transmediale.09 DEEP NORTH

Looking beyond the alarmist scenarios of environmental, social and economic catastrophes to be expected in the wake of global warming, the essential question isn't that of how to avoid these processes, but to examine the need for a fundamental shift in cultural perception with respect to nature, culture and technology. With DEEP NORTH, transmediale.09 focused on the impact and unavoidable consequences of this pending global transformation - the crossing of a point of no return akin to the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago.

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Join a tm.09 web project: Man With A Movie Camera: The Global Remake

In this global collaborative work, tm.09 and artist Perry Bard invite you to capture video footage and images interpreting the original script of Vertov’s masterpiece and upload them to http://dziga.perrybard.net/. Software developed specially for the project archives sequences and then streams different combinations of the submissions, thus creating a global montage or, in Vertov’s terms, the “decoding of life as it is”.

Survival and Utopia: Visions of Balance in Transformation

January 28, 2009 - February 1, 2009

transmediale's 2009 award exhibition presents a spectrum of artistic positions, inquiries and responses to the multifacetted, and often contradictory scenarios of climate change. Will the melting of the polar ice-caps lead to an emergency situation in which survival is paramount? Beyond the spectre of a world knocked out of climatic control by our collective lack of foresight, the exhibition explores the symptoms, contexts and possible futures of a seemingly imperceptible yet fundamental change.

Online Highlights - selected web and net community projects

transmediale.09 has selected 4 art works highlighting online digital, participative and network community practice in addition to the works on display at the House of World Cultures or at our partner venues in Berlin. The works are presented exclusively online as a special virtual extension to DEEP NORTH ...

Field Notes: Cocoons

Geraldine Juárez

Adam Bobette

Forays

Format:

installation interactive

Field Notes: Cocoons creates a portable squatting device made from shared, free or hacked materials. It is a simple structure that folds into a back pack

NON Machines

Christoph Korn

Format:

installation

Non Machines in gallery [DAM]Berlin
Exhibition: Jan 27 - Feb 7, 2009

The NON-Machines are software applications, which direct the attention towards aspects of deceleration, disconnectivity, knowledge deprivation, agrammaticality, non-functionality.

planschen

Christian Niccoli

Format:

installation

The video metaphorically embodies the 'lost in space' condition experienced by young foreigners living in Berlin. It is characterised by a lack of stable bonds, like job and family, and is represented by a mass of people floating around in the middle of the ocean, all supported by their own tire-tubes. The protagonists start gazing at each other with looks of jealousy and deep sarcasm.

Corpora in Si(gh)te

doubleNegatives Architecture

Format:

installation interactive

Corpora in Si(gh)te
at .CHB - Collegium Hungaricum Berlin
Jan 27 - Mar 8
opening: Jan 26, 19:00

Architecture as an environmental, spatial measuring machine Architecture is an intelligent corpus, a reflection of the environment surrounding itself. The information technology of Corpora in Si(gh)te by doubleNegative Architecture has maintained the mutality between architecture and environment in a virtual way through continuous spatial measurements, reflecting what C.i.S architecture believes to be the core principle of architecture.

Glacier 60000

Emma Wieslander

Format:

installation

The project belongs to a group of works which deal with landscapes and their perception and description.

Nuage Vert

HeHe

Format:

installation

A city scale light installation onto the ultimate icon of industrial pollution... The project Nuage Vert is based on the idea that public forms can embody an ecological project, materialising environmental issues so that they become a subject within our daily lives.

Trilogy

Marco Evaristti

Format:

photography

Trilogy comprises three projects that deal with the themes of territories and states. Using fruit color and fabric, Evaristti coloured an ice cube in Greenland, areas of Mont Blanc and a sand dune in the Sahara, red.

Barons

Sebastjan Leban

Format:

installation

In der Installation Barons beschäftigt sich Sebastjan Leban mit dem erschwertem Zugang zu Trinkwasser.

Jana Linke

Click & Glue consists of four metal walls hanging from the ceiling that define a space in which a balloon filled with helium moves and floats through the air. The balloon is connected to a nylon thread and a mechanism that distributes glue.

Grow - Fruits of Kronos

Christian Gützer

Grow - Fruits of Kronos is an installation that reflects on the connection and relationship between machine and nature. The work consists of a machine controlled by a certain algorithm that changes the position of a plant in relation to a static light source.

The Poster Children

Marina Zurkow

The Poster Children is a suite of animated, multi-monitor pieces influenced by the narrative and cartoon-like formats of Asian screen and scroll paintings.

Beyond the End - The Polar Project

Charly Nijensohn

Beyond the End - The Polar Project comprises of a series of video installations and photographs based on material filmed in Upernavik Isfjord, Greenland, north of the Arctic Circle.

Six Apartments

Reynold Reynolds

Format:

installation

Reynolds’s video installation Six Apartments is a poetic narration of resignation and decline which documents the life of six people in their apartments. The inhabitants live isolated, unaware of each other, without drama – they eat, sleep, watch television – even though their lives are overshadowed by mass media generated problems of the larger world and the upcoming ecological crisis.

Extreme Green Guerrillas

Michiko Nitta

Nitta’s project takes current green trends to the extreme. The Extreme Green Guerillas are a network of amateur self-sustaining people who have shortened their lifespan through the ultimate green lifestyle.

Tantalum Memorial

Graham Harwood

Richard Wright

Matsuko Yokokoji

The telephone-installation is a memorial to the more than 3 million people who have perished in the complex wars that have gone on in the Congo since 1998, often referred to as the 'Coltan Wars'. The ore coltan is used as the raw material for the metal tantalum, which is an essential component of mobile phones and computers.

Post Global Warming Survival Kit

Petko Dourmana

This interactive multimedia installation consists of a two-channel projection and shows infrared images of the North Sea as a post-apocalyptic landscape that the observer can only see by using a night-vision device.

Man With A Movie Camera: The Global Remake

Perry Bard

The video artist Perry Bard invites people to a collaborative web-based, database-generated montage experiment.

NomadicMILK project, Nigerian version

Esther Polak

The project 'NomadicMILK' compares the distribution and sales strategies of two very different milkproduct-merchands in Nigeria. With the help of GPS systems, the driveways of the as nomads living 'Fulani' are reconstructed and compared to those of an active enterpreneurial milk producer, called 'PEAK milk'.

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