The fragility of global atmospheric, economic, technological and cultural coherences demands general awareness. The performance programme of transmediale.09 presents works of artists who reflect on the delicate nature of our environment. In the evening DJs turn the tables and serve music for a collective recreation with open talk, bar and food. The performance programme is organised in cooperation with club transmediale (ctm). more...

The Open Space invites you to present your projects during the festival and to discuss your ideas with the audience, artists and guests.

  Thursday 29 Jan, 14:30 - Café Global
Margarita Dorovska & Kathy Rae Huffman: Archive of Video Art from Eastern Europe
Peter Zorn: European Media Art Network (EMAN)

  Friday 30 Jan, 14:30 - Café Global
Perry Bard: Man with A Movie Camera: The Global Remake
Reynold Reynolds: Six Apartments

  Saturday 31 Jan, 14:00 - Café Global
Joanna Render: Re_Thinking Net.Art

  Saturday 31 Jan, 15:30 - Café Global
Time's up: Luminous Green

  Sunday 01 Feb, 14:00 - Salon
Transit Lounge: Moving while standing still
Public Netbase editorial team: NON STOP FUTURE more...

Fri 30 Jan, Digital Greenhouse

The increase in speed with which we explore the limited resources that fuel both economy and lifestyle, shows not only the dimension of our dependency but also reveals one consistency – a new global race for the remaining resources. Developing nations and regions, until recently 'zones of silence' in our collective memory, will now become the stage for our dependency. What will the cultural impact of climate change look like in  developing nations? How could a critical artistic practice broach this issue? And how could it create new contexts and possibilities for a sustainable development?

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Wed 28 Jan, Digital Greenhouse

Increasing social inequality, aggravation of living standards, short-sighted environmental policy and the violation of human rights are all facts pointing to the increasing extremes of the conditions of life. These conditions are not cultural dysfunctions, but are fundamentally connected to the processes of global capital to systematically exploit the environment. Re-Articulacija project members Marina Grzinic and Sebastjan Leban invite the festival audience to join political philosophers Sefik Seki Tatlic and Madina Tlostanova, along with transmediale 2009 Award nominee Petko Dourmana to engage in a session of collective research to counter contemporary global forms of exploitation, control, censorship and expropriation. more...