Festival Programme Fri, 5.2.2010 - 01:00

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.

This programme presents three films all shot in Asia which address, in different ways, the communication between remotely distant worlds.

Four entirely different ways of appropriating light and space are at the core of this programme.

Cultural forms of organisation hardly ever develop on the basis of strategic considerations but rather cluster around the individual needs of a specific project. Which models of organisation make sense in the field of art and the creative industries and how will the cultural enterprise of the future look?

After a panel-related screening, this Salon Talk provides a forum in which to discuss concerns regarding artistic projects realised in Asia and shown in Europe. The relationship between ‘here’ and ‘elsewhere’ provides a point of departure to reflect on the (im)possibilities of shifting spaces as well as on the politics of image production.

Creative Business Models

Susa Pop will illustrate how an idea can grow into a sustainable cultural business model.

The Long Conversion is a world première especially crafted for transmediale.10 by transmediale Award nominees Sosolimited. The piece exists alongside the extended experimental discussion Futurity Long Conversation happening simultaneously in the HKW Auditorium.

Workshop RECLAIM THE STREETS
The workshop is organised by Susa Pop / Public Art Lab, initiator of the MEDIA FACADES FESTIVAL EUROPE 2010 in cooperation with the festival partner institutions m-cult / Helsinki, FACT / Liverpool, iMAL / Brussels, Ars Electronica Futurelab / Linz, Kitchen Budapest and Medialab-Prado / Madrid - hosted by Christian Zoellner and Tobias Fischer of VR/urban.

Part research-station, part media-laboratory, part docking-module, the structure of the Futures Exchange in the HKW foyer, designed by the Berlin architecture practice Raumlabor, will house interdisciplinary, process-based projects exploring the notion of futurity as a cultural construct. On Friday evening the Futures Exchange will culminate in a lively performative exchange as all the artists of the Salon Projects are going to be present for chats with the public.