The transmediale Marshall McLuhan Lecture invites a Canadian cultural figure, whose work expands on McLuhan’s media theories in the context of contemporary culture and society. This year, the Canadian writer and visual artist Douglas Coupland will deliver the lecture, entitled Space Junk. Following his iconic writings on the first digital workers Microserfs in the 1990s to the digital natives of JPod (2006) and his biography of McLuhan You Know Nothing of my Work! (2011), Coupland will use his unique way of expressing ideas—almost a form of stand-up comedy—to explore the ultimate fate of our junk data and where hyperdigitization will take us in the end. As he alternates between the sacred and the profane, a new form of discourse emerges that engages both academic and populist spheres.
Start browsing through the transmediale 2014 programme. Soon, details of the last wave of events and participants will be published (available also in German). For an overview of our highlights as well as outlines of our exhibition, performance, conference and screening programmes, read our programme overview.
The viewer roams around desolate flats in a Polish village by way of extended tracking shots. The people look strangely unreal in this mix of photographic portraits and tableaux vivants.
Join us for the opening ceremony of transmediale 2014, where we introduce afterglow as a diagnosis of post-digital culture. Together with a number of prominent guest speakers we will outline the “afterglow effects” that define the current ambiguous state of digital culture in between trash and treasure. This event is free, no ticket or pass required.
Join MSHR's Birch Cooper and Brenna Murphy in a ritualistic post-digital feedback invocation where the holistic alternates with the rhizomatic and cybernetics merge with low-tech.
Utopia is a silent double slide projection with 160 handmade slides in two Kodak Carousel magazines. They will be presented as a loop in the Auditorium of the HKW.
Billboard advertising has been severely restricted in Greece since 2010. The naked scaffolds that remain in the wake of the crisis can be found across the country, presenting viewers with empty surfaces.
ArtUP! is a platform for media art in Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey. It fuels discussion about society, presents and links up artists, presents media artworks, curates exhibitions, and initiates workshops.
From dark nets to kiez nets, artists and activists work and think locally: defending their home zones in terms of rent, net access, privacy and politics.
The editors of the book War postdigital besser?, Martin Conrads and Franziska Morlok, will present the project while one of the authors will read from her text.
This programme addresses fears of rejection, marginalisation and loss of identity. | With works from Hearst Metrotone News, Tom Palazzolo & Jeff Kreines, Whitney Johnston, Thomas Haley, Cory Arcangel.
From the techniques employed to bring local governments onboard with open data, to developing self-run web tools and networks, to peer-based financial systems this special edition of Urban Knights focuses on governance and user-developer power relationships within decentralised systems for urban and civic living.
Do you feel out of place? Do you feel uncomfortable in this system? Don't think you are different. Know you are. Declare yourself not human to take away from the template.
In line with the transmediale 2014 thematic this panel asks what today's burning net political questions are in the afterglow of the digital revolution? What has happened to the connection between the mainstreaming of the Internet and the ideology and politics of openness and freedom?
We demand meaning and consistency from the cultural products we consume and this program is designed as a crude rebellion against this comfortable idea that there are objective “standards” of any kind and that we have a right to expect “good taste.” ...
The Creatures is an endless combination of living members/ apparatuses, composed by miniature robots that live autonomously, receiving energy from solar cells and generating a variety of soft sounds and tiny movements.
Data in the Cloud seems to be disembodied. But in reality, it does have a physical manifestation, albeit a small one, on the hard drives on internet servers.
Jamie Allen and David Gauthier present their project CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE and invite for responses. Baruch Gottlieb's response is entitled Remarking Unremarkable and will be followed by the one by Erin La Cour: Invisible Labor: Instituting Cultural Capital.
Digital artists from Taiwan present their works, reflecting the crisis now facing their country and the entire world: the potential and the risk of globalization and cybernetics.
What does blackening out mean in the context of urban screens and what goes lost after the sudden shut-down and restart? How to find ways to restore or rethink information after this severe blackout? – a panel discussion with the CC artists, curators and the transmediale visitors.
What actually happens to all the pictures we constantly take of ourselves after we’re dead? | With works by Jesse McLean, Karin Fisslthaler, Sergio Oksman, John Smith, Bjørn Melhus, Tasman Richardson
Big data is the digital trash of our everyday life: the little snippets of useless data that accumulate to constitute data sets of unforeseen value. | Presented in cooperation with Motherboard.
Hitchhiking Away from Utopia. With exonemo, IDPW and Gabin Ito. The early internet inspired dreams of liberty, a new utopian alternative to mass media's Big Brother.
Metahaven and Benjamin Bratton will take turns offering proposals on the future of The Stack's six layers—Earth, Cloud, City, Address, Interface, and User.
Wasteland Poetries addresses trash as inheritance, the unwanted legacy of our aggressive civilization... | With works from Cordelia Swann, Jean-Luc Vilmouth, Louis Henderson
Jamie Allen and David Gauthier present their project CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE and invite for responses. Rodrigo Maltez Novaes will present his talk Language as Infrastructure: A Reading of Flusser's Early Work (19:30) and Jonathan Kemp Measure for Measure (20:00-20:30).
Join MSHR's Birch Cooper and Brenna Murphy in a ritualistic post-digital feedback invocation where the holistic alternates with the rhizomatic and cybernetics merge with low-tech.
Presented jointly with CTM Festival, Dinos Chapman, one half of the enfants terribles of British contemporary art, The Chapman Brothers, will perform the German premiere of his audiovisual live show based on his acclaimed 2013 release, Luftbobler.
Artists and designers transferred immaterial matters to tangible objects. How does this correlate with the simultaneous process of making computers invisible?
Call of Duty is one of the most successful first-person shooters in computer gaming history. In the Black Ops instalment from 2010, the action takes place in Nuketown, a city in the American desert where the effects of atomic bombs were tested on people, cars and houses. The ‘residents’ of Nuketown are mannequins.
When billboards and advertising screens are the first to be unplugged after earthquakes, it again becomes evident, how those are only being used for commercial content. How can screens and media façades then become platforms for artistic and cultural interventions in urban space?
Winchester School of Art students will exhibit a copy of the This is Tomorrow exhibition, presented first in the afterglow of post-war Britain at Whitechapel Art Gallery (1956)
The event asks how to formulate research questions, research methods, and research dissemination under post-digital conditions. How does the post-digital become a research topic?
Starting from Yoldas' project An Ecosystem of Excess and her artistic approach through speculative design and biology, this panel will analyze and discuss the impact on what we call "nature" and the term's ontological crisis.
Baruch Gottlieb and the transmediale 2014 residency artists Jamie Allen and David Gauthier will analyse the artists’ understanding of “infrastructure critique” attempting to elaborate the connections with and departures from McLuhan’s concept of “Media.”
Constant control of the individual is a vital element of all modern societies. Currently, however, contemporary democracies seem to be shifting fundamentally into new, digitally supported, surveillance states... | With works Krzysztof Kieślowski, Nadav Assor, Andy Weir, Ivar Veermäe, Maha Maamoun, Chris Marker
Echoing a method from e-waste dumps to extract valuable materials from electronic waste, circuit boards from obsolete mobile phones are melted down on a hot plate.
Digital Plays is playfully and ironically dedicated to the cinematic fiction that so often—and usually unintentionally—ends up in the Trash. | With works by Elizabeth Vander Zaag, Ella Raidel, Ho Tzu Nyen, Neïl Beloufa, Keren Cytter, Beatrice Gibson
Computers know us more intimately than lovers — but this is a lopsided relationship. What do we know of the operating systems that drive our daily fix?
Somewhere beyond calculation: Where we arbitrarily "recognize" life. With Tomoya Watanabe, Akihiko Taniguchi, Yuko Mohri and Gabin Ito. Akihiko Taniguchi and Yuko Mohri are artists whose practice is in creating technological phenomena seemingly imbued with the breath of life.
Luke Fischbeck and Sarah Rara a.k.a. Lucky Dragons will premiere a new version of their intermedial work that began life as a simple Google search on the words “Actual reality”. In this piece, the duo will collaborate with Berlin-based guest musicians.
Insurgent political movements, techno-shamanism, and the formation of a sustainable networked society in the Brazilian political and cultural landscape
The Internet Yami-Ichi (Black Market*) is a flea market which deals with "Internet-ish" things, face-to-face, in actual space. Both flea markets and the Internet are fanatical and chaotic mixes of the amazing and useless.
This panel discussion marks the launch of AVANT, a web publication and forum for discussion around transdisciplinary ideas. In response to a culture of immediacy, AVANT strives to illuminate the complex relations underlying larger narratives and project the potential impact of research-based practices.
Both the films in this programme are a form of recycling from ubiquitous streams of images, in this case from the News... | With works from Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ken Jacobs
Desktop BAM is a performance piece entailing controlling a mouse cursor to play on desktops. It's a direct homage to turntablism, born from using turntables in unconventional ways.
Note: Tickets for this event are sold out online. A limited amount can still be purchased at the box office at HKW from 18:00 onwards. | In a special celebration this year, transmediale and CTM jointly bring their 2014 editions to a close with Robert Henke, known for his peerless Monolake productions.
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