Festival Programme Sun, 5.2.2012 - 01:00

This “Open Conversation” brings together a range of participants whose work traverses historiographic and contemporary curatorial practices with a relevancy for discussing the role of historiographic methodologies in relation to art production within the spheres of “archaeology” to “variantology”.

The reSource for transmedial culture is an initiative of transmediale, which aims to create a distributed platform and a peer-production context of research, knowledge and artistic practices throughout 2012 and beyond. The Vilém Flusser Residency programme aims to support conceptual projects and works that are towards a form of practice. The programme seeks to encourage new research approaches and further develop existing projects.

The Vilém Flusser residency programme aims to support conceptual projects and works that are towards a form of practice. The programme seeks to encourage new research approaches and further develop existing projects.

The Ludic Interface Research Group (L.I.R.G.) cordially invites everyone at transmediale 2012 to partake in a contemporary version of the surrealist game Le Cadavre Exquis. At the end, this Ludic Salon will lead into the official launch of the reSource for transmedial culture initiative, which will spread the transmediale across the entire calendar year.

outResourcing explores the pervasive phenomenon of labor outsourcing from a critical constructive point of view. Outsourcing is often either simply embraced as an economical necessity of the global economy or criticized as such on the basis of the uneven distribution of wealth, power and/or labor that it entails. This project will take the phenomenon of outsourcing and approach it as a site for  the production of new hybrid subjectivities and economies.

Presented as part of the panel "Zombie Play in the Ludic Salon: reSourcing an Exquisite Media Corpse"

Any kind of media installation based on electronic systems or micro-controllers requires some sort of printed circuit board (PCB). To get a PCB one has to manufacture them. Paperboards or PaperPCBs are a smart way to spare you the trouble. In the workshop Wolfgang Spahn will teach how to create and modify PaperPCBs. At the end of the workshop every participant will have designed and built his or her own Paperduino-Uno.

In computer jargon, to "unarchive" something is to de-compress data, such as from a zip file or on a backup drive. The archive in this form is an unaccessible,  incompatible being. It is inherently in need of unpacking. Join us in this session in an attempt to dig into the 25-year old transmediale archive and unpack some of its impenetrable secrets.

The image, at least since the advent of television, has gained precedence over the written word in the flow of information. If there is no image, or no images are brought into circulation, then there is no meaning... more
With works by Dellbrügge & de Moll, Nicolás Rupcich, Tom Holert, Susan Bowman, Daya Cahen and Reza Haeri.

Sequences, replaying experiences in sentiments. The most intimate thoughts are piercing non-verbal disclosures, mere insinuations, that run like fault-lines along the shell of the earth. We live in cities along these natural fissures, concealing faults, and lines. The lips of cities are inflamed and the skin of the world is highly irritable...more
With works by Sherif El Azma, Akram Zaatari, Solmaz Shahbazi and many more.