The transmediale.09 video selection consists of eight outstanding video works that were presented in the 2009 edition of the Berlin based festival for art and digital culture. For the video selection programme of transmediale.09, we deliberately chose works that differ strongly in the way they were produced. Consequently, these videos give a wide-ranging insight into current artistic video production in form and content.
Vienna based media platform tagr.tv covered tm.09 DEEP NORTH, offering daily video portraits of the exhibitions, lectures, performances and interviews with artists and other festival participants.
The transmediale Award is dedicated to current positions in digital arts and media. It is an open competition, into which artists are invited to enter their current work.
905 artistic works from 53 countries responding to transmediale’s DEEP NORTH call were submitted for the festival’s award competition. The international jury selected eight works to be nominated for the transmediale Award 2009.
14:00 - Transit Lounge: Moving while standing still
Reporting back from an online dialogue asking: What happens when movement and escape from (or to) home becomes impossible?
16:00 - Public Netbase editorial team: NON STOP FUTURE
A discussion on the recent Netbase publication on the future of art and culture in digital networks.
The Brasilian DesCentro Network are hosts to transmediale's performative public brunch event with leading architects and thinkers, poets and bloggers, transforming the HKW into a temporary autonomous zone of tropical foliage and topical debate. Fusing the threads from the transmediale.09 Making/Thinking conference and Digital Greenhouse salon DesCentro open the doors of discourse and performance in a collaborative culinary experience focussing on the global futures of society, culture and consumption. Join Alexandre Freire and José Balbino of DesCentro together with members of the bricolabs network in building a House of Happiness!
"With climate change we all become nomads", claims the artist Hermann Josef Hack.
The Climate Refugee Camp, consisting of about 400 small tents, converts Brandenburger Tor and Alexanderplatz in Berlin into symbolic areas of crisis, drawing attention to the plight of refugees.
Drawing together the perspectives of environmental scientists, web technologists interested in the interface between digital footprint and environmental footprint, and artists concerned with creating precedents for social change on environmental sustainability.