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transmediale.09 award ceremony

31.01.2009 20:00
Location: 
Auditorium

The transmediale Award is dedicated to current positions in digital arts and media. It is an open competition, into which artists are invited to enter their current work.
905 artistic works from 53 countries responding to transmediale’s DEEP NORTH call were submitted for the festival’s award competition. The international jury selected eight works to be nominated for the transmediale Award 2009.
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Thu, 15.01.2009 - 18:59
Thu, 24.09.2009 - 11:43

Open Space: Transit Lounge & Public Netbase

01.02.2009 14:00
01.02.2009 18:00
Location: 
K1

14:00 - Transit Lounge: Moving while standing still
Reporting back from an online dialogue asking: What happens when movement and escape from (or to) home becomes impossible?

16:00 - Public Netbase editorial team: NON STOP FUTURE
A discussion on the recent Netbase publication on the future of art and culture in digital networks. more...

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Wed, 14.01.2009 - 17:28
Thu, 24.09.2009 - 11:41

Opening of the Conference

Emerging in a global blind spot the consequences of climate change have the potential to unleash a radical capacity for transformation breaking through history, blowing across boundaries, ripping through political sytsems and cultural roots. ...

Opening Lecture.
Perish in Beauty? Climate Change as Cultural Demand, Claus Leggewie
Thu 29.01. - 13:00

Opening of the Conference
The Making and the Thinking, with Paul Quassa and Martin Burckhardt,
chaired by Rob van Kranenburg
Thu 29.01. - 14:00 more...

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Mon, 22.12.2008 - 03:22
Mon, 26.01.2009 - 14:53

Shift, Break, Control - Cultural Perspectives beyond Policy

When it comes to climate change, many systems of control designed around national borders break down: internationally restrictive trade processes and systems of enforcement have little or power in the face of desertification, mass flooding, ...

Shift, Break, Control North:
Discussion with Claudia Kemfert and Lorenz Petersen,
chaired by Harald Welzer
Fri, 30.01. - 12:00

Shift, Break, Conrol South:
Discussion with Atteqa Malik, Binyawanga Wainaina and Yasir Husain,
chaired by Rob van Kranenburg
Fri, 30.01. - 15:00 more...

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Sat, 20.12.2008 - 12:16
Mon, 26.01.2009 - 14:51

Hotspots

Hotspots are special thematic keynotes focussed on notions of cultural urgency. Linking the theories and practice of leading artists and designers the Hot Spots explore central questions related to DEEP NORTH where the realms of art and science, politics and technology collide. 

Hotspot 1: Arctic Perspectives - Third Culture on the Floe Edge
Marko Peljhan
Thu, 29.01. - 18:30

Hotspot 2: Escalation
Territorial Agency (John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Roennskog)
Fr, 30.01. - 10:30
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Fri, 19.12.2008 - 15:45
Mon, 26.01.2009 - 14:11

Environment 2.0

31.01.2009 16:00
31.01.2009 18:00
Location: 
Auditorium

Drawing together the perspectives of environmental scientists, web technologists interested in the interface between digital footprint and environmental footprint, and artists concerned with creating precedents for social change on environmental sustainability. more...

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Mon, 15.12.2008 - 02:10
Thu, 24.09.2009 - 11:33

Climate change as paradigm shift

31.01.2009 13:00
31.01.2009 15:00
Location: 
Auditorium

Things sometimes happen which change forever the condition of being alive in a particular era. more...

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Mon, 15.12.2008 - 02:10
Fri, 23.10.2009 - 11:03

Keynote: Modest Means - Paths of Humility in Climate Governance

31.01.2009 10:30
31.01.2009 12:00
Location: 
Auditorium

Sheila Jasanoff´s research concerns the role of science and technology in the law, politics, and public policy of´modern democracies, with a particular focus on the challenges of globalisation. She has written and lectured widely on problems of environmental regulation, risk management, and biotechnology in the United States, Europe, and India. At the transmediale.09 conference, Making / Thinking: The Cultural Tomorrow, she will speak about the Law of Globalisation as environmental change in modern democracies. more...

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Mon, 15.12.2008 - 02:07
Thu, 24.09.2009 - 11:31

Shift, Break, Control - South

30.01.2009 15:00
30.01.2009 17:00
Location: 
Auditorium

The police shooting a fifteen year old became the trigger of social unrest in Greece. The fatal accident of a building worker sparked simmering turmoil in Delhi. Has this become our new political framework for agency: fatal accidents as the new default? Yet according to Binyavanga Wainaina, "the burning houses and the bloody attacks here do not reflect primordial hatreds. They reflect the manipulation of identity for political gain." If a cartoon in one country can lead to the loss of lives in another, Atteqa Malik states, "then policies should also be created to address issues that cross borders. All stakeholders should be considered, inside and outside the country, before policies are created to influence practice." more...

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Mon, 15.12.2008 - 01:56
Thu, 24.09.2009 - 11:30

Shift, Break, Control - North

30.01.2009 12:00
30.01.2009 14:00
Location: 
Auditorium

Can we still argue from an institutionalist point of view for solutions if our major institutions have become part
of the problem? This is the main question that will be addressed in this session. Claudia Kemfert will explain how for her climate change could be the economic driver of our future and if it still can be the key engine of
society. Lorenz Petersen proposes a framework that takes an institutionalist perspective, focusing on the goods and services provided by natural resources rather than on the resource itself.

In Cooperation with KWI Essen more...

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Mon, 15.12.2008 - 01:53
Thu, 24.09.2009 - 11:30