22 January – 13 February 2011

Berlin Senate Award 2010 – Selected Artists

With: Matthias Einhoff, Lars Teichmann, Nezaket Ekici, Karolin Meunier, Heimo Lattner, Ingo Gerken, Maya Bajevic, Egill Saebjörnsson, Amir Fattal, Johannes Paul Raether, Carsten Fock, Stephanie Kloss, Thomas Kilpper, Ulf Aminde and Swantje Hielscher
Vernissage: 21 January, 19:00

Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK)

Opening times: Thu – Sat 12:00 – 20:00, Sun – Wed 12:00 – 19:00 more...

29 January – 6 February 2011

PIXELATE ME

With: Benjamin Piltz, Lan Hungh, Juan Arata, St. &  St., SSMIDD and Constantin Hartenstein. Curated by Irina Ilieva.

 Vernissage: 28 January, 19:00

aquabitArt gallery

Opening times during transmediale.11:  28 January - 6 February 15:00 - 20:00 and by appointment (closed 31 January) more...

In eleven curated film and video programmes transmediale.11 presents at least 58 historical and contemporary moving image works from 18 countries. This year's main focus is a reflection on the vital ways in which 20th century cinema – through its editing techniques and new visual culture – contributed to promoting the sense of growing simultaneity, ubiquity and acceleration which the Internet has since increased exponentially.

Additional highlights: Specials on Lynn Hershman Leeson, the pioneer of interactive art, and Ho Tzu Nyen, the Award Nominee from Singapur, as well as the ArabShorts project. more...

With RESPONSE:ABILITY, transmediale.11 puts forward a call for action in terms how we live on and with the Internet today. Having become a central stage for the unfolding of our public and private lives, we must ask not only how this experience of online-liveness affects and transforms our bodies and subjectivities but also, importantly, what responsibilities and possibilities this engenders for participating in the continuous process of its evolution. Especially now, with economic and political mega-infrastructures striving for control and regimentation, threatening to make a smooth space into a striated one. more...