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transmediale 2013 BWPWAP

The net jargon acronym BWPWAP – Back When Pluto Was a Planet is an expression used whenever one wants to talk about things in our recent past that have changed quickly. On August 24th, 2006, at the closing ceremony of their general assembly, the International Astronomical Union infamously voted in favor of “demoting” Pluto from its planetary status. transmediale 2013 suggested that this classification crisis, spurred on by new technologies and shifting knowledge paradigms, opens up a rich space of cultural negotiation and artistic intervention.

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reSource transmedial culture berlin BWPWAP

Last August 2012, during the reSource 002: Out of Place, Out of Time event, three installation projects were launched. Their ongoing production lasted six months, leading to transmediale 2013 BWPWAP, where the final results are shown and performed. >> Read more.

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Everything But The Planets

Any film can be perceived as an Imaginary Museum as defined by André Malraux. Film footage photographically preserves the moment in an image. It is put into context through montage; the moments are lined up like images in an imaginary museum. >> Read more.

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Desire

BWPWAP Desire is a space in between. If Pluto stands for the introduction of an element generating crisis, in BWPWAP Desire the queer idea of uncertain belonging generates multiple perspectives, where the flow of desire becomes a way to re-imagine identities and subjectivities.  >> Read more.

Paper

BWTGGWAG - Back When The Gutenberg Galaxy Was A Galaxy: In the post-digital and networked world, printed matter is no longer the exclusive factor that defines literacy as a cultural imaginary.  >> Read more.

Users

What was the User? Paraphrasing Foucault’s famous analysis of the author we might ask with what cultural imaginaries the “user function” is still providing us. Is it not an obsolete paradigm in the world of participatory pro-sumer culture? >> Read more.

Networks

What is the meaning of the assumption that networks are BWPWAP, when (social) networks have become a pervasive part of our daily life, and have contributed to changing the way we create friendships and connections? >> Read more.

file_under: The Imaginary Museum

As an overall conceptual road-map to the yearly changing themes, at transmediale 2013 we also initiate the “file_under:” framework as an ongoing conceptual discussion surrounding the festival and our all-year programme. The “file_under:” activity will take place through workshops between partner organisations, public discussions at the festival and all-year events, experimental forms of documentation and publications. >> Read more.

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Thematic Threads

The programme follows four threads: Users, Networks, Paper, Desire. The festival will look at what these threads meant BWPWAP, what they are today and how they will develop in the future. >> Read more.

BWPWAP Curatiorial Statement

Back When
Mobile phones were dumb. Letters traveled by pneumatic air. Tweeting was for birds. Users were chatting on the Minitel. ICQ beat IRC. Xerox challenged the Thermofax. YouTube was just another Web 2 start-up. Fax was the new Telex. You were calling up Bulletin Board Systems. Only university students were using facebooks. History had ended. We had nine planets.
Pluto Was A Planet.

 

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BWPWAP Program Overview

transmediale would like to announce our 2013 program and rich roster of participants. Traversing thematic threads, professions, panels, exhibitions, film screenings, performances, and workshops; the one Pluto long day and Earth week will present visitors with diverse events re-enacting not-so-distant pasts and half-forgotten places. We will explore unrealistic and poetic modes of cultural critique—as if BWPWAP. >> Read more.