transmediale 2014 afterglow

Between shiny high-tech, e-waste dumps, big data businesses and mass surveillance schemes: Under the title afterglow, the 27th edition of transmediale explored our present post-digital moment as one in which former treasures of our mediatised life are turning into trash. International researchers, artists and activists focused on the ambivalent condition of current digital culture, looking towards a future in which media technologies have become part of daily life, turning into physical and immaterial waste.

transmediale 2014 adopted the afterglow of the digital revolution as a starting point to deal with some of the burning issues of today and to invent new speculative practices.

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CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE

Artist-researchers Jamie Allen and David Gauthier, in collaboration with transmediale 2014, present CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE, a media-technical landscape survey. The landscape/architectural survey allows direct observation, revealing the materials and systems that allow media arts, media artists, festivals and venues to exist and persist. An on-site inspection of transmediale 2014 afterglow is undertaken.

Art Hack Day Berlin : Afterglow

The central exhibition of afterglow is in line with this year’s overall programme strategy to only exhibit new or commissioned works. In a curatorial and organisational collaboration between transmediale and LEAP (Lab for Electronic Arts and Performance), the festival has invited Art Hack Day as a grassroots event/exhibit format/community for artists whose medium is tech and hackers whose medium is art.

Ceremonial Chamber Installation

In between two performances, the work Ceremonial Chamber will be presented as an installation at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in the Café Global area.

An Ecosystem of Excess Installation

Parts of the exhibition An Ecosystem of Excess will be presented at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, opposite of the entrance of the studio gallery.

Circe's New Equipment Installation

Circe's New Equipment is a kinetic sculpture, an assemblage of paraphernalia from unwanted surplus and computer hardware elements from around from the local area of Berlin.

Slogans for the Early Twenty-First Century Exhibition

In addition to his Marshall McLuhan 2014 lecture, Douglas Coupland will exhibit his post-digital Slogans for the Early 21st Century (2013-14) in an exhibition presented by Daniel Faria Gallery, transmediale and the Embassy of Canada at the Or Gallery Berlin.

Anthropocene Observatory # 2: Empire of Calculus

Over the course of the two-year ANTHROPOCENE PROJECT 2013–2014 at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, THE ANTHROPOCENE OBSERVATORY pursues and documents the thesis of the “age of man” and its political, practical, institutional, and cultural formulation in, among other areas, international climate policy.

Partner Exhibition: future past - past future

Did the future look better in the past? Today, has the future already turned into the past? Or is it perhaps that nowadays the past seems almost blissful compared to the present in which we actually live? What concepts of the future exist in times of social, economic and political crisis, in times of spreading poverty, corruption and mistrust towards democratic processes? Do visions of a better future exist at all? Or have we already caught up with our blooming future visions and dumped them in the dustbin of history?

Partner Exhibition: Schizophrenia Taiwan 2.0

Taiwan can be viewed as a microcosm of a world history that has led to today’s globalized reality. Schizophrenia Taiwan 2.0 focuses on the digital revolution in the work of young Taiwanese new media artists, born between the eras of color TV and smart phones in a country that manufactures 80% of the world’s electronic goods. They are fully aware of the risks and the potential of globalization and cybernetics, and their artworks embody in depth research on the relationships between humans and machines. www.schizotaiwan.net

Partner Exhibition: An Ecosystem of Excess

Sylvie Earle, explorer and oceanographer, says Earth is a misnomer and the planet should be called the Ocean. Oceans are the life support system of the planet as well as its salty wombs. The ancient ocean, the primordial soup, gave birth to the very first organic molecules and was brimming with prehistoric living organisms. That was four billion years ago. Today the composition of oceans is undergoing a dramatic change where synthetic molecules are taking over.

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