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Jacob Appelbaum at Art as Evidence keynote 2014


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  • 04.2014

    Vilém Flusser Residency:
    Rosemary Lee

    For the Vilém Flusser Residency Programme for Artistic Research 2014, jury members Kristoffer Gansing, Annie Goh, and Daniel Irrgang have selected Rosemary Lee and "Molten Media".
    More ...
  • 06.2014

    CTM 2015 – Un Tune
    CTM aims to engage with the direct bodily effects of frequencies, sound, and music, as well as these phenomena’s synergistic effects with other sensory stimuli. 23.1-1.2015 in various Berlin venues. More ...

transmediale/art&digitalculture

transmediale is a Berlin-based festival and year-round project that draws out new connections between art, culture and technology. All activities of transmediale aim at fostering a critical understanding of contemporary culture and politics as saturated by media technologies. In the course of its 28 year history, the annual transmediale festival has turned into an essential event in the calendar of media art professionals, artists, activists and students from all over the world. Since 2011, transmediale also has an all-year ongoing activity, including a residency programme. These activities provide a sustainable structure of feedback, research and reflection that interacts with the yearly festival.

transmediale/art&digitalculture

transmediale/festival

transmediale/festival annually presents 20 000 visitors with an extensive range of exhibitions, conferences, screenings, performances and publications. The broad cultural appeal of the festival is recognised by the German federal government who supports the transmediale through its programme for beacons of contemporary culture. Each year, a specific theme provides the framework for hundreds of artists, media activists, researchers, designers and other creative tinkerers to engage in reflective, aesthetic and speculative positions in between art, culture and technology. The next transmediale/festival takes place from 28.1 to 1.2 2015 at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.

Among Previous Participants: Anonymous, Jacob Appelbaum, Franco 'Bifo' Berardi, William Binney, Ryan Bishop, Dinos Chapman, Wendy Chun, Gabriella Coleman, Douglas Coupland, Jodi Dean, Exonemo, Wolfgang Ernst, Harun Farocki, Andrew Feenberg, Kenneth Goldsmith, Olga Goriunova, Ian Hacking, Graham Harman, Robert Henke, Ryoji Ikeda, Jodi, Joshua Light Show, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Olia Lialina, Humberto Maturana, Rosa Menkman, Metahaven, Antonio Negri, Allucquére Rosanne "Sandy" Stone, Ho Tzu Nyen, Julian Oliver, Trevor Paglen, Laura Poitras, Luther Price, Jussi Parikka, Anne Roth, Cornelia Sollfrank, Sputniko!, Stelarc, Bruce Sterling, Tiziana Terranova, Telekommunisten, The Yes Men, YoHa, Peter Weibel, Siegfried Zielinski

Browse through the festival timeline, and see developments and discussions since 1988...

  • Detail poster 1988

    VideoFilmFest '88

    Since 1973, video contributions have taken an essential part in the International Forum of New Cinema at the International Film Festival. 1988, the MedienOperative showed its own programme under the name VideoFilmFest – usually it has only been the second venue for screening of the selection.

  • Detail poster 1989

    VideoFest '89

    Video is a young artform; from the start, it has been a reaction to the “brave new world” of the highly technical mass societies with all their computers, nuclear power stations, destroyed landscapes and lonely individuals. Thus, video is not film; it remains bulky, playful and vulnerable.

  • Detail poster 1990

    VideoFest '90

    Within a short time the VideoFest has become one of the most important international video festivals. The programme consisted of works covering the field of videoart and documentation; the intention was to point out video-specific realisations of documentaries.

  • Detail poster 1991

    VideoFest '91

    1991 – the character of the programme has become more angular than before; there are more works that irritate in form and content, more documentaries that ry to find an innovative formal language for exciting topics, surprisingly more works that use artistic means to reflect upon social or political topics in an unusual way.

  • Detail poster 1992

    VideoFest '92

    Also with the VideoFest ‘92, the MedienOperative claimed to reflect the development of international video culture and to represent a rich variety of genres – productions, sculptures, or selections from fields like interactive media and computer animation that break down boundaries.

  • Detail poster 1993

    VideoFest '93

    In 1993, we offered a core programme of the usual high quality, as well as a boast greater space for all activities – the programme, installations, market, conferences, and special showings. Better informed, better entertained. Sometimes irritated, but never bored –plenty of mental turbulence.

  • Detail poster 1994

    VideoFest '94

    VideoFest in its seventh year, the year of that infamous „itch“ – which wasn’t the case luckily. The interconnections between video and television had become ever more important. The programme showed uncommon television productions and takes that, critically speaking, went against the grain of commercial media.

  • Detail poster 1995

    VideoFest '95

    1995 VideoFest saw beyond the end of ist own nose and explored in detail what the new maigc word Multimedia stands for in the realm of CD-ROM and Internet artworks. There were performances, discussions, an exhibition and workshops.

  • Detail poster 1996

    VideoFest '96

    Technological advances grew at an exponential rate, and electronic art started to invariably succumb to the digital. Thus, the VideoFest had restructured itself: video, television and multimedia were now given equal attention; even films made with digital production elements could now be shown.

  • Detail poster 1997

    transmedia '97

    The focus was again on multimedia, innovative television and video. We also integrated technological developments and philosophical discourses relevant to these media realms into the programme: brain research, neuroaesthetics, nanotechnology and more.

  • Detail poster 1998

    transmediale '98

    For the first time in its history, the transmediale festival had a motto: BESTANDSAUFNAME SEHEN. The festival took stock of where television and all the new media have gotten us so far, and what they have given us.

  • Detail poster 1999

    transmediale '99

    With the byline 'international media arts festival berlin', we invited artists, scientists and commercial producers to present digital worlds and beings in films, video and games. It acknowledged the entertainment industry and stimulating experiments with art, design and modern technologies.

  • Detail poster 2000

    transmediale 2000

    The turn of the millenium: speculations about major computer breakdowns; the world taking one step closer to its own doom. The world of media changed, as everything that existed on a material basis was distributed digitally.

  • Detail poster 2001

    transmediale.01 DIY

    Turning passive media consumers into active producers: visitors were supposed to get the opportunity to experience artistic and media-technological strategies in order to create art themselves, in situ.

  • Detail poster 2002

    transmediale.02 go public!

    go public! is used in the new economy, meaning the Initial Public Offering on a stock market. Originally, however, this meant the publication of information. Artists and visitors of transmediale.02 created publicity; they developed new creative ideas for the public space in the digital era.

  • Detail poster 2003

    transmediale.03
    PLAY GLOBAL!

    Conceptualised as a counter-weight to economic and military forms of globalisation, transmediale.03 presented itself as an artistic "global player": aesthetic and critical strategies were called upon to create playful ideas to handle globalisation in ironic and humorous manners.

  • Detail poster 2004

    transmediale.04
    FLY UTOPIA!

    FLY UTOPIA! dealt with the hope that lies beneath the infinite potential of possibilities in the era of media technology, but also with the hopelessness of a completely technologised and dis-cultured society, which is dominated by the unlimited claim and use of power.

  • Detail poster 2005

    transmediale.05 BASICS

    transmediale.05 explored the BASICS, the aesthetic and ethical foundations of artistic practice with digital technologies in a hyper-potential culture. It presented models of an artistic practice whose ethics derive not from past value systems, but from an appropriation of an extreme and contradictory, contemporary culture.

  • Detail poster 2006

    transmediale.06
    REALITY ADDICTS

    REALITY ADDICTS are interested in real human beings, in words and images, in nature and culture. They are devoted to subvert a reality produced through means of media-technology with the help of artistic strategies.

  • Detail poster 2007

    transmediale.07 unfinish!

    unfinish! demanded the re-opening of artistic processes that are deemed closed. We questioned finality and claimed that any given situation is full of potential. The festival concentrated on the point where what seemed fixed can be undone, reversed, processed differently.

  • Detail poster 2008

    transmediale.08 CONSPIRE...

    transmediale.08 aimed at examining dubious worlds of story-telling and remote opinion making in order to look critically at those means of creative conspiratorial strategies, that offer the potential to uncover new forms of expression in digital discourse.

  • Detail poster 2009

    transmediale.09
    DEEP NORTH

    With DEEP NORTH, transmediale.09 focused on the impact and unavoidable consequences of the pending global transformation - the crossing of a point of no return akin to the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago.

  • Detail poster 2010

    transmediale.10
    FUTURITY NOW!

    FUTURITY NOW! invited for the creation of new templates for the future and asked not what the future has in store for us, but what it is that we have in store for the future.

  • Detail poster 2011

    transmediale.11 RESPONSE:ABILITY

    With RESPONSE:ABILITY transmediale.11 explored the emerging qualities of liveness as a fundamental nature of our present digital culture.

  • Detail poster 2012

    transmediale 2k+12 in/compatible

    Incompatibility is the condition arising when things are not working together. With the theme in/compatible, the festival probed the productive and destructive sides of incompatibility as a fundamental condition of cultural production.

  • Detail poster 2013

    transmediale 2013 BWPWAP

    BWPWAP – Back When Pluto Was a Planet is an expression used when one wants to talk about things in our recent past that have changed quickly. We suggested that this classification crisis, opens up a space of cultural negotiation and artistic intervention.

  • Detail poster 2014

    transmediale 2014 afterglow

    Between shiny high-tech, e-waste dumps, big data businesses and mass surveillance schemes: Under the title afterglow, the 27th edition of transmediale explored our present post-digital moment as one in which former treasures of our mediatised life are turning into trash.

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reSource

A link between cultural production of art festivals and collaborative networks

transmediale/reSource

Since 2011, transmediale also offers a comprehensive framework for its many all-year activities, the reSource, which among other things hosts special partner events, a residency programme and monthly network meetings in cooperation with technology-based art and project spaces in Berlin. These activities provide a sustainable structure of feedback, research and reflection that interacts with the yearly festival. The objective of the transmediale/reSource is to act as a link between the cultural production of art festivals and collaborative networks in the field of art and technology, hacktivism and politics. It is an attempt to redefine the working methodology of big art festivals in bringing about a continuous process of intimate and local exchange with the audience, professionals and spaces that work on topics and projects that relate to the topics of transmediale. This activity includes curated events, commissioned art projects that are developed through the year towards the festival and the Vilém Flusser Residency Programme for Artistic Research, a cooperation with the Vilém Flusser Archive at the University of the Arts Berlin (UdK). Three times in a row, project spaces of Berlin have been involved in producing the pre-festival programme, in cooperation with CTM Festival. The residency supports projects and activities which are simultaneously conceptual and practice-based, and it is geared towards the initiation of new research or to the further development of existing projects. They are developed in events throughout the year and the final presentation is incorporated in the festival programme. In partnership with Aarhus University, transmediale also works on research workshops and publications that extend the festival thematics. The results of those activities and publications are also being presented at the festival. The transmediale/magazine is another ongoing project in the form of an edited publication that exists both independently of the festival and as a replacement of the traditional festival catalogue. More ...

  • Vilém Flusser Residency

    The Vilém Flusser Residency Programme for Artistic Research is a cooperation with the Vilém Flusser Archive at the Berlin University of Arts (UdK). It supports projects and activities which are simultaneously conceptual and practice-based, and it is geared towards the initiation of new research or to the further development of existing projects. For the 2014 residency, the jury has selected Rosemary Lee and her project Molten Media. More ...

  • Network

    The transmediale/resource network engages with art and digital culture in the city of Berlin in two different ways: at regular meetings and roundtable discussions, and through an online mailing list, resource-net. The transmediale/resource network organises meetings between artists, cultural producers and curators, among local Berlin project spaces and galleries to construct a hub for arts and technology activities in Berlin. More ...

  • Publications

    Throughout the year as well as during the festival, transmediale publishes the transmediale/magazine and other special print products. The magazine replaces a traditional festival publication and aims to expand the discourse on the festival themes with in depth contributions and transfers to other fields. transmediale is also involved in the thematic newspaper and online jounal A Peer Reviewed Journal About in collaboration with the University of Aarhus. More ...

Archive

Photos, videos, websites, publications and more

transmediale/archive

Back in 1988, transmediale was founded as VideoFilmFest, a side project of the Berlinale 'International Forum of New Cinema'. Within the following 20 years, the festival steadily evolved. In our online transmediale archive, you can find photos, videos, websites and more content of past festivals. transmediale also has a physical archive, which provides insights into 28 years of media art and digital culture. On the basis of this, we were part of DCA (Digitising Contemporary Art), a project funded by the European Commission, comprising of 25 partners from 10 EU member states and 2 associated countries. More ...

Selected from the archive:

Title: My Generation
Info: Film/video by Eva and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.ORG, 13:26 min, 2010
Description: With material found on online social platforms such as YouTube, My Generation by Eva and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.ORG demonstrates that computer games are far from mere recreational entertainment. More ...

Title: Tantalum Memorial
Info: Installation by Graham Harwood, Richard Wright, Matsuko Yokokoji, 2008
Description: The telephone-installation is a memorial to the more than 3 million people who have perished in the complex wars that have gone on in the Congo since 1998, often referred to as the 'Coltan Wars'. More ...

Title: Newton
Info: Film/video by Ho Tzu Nyen, 2009
Description: Ho Tzu-Nyen's Newton is a loop of a simple chain reaction. Through the title, narrative, stark visuals and meditative soundtrack, Newton offers a laconic comment on the cognitive faculty of science and art. More ...

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