A technological composition project by Canadian artist duo [The User] (Emmanuel Madan / Thomas McIntosh) in which the mundane ticking of a clock is transformed into the source of complex acoustic structures in homage to Hungarian composer György Ligeti's Poème Symphonique.
Coincidence Engines I and II – [The User] (ca) 31 January – 28 February > Long Night of the Museums: Saturday 30 January 2010, 18:00 – 02:00 > Artist Talk by [The User]: Thursday 4 February, 12:45 – 13:30 .CHB, Dorotheenstraße 12, 10117 Berlin, hungaricum.de
Opening times: daily 10:00 – 19:00
Chapter I: The Discovery – Félix Luque Sánchez (es) 31 January – 7 February > Long Night of the Museums: Saturday 30 January 2010, 18:00 – 02:00 > Artist Talk by Félix Luque Sánchez: Wednesday 3 February, 12:45 – 13:30 Instituto Cervantes Berlin, Rosenstr. 18-19, 10178 Berlin, cervantes.de
Opening times : 31 Jan – 7 Feb 12:00 – 18:00 & weekends 12:00 – 17:00
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Oliver Handlos is Creative Director at Scholz & Friends Berlin and, according to the Big Won Report 2009, the second most successful creative director worldwide.
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Futurist and film critic Christian Heller de- fines himself as a multi-fragmented sliver of net intelligence, whose interests include internet memes, conference tweeting, and trash-humanism. Heller offers www.plomlompom. de as a general entry into his socalled ‘wiki-brain’.
Herbert W. Franke is a scientist and futurologist, considered one of the most important science fiction writers in the German language. He is also a computer arts pioneer and one of the founders of Ars Electronica Linz.
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