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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
