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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Memoblast

Tue 29.01.2013 - 17:30

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Festival format Performance

Memoblast is a group performance in a fax-based office. Raquel Meyers, Jacob Sikker Remin and Goto80 are office workers who handle the flow of information by following rituals and rules of efficiency. They work with conventional office tools such as text editors and spreadsheets to create graphics, music and memos. Read more.

-logy

Wed 30.01.2013 - 19:00

Format:

Festival format Performance

-logy is a "science fiction" performance representing the border between controlled and uncontrolled technology, exploring the exchanged energy between humans and technology.

casperelectronics

Wed 30.01.2013 - 19:30

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Festival format Performance

This audiovisual performance by musical instrument designer and circuit-bender Peter Edwards (aka Casperelectronics) occupies a sonic territory between noise and melody, chaos and structure.

Movement Materials and What We Can Do

Wed 30.01.2013 - 20:00

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Festival format Performance

In Movement Materials and What We Can Do, Andrew Norman Wilson employs corporate, academic and artistic lecture techniques to the intertwining concerns of his projects Workers Leaving the Googleplex and ScanOps.

Instrumentarium II. (BWPWAP and The Golden Age Edition)

Wed 30.01.2013 - 21:00

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Festival format Performance

Instrumentarium is a performance series for musicians in separate rooms orchestrated by Berlin sound artist Boris Hegenbart in collaboration with various guest musicians. For the Special Edition BWPWAP and The Golden Age, he invited avant-garde cosmonaut Felix Kubin. Together they lift Instrumentarium to a new level and present the performance from a far away place: Pluto.

de/Rastra

Thu 31.01.2013 - 17:00

Format:

Festival format Performance

Kyle Evans' de/Rastra is an oscillographic synthesizer, a real-time audio/video instrument and computer-interfacing device that generates visualizations intrinsic to cathode ray tube technology while simultaneously creating the acoustic analog of the displayed imagery.

Let There Be Light and Sound

Thu 31.01.2013 - 19:00

Format:

Festival format Performance

In WMSWF (We Make Sound With Fire), fire and light are produced through various methods. Fluorescene is an improvised light and sound performance.

Consequences (One Thing Leads To Another)

Thu 31.01.2013 - 21:30

Format:

Festival format Performance

This world premiere of the new live A/V set of People Like Us (PLU) is presented in an exclusive transmediale and CTM edition that applies a collage approach to networks in which ideas, images and sounds travel in between the mundane and the unexpected. >> Read more.

Mind the Volcano!

Thu 31.01.2013 - 22:30

Format:

Festival format Performance

Mind the Volcano is a text-based, TV-performance with a typewriter logic that remediates existing materials. >> Read more.

BWPWAP Users: Coded Narratives

Fri 01.02.2013 - 21:30

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Festival format Performance

Coded Narratives (CN) is a retro-futuristic, campfire type of experience for the audience as active participants, articulated by the proto-programming language of Morse Code, declared dead in 1999.

Laborers of Love/LOL

Sat 02.02.2013 - 13:30

Format:

Festival format Conference

LOL is a crowdsourcing project that explores how sexuality and desire are mediated through new technologies, specifically new models of global, outsourced labor.

Darkness Bright

Sat 02.02.2013 - 22:30

Format:

Festival format Performance

Following the video conversation with Alejandro Jodorowsky, this exclusive double-bill of sci-fi tinged performances takes you further into and beyond the confines of the Jodoverse.