The panel Ideologies and Futures of the Internet taking place on Saturday, 6 February will be start with a keynote lecture by Conrad Wolfram, Director of Strategic and International Development at the well-known software company Wolfram Research Inc. founded by his brother Stephen. At transmediale.10 Conrad Wolfram will talk about the knowledge engine Wolfram Alpha.
In his work White Noise, Kempinas shows us that videotape is more than merely a neutral carrier of virtual moving images. He uses tape to extend its virtuality, transforming it into a medium of futurity, which sculpts and redefines space.
The collaborative programme between Shanghai eARTS Festival and transmediale.10 is announced and contextualised by the directors of the two festivals, Lisa Zhou, Li Zhenhua and Stephen Kovats.
Sascha Lobo is a blogger, writer, journalist and copywriter from Berlin, with a main focus on internet and new technologies and their impact on social development.
A night of performance and music examining China as one of the motifs of FUTURITY NOW!. Featuring three artists who represent a new wave of Chinese practitioners working beyond the constraints of social, political or geographical identity; Feng Mengbo, FM3_Zhang (Zhang Jian) and aaajiao (Xu Wenkai).
Nicolas Bernier pursues a multi-faceted approach involving acousmatic composition, live electronics, installation and art video as well as making music for dance, theatre and cinema. At transmediale.10 he will world premiere the piece La Chambre Des Machines together with Martin Messier.
This major new work by Julius von Bismark, shown for the first time at transmediale.10, uses the materials and devices of filmmaking to create an uncanny experience of space and time. In the gallery this takes the form of an immersive installation, where a 16mm camera, which has been converted into a projector, beams a film onto a circular screen that is painted with phosphorescent paint.
station melt is a collaboration of two radio stations in two metropolises broadcasting from the core of transmediale and CTM. Lasting for 4 days and nights this radio festival will air a special programme on Resonance 104.4 FM in London and the event frequency 99.1 FM in Berlin.
IT and Media Art
With its interdisciplinary competition Art of Engineering the Ferchau Engineering GmbH presents innovative new works bridging the two worlds of art and technology.
Ben Huang, the man responsible for bringing Beijing’s club scene to Europe (and vice versa) completes the Myths of The Near Future evening with a DJ set at the Café Stage.