Elodie Pong is a Swiss artist and filmmaker known for her subtle, analytic works, often built as cycles or in series, which focus on human relationships, cultural codes and their impact on contemporary society.
This major new work by Julius von Bismark, shown for the first time at transmediale.10, uses the materials and devices of filmmaking to create an uncanny experience of space and time. In the gallery this takes the form of an immersive installation, where a 16mm camera, which has been converted into a projector, beams a film onto a circular screen that is painted with phosphorescent paint.
station melt is a collaboration of two radio stations in two metropolises broadcasting from the core of transmediale and CTM. Lasting for 4 days and nights this radio festival will air a special programme on Resonance 104.4 FM in London and the event frequency 99.1 FM in Berlin.
Agnes Meyer-Brandis is an artist who creates works on the fringes of science, fiction and fabulation. In 2009 she was artist in residence at the National Center for Contemporary Art (NCCA) in Moscow.
IT and Media Art
With its interdisciplinary competition Art of Engineering the Ferchau Engineering GmbH presents innovative new works bridging the two worlds of art and technology.
Ben Huang, the man responsible for bringing Beijing’s club scene to Europe (and vice versa) completes the Myths of The Near Future evening with a DJ set at the Café Stage.
Taking 1895 classic The Time Machine by H.G. Wells as a departure point, transmediale.10 presents a double bill featuring self_resolution by Berlin-based Andrea Lange and a world première of La Chambre Des Machines by Montreal duo Martin Messier & Nicolas Bernier.
Berlin-based musician and composer Lord Cry Cry presents a mixture of music regarded as futuristic when first released, alongside contemporary music which also anticipates the future – a special of mixes covering genres like avant-garde jazz, classical, electronic, reggae and dubstep.
POWEr by artificiel is a performance in which the only source for sounds and visuals is a Tesla coil, invented by Nikola Tesla in 1891. The piece is an impressive example of how atemporality, physical energy and digital technology create complex new performative phenomena.