transmediale.10 FUTURITY NOW!

Much of 20th century society strove to depict 2010 as a shining example of a future framed by technological progress and social harmony. But as 2010 arrived it was clear that global society was neither the utopia nor the dystopia traditionally presented. FUTURITY NOW! invited for the creation of new templates for the future and asked not what the future has in store for us, but what it is that we have in store for the future.

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The transmediale.10 exhibition Future Obscura presents artworks that use the materials, mechanisms and machines of image-making to illuminate and define our relationship with atemporality - the collision of past, present and future. Over a dozen international artists, including Zilvinas Kempinas, Julius von Bismarck, Ken Rinaldo, Alice Miceli and Julien Maire, will create interdisciplinary explorations of light and chronology which will unfold across the HKW, and several urban spaces within Berlin.

For the benefit of Haiti the exhibition was extended by two days, running until Tuesday, 9 February 2010 - 21:30

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action installation interactive

The Artvertiser considers Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, Puerta del Sol in Madrid, Times Square in New York, and other sites dense with advertisements, as potential exhibition space. The Artvertiser allows artists to create a new visual layer onto the topology of the city, which can only be seen when viewed through a device which cogently blends the aesthetics of the past, with a futuristic functionality.

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installation interactive

The installation features a series of Paparazzi Bots, each a tech-hybrid of camera and cameraman, which subtly stalks exhibition visitors. They seek one thing, which is to photograph these visitors, and make themselves famous.

Julien Maire: The Inverted Cone
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installation digital image

The Inverted Cone is a new installation, premiering at transmediale.10, which uses a constellation of projection devices to create a condition of atemporality, where our memories of the past, and our experience of the present, collide. When participating in the heuristic process of engaging with this work, the viewer automatically becomes a media-archeologist, experiencing distinct chronologies simultaneously.

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installation

The Optofonica Capsule creates a futuristic context for experiencing moving image and sound. This highly technologically augmented audiovisual space suggests a future whereby our existing passive tropes of experiencing moving image and sound, have been upgraded substantially.

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installation photography

The Invisible Stain is the third installment of Brazilian artist Alice Miceli’s ongoing Chernobyl Project. For transmediale.10, this third presentation will present a completed negative series from the final, decisive stage of the work.

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hacktivism installation

The Panoramic Wifi Camera takes ‘pictures’ of spaces illuminated by wireless radio signals, in much the same way that a traditional camera takes pictures through visible light. The work is a powerful example of how artists are creating new methods of visualising the intangible and atemporal environment which we exist within.

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installation

On three evenings of transmediale.10 a rainbow will span the night sky of Berlin.  From One to Many by Yvette Mattern is a vast seven-colour laser projection reaching from the House of World Cultures to the TV Tower in Alexanderplatz, connecting two emblematic architectural sites in the city's former West and former East.                        ...read more

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installation

This major new work by Julius von Bismark, shown for the first time at transmediale.10, uses the materials and devices of filmmaking to create an uncanny experience of space and time. In the gallery this takes the form of an immersive installation, where a 16mm camera, which has been converted into a projector, beams a film onto a circular screen that is painted with phosphorescent paint.

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installation

In his work White Noise, Kempinas shows us that videotape is more than merely a neutral carrier of virtual moving images. He uses tape to extend its virtuality, transforming it into a medium of futurity, which sculpts and redefines space.

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installation

A Parallel Image is an electronic camera obscura. This media-archaeological, interactive sculpture is based on the fictive assumption that the contemporary principle of electronically transmitting moving images, namely by breaking them down into single images and image lines, was never discovered.

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installation

Ryoji Ikeda’s visual works are emblematic of a future defined and visualised through the lens of digital technologies. In this large-scale audiovisual installation – shown for the first time in Germany – Ikeda makes the imperceptible sea of data that permeates our world, dramatically visible through digital projection.