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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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Image: RASKIN (Rotraut Pape & Andreas Coerper)

The Historical Online Video Programme

On transmediale.de during February 2012

Video Programme - Satellite Stories

The video programme Satellite Stories, curated by Marcel Schwierin, questions the compatibility between human beings and the products they create. In various fields like politics, economics and media, we create an environment that is intended to satisfy our needs, but one that also consistently makes demands upon us that we cannot achieve. In honour of our 25th anniversary of transmediale, each of the eight video programmes will begin with a historical work from the early years of the festival. Maha Maamoun and Sarah Rifky from Cairo are invited as guest curators for the Arab Shorts programme. | Read the full curatorial statement here.

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Michaela Buescher. Flirting TV

Re-enactment Videospiegel

Tue 31.01.2012 - 17:00
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Screening

We have decided for the 25th anniversary of transmediale to again screen the opening programme of the first VideoFilmFest '88... read more here.
With works by Michaela Buescher, Maria Vedder, Hanspeter Ammann and many more. | 17:00-18:45, 18:45-20:30, 20:30-22:15

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Michaela Buescher. Flirting TV

Re-enactment Videospiegel

Tue 31.01.2012 - 18:45
Format:
Screening

The connection between the video festival, the work and the artists is somewhat loose. Successful videos feature at countless festivals, but often their creators do not even attend the screenings. And yet every one of these screenings – at least those with videos of short running times – is totally unique. The works are gathered together in a programme which, under normal circumstances, is never screened again outside of the festival. We have therefore decided for the 25th anniversary of transmediale...

Michaela Buescher. Flirting TV

Re-enactment Videospiegel

Tue 31.01.2012 - 20:30
Format:
Screening

The connection between the video festival, the work and the artists is somewhat loose. Successful videos feature at countless festivals, but often their creators do not even attend the screenings. And yet every one of these screenings – at least those with videos of short running times – is totally unique. The works are gathered together in a programme which, under normal circumstances, is never screened again outside of the festival. We have therefore decided for the 25th anniversary of transmediale...

"Die Schulung" © Harun Farocki, 1987

Guided Economics

Wed 01.02.2012 - 18:30
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Screening

In this first curated screening of transmediale 2012’s video programme, two works are brought together which reflect on the ideological principles through which neo-liberal structures are implemented again and again in our society... more
With works by Harun Farocki and René Frölke.

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Image copyright of the artist, courtesy of Video Data Bank, www.vdb.org

Suspension

Thu 02.02.2012 - 14:30
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Screening

A standard criticism of the sender-receiver model of mass media is that individuals are given no opportunity to insert themselves into the universal flow of images. This runs contrary to a strategy for longing and identification – affective deep in the psyche of the individual, and increasingly, in the marketing of products... more
With works by Anthony Discenza, Jesse McLean and Andreas Schneider.

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copyright / courtesy VG BILD - Benoit Detalle

I'm the Enemy

Thu 02.02.2012 - 18:30
Format:
Screening

The term "compatibility" comes from the Latin compatere, to have compassion. This programme deals not so much with the incompatibility of human beings with their technology, but with their lack of mercy for their fellow creatures... more
With works by Peter Callas, Steve Reinke, Neozoon, Nadav Assor, Bjørn Melhus and Roee Rosen. 

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Babak Afrassiabi & Nasrin Tabatabai. Satellite

Aiming at the Sky

Fri 03.02.2012 - 14:30
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Screening

Television in two senses, both as technical instrument of image transmission, and as metaphor for communication over great distances... more
With works by Raphael Montañez Ortiz, eteam, Babak Afrassiabi & Nasrin Tabatabai, Walid Mattar, Basma Al Sharif and Stefan Zeyen.

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Copyright: Till Nowak / Courtesy: Claus Friede*Contemporary Art

Vertical Distraction

Fri 03.02.2012 - 18:30
Format:
Screening

Human beings have created a world for themselves with their cities – a world in which they appear to be incompatible. A diverse range of reflections on the relationship between city, human and architecture... more
With works by Bjørn Melhus, Jeremy Bailey, Shelly Silver, Dennis Feser, Till Nowak and many more.

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RASKIN: Mutter Vater ist tot

Parallel Worlds

Sat 04.02.2012 - 14:30
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Screening

All attempts to make contact with the afterlife, whether through religion or magic, are doomed to failure. We cannot communicate with the dead, only with their effigies... more
With works by RASKIN (Rotraut Pape & Andreas Coerper), Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, Sophie Kahn and Laura Horelli.

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Nicolas Provost. Stardust copyright of the artist, courtesy of Video Data Bank

The Sound of the End of Music

Sat 04.02.2012 - 18:30
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Screening

Image and sound in the moving-image are ruled by very different principles, and in the age of film had to be laboriously synchronized. Indeed film music seems to lead an independent life. Despite (or perhaps because of) the fact that it is only rarely perceived consciously in film, it has a fundamental effect on the visuals; this extremely fruitful incompatibility is the theme of this programme... more
With works by Distel & Guyer, Dalibor Baric, Nicolas Provost, People Like Us and many more.

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Nicolás Rupcich. ML

Burning Symbols

Sun 05.02.2012 - 14:30
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Screening

The image, at least since the advent of television, has gained precedence over the written word in the flow of information. If there is no image, or no images are brought into circulation, then there is no meaning... more
With works by Dellbrügge & de Moll, Nicolás Rupcich, Tom Holert, Susan Bowman, Daya Cahen and Reza Haeri.

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Tomorrow Everything Will Be Alright, Akram Zaatari

Arab Shorts – State of Fluidity

Sun 05.02.2012 - 18:30
Format:
Screening

Sequences, replaying experiences in sentiments. The most intimate thoughts are piercing non-verbal disclosures, mere insinuations, that run like fault-lines along the shell of the earth. We live in cities along these natural fissures, concealing faults, and lines. The lips of cities are inflamed and the skin of the world is highly irritable...more
With works by Sherif El Azma, Akram Zaatari, Solmaz Shahbazi and many more.

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