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This section is dedicated to projects realized within the context of the reSource for transmedial culture together with international artists, cultural producers, hackers, activists, and gender-situated communities active in the city of Berlin and in the broader field of net culture regionally and internationally. Most of the projects presented are realized reflecting on network dynamics, experimental artistic methodologies, and constitute a meta reflection on strategies of activism, hacking and peer-exchange.

in/compatible Material interventions with Martin Howse, Anthony Iles, Mattin, Jo

In/compatible Materials Intervention - Résumé by Martin Howse

"Slightly after 18.00 on the first of February 2012, all above ground level materials embraced by the titles House of World Cultures (or HKW) and transmediale 2k+12 were shifted around one millimetre within a vertical direction or vector. This distinct, yet subtle elevation was measured by several instruments prepared within the basement vaults of the HKW, mirroring those embedded in an equally monumental concrete installation intended for the testing of a nearby proposed triumphal arch...

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The Berlin Sandbox Workshop - Résumé by Roberta Buiani & Alessandra Renzi

The Berlin Sandbox was the second of a series of labs that started in Toronto in October 2011 and will travel to cities like Montreal, New York and Mexico City in 2012. The project aims to reflect on the challenges arising from collaboration among diverse individuals - artists, activists etc.- at a moment when new movements with a heterogeneous composition are re-shaping the political landscape (indignados, occupy, anonymous, etc...) and different technological practices come to expand the potential of radical media, hacktivism and activism.

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World of the News – The world’s greatest peer-reviewed newspaper of in/compatibl

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World of the News – The world’s greatest peer-reviewed newspaper of in/compatible research presents cutting edge in/compatible research in an accessible FREE tabloid format. The newspaper partly addresses academia’s increasing demand for publication of academic peer-reviewed journal articles. Perhaps researchers need new visions of how to produce and consume research?

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Floppy Films Workshop - Résumé by Florian Cramer

"Floppy Films - no more than 1.44 MB of moving image" was an intense three-days workshop at transmediale 2012. Ten international participants learned the techniques of squeezing short films on floppy disks, going into the gory details and obscure tweaks of video codecs, and encountering numerous technical incompatibilities, glitches, breakdowns of the delicate hardware and software in the process. On the last day, they were also taught the analog medium of hand-developed Super 8 film.

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