The press conference of the transmediale.11 will take place on January 31, 2011 at 11:30 am at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin).
There will be also a live coverage on www.transmediale.de. more...
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.
Edwin van der Heide is an artist and researcher in the field of sound, space and interaction. He extends the terms composition and musical language into spatial, interactive and interdisciplinary directions. He is Assistant Professor at Leiden University and heads the Spatial Interaction Lab at the ArtScience Interfaculty of the Royal Conservatoire and Arts Academy in The Hague. more...
Mark Surman is one of the world's leading proponents for open technologies and the development of a truly Open Net. His very business is that of connecting things: people, ideas, everything. As a community technology activist for over 20 years, Mark focuses on inventing new ways to promote openness, opportunity, and freedom on the Internet, for which Mozilla, Drumbeat, his international 'open everything' conversations and summits are but a few of the platforms manifesting his vision and goals. Together with transmediale, Mark and Drumbeat introduced the first ever Open Web Award. more...
Solana Larsen is the managing editor of Global Voices Online, an international community of bloggers and online activists. She is a Danish-Puerto Rican journalist and activist, and currently lives between New York and Berlin. Previously she was an editor with the global politics website, openDemocracy.net in London. At Global Voices, Solana helps lead a dynamic team of editors and volunteers who report and translate conversations taking place in blogs and citizen media worldwide.
