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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
