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.

Fri 31.01.2014 - 19:00

The notion of "South" is ambiguous and shifting. In general, we denote "South" with countries whose economy is currently emerging i.e. Brazil, India, Africa but in a globalized world, is this still a relevant benchmark?

Fri 31.01.2014 - 11:00

Tired of developing various fictions, inhabitants of developing countries realize that they have told stories and decided to throw them all in the trash.

Thu 30.01.2014 - 19:00

Tired of developing various fictions, inhabitants of developing countries realize that they have told stories and decided to throw them all in the trash.

Sat 25.01.2014 - 18:30

The Berlin Hannah Arendt Working Group meets weekly at various venues using Arendt's writings as exercises in connecting thinking and practice in art, culture, knowledge, politics, and life.

Sun 26.01.2014 - 17:00

Or Gallery Berlin in co-operation with Transmediale 2013 and the Embassy of Canada is pleased to present Slogans for the Early Twenty-First Century by Douglas Coupland, with the kind support of Daniel Faria Gallery.

Fri 31.01.2014 - 19:00

@ DAM GALLERY Berlin

Opening of a show with the artist group LAb[au] from Brussel.

Sat 01.02.2014 - 16:00

@ SUPERMARKT

During a tour through the exhibition artists and curator talk about the works on display. Representatives of the Goethe Institutes Athens, Ankara and Sofia inform about the ArtUP! project on whose initiative this exhibition was realised in cooperation with transmediale. A following discussion offers the opportunity to get into conversation with all participants.

Tue 28.01.2014 - 18:30

The transmediale Marshall McLuhan Lecture invites a Canadian cultural figure, whose work expands on McLuhan’s media theories in the context of contemporary culture and society. This year, the Canadian writer and visual artist Douglas Coupland will deliver the lecture, entitled Space Junk.

Sat 25.01.2014 - 12:00

@ Volksbühne

Internationale Konferenz zu Theorie & Praxis der Selbstermächtigung in Zeiten digitaler Kontrolle.

Fri 17.01.2014 - 18:00

@ .CHB Collegium Hungaricum Berlin

Die schweizerisch-ungarische Arbeit Gratis der Waschmaschinegruppe (Füsun Ipek und Bálint Liptay). Die ready made weiterdenkenden Künstler verlängern die Gebrauchspause von Straßen- und Flohmarkt-Fundstücken durch die Integration in Installationen.

Sun 26.01.2014 - 19:00

@ Apartment Project Berlin

The installation UNorJUSTNESS : Finance has 3 parts, which are brought in opposition to each other, visually and acustically. There are shown three forms of work, of earning money, of „making“ money.

Sat 25.01.2014 - 15:00

@ DAM GALLERY Berlin

The pioneer of the early days, Frieder Nake, with 50 years experience in generative art, talks about the conceptual differences between digital and analogue art AND an opening of a show with the artist group LAb[au] from Brussel.

Fri 24.01.2014 - 22:00

@ Panke e.V.

It’s all about the time in between creating all the digital tools + toys and having them integrated in our every day life. Actually its the most amazing moment in the life cycle of a tool. The work is done and now its time to play.

Thu 23.01.2014 - 19:00

@ Public Art Lab

As a start to series of events, on this evening Public Art Lab will open its doors within a kitchen-like atmosphere to bring together Berlin based urban media initiatives.

Sat 25.01.2014 - 17:00

@ Liebig12

For this edition of Vorspiel, Liebig12 presents 2 happenings that explore Void & Disruption, as Keywords discussed on the reSource network meetings.

Fri 24.01.2014 - 19:30

@ O Tannenbaum

Pilgrimage, togetherness, quality time meets Konzert Minimal or The New silence.

Wed 22.01.2014 - 16:00

@ Naherholung Sternchen

Welcome to SOBER, a night showcasing all the things that you thought were but weren't so sure existed, but you are faced to come to terms with its magnificence and delight!

Thu 23.01.2014 - 18:00

@ Loophole ArtSpace

The Bloop is an online network dedicated to artists and event organizers. The platform is designed to streamline as much as possible all the steps of the booking and promotional process.

Sat 25.01.2014 - 22:00

@ Paloma Bar

Benjamin Fehr,  the berlin based producer, Dj and head honcho of catenaccio records is permanently working on the development of "groove noir".

Tue 28.01.2014 - 18:00

@ Mindpirates

Casting as performance. An open call casting session in seeking the potential cast, gender-fluid human and non-human, for FLUID the movie. Producer/Jürgen Brüning, director/Shu Lea Cheang, casting director/Paula Alamillo.

Sat 25.01.2014 - 21:30

@ NK PROJEKT

A concert with Arnaud Riviéra and Jealousy Party (Mat Pogo & WJ Meatball) in NK PROJEKT.

Fri 24.01.2014 - 19:00

@ Kunstraum Kreuzberg/ Bethanien

A series of theoretical discussions, presentations, artist talks, and films exploring the Dis Continuity theme, and including a special focus on the Generation Z: ReNoise exhibition and the artistic developments in middle and eastern Europe.

Wed 29.01.2014 - 11:30

@ aktnz
Participants: Julieta Aranda, Armen Avanessian, Benjamin Bratton, Simon Denny, Anne de Vries, Prof. Dr. Susanne von Falkenhausen, Katja Novitskova, Benedict Singleton, Christopher Kulendran Thomas. Moderated by Elena Gilbert.

Fri 24.01.2014 - 19:00

@ Institut für Alles Mögliche

The concept of the exhibitions is to present various work of art on various USB-devices. Via an open call, artists from around the world are invited to send in their flash drivers, containins one piece of art each.

Fri 24.01.2014 - 19:00

Panmediale @ gallery Walden Kunstausstellungen

Cosmic Death is a 2-day event of generative sound, video, and light installations and performances by the new-media collective, Panmediale. It will be hosted by Galerie Walden on the 24th and 25th of January, 2014.

Sat 25.01.2014 - 21:00

@ Hau 2 - Hebbel am Ufer

For the opening concert the HAU2 theatre will be transformed into a special acoustic space with surround sound and a landscape made of cushions and pillows, which allows focused but relaxed listening experiences.

Sat 25.01.2014 - 18:00

@ Errant Bodies

Errant Bodies is launching its new collective initiative. Operating as a project space since 2010, we are pleased to undertake this new approach, developing projects and a program dedicated to the sound arts organized by its new working group of leading artists in the field.

Fri 24.01.2014 - 20:00
Format:
Exhibition

@ Platoon Kunsthalle

Nekton is a light organism, an immaterial robot, a reactive object and a luminescent creature, floating in the empty spaces in between.

Thu 30.01.2014 - 18:00

@ EIGEN + ART Lab

In the frame of the group exhibition still (not) moving with Yvon Chabrowski, David Claerbout and Albrecht Pischel a guided tour by the curator Prof. Dr. Dieter Daniels will take place at EIGEN + ART Lab on January 30, 2014 at 6 pm. The exhibition is on display until February 20, 2014. The Tour will be in German with English comments.

Sat 25.01.2014 - 20:00

@ Panke e.V

Scope Sessions presents a special evening of audio-visual performances for the pre-transmediale period with an international line-up of visual artist, musicians and djs. Join us on saturday 25th of january at Panke in Wedding!

Fri 24.01.2014 - 11:00

@ Studio Weise7

Have you ever thought about storing your family photos, notes and calendar events on your own home-server? Or would like to send an email directly between your computer and the computer or your recipient? Would you prefer to share your data locally within a circle of people that you trust or are physically present around you?

Thu 23.01.2014 - 14:00

@ SUPERMARKT

A workshop for artists, hackers, scientists and curators: Explore the possibilities & implications of audience participation, sharing and remixing of time-based media artworks.

Fri 24.01.2014 - 19:00
Format:
Exhibition

@ uqbar

Solo exhibition of artist Gao Shiqiang with seleceted video works by the artist.

Fri 10.01.2014 - 19:00

@ Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik

Video artist and teacher Maria Vedder will celebrate her departure from UdK with an exhibition of her works along with projects by former students.

Sun 26.01.2014 - 17:00

@ Stattbad Wedding

25-minute performance and a continuously evolving installation which is steered through a sensor network that utilizes cutting-edge machine learning algorithms that adapt different rhythmic and temporal patterns produced by the light and sound, generating a totalizing, visceral, self-organizing composition.

Sat 25.01.2014 - 20:00

@ Bi Nuu

! SOLD OUT !

Es werden befreundete Künstler zusammen mit Andreas Dorau zum 50e´n Geburtstag eine furiosen Konzertabende auf die Beine stellen.

Fri 24.01.2014 - 14:00

@ Art Laboratory Berlin

Art/Science dialog: Theresa Schubert and Andy Adamatzky,

DIY Bio Lounge with Rüdiger Trojok, drop in & drop out; open bio lab
'Bioluminescence' an installation by Sarah Chareza and Jessica

Fri 24.01.2014 - 19:00
Format:
Performance

@ Apartment Project Berlin

In the post-digital era we are all surrounded by dystopias, feeling the urge to turn back to our roots, the untouchable. Nowadays, human beings tend to find themselves in the void, in the burden of a significant crisis, but what if the so called emptiness/vacuum we all scare of is a new, white, blank page allowing us to mingle with several questions?

Wed 22.01.2014 - 19:00
Format:
Exhibition

@ Altes Finanzamt

Exhibition in Altes Finanzamt with Lindsay Lawson, Constant Dullart, Jodi, Nuria Güell, Sophie Lefraga, Sam Smith and Ellis Macdonald.

Take the opportunity to experience some of Berlin's best experimental arts, interventions, music and sound in this unique pre-festival programme! transmediale and CTM's Vorspiel is a programme of distributed partner events, where a variety of partner venues invite local and international audiences to a series of exhibition openings, performances, interventions, artist talks and special events across the city of Berlin. The Vorspiel is coordinated by the reSource transmedial culture berlin. Read more.