Under the motto 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. With conspirative speculations taking over society's cultural rules the distinction between truth and fiction was no longer possible and suddenly many things turned evil. The programme included artists who challenged, undermined and bypassed each other in their hidden and unspoken strategies of mystification.
We will live to see these things, or, five pictures of what may come to pass is a documentary video in five parts about competing visions of an uncertain future.
not a matter of it but when was developed in 2005–06 in Damascus, Syria. This period of time was marked by momentous events: Rafiq Harriri, the former Prime Minister of Lebanon, was assassinated, the Syrians were pressured to withdraw from Lebanon after a 30-year occupation.
David Thorne lives and works in Los Angeles. He is he recipient of a 2007 Art Matters grant and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award, and a 2004 recipient of a Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship.
Julia Meltzer is an artist and director of Clockshop. Her work takes up subjects ranging from the bureacracy of secrecy to contemporary politics in the Middle East.
be prepared! tiger! is a project by knowbotic research in collaboration with Peter Sandbichler. Central to the project is the re-enactment of a stealth boat as depicted in a propaganda video of the Tamil Tigers, the rebel Tamil liberation army. The boat seems to be a formal adaption of the US stealth bomber F117, a myth of invisibility and invincibility.
digit is a living work of art - a writer sits at a table writing a text. The printed text appears through the mere gliding of his finger across a blank sheet of paper.
Daniela Comani (Bologna, 1965) lives and works in Berlin. Her multimedia installations engage in a dialog about history, language, identity, alienation and intimacy
