The winners of the transmediale Award 2010 and the Vilém Flusser Theory Award 2010 have been announced! Congratulations and Hurray to Michelle Teran and Warren Neidich! ...more
The Award Ceremony on 6 February will reveal the winners of this year's transmediale and Vilém Flusser Theory Award. Barbara Kisseler will moderate the evening together with the members of both juries.
The the programme highlight raster.noton.unun will subsequently take place on the occasion of the Award After Party at WMF. ...more
In order to reflect the increasing significance of theoretical and critical practice works submitted for the transmediale Award competition, the festival has introduced the Vilém Flusser Theory Award in 2008. This year's freshly announced nominees are David Link, Mina Lunzer, Warren Neidich and Daniela Alina Plewe!
Four speakers report about an accident which occurred a year before at Praterstern. For three weeks Mina Lunzer’s radio play Syjettes was installed inside a publicly accessible car, which had been driven into a facade at Praterstern. Together with samples of the noise of machines and people screaming three of these witness accounts were subsequently used as audio tracks of the film version.
Neuropower is a manipulation in the literal sense of the word. Departing from recent insights of brain research, the trained biologist Warren Neidich searches for strategies to manipulate the process of ongoing cerebral reconstruction.
Albeit being currently subjected to heavy criticism, international capitalism still remains intact for lack of alternatives. Before this background Daniela Plewe’s artistic research Transactional Arts seems to come at the right moment. Transactional Arts declare the exchange of values and the formation of social contracts works of art.
With There Must Be An Angel, David Link re-vamped one of the first computer programmes ever, the programme Loveletters (1952) by one of Alan Turing’s colleagues Christopher Strachey. By convention Joseph Weizenbaum’s programme ELIZA (1966) is considered the first example of computer-generated text. One of Link’s achievements is to have advanced this premiere by 10 years.