This panel analyzes misuse and abuse of online communication, sexual computational practices and porn fiction as code narrative, by focusing on a spectrum reaching from the history of spam practices to the potential of pornography as fictional computing.
Social Media: From Complaints to Alternative Tools. This presentation gives a strategic overview of the philosophical underpinnings of the Unlike Us project, a network of designers, geeks, activists and researchers that investigates both critique and alternatives in social media
This panel takes its cue in part from Roland Barthes’ essay Death of the Author (1967), in which he argues that one should not focus on the writer’s intentions but should pay new attention to readers’ impressions in order to understand a text’s multiple layers of meaning.
"Remixing Digital Cities" explores the concept of digital cities and alternative urban networks in Europe and Brazil. In Berlin, Amsterdam and elsewhere, "digital cities" were founded in the 1990s to provide Internet access and address both the promises and risks of recently built network technologies.
This event brings together participants of the Researching BWPWAP workshop that preceded transmediale and was focused on the question of how BWPWAP can be interpreted in the context of research culture. This process culminated in the production of a peer-reviewed research newspaper—itself an experiment in new forms of scholarly publishing.
The panel is discussing the installation project Evil Media Distribution Centre by Graham Harwood (uk) and Matsuko Yokokoji (jp/uk) (YoHa) that is part of the festival’s exhibition series The Miseducation of Anya Major.
This panel describes a few daring projects: from the activities of Robert Rehfeldt (the first and most well-known Mail Artist of the GDR), to the political aesthetical statements of networking activists who didn’t reduce their efforts to undermine governmental restrictions and even the seemingly indestructible Wall.
By addressing specific examples related to online sex and porn, porn-sourcing, love for sex machines and fictional characters, the objective is to investigate the current state of mediated desire and reimagine critical body politics.
Uncreative Writing with Kenneth Goldsmith in Conversation with Florian Cramer. With so much language available in the digital age, does anyone really need to write more?
“Depletion Design” suggests that ideas of exhaustion cut across cultural, environmentalist, and political idioms and offers ways to explore the emergence of new material assemblages. >> Read more.
