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.

The amalgamation of theory and practice is a prevalent aspiration in much contemporary art discourse. The ambition is to expand the perspective and relevance of artwork beyond its formal boundaries and to connect the abstractions of the written word to the materiality and experiences of life. >> Read more.

Imaging with Machine Processes. The Generative Art of Sonia Landy Sheridan—Sheridan's first solo exhibition in Europe—presents a wide variety of material relating to this manifold, extensive and truly unique line of work.  >> Read more.

Suicide Letter Wizard for Microsoft by Olga Goriunova

Through a selection of 13 artists, Tools of Distorted Creativity questions the notion of creativity that has been instrumental to the development of the personal computer, from its first stationary instantiations in the 1980s to today’s mobile devices. >> Read more.

The Miseducation of Anya Major openly investigates questions of knowledge, learning and education in relation to contemporary media.  >> Read more.

Suicide Letter Wizard for Microsoft by Olga Goriunova

Why should text-editing tools only facilitate orderly office work and not existential challenges? Suicide Letter Wizard for Microsoft Word is an application—and a piece of software art—written by Olga Goriunova that gives you (the user) the opportunity to create your own suicide note...

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On the afternoon of 9/11 the FBI had the Ethernet packet-sniffing system known as “Carnivore,” installed with a number of major Internet Service Providers and networks such as America Online and Hotmail...

ioq3apaint by Julian Oliver
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Whoever said computer games were only for playing? Or, why not use computer games for something other than their intended purpose?

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The net.art generator is an easy-to-use, multi-layered tool for making artistic images with networked material.

Desktop (Gravity Edition) by Jacob Nielsen

Was the digital space of the personal computer to realize the age-old dream of transcending logic and burdens of corporeal existence? Did it succeed?

X-Devian is centered on the fictive operating system X-Devian, which is in fact the conceptual repackaging of Ubuntu’s latest desktop version (based on Debian GNU/Linux).

Modified Software by Mogens Jacobsen

What do you get when you mix bits from the kernel of Microsoft’s operational system Windows XP with bits of music by Carly Simon?

Scream by Amy Alexander
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Scream, a piece of software art for the Windows desktop, programmed by Amy Alexander to react to the frustration and anger users feel when their computer malfunctions or while working with certain programs.

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Auto-Illustrator is a software tool developed by the British programmer and artist Adrian Ward and his company Signwave, for both art circulation and the market.

ExtraFile by Kim Asendorf
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More than 60 years ago, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) took control of the newly born world of digital media and basically forced artists to use formats like .jpeg, .png and .tiff when creating images.

Pure Flow (mobile edition) by Katy Connor
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Using GPS (Global Positioning System) has become an integrated and ubiquitous part of everyday life in today’s networked world. There are stories of people who trust the system too much and get lost or hurt and of its use for surveillance.

Single Line Labyrinths by Ignacio Urinate

The black and white line drawing by Ignacio Uriate seems to form a highly complex labyrinth, but the tricky geometric pattern actually follows very basic, predetermined rules and evolves from a single circular line made by coloring the cells of an Excel sheet black rather than typing in letters and numbers.