transmediale 2k+12 in/compatible

Incompatibility is the condition arising when things are not working together. Given the current worldwide proclamations of crisis, be they political, financial, technological or environmental, it may seem as if incompatible elements and situations are everywhere, that everything is failing. Ironically, it is the supposedly ever-more compatible media-scape, where everything connects, that render such crises instantly visible. With the theme in/compatible, the festival probes the productive and destructive sides of incompatibility as a fundamental condition of cultural production.

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in/compatible systems | publics | aesthetics

Over the past few years the spread of networks has been almost epidemic. Political, economic, civil and military authorities are all now bound up with each other. The notion of regulation and control of such expansive systems through routine procedures of convergence, standardisation and compatibility is proving to be increasingly problematic. In contrast to this, the in/compatible is a moment that cannot be accommodated within given structures, hierarchies and relationships, because it is by its nature ambiguous. How can this oscillation between functionality and disruption be used as a productive strategy? | Read more about this year's symposium here.

Keynote by Graham Harman: Everything Is Not Connected

Thu 02.02.2012 - 18:00

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in/compatible system: The idea that everything is interconnected has become a staple of intellectual life. As a related phenomenon, “contextualisation” is now the method of first resort throughout the humanities. This lecture opposes the general trend of emphasising systems and wholes over autonomous individuals. | Read more about this in/compatible systems keynote here.

War Machines: Military Technologies between Civility and Authority

Fri 03.02.2012 - 11:30

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in/compatible systems: Using the strange confluence of military technological development and private tech start-ups in Israel as a case study, experts excavate the ways in which the improvisational nature of combat and the split second creative decision making taking place in the “fog of war” get embedded into the very tools we claim liberate us from the societies of control. | Read more about this in/compatible systems panel here.

Tim Libert https://timlibert.me/writing/?page_id=6

Anonymous Codes: Disruption, Virality and the Lulz

Fri 03.02.2012 - 14:00

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in/compatible publics: The panel addresses anonymity as a political and artistic strategie of intervention and disruption. Jacob Appelbaum, Gabriella Coleman, Dana Buchzik and one anonymous speaker discuss the topic moderated by Krystian Woznicki. reSource initiator Tatiana Bazzichelli will also participate in the panel by being a respondent. | Read more about this in/compatible publics panel here.

Uncorporated Subversion: Tactics, Glitches, Archeologies

Fri 03.02.2012 - 16:00

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in/compatible aesthetics: Today, the average user is obliged to stay on top of the technological curve, thrust into a vortex of consumer myths, riding waves of both euphoria and disappointment. This has prompted artists and theorists to break these assured flows of media, for instance by zooming into the otherwise transparent Human Computer Interface and turning its limiting, characteristic blueprints into a revolting yet delightful spectacle. | More about this in/compatible aesthetics panel of here.

(Image: Hobart and William Smith Colleges hws.edu)

Keynote by Jodi Dean: The Incompatible Public is Occupied

Fri 03.02.2012 - 18:00

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in/compatible publics: This keynote deals with the keywords communicative capitalism and occupation before the background of the recent global political resistance. Distinguishing between occupation as form and occupation as tactic Jodi Dean examines the potential and the paradoxes of such collective acts. | Read more about this in/compatible publics keynote here.

Business as Unusual: Financial Crisis, Computing and Money Machines

Sat 04.02.2012 - 11:30

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in/compatible systems: The Euro is crashing. US Debt is spiralling. Banking is in crisis but luxury goods sales are up! The global finance system is out of control, the public agora replaced by the 24/7 calculations of machines, the weakened nation state buckling under the incessant flows of virtual capital. With experts from economics, philosophy, new media studies and history of science, the panel zeroes in on the contradictions, breakdowns and incompatibilities with systems of money and finance in our calamitous era of late capitalism. | Read more about this in/compatible systems panel here.

Publics in Crisis – Production, Regulation and Control of Publics

Sat 04.02.2012 - 14:00

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in/compatible publics: In this time of social crisis we have to ask about the potential of social media. After all it is a strong collaborative grassroots quality that qualifies them as platforms for social change. With respect to the "failed states" located inside exclusive clubs such as the G8 and the Euro-17, this panel wonders: What are seminal practices and applications of social media? What is their disruptive potential in increasingly authoritarian media landscapes? | Read more about this in/compatible publics panel here.

Unstable and Vernacular: Vulgar and Trivial Articulations of Networked Communication

Sat 04.02.2012 - 16:00

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in/compatible aesthetics: Over the last decade, the history of the web and all its “common” qualities – or digital folklore – has become a growing field of study. This panel will reflect on different on/offline (dead and alive) DIY networks focusing on their vulgar vernaculars, ideologies and customs, and on how we came to appraise them. | Read more about this in/compatible aesthetics panel here.

Keynote by Matthew Fuller: Knotty Problems in the Fables of Computing

Sat 04.02.2012 - 18:00

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in/compatible aesthetics: Computer Science has a number of knotty problems that are part of the iteration of one of the central problems in computing, that of speed and intractability as it unfolds in relation to computing applications. In themselves these problems are profound and fascinating micro-worlds that work in the 'timeless' storyworlds of fables, but they also have significant conceptual and practical spill-over involving spatial, social and aesthetic dimensions. | Read more about this in/compatible aesthetics keynote here.

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