorna Mills from 27 January to 1 February.
Lorna Mills forms patterns that defy progress and instead suspend the viewer in an endless retreat from the familiar: In her GIF works the characters are constantly misbehaving; Mills creates images that are out of control, outside of time and modality.
On 31 January 2015 the Salon will also host the German premiere of Ways of Something, an anthology film featuring 58 net artists curated by Lorna Mills as a remake of John Berger’s classic BBC documentary, Ways of Seeing (1972). The project combines 3D rendering, gifs, film remix, webcam performances, and websites to describe the cacophonous conditions of artmaking after the internet.
Abrupt Diplomat
McLuhan Salon
Opening: 27 January 2015, 20:00-22:00
Exibition: 27 January until 1 February 2015
Opening times: Mon-Fri 12:00-18:00, Sat-Sun 14:00-18:00
Free entry
Ways of Something (Screening, 60 min)
Screening: 31 January 16.00 - 17.30 (Doors open 30 minutes before)
ASSEMBLE | STANDARD | MINIMAL – Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen
In collaboration with the Schering Stiftung, Berlin, and The Arts Catalyst, London, transmediale presents the exhibition assemble | standard | minimal, which will be shown at the project space of the Schering Stiftung from 23 January until 3 May 2015.
Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen translate our times of automated and standardised production technologies, into performative installations, provocative objects, and subtly aestheticised documentary films. While the biological sciences shift their focus from analysis to synthesis, adopting a language of engineering that focuses less on living beings than on components, circuits and systems, the artists examine our changing values. Their new work Sterile revolves around albino goldfish designed to be born without reproductive organs, presented alongside a machine – put in stand-by mode – capable of reproducing sterile fish to demand from pre-extracted sperm and eggs. In 75 Watt and Pigeon d’Or, human and animal organisms are being used in highly controlled (dys)functional processes.
Project space of the Schering Stiftung, Berlin
Unter den Linden 32–34 | 10117 Berlin
http://www.scheringstiftung.de
Exhibition opening: 22 January 2015, 19:00 – 21:00
Title: assemble | standard | minimal – Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen
Duration: 23 January – 3 May 2015, daily (except Tuesdays and Sundays) 12:00 – 19:00
Open on Sunday, 3 May 2015, 12:00 – 19:00
Artist Talk: 22 January 2015, 17:00
Free Admission
On 29 January 2015, 19:00 the panel assemble | standard | minimal with Tuur Van Balen and Revital Cohen takes place within the framework of transmediale 2015 CAPTURE ALL at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
Also part of transmediale 2015 will be the extended version of the exhibition entitled Time and Motion: Redefining Working Life as cooperation between transmediale, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, FACT, Royal College of Art / Creative Exchange Hub and Schering Stiftung.
Produced by FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, Liverpool) in 2013, it is now presented as a special edition linked to the festival theme.
Time & Motion uses artworks, research projects, archival materials and interventions to track our journey through the world of work, from clocking on at the factory gates to checking in online from our home office.
After the festival, Time & Motion will run parallel to the exhibition Labour in a Single Shot by the late Harun Farocki, until 6 April 2015.
Artists: Tuur Van Balen, Revital Cohen, Ellie Harrison, Tehching Hsieh, Sam Meech, Oliver Walker
Curators: Mike Stubbs and Emily Gee, FACT, Liverpool
Press dates, press kit, printable press images and online accreditation form are available in our press section under http://www.transmediale.de/festival/press.
transmediale is a project by Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH in collaboration with Haus der Kulturen der Welt. It is funded as a cultural institution of excellence by Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation).
Tabea Hamperl
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