Emerging in a global blind spot the consequences of climate change have the potential to unleash a radical capacity for transformation breaking through history, blowing across boundaries, ripping through political sytsems and cultural roots. ...

Opening Lecture.
Perish in Beauty? Climate Change as Cultural Demand, Claus Leggewie
Thu 29.01. - 13:00

Opening of the Conference
The Making and the Thinking, with Paul Quassa and Martin Burckhardt,
chaired by Rob van Kranenburg
Thu 29.01. - 14:00 more...

Hotspots are special thematic keynotes focussed on notions of cultural urgency. Linking the theories and practice of leading artists and designers the Hot Spots explore central questions related to DEEP NORTH where the realms of art and science, politics and technology collide. 

Hotspot 1: Arctic Perspectives - Third Culture on the Floe Edge
Marko Peljhan
Thu, 29.01. - 18:30

Hotspot 2: Escalation
Territorial Agency (John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Roennskog)
Fr, 30.01. - 10:30
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The Digital Greenhouse is the transmediale.09 salon for strategic artistic, performative and net-based discourse. Bringing together artists, cultural activists, hackers and a cosmopolitan array of thinkers and makers, the salon seeks to address the cultural 'raison d'etre' beyond the daily headlines of climate change rhetoric. How does digital art and culture maneuver across political and societal boundaries between 'our' North and an emergent, less 'silent' and deep South to create new voices and strong cultural networks? With the irreversible global transformations we face, the Digital Greenhouse becomes a training camp for the cultural revolution essential in creating new tools and methods of agency and dialogue.

In cooperation with Heinrich Böll Stiftung more...

An interview about the concept, the vision and the topics of the transmediale.09 conference Making / Thinking: The Cultural Tomorrow with co-chair Rob van Kranenburg (Head of Program Public Domain for Waag Society, Amsterdam): more...