Festival Programme Fri, 4.2.2011 - 01:00

The convergence of information and laboratory technological procedures engenders biomedia that are increasingly being appropriated by the arts. Based on the performative gel electrophoresis works by US artist Paul Vanouse, the panel examines the political, science-historical and aesthetic aspects of contemporary biologisms and molecularisms.

Tim Etchells (uk), Adrian Heathfield (uk)
In the context of an increasingly mobile culture, participants discuss key development processes and the paradigm of physical co-presence as a common space of mutual experience.

This evening LIVE:RESPONSE, the transmediale.11 Performance programme, presents two extraordinary performances that both, in different ways, hack the normal state of the human body. For INJECT Herman Kolgen has exposed his body quite extremely to the impact of water and a lack of oxygen, while, with Face Visualizer: Instrument and Copy, Daito Manabe has created a ‘face instrument’ by applying small electroshocks to people’s faces making them move in synch with music.

Films are inherently imaginary journeys; the viewer is taken to times and places that have little to do with her current situation seated in the cinema. This gap between space and time is the theme of the programme. Starting from a film without images, various surreal and fantastic landscapes follow. The demolition of the People's Palace in Berlin (Letzter Tag der Republik) is recalled in an impressive time-lapse work by Reynold Reynolds and the silhouette of Las Vegas floates by like a strange space-ship just before a purely imagined science fiction about the Egyptian pyramids' future concludes this fascinating programme.

On the occasion of Ho Tzu Nyen being nominated for the transmediale Award with his work Newton this special screening programme presents three additional works by this versatile artist from Singapore.

Hacks, flash mobs, online petitions: never have there been so many opportunities for free expression and social participation as there are today. Media activists join forces worldwide and communally create platforms for themes and people that to date had no support. We present a number of projects and people working with the activist potential of the Internet and other technologies – thereby developing radically new policy approaches in terms of self-determination, participation and integration.

This focus discussion explores the relationship between open movements, collaboration, hacking and politics. By looking at examples from hacking and open source cultures it asks to what extend such new forms of distributed collaboration and rhizomatic creativity seriously open up new political perspectives. We also ponder the relationship between hacking, open-source and the market, particularly the boundaries between art, commerce and politics.

Mz Baltazar's Laboratory wants to demystify technology. In a two-day workshop we hack hardware, make noise, build angst-robots and programme Open Source software. We ask a lot of 'stupid' tech questions and develop art projects together. No one is an expert, no one is only student, we share our equipment and knowledge in order to articulate ourselves through high-tech in novel ways. Mz Baltazar's Laboratory offers women space to make their own electronics and realise interactive art projects.

 

For 15 participants

With pre-registration only

Interface Criticism is not another design manual but a critical investigation for readers interested in the aesthetic, cultural and political dimensions of interfaces. With contributions from leading researchers within the field, the book covers a wide range of aesthetic expressions and critically investigates the aesthetics of interfaces in ways that transcend the iconic surface of the graphical user interface and goes beyond the buttons.

To celebrate the joint release of a shared catalogue of represented works of media and computer based art, and to present both distribution initiatives to an international audience, the Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk) and V2_Institute for the Unstable Media (Rotterdam) are invited to transmediale.11 to curate a small showcase of artworks from their catalogue.

As Preslav Literary School, Adam Thomas makes live tape collages using sounds drawn from an ever-growing archive of self-generated or discovered outsider noise, found sound and spoken word cassettes. A process of transference, overdubbing and live manipulation reworks these source materials into compelling, ambient broadcasts.

With their essay Zombie Media, Garnet  Hertz and Jussi Parikka approach media archaeology with the aim of  making it into an art methodology. Following a presentation of their ideas, the Vilém Flusser Theory Award nominees invite participants to enact the process of circuit bending: Participants will disassemble battery powered devices such as toys to subsequently perform with their customised instruments.

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

Expect a mind-blowing audiovisual performance of Real Time Video Sampling  generated through Ebomans SenSorSuit. The SenSorSuit is part of an audiovisual sampling system, called SenS, which enables him to manipulate audiovisual samples in real time and to combine these in a virtual 3D environment. For his live performances Eboman builds up tracks with input of the audience; Real Time recorded videos are sampled and scratched, still unique in this world...