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transmediale.10 Conference – Future Observatory

Have we caught up with our notions of futures? From 5 to 7 February 2010 these and other important questions are at the centre of the transmediale.10 Symposium Future Observatory at the House of World Cultures in Berlin. International scientists, artists, bloggers, economic avantgardists and thinkers will discuss the technological, aesthetic and political implications of the future. With keynotes by Richard Barbrook (Imaginary Futures), Conrad Wolfram (Wolfram | Alpha) and Bruce Sterling (Atemporality!). (...more) more...

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Thu, 17.12.2009 - 19:28
Sat, 06.02.2010 - 22:53

The Futurity Long Conversation

05.02.2010 13:00
05.02.2010 22:00
Location: 
Auditorium
Location: 
House of World Cultures

The conference will open on 5 February 2010 with a nonstop 9-hour Futurity Long Conversation. 21 guests will discuss projects, ideas, technologies and utopias that are already determining our future. Introduced with a keynote by Richard Barbrook. more...

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Wed, 06.01.2010 - 16:55
Fri, 19.02.2010 - 16:20

Ideologies and Futures of the Internet

06.02.2010 12:30
06.02.2010 15:00
Location: 
Auditorium
Location: 
House of World Cultures

New media technologies change the ways in which knowledge is produced and communicated. Having arrived in the technological future we are facing the responsibility to redefine its social and cultural application. How this could be done will not only be discussed by Conrad Wolfram in his keynote lecture but moreover during the panel that follows. more...

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Wed, 06.01.2010 - 16:50
Tue, 09.02.2010 - 11:53

Atemporality - A Cultural Speed Control?

06.02.2010 16:30
06.02.2010 19:00
Location: 
Auditorium
Location: 
House of World Cultures

If progress is to go beyond the banal indulgences that give rise to a never-ending array of car shell designs then we need to analyse our present time with regard to its aesthetics and its media. The second conference session will be introduced with Bruce Sterling's Keynote on Atemporality, followed by a  discussion of how the structure of the future and our sense of time have changed. How does this impact the way we do or are to act in the world? more...

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Wed, 06.01.2010 - 16:45
Mon, 08.02.2010 - 10:09

Liquid Democracies

07.02.2010 17:00
07.02.2010 19:00
Location: 
Auditorium
Location: 
House of World Cultures

In relation to recent events social networking sites have replaced traditional news coverage. Sociology professor Tiziana Terranova moderates this third conference session examining the 'radical' roles of tools like Twitter and Facebook as 'revolutionary' media. Are we dealing with a new force, a new social mechanism for the exchange of information, a new truth? Or is it just another case of 'the emperor's new clothes'? more...

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Wed, 06.01.2010 - 16:40
Wed, 17.02.2010 - 12:01

Jem Finer introducing the Long Conversation

Jem Finer introduces the notion of 'long time', speaking about his composition Longplayer, a piece of music that will play for 1000 years, before repeating itself. In conjunction with Longplayer, Finer will also be participating in the 'Futurity Long Conversation' on Friday Feb. 05 at the HKW.

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Tue, 22.12.2009 - 11:15
Thu, 18.11.2010 - 15:50