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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Screening Programme

The eight screening programmes and seven installations featured in transmediale 2014 focus on subjects such as the internet, surveillance, and Big Data as well as electronic, digital and analogue trash. The afterglow theme is seen as gloomy visions of the afterlife of images and technologies in which naïve dreams of a digital revolution, free exchange and equal participation no longer have a place.

White Nightmares

Thu 30.01.2014 - 14:30

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Screening

This programme addresses fears of rejection, marginalisation and loss of identity. | With works from Hearst Metrotone News, Tom Palazzolo & Jeff Kreines, Whitney Johnston, Thomas Haley, Cory Arcangel.

Trash From Hell

Thu 30.01.2014 - 18:00

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Screening

We demand meaning and consistency from the cultural products we consume and this program is designed as a crude rebellion against this comfortable idea that there are objective “standards” of any kind and that we have a right to expect “good taste.” ...

Afterglow of Life

Fri 31.01.2014 - 14:30

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Screening

What actually happens to all the pictures we constantly take of ourselves after we’re dead? | With works by Jesse McLean, Karin Fisslthaler, Sergio Oksman, John Smith, Bjørn Melhus, Tasman Richardson

Wasteland Poetries

Fri 31.01.2014 - 18:00

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Screening

Wasteland Poetries addresses trash as inheritance, the unwanted legacy of our aggressive civilization... | With works from Cordelia Swann, Jean-Luc Vilmouth, Louis Henderson

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Out to Get You

Sat 01.02.2014 - 14:30

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Screening

Constant control of the individual is a vital element of all modern societies. Currently, however, contemporary democracies seem to be shifting fundamentally into new, digitally supported, surveillance states... | With works Krzysztof Kieślowski, Nadav Assor, Andy Weir, Ivar Veermäe, Maha Maamoun, Chris Marker

Digital Plays

Sat 01.02.2014 - 18:00

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Screening

Digital Plays is playfully and ironically dedicated to the cinematic fiction that so often—and usually unintentionally—ends up in the Trash. | With works by Elizabeth Vander Zaag, Ella Raidel, Ho Tzu Nyen, Neïl Beloufa, Keren Cytter, Beatrice Gibson

The Sound of Daily Vulgarity

Sun 02.02.2014 - 14:30

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Screening

Both the films in this programme are a form of recycling from ubiquitous streams of images, in this case from the News... | With works from Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ken Jacobs

Luther Price Lost and Found

Sun 02.02.2014 - 18:00

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Screening

Almost all works by Luther Price are handmade films, films that put together from the remnants of other films... | With works from Luther Price

afterglow Fog and Rain

Tom Palazzolo, represented in the screening program with the film Ricky and Rocky, has created for the transmediale afterglow a cinematic statement of his outtakes from 1968 and from current material, which can be seen online here.

Rogalik

Wed 29.01.2014 - 17:30

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Screening

The viewer roams around desolate flats in a Polish village by way of extended tracking shots. The people look strangely unreal in this mix of photographic portraits and tableaux vivants.

Still from Why by Borja Rodríguez Alonso

Why

Wed 29.01.2014 - 17:30

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Screening

Borja Rodríguez Alonso’s Why is based on an everyday Google function—the autocomplete...

Utopia

Wed 29.01.2014 - 21:30

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Screening

Utopia is a silent double slide projection with 160 handmade slides in two Kodak Carousel magazines. They will be presented as a loop in the Auditorium of the HKW.

Titloi Telous – Out of Frame

Thu 30.01.2014 - 10:00

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Screening

Billboard advertising has been severely restricted in Greece since 2010. The naked scaffolds that remain in the wake of the crisis can be found across the country, presenting viewers with empty surfaces.

Crystal Computing (Google Inc. St. Ghislain)

Fri 31.01.2014 - 10:00

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Screening

Data in the Cloud seems to be disembodied. But in reality, it does have a physical manifestation, albeit a small one, on the hard drives on internet servers.

The Plastic Garden

Sat 01.02.2014 - 10:00

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Screening

Call of Duty is one of the most successful first-person shooters in computer gaming history. In the Black Ops instalment from 2010, the action takes place in Nuketown, a city in the American desert where the effects of atomic bombs were tested on people, cars and houses. The ‘residents’ of Nuketown are mannequins.