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Newsletter from 19.01.2009 transmediale.09 DEEP NORTH 28.01. - 01.02.2009 House of World Cultures Berlin, John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10 transmediale.09 extern

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1. transmediale Marshall McLuhan Lecture 2. transmediale Award exhibition extern 3. Snow Play @ c-base 4. Vilem Flusser Archiv 5. Babylon Mitte 6. other events extern

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1. transmediale Marshall McLuhan Lecture Wed, 28.01., 19.00 hrs Guest: Zacharias Kunuk (Igloolik Isuma Productions) Canadian Embassy, Leipziger Platz 17 Zacharias Kunuk, one of the world's most widely respected aboriginal filmmakers (Atanarjuat - The Fast Runner, Golden Camera at Cannes, 2001), was nine years old when his family gave up their nomadic lifestyle and settled in the new government town of Igloolik, Nunavut. As a co-founder and creative member of the Igloolik Isuma Productions team, he produced films that preserve the Inuit oral culture and bring Arctic life to the world. At the transmediale.09 Marshall McLuhan Lecture, Kunuk and his colleague, Norman Cohn, will talk about the importance of access to, and use of, new media for contemporary Inuit culture. Wed, 28.01. - Tue, 03.02. Marshall McLuhan Salon presents isuma.tv Ebertstrasse 14 Igloolik Isuma Productions new project Isuma.TV, an independent internet video portal for contemporary indigenous filmmakers, will be shown in the Marshall McLuhan Salon, the multimedia information centre of the Canadian Embassy. Opening hours: 10 - 18 hrs, 31.01. & 01.02 14 - 18 hrs http://mcluhan-salon.de

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2. transmediale Award exhibition extern 'Survival and Utopia: Visions of Balance in Transformation', transmediale.09's exhibition, encompasses the House of World Cultures as its base, but the exhibition extends to a major site specific generative installation at the Collegium Hungaricum Berlin (CHB) and an installation of serial software art at [DAM]Berlin: CHB: Corpora in Si(gh)te doubleNegatives Architecture (2007-2008) Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, Dorotheenstr. 12 Opening 26.01. 19.00 hrs, open through March 8, 2009 doubleNegatives Architecture (dNA) sets up a number of sensors to form a mesh network throughout the target area - the building of Collegium Hungaricum Berlin - in order to collect and distribute real-time environmental information such as temperature, brightness, humidity, wind direction and sound. The data collected from these sources are processed by a software and in real-time translated into nodes reflecting the sensor network. The fluid character of this architecture occurs as a living form, its shifting structure relates to every environmental change. http://doublenegatives.jp/ At the Collegium Hungaricum Berlin in Dorotheenstrasse visitors can find an in-house gallery, a library and seminar rooms. The CHB offers a varied calendar of events. The Institute of Culture wants to present a modern and European picture of Hungary, expand and deepen cultural and scientific contacts and elaborate German-Hungarian themes. http://hungaricum.de [DAM]Berlin: NON Maschinen Christoph Korn, de 2008 Tucholskystr. 37 Opening 26.01. 17.00 hrs The NON-Machines are software applications, which direct the attention towards aspects of deceleration, disconnectivity, knowledge deprivation, agrammaticality, non-functionality. The gallery [DAM]Berlin is part of an overall concept in the field of Digital Art. Since 2003 its gallery has presented the work of young contemporary artists as well as pioneers. Further components of the [DAM] project are the Online-Museum, and the d.velop digital art award [ddaa]. Korns artworks are part of the transmediale.09 exhibition. http://dam-berlin.de/

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3. Snow Play @ c-base Mo, 26.01. - So, 01.02. c-base e.V. Rungestr. 20 First and utmost assignment of the original c-base space station, crashed and sunk in the sands underneath today's Berlin, was the implementing of global terraforming projects on exo-terrestrial worlds. Consequently, discussing climate change on a serious level you cannot ignore the theoretical and practical results of c-base data which today's c-base reconstruction project has tried hard to retrieve. The SNOW PLAY environment, set-up by the two Berlin-based artists of TheProduct*, will help us transforming into a bunch of researchers and experimenters of an uncertain future. These studies at the occasion of the 2009 transmediale partner event will be cordially accompanied by dorkbot vienna, A MAZE game art festival and the dutch media art collective of PLANETART. Mon, 26.01., 20.00 hrs: DORKBOT.BLN - Doing Strange Things with Electricity. http://www.monochrom.at, http://www.the-product.org Tue, 27.01., 20.00 hrs: COSMIC OPEN STAGE: The weekly c-base jam session as a transmediale.09 special. http://www.openstage-berlin.de Wed, 28.01., 19.00 hrs: WAVELOETEN: movement of creating free communications infrastructures. http://www.berlin.freifunk.net Thu, 29.01., 20 hrs: A MAZE. http://www.amaze-festival.de Fri, 30.01., 21.00 hrs: PLANETART I http://www.planetart.nl More information: http://www.c-base.org/tm09,

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4. Vilem Flusser Archiv Universitaet der Kuenste Berlin, Grunewaldstr. 2-5 Fri, 31.01., 14 - 17 hrs The _Vilem_Flusser_Archiv is a repository for the works of cultural theorist Vilem Flusser (1920-1991), who was born in Prague, immigrated to Brazil in 1940, and returned to Europe in the early 1970s. The archive was established by his wife Edith Flusser in Den Haag, 1992, and was given into the care of Siegfried Zielinski 1998. In 2007 the archive moved with Prof. Zielinski's Chair of Archaeology and Variantology of the Media from the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne to the University of Arts Berlin.

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5. Babylon Mitte Videoart at Midnight Fri 30.01., 24 hrs Rosa-Luxemburg-Str. 30 As varied the forms of video art today are, and as rapidly as current developments progress, there is still no clear answer to the question of what is the best form of presentation. A work can function on a handy display, another work might work best as a loop in a museum space, while a third is best seen on a monitor and headphones. In cooperation with Babylon at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Ivo Wessel and Olaf Stueber invite you to come and share their obsession. As monthly as possible, always on a Friday, always at midnight. Im Guggaruz, 2008, DV, 8:00, Urauffuehrung | Kopffuessler, 2006, DV, 2:20 | Gulli, 2005, DV, 12:00 | Goldraum, 2006, DV, 8:20 | Cyans Tod, DV, 2006, 4:00 | im Abri, DV, 2008, 8:00 | Zweite Sonne, DV, 2005, 7:00 |

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6. other events extern World Climate Refugee Camp Mon, 26.01. 10.00 - 16.00 hrs, Brandenburger Tor (Pariser Platz) Tue, 27.01. 10.00 - 16.00 hrs, Alexanderplatz 'With climate change we all become nomads', claims the artist Hermann Josef Hack. Global warming, caused by wealthy regions, creates millions of refugees in the poorer regions of our world. Aridity, flooding and other extreme weather conditions force refugees to abandon their homelands. 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. In addition to this intervention, Hermann Josef Hack also will present the first Climate Refugee Guide, a travel guide for climate refugees. http://www.hermann-josef-hack.de Climate Hack! - a collaborative hacking workshop Collegium Hungaricum Berlin: Dorotheenstrasse 12 Climate Hack is a workshop for emerging researchers, designers and artists dedicated to reframing the international political climate using methods outside the traditional political rhetoric. Using both old and new technologies, live internet data streams and a diverse collection of hacking skills, workshop participants will produce a series of projects for the public exhibition of the transmediale.09 festival in Berlin. This workshop, its participants and its products will also serve as the starting point for a second workshop dedicated to similar themes at the PixelACHE festival in Helsinki April 5-9, 2009. With: kitchenbudapest - http://kitchenbudapest.hu/en/projects/climatehack A joint venture with Pixelache http://pixelache.ac , Tinker.it http://tinker.it Drifting Islands Yasmin online discussion http://www.media.uoa.gr/yasmin/ Islands are very specific territories: surrounded by water, their ecology is affected by both terrestrial and maritime issues. Today, climate change and global warmingare affecting islands in two dichotomous ways. On one hand, rising water levels threaten to make some islands disappear and open new sea routes such as the North-West passage, while on the other hand, new islands are appearing. Among the issues that Drifting Islands would like to address are questions such as: What are the artworks that are addressing those issues, and how? How do people from different geographic zones, living on islands, relate to those trends? How different are the issues in Iceland, say, or the Mediterranean and Pacific? Moderator: Annick Bureaud, with Leonardo/Olats, John Cunningham, Bronac Ferran Transit Lounge Since 2006, as an ongoing, experimental project Transit Lounge has evolved through many different formats to continually explore the potentials of interdisciplinary collaboration. What happens when movement becomes difficult? What happens when escape from (or to) home becomes impossible? Moving while Standing Still is a series of online conversations, between artists in Berlin and others from cities in Australia, the South. The results will be presented at transmediale.09: Sunday, February 1, 14.00 hrs, Haus der Kulturen der Welt http://transitlounge.org/2009

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transmediale.09 DEEP NORTH festival for art and digital culture berlin http://www.transmediale.de info@transmediale.de

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