known for selling all of his possessions online on Shop Mandiberg, making perfect copies of copies on AfterSherrieLevine.com, and creating Firefox plugins that highlight the real environmental costs of a global economy on TheRealCosts.com.
Vice President at Creative Commons, where he started as CTO in 2003. Previously he co-founded Bitzi, an early open data/open content/mass collaboration service, and worked as a web developer and software engineer. In 1993 he published one of the first interviews with Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux.
internationally reknown in the new media arts and activist circles for the software he has developed. He used to work in Multimedia institute in Croatia, where he was the lead developer of a popular NGO web publishing system (TamTam), Aleksander has a broad spectrum of programming experience having worked on many projects from multiplayer games, library software, financial applications, artistic projects, web site analysis applications, and building systems for managing domain registration.
Positioning the future as a meme ready for redefinition, the transmediale.10 Salon Talks will bring together artists, theoreticians and specialists in a forum for open dialogue in order to address the implications of FUTURITY NOW! across a multitude of artistic platforms, diverse cultures and societal backgrounds.
The majority of the Salon Workshops take the form of expert-led Free Culture Incubator working groups seeking to define the problematic zone between art and open cultural practice in Germany. They attempt to establish an arts and culture incubator for Berlin that will support and develop new forms of cultural practice beyond the festival's lifespan.
GaMe! 2 February – 24 March 2010
With France Cadet, Mark Essen, Joan Leandre, Jason Rohrer, Tale of Tales
Vernissage: 30 January, 16:00 – 18:00 Galerie [DAM]Berlin, Tucholskystraße 37, 10117 Berlin,
Opening times: Tue – Fri, 12:00 – 18:00; Sat 12:00 – 16:00
The Panoramic Wifi Camera takes ‘pictures’ of spaces illuminated by wireless radio signals, in much the same way that a traditional camera takes pictures through visible light. The work is a powerful example of how artists are creating new methods of visualising the intangible and atemporal environment which we exist within.
A Parallel Image is an electronic camera obscura. This media-archaeological, interactive sculpture is based on the fictive assumption that the contemporary principle of electronically transmitting moving images, namely by breaking them down into single images and image lines, was never discovered.
The Optofonica Capsule creates a futuristic context for experiencing moving image and sound. This highly technologically augmented audiovisual space suggests a future whereby our existing passive tropes of experiencing moving image and sound, have been upgraded substantially.
The installation features a series of Paparazzi Bots, each a tech-hybrid of camera and cameraman, which subtly stalks exhibition visitors. They seek one thing, which is to photograph these visitors, and make themselves famous.
The Invisible Stain is the third installment of Brazilian artist Alice Miceli’s ongoing Chernobyl Project. For transmediale.10, this third presentation will present a completed negative series from the final, decisive stage of the work.
This year transmediale and CTM are cooperating more closely then ever with a series of jointly organised events starting 2 February 2010. Collaborative concerts will take place on each night of transmediale.10, featuring some of the most important figures working within music and sound today, including Charlemagne Palestine, Ryoji Ikeda, Thomas Köner, Atom TM, FM3 and others.
With a magnificant performance programmetransmediale.10 offers the rare opportunity to enjoy many outstanding events of acclaimed international audiovisual performers and musicians such as Ryoji Ikeda, Charlemage Palestine, artificiel, Atom_TM, Feng Mengbo as well as great local artists from Berlin.