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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tm.09 DEEP NORTH ...thank you!

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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Brico-Brunch / The Houses of Happiness

Sun 1 Feb, Café Global

The Brasilian DesCentro Network are hosts to transmediale's performative public brunch event with leading architects and thinkers, poets and bloggers, transforming the HKW into a temporary autonomous zone of tropical foliage and topical debate. Fusing the threads from the transmediale.09 Making/Thinking conference and Digital Greenhouse salon DesCentro open the doors of discourse and performance in a collaborative culinary experience focussing on the global futures of society, culture and consumption. Join Alexandre Freire and José Balbino of DesCentro together with members of the bricolabs network in building a House of Happiness!

OPEN SPACE

The Open Space invites you to present your projects during the festival and to discuss your ideas with the audience, artists and guests.

Thursday 29 Jan, 14:30 - Café Global
Margarita Dorovska & Kathy Rae Huffman: Archive of Video Art from Eastern Europe
Peter Zorn: European Media Art Network (EMAN)

Friday 30 Jan, 14:30 - Café Global
Perry Bard: Man with A Movie Camera: The Global Remake
Reynold Reynolds: Six Apartments

Saturday 31 Jan, 14:00 - Café Global
Joanna Render: Re_Thinking Net.Art

Saturday 31 Jan, 15:30 - Café Global
Time's up: Luminous Green

Sunday 01 Feb, 14:00 - Salon
Transit Lounge: Moving while standing still
Public Netbase editorial team: NON STOP FUTURE

Critical Consumer Practice

Sat 31 Jan, Digital Greenhouse

We're meeting here both as artists and as consumers. Our diverse methodologies link us in explorations that critically reflect upon us, exposing the ecological consequences of our own actions. Individual consumer freedom is a myth, just as much as the seemingly pragmatic but not at all sustainable prescriptions for crawling out of the global financial crisis. We will look at the concepts behind our practice and propose tools for sustainability.

The Silent Deep

Fri 30 Jan, Digital Greenhouse

The increase in speed with which we explore the limited resources that fuel both economy and lifestyle, shows not only the dimension of our dependency but also reveals one consistency – a new global race for the remaining resources. Developing nations and regions, until recently 'zones of silence' in our collective memory, will now become the stage for our dependency. What will the cultural impact of climate change look like in developing nations? How could a critical artistic practice broach this issue? And how could it create new contexts and possibilities for a sustainable development?

Re-hacking your World

Thur 29 Jan, Digital Greenhouse

Re-hacking your World examines issues of crisis and possibility by intervening in the relationships between environment, industry and culture. Has our cultural hardware and software become useless and unserviceable faced with the complex challenges that confront us? In order to prevent a complete takeover of commercial interests in the development of digital cultures in Africa, Asia and Latin America, it becomes essential to promote and strengthen the vocabulary of open source systems and develop fair use mechanisms.

Re-Articulating the Scenarios of Environmental Catastrophe

Wed 28 Jan, Digital Greenhouse

Increasing social inequality, aggravation of living standards, short-sighted environmental policy and the violation of human rights are all facts pointing to the increasing extremes of the conditions of life. These conditions are not cultural dysfunctions, but are fundamentally connected to the processes of global capital to systematically exploit the environment. Re-Articulacija project members Marina Grzinic and Sebastjan Leban invite the festival audience to join political philosophers Sefik Seki Tatlic and Madina Tlostanova, along with transmediale 2009 Award nominee Petko Dourmana to engage in a session of collective research to counter contemporary global forms of exploitation, control, censorship and expropriation.

salon tm.09 - The Digital Greenhouse

The Digital Greenhouse is the transmediale.09 salon for strategic artistic, performative and net-based discourse. Bringing together artists, cultural activists, hackers and a cosmopolitan array of thinkers and makers, the salon seeks to address the cultural 'raison d'etre' beyond the daily headlines of climate change rhetoric. How does digital art and culture maneuver across political and societal boundaries between 'our' North and an emergent, less 'silent' and deep South to create new voices and strong cultural networks? With the irreversible global transformations we face, the Digital Greenhouse becomes a training camp for the cultural revolution essential in creating new tools and methods of agency and dialogue.

In cooperation with Heinrich Böll Stiftung

transmediale.09 DEEP NORTH

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