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Book Launch: Interface Criticism. Aesthetics Beyond the Buttons. (Søren Pold & Christian Ulrik, 2011)

04.02.2011 13:15
04.02.2011 13:45
Location: 
Café Stage

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. more...

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Wed, 15.12.2010 - 17:54
Wed, 19.01.2011 - 13:07

Book Launch: Hybridkultur (Yvonne Spielmann, 2010)

03.02.2011 13:15
03.02.2011 13:45
Location: 
Café Stage

In her detailed study Hybridkultur, Yvonne Spielmann suggests a critical concept of hybridity that, in an interdisciplinary view, interrelates media study with cultural study debates. The study argues that hybridity constitutes a contemporary strategy to aesthetically intervene into internationally operating media industries. In the book, this hybridity is amongst others highlighted in the non-western and highly technological context of media and culture of Japan. more...

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Wed, 15.12.2010 - 17:52
Wed, 19.01.2011 - 13:11

Ludic Interfaces

From 2012 there will be a new Masters programme, offered jointly by the University of Salford, Linz, Valencia and Potsdam, called Ludic Interfaces, which is dedicated to the analysis and development of game-like interfaces. transmediale is, along with CODED CULTURES and A MAZE., a partner of this Masters programme and has invited Ludic Interfaces to transmediale.11 to organise the Ludic Salon: panel guests and the audience discuss the possibilities of ludology for contemporary media art in a playful and interactive atmosphere. more...

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Wed, 15.12.2010 - 15:44
Wed, 12.01.2011 - 12:10

V2_Agency & NIMk Distribution

Dear Steve, Courtesy of Herman Asselberghs

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. more...

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Tue, 14.12.2010 - 15:08
Thu, 13.01.2011 - 17:43

Global Voices Online with Sami Ben Gharbia & Solana Larsen

06.02.2011 16:00
06.02.2011 19:00
Global Voices

Global Voices Online is a worldwide community of bloggers who follow online citizen media and digital activism – primarily in countries outside the United States and Europe to protect online freedom of information and track threats/arrests against bloggers. During this workshop, Sami Ben Gharbia and Solana Larsen will describe the inner workings, successes and significant challenges of this global community and its sub-divisions, and help explain how you can get involved. more...

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Tue, 14.12.2010 - 15:05
Mon, 17.01.2011 - 15:32

TRACES Lounge

01.02.2011 20:00
01.02.2011 23:00
Location: 
House of World Cultures
TRACES Lounge

The nomadic TRACES Lounge responds to the high geographical and intellectual mobility demanded from artists and curators today by offering a space for slow culture, relaxed interaction and deeper exchange. Visitors are invited to discuss the realities of navigation within Free Culture and the Open Web as they participate in the TRACES live radio show, and the TRACES 'Open Zone Special Edition'. more...

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Mon, 13.12.2010 - 16:24
Wed, 19.01.2011 - 00:23

Barry Threw (us)

Barry Threw

Threw works with a variety of organizations stationed at the crossroads of technology and the arts – as lead developer for Keith McMillen Instruments; chief technician with Recombinant Media Labs; on the Board of Directors for the BEAM Foundation; and as a technical advisor with the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, a digital arts gallery. He works with Obscura Digital, a San Francisco based company creating large scale interactive media experiences, and Fabricatorz developing open source and free culture projects. more...

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Mon, 13.12.2010 - 16:18
Wed, 19.01.2011 - 01:10

Jon Phillips (us)

Jon Phillips

Jon Phillips is a developer contributing to society and building meaningful relationships. In 2002 he helped launch the open source drawing tool, Inkscape, founded the Open Clip Art Library, built Creative Commons‘ community and business development strategies from 2005 until 2008 and is growing the media company Fabricatorz with Cantocore Art Exhibitions, Laoban Open Soundsystems in Beijing, and is the community director for the open source social messaging service Status.Net (Identi.ca).

 

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Mon, 13.12.2010 - 16:17
Wed, 19.01.2011 - 01:21

Patrizia Kommerell (de)

Patrizia Kommerell

Patrizia Kommerell (@pkommerell) is co-founder of KS12 (@ks12), a creative studio which produces immediated autodocumentary videos. As a communication designer she has worked at design agencies such as MetaDesign, Triad and chezweitz & roseapple. She received a DAAD scholarship to study at the Cleveland Institute of Art. She holds a Bachelor of Media Design from the Fachhochschule Schwäbisch Hall and was a graduate level student at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe. more...

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Mon, 13.12.2010 - 16:09
Wed, 19.01.2011 - 01:32

The Future of Art: An Immediated Autodocumentary Screening by and with Gabriel Shalom & Patrizia Kommerell

06.02.2011 16:00
06.02.2011 17:00
Location: 
House of World Cultures
Immediated Autodocumentary Screening

What are the defining aesthetics of art in the networked era? How is mass collaboration changing notions of ownership of art? How does micro-patronage change the way artists produce and distribute artwork?

 

The Future of Art screening begins a conversation on these and other topics and invites discussion from the audience. The video is a rough cut of the footage created and produced at transmediale.11 as part of the on-site Immediated Autodocumentary process. more...

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Mon, 13.12.2010 - 16:06
Wed, 19.01.2011 - 00:56