transmediale

25 years

transmediale is 25 years old. But how should such an anniversary be marked? Instead of blowing out the candles on a birthday cake, we have decided to makevisible the incompatibilities within the festival. Over the course of its history the festival has strived to promote the perspective of contemporary cultural phenomena – in opposition to mainstream and institutionalised limitations. The diverse programmes making up transmediale 2012 therefore reflect the story of a productive incompatibility that has defined the festival.

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Start:
27.01.2012 - 19:00
Location:
other locations
Event type:
partner event

The transmediale archive is the last resting place of thousands of tapes and DVDs that have, for various reasons, been deposited there. Some of them, over the ensuing years have lost the labels which originally identified them, some of them maybe never had one. For the exhibition Ghosts Off the Shelf, transmediale archive curators Baruch Gottlieb and Ruth Kemper...

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Michaela Buescher. Flirting TV
Michaela Buescher. Flirting TV
Michaela Buescher. Flirting TV
Start:
31.01.2012 - 17:00
Location:
hkw, theatersaal
Event type:
screening

We have decided for the 25th anniversary of transmediale to again screen the opening programme of the first VideoFilmFest '88... read more here.
With works by Michaela Buescher, Maria Vedder, Hanspeter Ammann and many more.
| 17:00-18:45, 18:45-20:30, 20:30-22:15

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Start:
01.02.2012 - 15:00
Location:
hkw, theatersaal
Event type:
conference

If net art is cashing in on the utopian promise of video art, what dream does net art have left for itself? Has it come full circle? Is net.art now at its end? And is it true what the net art veteran Mark Amerika proclaims via Twitter, that "video is the new net art"?

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Start:
02.02.2012 - 10:00
Location:
other locations
Event type:
workshop event

In this workshop we will document art works of your preference, but we will also have a list of works, recent, and not so recent, for you to look at and enjoy. | Date: 2 Feb 2012 10:00 - 14:00, Location: transmediale archive, Podewil, Klosterstr. 68, room nr. 239, U-Klosterstraße (U2)

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Dreharbeiten der MedienOperative in Kreuzberg, 1978, © MedienOperative Berlin e
Dreharbeiten der MedienOperative in Kreuzberg, 1978, © MedienOperative Berlin e
Dreharbeiten der MedienOperative in Kreuzberg, 1978, © MedienOperative Berlin e
Start:
02.02.2012 - 11:00
Location:
hkw, k1
Event type:
conference

An open conversation about video art and net culture, media collectives and counter-publics. The ambivalent relationship between technical innovation and social progress, between access and control, appears deeply ingrained within electronic media. With this is  mind, Videomakers Unite! takes a critical look back at the 1980s and 90s discourse around video and the net, and relates this to the production of present-day counter-cultures within the fields of political and artistic, individual and collective practices.

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Start:
05.02.2012 - 11:00
Location:
hkw, theatersaal
Event type:
conference

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.

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Start:
05.02.2012 - 14:30
Location:
auditorium, hkw
Event type:
conference

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”.

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