Contributors to this panel were invited to take part in a book sprint—an intense four-day writing retreat—in November 2012 in Berlin to explore André Malraux's notion of the ‘Imaginary Museum’ or ‘Museum Without Walls’ in computational and new aesthetic terms.
The net jargon acronym BWPWAP – Back When Pluto Was a Planet is an expression used whenever one wants to talk about things in our recent past that have changed quickly. On August 24th, 2006, at the closing ceremony of their general assembly, the International Astronomical Union infamously voted in favor of “demoting” Pluto from its planetary status. transmediale 2013 suggested that this classification crisis, spurred on by new technologies and shifting knowledge paradigms, opens up a rich space of cultural negotiation and artistic intervention.
Geoff Cox is Associate Professor in the Dept. of Aesthetics and Communication, Participatory IT Research Centre, Aarhus University (dk), adjunct faculty Transart Institute (de/us), and treasurer of the Museum of Ordure.
Florian Cramer, reader at Creating 010 & Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam University of Applied Science, The Netherlands, last publication: Anti-Media, NAi Publishers, 2013
Dr. Jussi Parikka is a media theorist and Reader at Winchester School of Art, UK. His books and articles have analysed accidents and dark sides of network culture as well as digital audiovisual culture.
Oliver Lerone Schultz – Studies in philosophy, history of science, and ethnology, followed by research in media theory, embodiment and theory of performativity (FU Berlin 1999-2003).
John Smith was born in Walthamstow, East London in 1952 and studied film at the Royal College of Art. Inspired by conceptual art and the structural materialist ideas that dominated British artistsʼ filmmaking during his formative years, but also fascinated by the immersive power of narrative and the spoken word, he has developed a body of work which deftly subverts the perceived boundaries between documentary and fiction, representation and abstraction.
Cordelia Swann was born and grew up in the United States, but has lived the greater part of her life in England where she has been a practising film and video artist...
