Sheila Jasanoff´s research concerns the role of science and technology in the law, politics, and public policy of´modern democracies, with a particular focus on the challenges of globalisation. She has written and lectured widely on problems of environmental regulation, risk management, and biotechnology in the United States, Europe, and India. At the transmediale.09 conference, Making / Thinking: The Cultural Tomorrow, she will speak about the Law of Globalisation as environmental change in modern democracies.

Can we still argue from an institutionalist point of view for solutions if our major institutions have become part
of the problem? This is the main question that will be addressed in this session. Claudia Kemfert will explain how for her climate change could be the economic driver of our future and if it still can be the key engine of
society. Lorenz Petersen proposes a framework that takes an institutionalist perspective, focusing on the goods and services provided by natural resources rather than on the resource itself.

In Cooperation with KWI Essen

The geocultural territories of the Arctic are poorly understood in the hemispheric centre of our planet. Mirages of vast open frontiers...

Description only in German available. This event will take place in German only.

The Climate change in its cause and physical impact is a matter of the natural siences. But the complexity and vast squareness of its consequences turn the debate into a matter of social and cultural studies. "In climate change lies not only the chance to overcome outmoded standards of living and actings but also to develop new institutional and individual modes of cooperation and cultural techniques for handling large scale threats." What are the chances and possibilities (technological and cultural) of opposing the destructive dynamics of climate change with constructive elements (policy, economy, technology, culture, art etc.)?

In cooperation with KWI Essen

The transmediale.09 video selection will be presented at Athens Video Art Festival

The transmediale.09 Video Selection will be presented at the Synoptic Visionaudial Art Meeting in Pecs.

Margarita Dorovska and Kathy Rae Huffman:
Archive of Video Art from Eastern Europe
Collaborative effort, aiming at the research and selection of 100 video art works produced during the transition period of post-communist Eastern Europe. ...

Peter Zorn: European Media Art Network (EMAN)
EMAN Coordinator Peter Zorn presents the partners, the structure and the aims of the network, that creates a backbone of Media Labs and Festivals.

Time's Up has been developing large scale interactive situations since 1996 with a tendency towards large steel and pneumatic devices. 'Luminous Green' is a series of workshops that explores the possibilities of living well and sustainably in the world. In this short presentation Time's Up will explain some of the points that were of importance in the workshop: local actions, utilising regional assets, in our case industrial waste and the body of water, social organisation, 're-importing' developing world technologies to 'the west', and many others.