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transmediale.01 DIY [do it yourself!]

DIY [do it yourself!] is transmediale.01’s appeal to its visitors expanding and fostering creative media competences: They were requested to use provided technological tools in order to produce digital art by themselves.

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transmediale 00

At the turn of the millenium the transmediale 00 festival investigated the tendencies that were bound to change the world; it investigated the aesthetic practice of international media artists.

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Open Call for Works

Our thematic call for works is now open! tm.12 postulates that incompatible beings drive the logic of contemporary cultural production. We understand in/compatible beings as aesthetic things and processes that do not necessarily connect on the terms we are used to.

 

HONF - Intelligent Bacteria CC Jonathan Gröger / transmediale

transmediale Award RIP

transmediale Award RIP! For the 2012 festival there will be no general transmediale Award. This change reflects our new ways of producing the festival: adopting the thematic approach early on we aim at curatorial coherence across the different programme sections and at the same time we wish to engage more directly in our community. Consequently, the call for tm.12 is tied to a thematic rather than an Award competition and the Vilém Flusser Theory Award now takes the form of a Residency Programme for artistic research. For 2012 there will be no Open Web Award, but the critical discussion of the politics of open and closed systems will continue in new formats. The decisions to cancel the transmediale and the Open Web Award are also connected to the development of a new project, “resource”, an all-year project working as a form of distributed project residency for transmediale's local, regional and international community.

Award Winners 2011

The winners of the transmediale Award 2011, Vilém Flusser Theory Award 2011 and the Open Web Award have been announced in the Award Ceremony. Congratulations to The House of Natural Fibre (HONF) from Indonesia with their installation Intelligent Bacteria – Saccharomyces cerevisiae, to Jordan Crandall with his written piece GATHERINGS 1: EVENT, AGENCY, AND PROGRAM and to Evan Roth for Graffiti Analysis / Graffiti Markup Language.

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transmediale Award 2010 Nominees

Out of more than 1,500 submissions nine art projects have made their way onto the list of transmediale Award 2010 nominees. In a session of several days the members of the international jury have nominated the following artists and art collectives.

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DCA (Digitising Contemporary Art)

transmediale has been accepted into DCA (Digitising Contemporary Art), a project funded by the European Commission, comprising 25 partners from 10 EU member states and 2 associated countries, Croatia and Iceland. Within the lifespan of the project transmediale will digitise important works from its 25 year long history and use the DCA as a platform for building, disseminating its online archive and making it accessible also through Europeana, the single access point to Europe's cultural heritage.

The Book Sprinters with their accomplished work at the .CHB

Open Web Book Sprint

The 2011 Open Web Book Sprint, the follow-up to the 2010 Collaborative Futures Book Sprint, took place at the Collegium Hungaricum Berlin (.CHB), between 17 and 21 January 2011, in the lead up to transmediale.11. During this time six sprinters – Michelle  Thorne, Christopher Lee Adams, Jon Phillips, Alejandra Perez, Mick Fuzz and Barry Threw – were 'locked' into a room at .CHB to produce an entire book from scratch. This year's sprint was also facilitated by Adam Hyde from FLOSS Manuals, with a book that intends to define the contours of what an Open Web should and could be, and why it is essential for guaranteeing our own cultural expression and freedoms.

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2012: Open Web Award

The Open Web Award was a special collaboration project between Mozilla Drumbeat for the 2011 festival. On this page you can see our previous nominees and winners.

 

The critical discussion of the politics of open and closed systems will continue in new formats.

RE-TOUCHING McLUHAN – THE MEDIUM IS THE MASSAGE

Marshall McLuhan Centennial Weekend, Berlin

Conference |  Screening  |  Exhibition  |  Performance

 

Friday May 27 – Sunday May 29, 2011

Embassy of Canada / Marshall McLuhan Salon
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As transmediale gears up for its 25th edition in February 2012, join us in celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of famed Canadian media philosopher Herbert Marshall McLuhan. Honouring the man who coined the 'global village and the 'medium is the message', ubiquitous yet oft maligned expressions in our digital and networked age, transmediale in collaboration with the Embassy of Canada Berlin and Marshall McLuhan Salon presents a special Centennial Weekend of events May 27 - 29th.

 

The international Re-Touching McLuhan: The Medium is the Massage conference chaired by Dieter Daniels and moderated by Christopher Salter, sees leading international media and digital culture researchers explore McLuhan’s unique take on tactile and multi-sensory media ... expressed by the media philosopher's unintentionally published blurring of the words 'message' and 'massage'. Legendary McLuhanist Derrick de Kerckhove elaborates on rare material from the Berlin-based Marshall McLuhan Salon's unique archives in the first session of the McLuminations screening series.

 

With a keynote introduction to McLuhan's 'massaging of the aural senses' by U.B.C. Prof. Richard Cavell the opening of the Centennial Weekend also features the worldwide (re-)launch of Marshall McLuhan's 1968 audio art classic The Medium is the Massage, digitally remastered for the first time, produced and presented by Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky. The Centennial Weekend will open the European première of Through the Vanishing Point, a major new multi-media installation by leading Canadian digital artists David Rokeby and Lewis Kaye. Other projects include Play_McLuhan, an exhibition by media art students from the Hochschule Darmstadt and the 2nd German-Canadian Professionals Conference.

 

All events are free and open to the public but spaces are limited so please RSVP at rsvp@mcluhan2011.eu.

 

For more information on the Centennial Weekend and other 'McLuhan in Europe 2011' events visit http://mcluhan2011.eu

 

Download the RE-TOUCHING McLUHAN Berlin Centennial Weekend Flyer by transmediale's award winning design agency  ® ruddigkeit.