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.

With artists, speakers and visitors from across the globe transmediale wrapped up at Berlin's landmark 'House of World Cultures' on February 1, 2009. We would like to thank all of our participants, partners, contributors, and the many great teams that came together to set up and run such a complex, poetically charged and thought provoking event!
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The fragility of global atmospheric, economic, technological and cultural coherences demands general awareness. The performance programme of transmediale.09 presents works of artists who reflect on the delicate nature of our environment. In the evening DJs turn the tables and serve music for a collective recreation with open talk, bar and food. The performance programme is organised in cooperation with club transmediale (ctm).

Mon 26.01.2009 - 10:00
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Special event

"With climate change we all become nomads", claims the artist Hermann Josef Hack.

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.

Tue 27.01.2009 - 10:00
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Performance Special event

"With climate change we all become nomads", claims the artist Hermann Josef Hack.

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.

Tue 27.01.2009 - 18:00
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Performance

specialità di silicio is a hardware cooking performance, in which Urs Dubacher creates a special menu, comprised of silicon. Damaged hardware and other ingredients are fused to a culinary hybrid of absurdity, debris and detritus. Enjoy your meal!

Tue 27.01.2009 - 21:00
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Performance

Ethic Disco mixes speeches, songs and pop cultural concepts. It will discuss future-oriented artistic concepts and strategies aimed at sensitising the public about the impact of paradigmatic change within our society.

Wed 28.01.2009 - 15:00
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Performance

specialità di silicio is a hardware cooking performance, in which Urs Dubacher creates a special menu, comprised of silicon. Damaged hardware and other ingredients are fused to a culinary hybrid of absurdity, debris and detritus. Enjoy your meal!

Wed 28.01.2009 - 18:00
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Performance

What open spaces are built into our current economy by innovation and new ideas? What kind of progress and communication strategies do we need? A performative discussion about values and responsibilities of our society.

Wed 28.01.2009 - 20:00
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Performance

Sonolevitation
Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand with TeZ

"The Earth is the cradle of humanity, however, it is impossible to spend one's entire life in a cradle." This quote from Constantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky, a Russian rocket engineer, is the starting point for Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand's speculative performance on the suspension of gravity. The reduction of gravitational effects may evoke emancipatory associations, yet such conditions predominate in our universe. In a spacecraft, among the most efficient ways to transport nearly all gases, liquids, and powders, is by means of a phenomenon known as acoustic levitation. In Domnitch and Gelfand's 'Sonolevitation', slivers of gold are acoustically suspended by a standing wave. A microphone monitors the slivers' modulation of the levitatory wave: the slightest change in the sliver's position has highly audible consequences. Sonolevitation is the first in a series of projects by the artists which explore microgravitational, near-vacuous environments. The capacity to create artworks in such spaces, permits the actuation of altogether unforeseen optical and acoustic processes. Especially for this performance, the artists have joined forces with TeZ, who will create a live quadraphonic setting of Sonolevitation.

Untitled Sound Objects
Pe Lang and Zimoun
Untitled Sound Objects is a series of works by Pe Lang and Zimoun in which the artists explore the properties of sound, materials, resonance and generative systems. Vibrating motors cause glass plates to oscillate. Various kinds of materials and objects are placed on these plates and generate sounds which are processed and amplified. The fragility and complexity of the resulting sound architecture resonates with the elegance and simplicity of their instrument. Pe Lang and Zimoun have an interest in how sound can be shaped, how space can be engineered, and how new dynamics and tone colours can be produced in a combination of digital and electroacoustical techniques.

Wed 28.01.2009 - 22:00
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Performance

Ethic Disco mixes speeches, songs and pop cultural concepts. It will discuss future-oriented artistic concepts and strategies aimed at sensitising the public about the impact of paradigmatic change within our society.

Thu 29.01.2009 - 18:00
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Performance

specialità di silicio is a hardware cooking performance, in which Urs Dubacher creates a special menu, comprised of silicon. Damaged hardware and other ingredients are fused to a culinary hybrid of absurdity, debris and detritus. Enjoy your meal!

Thu 29.01.2009 - 20:30
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Performance

magma, a 'meteorologic' contemplation in a Norwegian fjord, consists of video and quadrophonic music. The performance is constructed after the principle of the Golden Ratio, and this notion spans the impressive, intricate collaboration between image and sound. The audiovisual work began on the Northern Norwegian Lofote island of Vestvagoy and it was finished in Switzerland. Intended as a dramatic 'installation' the work illustrates the ambivalence of nature and art: a natural metaphor for ice, water, snow and wind.

Thu 29.01.2009 - 22:00
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Performance

a musical cross-section of the "history" of Belgrade's Dis-patch Festival of cutting-edge music and related art ...

Fri 30.01.2009 - 17:00
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Performance

specialità di silicio is a hardware cooking performance, in which Urs Dubacher creates a special menu, comprised of silicon. Damaged hardware and other ingredients are fused to a culinary hybrid of absurdity, debris and detritus. Enjoy your meal!

Fri 30.01.2009 - 19:00
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Performance

This cycle of microevents delves experientially into the human perception of what is waste. The work engages the viewer in the turmoil and infinite recombination of physical and emotional states transduced by water, the light sweet crude oil of the 21st century.

Fri 30.01.2009 - 20:30
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Performance

Paralel Head
Ryoichi Kurokawa

Parallel Head is composed of filmed scenes, animation, field recordings, and generative audio material. Ryoichi Kurokawa builds up a dense, multi-layered, yet delicate immersive experience of light and sound. In his precise audiovisual compositions, he seeks to unify the perception of sound and image and to invoke a synesthetic audiovisual impulse. Parallel Head tests the boundaries of cinematic experience and explores a possible extension of our perception by means of a unique audiovisual language. The work has been presented as an installation and a performance. transmediale.09 will present Parallel Head live on multiple screens and in surround sound.

Mortals Electric
Telcosystems

Mortals Electric is a performance for single screen projection and 5.1 surround sound. This a new audiovisual journey comprises slow-moving cloud clusters, layers of strobing organic structure, deep machine drones and waves of digital noise. Over the years, Telcosystems have aimed to achieve an integration of human expression and programmed computer behaviour. They create a form of live cinema, which fuses the auditory and visual domains into one spatial experience, exploring the limits of the human sensory apparatus.

Fri 30.01.2009 - 22:00
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Performance

Robert Meunier alias .:u:min:. in his work 'Rays and waves: A trajectory of auditive representations of invisible danger' follows the esthetics of fear surrounding new technologies, using meassuring devices and samples of representations of rays and waves in film and music.

Sat 31.01.2009 - 17:00
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Performance

Overbug is a music-performance tool designed to compose minimal and dance music. Through looping and newly arranged sound patterns, called 'Bugsounds', the programme creates complex, polyrhythmic sounds. Overbug differs from conventional linear controlled music sequencers, which arrange the sound into a linear timeline from left to right. The sound arrangement of the repeating music loops equal the visual abstraction of circular actions which built the interface through circles.

Sat 31.01.2009 - 18:30
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Performance

This cycle of microevents delves experientially into the human perception of what is waste. The work engages the viewer in the turmoil and infinite recombination of physical and emotional states transduced by water, the light sweet crude oil of the 21st century.

Sat 31.01.2009 - 22:00
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Performance

DJ-set by Miyuki Osawa, singer of the japanese band Draco. Released their first album " Enter the Draco" on the US indie label Slabco and 7inch single from UK indie label Bad Jazz in 2000, and their second album "South of the Border" from japanese label Positive Pro in 2002. Currently working on her solo album. Her dj set tends to be more housy comparing to the electronic rock sound of her band.

Sun 01.02.2009 - 16:00
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Performance

Sun 01.02.2009 - 18:00
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Performance

Madeskimo is the alter-ego of Geronimo Inutiq. Using electronic music equipment, he presents sounds and music referencing dub, electronica, urban music, and electroacoustics, all with the cultural filter of having originated in the changing face of the Canadian arctic.