INTERSECTION – Graham Smith [An interactive video installation at S-Bahnhof Potsdamer Platz and Marshall McLuhan Salon] 30 January – 7 February 2010 Vernissage: 29 January, 19:00
transmediale Marshall McLuhan Lecture – with Graham Smith 3 February, 18:00
What is the currency for the cultural enterprise of the future? Cultural producers and artists produce a multiplicity of values, most of which are immaterial. It is difficult to translate cultural values into adequate market values: how do you determine the economical value of cultural work?
Together with a selection of guests this session will sum up the results and insights the Free Culture Incubator has generated during the past days. What can be done beyond the festival's lifespan?
Whilst traditional enterprises conjure up their corporate identity, the creative sector proudly points to its heterogeneity. Cultural producers however must find a language with which they can reach the public and be economically successful. How much corporate identity does a cultural enterprise need – and how does one communicate this identity?
Cultural forms of organisation hardly ever develop on the basis of strategic considerations but rather cluster around the individual needs of a specific project. Which models of organisation make sense in the field of art and the creative industries and how will the cultural enterprise of the future look?
Due to the economic crisis the creative industries have become a location factor praised by politicians as a growth market poised to outperform the car industry. In which way has this new framework changed the relation between art and capital? Maybe the norm of the economy supporting the growth of culture is due to be reversed?
The transmediale.10 exhibition Future Obscura presents artworks that use the materials, mechanisms and machines of image-making to illuminate and define our relationship with atemporality - the collision of past, present and future. Over a dozen international artists, including Zilvinas Kempinas, Julius von Bismarck, Ken Rinaldo, Alice Miceli and Julien Maire, will create interdisciplinary explorations of light and chronology which will unfold across the HKW, and several urban spaces within Berlin.
For the benefit of Haiti the exhibition was extended by two days, running until Tuesday, 9 February 2010 - 21:30
The transmediale.10 festival features a packed week of exhibitions, talks, conferences, performances, workshops and more. A preview of the festival timetable showing the dates and times of some of the key programmes is now online here or as pdf to download.
After a brief extension in support of free and independent media in Haiti, transmediale.10's many lights and lasers have now been switched off! Thank you Berlin and to all of the festival artists, guests and professionals who came from around the world to participate at FUTURITY NOW! ...more
Have we caught up with our notions of futures? From 5 to 7 February 2010 these and other important questions are at the centre of the transmediale.10 Symposium Future Observatory at the House of World Cultures in Berlin. International scientists, artists, bloggers, economic avantgardists and thinkers will discuss the technological, aesthetic and political implications of the future. With keynotes by Richard Barbrook (Imaginary Futures), Conrad Wolfram (Wolfram | Alpha) and Bruce Sterling (Atemporality!). (...more)
Alexander Rose is the Executive Director of The Long Now Foundation, an organisation devoted to promoting long-term thinking. He has facilitated projects such as the 10,000 Year Clock with Danny Hillis, The Rosetta Project, and the Long Now’s Seminars About Long Term Thinking.
The transmediale.10 Salon consists of several different programmatic clusters. Besides the traditional lectures participatory projects by international media artists and activists will be presented in the so-called 'Futures Exchange'. D.I.Y. and the collective research of ideas are also at the core of the talks and workshops offered within the Free Culture Incubator. ...more
Tonight, 2 February 2010, we have finally made it! transmediale.10 no longer belongs to the future but is the present! Come and celebrate with us as the festival opens at the House of World Cultures tonight. It is free of charge and no ticket is needed except for the speeches in the auditorium. Welcome – and launch yourself into Futurity ...Now!
Workshop RECLAIM THE STREETS
The workshop is organised by Susa Pop / Public Art Lab, initiator of the MEDIA FACADES FESTIVAL EUROPE 2010 in cooperation with the festival partner institutions m-cult / Helsinki, FACT / Liverpool, iMAL / Brussels, Ars Electronica Futurelab / Linz, Kitchen Budapest and Medialab-Prado / Madrid - hosted by Christian Zoellner and Tobias Fischer of VR/urban.
Max Senges (1978) works in Google's Policy Team in Berlin to liaise and collaborate especially with colleagues from academia and civil society in Germany, Switzerland and Austria.
Part research-station, part media-laboratory, part docking-module, the structure of the Futures Exchange in the HKW foyer, designed by the Berlin architecture practice Raumlabor, will house interdisciplinary, process-based projects exploring the notion of futurity as a cultural construct.
We are facing a new economic reality where traditional industries have been replaced by the creative sector, with creativity and networks ousting steel and coal. Maybe the norm of the economy supporting the growth of culture is due to be reversed? (...more)
The film & video programme of transmediale.10 consists of eleven programmes with a total of 54 films of all genres. Feature, documentary, animation, experimental films and video art from 20 countries will be shown, with a special focus on the selection made from the 600 submissions from 30 countries... (more)
Between 2 – 7 February, with FUTURITY NOW!, transmediale.10 presents a unique and intensive programme of lectures, screenings, performances, exhibitions, concerts and much, much more! We are thrilled about the participation of such great names as Ryoji Ikeda, Bruce Sterling, Gabriella Giannachi, Charlemagne Palestine, F.A.T. Lab, Regine Debatty, Steve Lambert, Jem Finer, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Yvette Mattern, Rasha Salti, Raster-Noton ... and also especially about welcoming you! ...more