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file_under: The Imaginary Museum

As an overall conceptual road-map to the yearly changing themes, at transmediale 2013 we also initiate the “file_under:” framework as an ongoing conceptual discussion surrounding the festival and our all-year programme. The “file_under:” activity will take place through workshops between partner organisations, public discussions at the festival and all-year events, experimental forms of documentation and publications. >> Read more.

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Thematic Threads

The programme follows four threads: Users, Networks, Paper, Desire. The festival will look at what these threads meant BWPWAP, what they are today and how they will develop in the future. >> Read more.

Paper

BWTGGWAG - Back When The Gutenberg Galaxy Was A Galaxy: In the post-digital and networked world, printed matter is no longer the exclusive factor that defines literacy as a cultural imaginary.  >> Read more.

Users

What was the User? Paraphrasing Foucault’s famous analysis of the author we might ask with what cultural imaginaries the “user function” is still providing us. Is it not an obsolete paradigm in the world of participatory pro-sumer culture? >> Read more.

OutResourcing Seminar & Artist Talks in Bangalore

The OutResourcing Seminar & Artist talks will take place in Bangalore, India on December 3rd. It will run 14.00 – 20.00 UTC (GMT +5:30 hours) and a link for live streaming will be available here. This project explores the pervasive phenomenon of outsourcing from a critical point of view approaching it as a site for production of new hybrid subjectivities and economies –as outResources. Read full post

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OCTO is alive!

OCTO, the Official Miscommunication Platform of transmediale 2013. was successfully tested.The work OCTO-P7C-1 Intertubular Pneumatic Packet Distribution System is the result of a joint collaboration between the reSource transmedial culture berlin/transmediale, the Berlin-based collective Telekommunisten, and the group of architects raumlabor berlin. Read Full Post

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Andrew Feenberg, Credit: Neal Rockwell

Marshall McLuhan Lecture 2012 / Andrew Feenberg

Wed 01.02.2012 - 18:00
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Talk

With the annual transmediale Marshall McLuhan Lecture the transmediale invites a figure from the Canadian cultural landscape, whose work expands on McLuhan’s media theories in the context of contemporary culture and society to present their insights. This year’s speaker is Andrew Feenberg, Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Technology at the School of Communication of Simon Fraser University. His lecture is entitled Ten Paradoxes of Technology. | Doors Open: 18:00, Lecture 18:30 (please allow sufficient time for Embassy security), Address: Embassy of Canada, Leipziger Platz 17, 10117 Berlin 

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transmediale 2013 Participant Highlights

transmediale 2013 is happy to announce the participant highlights of the one festival week long Pluto day: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Elizabeth Price, Ian Hacking, Lorraine Daston, Michael Brown, Kenneth Goldsmith, Olga Goriunova, Geert Lovink, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Dennis Adams, John Smith, Sandy Stone, Diane Torr, People Like Us, Boris Hegenbart and Felix Kubin, and many more here

reSource 002: The Video

reSource 002: 'Out of Place, Out of Time' was the second event of the reSource transmedial culture berlin, which took place on 22.-24.08.2012  at Kunstraum Kreuzberg /Bethanien, presenting open discussions, panels, workshops and performances.