Festival Programme Wed, 2.2.2011 - 01:00

This panel discussion with international activists and broadcasting experts addresses the ongoing role of radio as a key communication tool for global political action.

 

Produced by Sourcefabric.

With software processes entering broadcasting culture, a young generation of hands-on thinkers and producers has become attracted to radio as a medium for community projects and artistic endeavours alike. This global panel of broadcast pioneers and radio artists looks at the unique qualities of radiophonic practice and explores the future of experimental transmission.

 

Produced by Sourcefabric.

Tonight LIVE:RESPONSE presents two audiovisual performances which both revolve around cut-up techniques to remix items and icons of our contemporary pop culture. DONJON by Cécile Babiole and Vincent Goudard gleefully deconstructs a wide range of objects, particularly audiovisual equipment: turntables, radios, computers, musical instruments, telephones, video cameras – but also cocktail blenders, battery chickens, and various other domestic and fantastic appliances of ages past and present. In Genre Collage People Like Us manipulate the symbols, patterns and film stars of selected movie genres/sub-genres.

This programme juxtaposes two films that, each with its own absurdity, document cornerstones in the development of telecommunications. The 1940s educational film Dial Comes to Town taught people how to use the direct dial telephone, while today – regardless of the time difference – workers in call centres outsourced to India instruct British and American callers on how to use their technical devices via service hotlines.

‘Free’ and ‘open’ – it sounds so idealistic and limitless. The so-called Open Culture has produced many alternative approaches in dealing with knowledge and information, but, on the other hand, the utopias of free access constantly breed confusion. This discussion focuses on the future agenda of the Free Culture movement and provides guidance for all those who are confused by too much ‘freedom’.

As a follow up of the workshop Reclaim the Screens! during transmediale.10 and based on the Media Facades Festivals Berlin 2008 and Europe 2010 we explore how artists, curators and creative people can utilise the urban screens infrastructure as social vision panels. What is the communicative, intercultural potential of public screens? Which socio-aesthetic forms of interaction enable a dialogue between different local scenes, how can we engage the public in the creative process to contribute to local community building?

Claus Pias präsentiert sein neues Buch Was waren Medien?, mit Beiträgen von Dieter Daniels, Lorenz Engell, Wolfgang Hagen, Joachim Paech und Claus Pias, blickt der Band auf die Anfänge der akademischen Beschäftigung mit Medien in Deutschland zurück, setzt sie in Beziehung zur Geschichte der Medienkunst, fragt nach der wissenschaftssystematischen Position von Medienwissenschaft und entwickelt Zukunftsperspektiven.
Bei der Präsentation mit dabei sind Dieter Daniels und Wolfgang Hagen.

This audio-visual performance is a homage to the history of record experiments. This time the reproducing device becomes a machine célibataire à la Marcel Duchamp. By combining the record player with an exercise bicycle the Discjockey2000 is generated, an unconventional musical instrumentarium for generating incomparable analog sounds.

electrigger will spoil your ears with rare electronic music tunes from weird kraut classics to new progressive dub breaks and anti-folk.

In this workshop members of the group HONF teach science through an artistic approach in order to demonstrate that science doesn’t have to be expensive, dangerous or inaccessible nor only possible with a lab. Participants will learn how to make their own slant culture, colour it with natural dyes and make a test tube rack from paper. At the end everyone is invited to take their slant culture home and pass on the experience, technique and culture to others.

Somali pirate fashion is the new trend for a new generation of rurbans (rural urbane). Take part in the process of production of the WOPPOW by WOPPOW fashion line - preproduced garments and accessories directly brought to you from the nairobi district of Kibera and Eastleigh as well as fashion items from Puntland, Somalia are waiting to be brought to a climax of style by fine European hands. Plus: video material needs editing and shall be transformed into WOPPOW's new advertising line.
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live performance by Ei Wada
Braun Tube Jazz Band