The central exhibition of afterglow is in line with this year’s overall programme strategy to only exhibit new or commissioned works. In a curatorial and organisational collaboration between transmediale and LEAP (Lab for Electronic Arts and Performance), the festival has invited Art Hack Day as a grassroots event/exhibit format/community for artists whose medium is tech and hackers whose medium is art.
Artist-researchers Jamie Allen and David Gauthier, in collaboration with transmediale 2014, present CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE, a media-technical landscape survey. The landscape/architectural survey allows direct observation, revealing the materials and systems that allow media arts, media artists, festivals and venues to exist and persist. An on-site inspection of transmediale 2014 afterglow is undertaken.
Circe's New Equipment is a kinetic sculpture, an assemblage of paraphernalia from unwanted surplus and computer hardware elements from around from the local area of Berlin.
In between two performances, the work Ceremonial Chamber will be presented as an installation at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in the Café Global area.
