Nominated for the transmediale Award 2011, this interactive sound installation by Christopher Warnow and Daniel Franke is more than just an interpretation of a composition by Rutger Zuydervelt. An interface, which reacts to the audiences' body movements, this work immerses the viewer by superimposing digital and architectural spaces. For each one of us a different, individual and fluid visualisation appears onscreen. This event is one of three occasions when the artists will be present for a show and tell of the work. more...

Oslo-based filmmaker Greg Pope's Light Trap is a performance with three prepared 16mm projectors and a sound artist. The work is a sound/light sculpture, performed live and in constant flux by factors both random and controlled, as the the film is physically altered using sandpaper and hand tools. For this performance he will be joined by Gert-Jan Prins. Prins has been known for twenty years as one of the most challenging sound artists in the Netherlands. more...

Communication technologies not only altered our perception of space but also evoke a sense of global connectivity. NeRVi (NeoRealismo Virtuale, engl. Virtual NeoRealism), a term coined by Iaconesi and Persico, describes this condition of ubiquity, where multiple realities are produced and remixed by location-based technologies and augmented reality. Space becomes a map of personal narratives. In the workshop we will use smartphones and a geographic information system to create an augmented reality narrative across the city of Berlin. more...

Every second Friday, the artists and scientists in residence at the Vilém Flusser Archive get together to read, study and discuss the thought and work of Vilém Flusser. On the special occasion of the transmediale.11, their discussion series will take place weekly and will be open to everybody who would like to participate in the discussions. We will read selections from Flusser‘s newly translated books: Into the Universe of Technical Images and Writing: Does It have a Future? which will soon be published by the University of Minnesota Press.

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