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Fri 01.02.2013 - 11:30
Festival format Workshop

Location: HKW Central Foyer

 

Lutz Wohlrab and Karla Sachse’s workshop feeds the OCTO P7C-1 installation, the pneumatic mini-network running in the Haus der Kulturen der Welt during the entire festival.

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BWPWAP Program Overview

transmediale would like to announce our 2013 program and rich roster of participants. Traversing thematic threads, professions, panels, exhibitions, film screenings, performances, and workshops; the one Pluto long day and Earth week will present visitors with diverse events re-enacting not-so-distant pasts and half-forgotten places. We will explore unrealistic and poetic modes of cultural critique—as if BWPWAP. >> Read more.

Pluto Y U No Planet? - Opening Ceremony for transmediale 2013 BWPWAP

Tue 29.01.2013 - 19:00
Festival format Special event

Back when openings were just openings, a few self-congratulatory statements and an introductory speech or two sufficed. At this year’s transmediale we are aiming somewhat higher: to the stars! >> Read more.

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Memoblast

Tue 29.01.2013 - 17:30
Festival format Performance

Memoblast is a group performance in a fax-based office. Raquel Meyers, Jacob Sikker Remin and Goto80 are office workers who handle the flow of information by following rituals and rules of efficiency. They work with conventional office tools such as text editors and spreadsheets to create graphics, music and memos. Read more.

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BWPWAP Curatiorial Statement

Back When
Mobile phones were dumb. Letters traveled by pneumatic air. Tweeting was for birds. Users were chatting on the Minitel. ICQ beat IRC. Xerox challenged the Thermofax. YouTube was just another Web 2 start-up. Fax was the new Telex. You were calling up Bulletin Board Systems. Only university students were using facebooks. History had ended. We had nine planets.
Pluto Was A Planet.

 

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The Miseducation of Anya Major

The Miseducation of Anya Major openly investigates questions of knowledge, learning and education in relation to contemporary media.  >> Read more.

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Launch of the Researching BWPWAP Newspaper

Thu 31.01.2013 - 11:00
Festival format Conference

This event brings together participants of the Researching BWPWAP workshop that preceded transmediale and was focused on the question of how BWPWAP can be interpreted in the context of research culture. This process culminated in the production of a peer-reviewed research newspaper—itself an experiment in new forms of scholarly publishing.

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Movement Materials and What We Can Do

Wed 30.01.2013 - 20:00
Festival format Performance

In Movement Materials and What We Can Do, Andrew Norman Wilson employs corporate, academic and artistic lecture techniques to the intertwining concerns of his projects Workers Leaving the Googleplex and ScanOps.

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Thematic Threads

The programme follows four threads: Users, Networks, Paper, Desire. The festival will look at what these threads meant BWPWAP, what they are today and how they will develop in the future. >> Read more.