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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.

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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file_under: The Imaginary Museum

As an overall conceptual road-map to the yearly changing themes, at transmediale 2013 we also initiate the “file_under:” framework as an ongoing conceptual discussion surrounding the festival and our all-year programme. The “file_under:” activity will take place through workshops between partner organisations, public discussions at the festival and all-year events, experimental forms of documentation and publications. >> Read more.

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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.