Christian Ulrik Andersen is Associate Professor at the Department of Information and Media Studies, Aarhus University, and the current chair of the Digital Aesthetics Research Centre. His research addresses the properties of game interfaces and textual/’writerly’ interaction in relation to the public sphere and digital media.
Søren Bro Pold is Associate Professor of Digital Aesthetics at the Department of Information and Media Studies, Aarhus University, and head of the Interface Aesthetics Research Group. He works with digital and media aesthetics – from the 19th century panorama to the interface, e.g. electronic literature, net art, software art, creative software. more...
Yvonne Spielmann is Chair of New Media at the University of the West of Scotland. Previously she was Professor of Visual Media at the Braunschweig School of Art, Germany. She is author of the books Eine Pfütze in bezug aufs Mehr. Avantgarde (1991), Intermedialität. Das System Peter Greenaway (1998), and Video. Das reflexive Medium (2005). The English translation Video. The Reflexive Medium was published by MIT Press in 2008. During the festival she will present her latest book Hybridkultur (2010). more...
With their essay Zombie Media, Garnet Hertz and Jussi Parikka approach media archaeology with the aim of making it into an art methodology. Following a presentation of their ideas, the Vilém Flusser Theory Award nominees invite participants to enact the process of circuit bending: Participants will disassemble battery powered devices such as toys to subsequently perform with their customised instruments. more...
Organised by Sourcefabric, Test Signals is a series of workshops and panels that approaches the political, artistic and practical spectrum of radio, looking at its significance and potential in the digital age, whilst investigating new ways of hacking, augmenting and open-sourcing its technology. more...
In eleven curated film and video programmes transmediale.11 presents 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 include a focus on the first live television broadcasts, specials on Lynn Hershman Leeson, a leading pioneer of interactive live media art, Ho Tzu Nyen, the transmediale Award Nominee from Singapore, and the second edition of the Arab Shorts project. more...
