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Survival and Utopia: Visions of Balance in Transformation

January 28, 2009 - February 1, 2009

transmediale's 2009 award exhibition presents a spectrum of artistic positions, inquiries and responses to the multifacetted, and often contradictory scenarios of climate change. Will the melting of the polar ice-caps lead to an emergency situation in which survival is paramount? Beyond the spectre of a world knocked out of climatic control by our collective lack of foresight, the exhibition explores the symptoms, contexts and possible futures of a seemingly imperceptible yet fundamental change.

Join a tm.09 web project: Man With A Movie Camera: The Global Remake

In this global collaborative work, tm.09 and artist Perry Bard invite you to capture video footage and images interpreting the original script of Vertov’s masterpiece and upload them to http://dziga.perrybard.net/. Software developed specially for the project archives sequences and then streams different combinations of the submissions, thus creating a global montage or, in Vertov’s terms, the “decoding of life as it is”.

tm.09 DEEP NORTH ...thank you!

With artists, speakers and visitors from across the globe transmediale wrapped up at Berlin's landmark 'House of World Cultures' on February 1, 2009. We would like to thank all of our participants, partners, contributors, and the many great teams that came together to set up and run such a complex, poetically charged and thought provoking event!
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salon tm.09 - The Digital Greenhouse

The Digital Greenhouse is the transmediale.09 salon for strategic artistic, performative and net-based discourse. Bringing together artists, cultural activists, hackers and a cosmopolitan array of thinkers and makers, the salon seeks to address the cultural 'raison d'etre' beyond the daily headlines of climate change rhetoric. How does digital art and culture maneuver across political and societal boundaries between 'our' North and an emergent, less 'silent' and deep South to create new voices and strong cultural networks? With the irreversible global transformations we face, the Digital Greenhouse becomes a training camp for the cultural revolution essential in creating new tools and methods of agency and dialogue.

In cooperation with Heinrich Böll Stiftung

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Conference tm.09: Making / Thinking: The Cultural Tomorrow

The transmediale.09 conference Making / Thinking: The Cultural Tomorrow examines theories on climate change, checks forecasting models and questions economic, political and media-based technologies of interpreting such models.

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The Silent Deep

Fri 30 Jan, Digital Greenhouse

The increase in speed with which we explore the limited resources that fuel both economy and lifestyle, shows not only the dimension of our dependency but also reveals one consistency – a new global race for the remaining resources. Developing nations and regions, until recently 'zones of silence' in our collective memory, will now become the stage for our dependency. What will the cultural impact of climate change look like in  developing nations? How could a critical artistic practice broach this issue? And how could it create new contexts and possibilities for a sustainable development?

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NON Machines

Christoph Korn
installation

Non Machines in gallery [DAM]Berlin
Exhibition: Jan 27 - Feb 7, 2009

The NON-Machines are software applications, which direct the attention towards aspects of deceleration, disconnectivity, knowledge deprivation, agrammaticality, non-functionality.

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PLANETART II

Sat 31.01.2009 - 21:00
Partner event

If we survive the first night, we expect more ...

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PLANETART I

Fri 30.01.2009 - 21:00
Partner event

The dutch media artist collective of PLANETART – "home of the electronic rage" ...

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A MAZE. Jump 'n Run: BONUS CHEAT

Thu 29.01.2009 - 20:00
Partner event

A MAZE. are celebrating the convergence of computer games and art.

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WAVELOETEN

Wed 28.01.2009 - 19:00
Partner event

The regular meeting point of the Berlin freifunk community. freifunk is a non-profit inititaive, open to everyone and part of the global movement of creating free communications infrastructures.

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DORKBOT.BLN

Mon 26.01.2009 - 20:00
Partner event

c-base invites you in co-operation with dorkbot vienna to join the 6th annual dorkbot.bln event. Hosted by Johannes Grenzfurthner of monochrom.

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OPEN SPACE

The Open Space invites you to present your projects during the festival and to discuss your ideas with the audience, artists and guests.

  Thursday 29 Jan, 14:30 - Café Global
Margarita Dorovska & Kathy Rae Huffman: Archive of Video Art from Eastern Europe
Peter Zorn: European Media Art Network (EMAN)

  Friday 30 Jan, 14:30 - Café Global
Perry Bard: Man with A Movie Camera: The Global Remake
Reynold Reynolds: Six Apartments

  Saturday 31 Jan, 14:00 - Café Global
Joanna Render: Re_Thinking Net.Art

  Saturday 31 Jan, 15:30 - Café Global
Time's up: Luminous Green

  Sunday 01 Feb, 14:00 - Salon
Transit Lounge: Moving while standing still
Public Netbase editorial team: NON STOP FUTURE

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Overbug, Performance 1

Sat 31.01.2009 - 17:00
Performance

Overbug is a music-performance tool designed to compose minimal and dance music. Through looping and newly arranged sound patterns, called 'Bugsounds', the programme creates complex, polyrhythmic sounds. Overbug differs from conventional linear controlled music sequencers, which arrange the sound into a linear timeline from left to right. The sound arrangement of the repeating music loops equal the visual abstraction of circular actions which built the interface through circles.

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Transit Lounge - Opening @Wonderbar Studio

Wed 28.01.2009 - 18:00
Partner event

Opening the Exhibition of the works derived from Conversation 3 of the TRANSIT LOUNGE project, Moving While Standing Still.

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Re-hacking your World

Thur 29 Jan, Digital Greenhouse

Re-hacking your World examines issues of crisis and possibility by intervening in the relationships between environment, industry and culture. Has our cultural hardware and software become useless and unserviceable faced with the complex challenges that confront us? In order to prevent a complete takeover of commercial interests in the development of digital cultures in Africa, Asia and Latin America, it becomes essential to promote and strengthen the vocabulary of open source systems and develop fair use mechanisms.

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Brico-Brunch / The Houses of Happiness

Sun 1 Feb, Café Global

The Brasilian DesCentro Network are hosts to transmediale's performative public brunch event with leading architects and thinkers, poets and bloggers, transforming the HKW into a temporary autonomous zone of tropical foliage and topical debate. Fusing the threads from the transmediale.09 Making/Thinking conference and Digital Greenhouse salon DesCentro open the doors of discourse and performance in a collaborative culinary experience focussing on the global futures of society, culture and consumption. Join Alexandre Freire and José Balbino of DesCentro together with members of the bricolabs network in building a House of Happiness!

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Opening of the Conference

Emerging in a global blind spot the consequences of climate change have the potential to unleash a radical capacity for transformation breaking through history, blowing across boundaries, ripping through political sytsems and cultural roots. ...

Opening Lecture.
Perish in Beauty? Climate Change as Cultural Demand, Claus Leggewie
Thu 29.01. - 13:00

Opening of the Conference
The Making and the Thinking, with Paul Quassa and Martin Burckhardt,
chaired by Rob van Kranenburg
Thu 29.01. - 14:00

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Shift, Break, Control - Cultural Perspectives beyond Policy

When it comes to climate change, many systems of control designed around national borders break down: internationally restrictive trade processes and systems of enforcement have little or power in the face of desertification, mass flooding, ...

Shift, Break, Control North:
Discussion with Claudia Kemfert and Lorenz Petersen,
chaired by Harald Welzer
Fri, 30.01. - 12:00

Shift, Break, Conrol South:
Discussion with Atteqa Malik, Binyawanga Wainaina and Yasir Husain,
chaired by Rob van Kranenburg
Fri, 30.01. - 15:00

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Hotspots

Hotspots are special thematic keynotes focussed on notions of cultural urgency. Linking the theories and practice of leading artists and designers the Hot Spots explore central questions related to DEEP NORTH where the realms of art and science, politics and technology collide. 

Hotspot 1: Arctic Perspectives - Third Culture on the Floe Edge
Marko Peljhan
Thu, 29.01. - 18:30

Hotspot 2: Escalation
Territorial Agency (John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Roennskog)
Fr, 30.01. - 10:30

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Critical Consumer Practice

Sat 31 Jan, Digital Greenhouse

We're meeting here both as artists and as consumers. Our diverse methodologies link us in explorations that critically reflect upon us, exposing the ecological consequences of our own actions. Individual consumer freedom is a myth, just as much as the seemingly pragmatic but not at all sustainable prescriptions for crawling out of the global financial crisis. We will look at the concepts behind our practice and propose tools for sustainability.

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