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.

Wed 30.01.2013 - 12:00
Format:
Festival format Workshop

Location: HKW Lower Foyer

 

The Post-Digital Publishing workshop is doing its own little bit of “future re-distribution” for open source and indie publishing.

Thu 31.01.2013 - 11:00
Format:
Festival format Workshop

Using e-waste as raw material, the workshop offers participants to become familiar with basic circuit bending, hardware and software hacking/recycling while gaining hands-on experience making an interactive art project at the same time.

Thu 31.01.2013 - 11:00
Format:
Festival format Workshop

Atypo is a virtual publishing house that deals with the promotion and production of artist books.

Thu 31.01.2013 - 12:00
Format:
Festival format Workshop

Location: HKW Lower Foyer

 

A day of critical reflection on the state of the university: As the walls around universities’ repositories of knowledge crumble and fall, who will be the new learners and the new gatekeepers?

Thu 31.01.2013 - 15:00
Format:
Festival format Workshop

Local Autonomy Networks (Autonets) is an artivist project focused on creating networks of communication to increase community autonomy and reduce violence against women, LGBTQI people, people of color and other groups who continue to survive violence on a daily basis.

Fri 01.02.2013 - 11:00
Format:
Festival format Workshop

In this workshop, participants build and play with a simple, modular and fully analog sound and light drone synthesizer.

Fri 01.02.2013 - 11:30
Format:
Festival format Workshop

Location: HKW Central Foyer

 

Lutz Wohlrab and Karla Sachse’s workshop feeds the OCTO P7C-1 installation, the pneumatic mini-network running in the Haus der Kulturen der Welt during the entire festival.

Fri 01.02.2013 - 12:00
Format:
Festival format Workshop

Location: HKW Lower Foyer

 

A day dedicated to round-table demos and discussions to explore possible futures for the indie publisher; how to move to multi-platform publishing, embrace open publishing, the social book and new economic models.

Fri 01.02.2013 - 16:00
Format:
Festival format Workshop

by Johannes P Osterhoff

This workshop is a tool for artists who wish to go beyond common usage of these mobile-controlled consumption interfaces on the Kindle and iPhone—and for anyone interested in what is happening underneath these surfaces.

Sat 02.02.2013 - 12:00
Format:
Festival format Workshop

Location: HKW Lower Foyer

 

This workshop invites you to learn how to quickly digitize books and share them with whomever you want all over the world.

Sat 02.02.2013 - 15:00
Format:
Festival format Workshop

To remind us that the Internet can exist without centralized control, INTK has created unCloud, an application that enables anyone with a laptop to create an open wireless network and distribute their own information.

Sun 03.02.2013 - 11:00
Format:
Festival format Workshop

This workshop presents intellectual ideas and software designs from efforts to transition from "digital-binary" to "quantum” computing.

Sun 03.02.2013 - 15:00
Format:
Festival format Workshop

Today, the great hypertextual WWWeb is becoming more and more constricted by increasingly expanding online services. Not much value is placed in networks in the Web any more.